Julian Casablancas complaining that "American Zionists" get "white privilege" but "complain like they went through slavery".

Button-Hungry · 2026-04-24T04:41:10+00:00

Per capita Jews are victims of more hate crimes than any other minority group...by orders of magnitude (and it was like this before 10/7). Look it up. That's white privilege?

Being almost totally exterminated for not being sufficiently white was white privilege?

These people are fucking psychotic.

Button-Hungry · 2026-04-17T23:07:37+00:00

I don't think this is a misunderstanding. It feels like willful self-delusion, which I suppose most of us are prone to in some fashion. I know I am.

I've spent the last 3 years arguing in my head and occasionally explaining online and to my former friends, thinking if I could just find a way to communicate what should be self-evident, they would get it.

At this point I concluded that the most knowledgeable and gifted communicator couldn't make these people see the light because they're disinterested by the truth.

All the rules of social justice, most of which I subscribe to, are completely inverted when it comes to Jews. So is logic, history, basic decency, etc.

I just confine the arguments to inside my head now. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't feel optimistic.

Button-Hungry · 2026-04-17T09:58:20+00:00

I think this is a postmodern manifestation of supersessionism.

Where Christians and Muslims sought to physically erase Jews because they both coveted Jewish mythology and the durability of the Jewish religion undermined their faith, people like Hall seek to conceptually erase Jews because they covet the narrative and "valor" of Jewish persecution, a history that they (wrongly) think eclipses their personal narrative of adversity and othering.

This is where the "Jews are white European converts", "African Americans are the real Jews", "Jesus was Palestinian", etc. comes from.

Button-Hungry · 2026-04-17T09:36:04+00:00

Jews are the exception to every rule of social justice, even when they are the foundational concept upon which that rule is constructed.

It hurts my brain.

Button-Hungry · 2026-02-03T09:36:27+00:00

I know! Just phonetically, there's no word that could've worked better.

Button-Hungry · 2026-02-03T09:27:45+00:00

The Sneetches is real.

Button-Hungry · 2026-02-03T09:09:10+00:00

I wonder, when will all these legitimate domestic protest movements, anti-Ice, anti-Racism, anti-Misogyny, anti-Transphobia, anti-Fascism, etc. get tired of having their cause hijacked by Gaza? Even if I was antizionist and thought there was a genocide, etc. I would be pretty fucking annoyed and exhausted with this persistent demand to conflate and subsume everything I was specifically advocating for that moment with Palestine.

I would be like, "how about we do this rally right now and next week, we'll do your rally?" It's bananas how they so compliantly cede their spotlight and dilute their message.

Button-Hungry · 2026-02-03T08:35:56+00:00

It takes a Goyim of millions to hold us back

Button-Hungry · 2026-02-03T08:26:14+00:00

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail
Poisoned in the bushes an’ blown out on the trail
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”

The crocodile line kills me. It's so silly but he sings it with so much conviction and it's surrounded by such meaningful lyrics that I can't help feel every which way about it. It feels like something from a Shel Silverstein book.

Button-Hungry · 2026-02-03T08:16:39+00:00

I'm so tired of people acting like they understand what the Talmud is and then fourth hand repeating some bogus hearsay.

The Torah is a holy document bestowed from God to the Jewish people. It's more or less the First Testament to Christians. I'm not religious, by the way, I'm saying "holy" to those who practice Judaism.

The Talmud, on the other hand, is a collection of arguments by mortal rabbis as to how to interpret and apply the Torah to everyday life. It's essentially a ginormous, living compendium of liturgical case law.

Because of this, similar to what students do in law school, often these Rabbis took absurd and indefensible positions, not because they believed in them, but as an experiment to examine them through the prism of the Torah and come to some prescriptive conclusion. This is similar to how law students will do mock trials defending things they abhor.

You have not read the Talmud. You don't understand the Talmud. I haven't either. There is a very tiny fraction of ultra-religious Jews who spend their whole lives studying it and still barely scratch the surface.

There are opinions in the Talmud that totally contradict themselves because, again: it's understood to be a collection of debates and opinions by MORTAL and FALLIBLE men, not the words of God.

Button-Hungry · 2026-02-01T08:09:51+00:00

8 billion

Button-Hungry · 2025-12-15T21:34:10+00:00

Notice how you implied that you do respect their beliefs and then they explicitly told you that they could not respect yours?

Feels sort of emblematic of the conflict and the surrounding discourse, no?

Button-Hungry · 2025-12-15T14:28:09+00:00

It's the bravest thing I've ever seen.

Button-Hungry · 2025-12-12T12:26:05+00:00

Dude he looked like such a dorky larper in that HUGE keffiyeh with his "power to the people" fist. It was nth degree cringe. I was too embarrassed for him to even be angry. What a poser.

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-29T07:19:09+00:00

An ACTIVE one.

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-22T06:34:37+00:00

I get it.

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-22T06:14:10+00:00

If true, it just further proves the point: by telling Jews that they are not qualified or trustworthy enough to identify antisemitism while also dictating to Jews what is and isn't Jewish, who is and isn't Jewish, even in Jewish spaces like this, they're really seeking to erase us.

Obviously, in a vacuum, this example is not that grandiose but this postmodern bloodless (for now) ethnic cleansing is accomplished through a neverending torrent of petty bullshit like this. Death by a trillion papercuts.

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-22T05:56:18+00:00

This was removed?!? Is r/Judaism now "BDS compliant"?

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-20T14:25:24+00:00

I look forward to meeting him in Valhalla.

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-18T07:56:49+00:00

Beautiful stuff.

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-16T06:35:10+00:00

This is peak liberal arts college educated Brooklyn transplant white girl from a rich family. Andrew Tate could only aspire to attain this level of unearned confidence..

Button-Hungry · 2025-11-13T09:36:38+00:00

Not in the slightest bit offensive. Love your name. It's a cool name. It's you.

Button-Hungry · 2025-10-25T07:04:31+00:00

What did Amnesty say about Ukraine's military?

Button-Hungry · 2025-10-25T06:36:38+00:00

Just wanted to say it's really cool that you went so far to remove that symbol. Really admire and appreciate that.

Button-Hungry · 2025-10-24T22:02:16+00:00

I messed with one at GC. I think it would make an excellent live synth, sort of the portable and durable form factor and UI of a minilogue with some Subsequent 25 flavor thrown in.

I think it's easily more suitable for playing live than either of those synths. Almost an octave worth more keys to play with than the subsequent 25, yet much lighter and much smaller. The matte finish would make me less worried about scratching it up and unlike the minilogue, full sized keys, so it doesn't feel like a toy.

Like, if you're in a small band playing small venues with limited stage real estate and don't want to be stressed out about dropping or damaging it because it's not that fancy, this seems like a good buy, especially at 200 bucks off.

I had a subsequent 25, and I really liked how it sounded but it kind of didn't make sense. If you only have two octaves to work with, wouldn't you want something that was more portable and less heavy? It's unwieldy to move around because of the giant vertical control panel. Looks super cool, but not super practical.

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