Notices by Jeremy (יעקב) 🇺🇦 (imstilljeremy@babka.social)

"Do I live in a police state?" is a question that, if posted publicly, answers itself 5 minutes later.

Absolutely childish, unserious people.

@littlemiao @dukepaaron @louis @jeffowski

The only thing fundamentalist Christians love more than defining who counts as religious by whether or not they believe in Jesus is blaming Jews for their own actions.

@DanadasGrau @jeffowski

You really, REALLY should be rethinking the people you surround yourself with that, not only does a thought like this occur to you but that they have convinced you this is something acceptable and good to say out loud.

You have very bad friends and family, who are not giving you the best feedback.

@DanadasGrau @dukepaaron @jeffowski

And just so you know, the reason he thinks you deleted it us because your moderators are trying to cover for you by just removing the comment and not warning or suspending you over it.

They think you're bad for their image.

@DanadasGrau @dukepaaron @jeffowski

You literally just announced that in your circles, saying that Jews toss their daughters to "crowds" be raped is a normal and reasonable thing to say, and you are trying to play the civility card here over the word "loon"?

Are you trolling?
Are we on a gameshow or something?

I've never met somebody who is a living, breathing satire before.

@elilla

My wife told me about this one, which was depressing.

For me: Y2K was not only not a hoax, fixed by everybody in the field working like 80 hour work weeks, but that it is coming again in another 25 years. But now, almost nobody has been trained on these systems since the 90s and all of the people who fixed it last time either have already retired or will retire in the next 10-15 years.

I know this most intimately because my boss laughed at me because I'm gonna be left holding the bag on this when he's long gone.

One big reason I came back is to say this:

In the past, every time the news reports on I/P again, there is a sharp surge in antisemitic violence around the country and around the world in the diaspora. This time is different.

And while some might argue there is a substantial and noticeable difference in scale, I'm not convinced that the violence so far is (rhetoric certainly is). No, the biggest difference this time is that Islamophobic violence (again, as delineated from rhetoric) seems to be accompanying it.

That's new, and it's bad, and it's important for us to recognize that those who are pleased with one are always (yes, always, really think through what you think are counterpoints) pleased with the other. For now, maybe from here on out, violence will rise against both each time.

#antisemitism #Islamophobia #diaspora #violence #bigotry

Update on this: I'm depressed to report that yes, there is a substantial and noticeable difference in the antisemitic violence in the United States and the rest of the diaspora that absolutely blots out all previous reactions.

Which is, perhaps, related to the rising Islamophobic violence as well.

The idea that both of these are the new normal should terrify people on the left, even who aren't Jewish or Muslim (or Arab or Sikh, because bigots are stupid). Instead, it is met with (at best) a collective shrug where it isn't lauded as appropriate consequences.

Nobody is coming.

#islamophobia #Antisemitism #diaspora #Muslim #Arab #Jewish #Jews #violence #bigotry #racism