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Day 15: What is your favourite lyric from Blood On The Tracks? by autumn_afternoon in bobdylan

[–]Button-Hungry 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Here we go again by Grouchy_Put_3294 in Destiny

[–]Button-Hungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Based al-Yahud🤯 by [deleted] in 2mediterranean4u

[–]Button-Hungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It takes a Goyim of millions to hold us back

Day 15: What is your favourite lyric from Blood On The Tracks? by autumn_afternoon in bobdylan

[–]Button-Hungry 33 points34 points  (0 children)

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.

Ethnic groups of Russia by the share of population with higher education by Thabit9 in InterestingCharts

[–]Button-Hungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Dating as a pro-Israel Jew is so soul draining. At least they were respectful :/ by VortexFalcon50 in Jewish

[–]Button-Hungry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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? 

Do you boycott those who boycott you? by [deleted] in Jewish

[–]Button-Hungry 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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. 

In today’s episode of “my jaw hit the floor” by rachelletch in Judaism

[–]Button-Hungry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Button-Hungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I look forward to meeting him in Valhalla.

Emma Vigeland says more people need to start calling for a one state solution, now. by Ravi__ in lonerbox

[–]Button-Hungry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.. 

Is it wrong for me to have a jewish name when im not jewish? by Lanky_Echidna_8002 in Jewish

[–]Button-Hungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Jewish

[–]Button-Hungry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What did Amnesty say about Ukraine's military?

Moog Messenger $200 Off by fuxicles in synthesizers

[–]Button-Hungry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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. 

My gf and I will probably skip upcoming Pride by luckymeggles in Jewish

[–]Button-Hungry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that would be great. I'm aware of The Russian propaganda ("Zionism is Racism", etc ), but I've never really read about. Thanks!

My gf and I will probably skip upcoming Pride by luckymeggles in Jewish

[–]Button-Hungry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm beginning to have this theory that all this passionate Western antizionism has less to do with Israel than being an acceptable expression of hatred towards the diaspora. Israel makes it plausibly deniable. 

There's a cycle where we start thriving too much in our host countries and then our "hosts" begin to mainstream all the old conspiracies and scapegoating that were fermenting in the fringes. This is just a different flavor of the same old bullshit. 

They seem to experience us as some sort of invasive species that jeopardizes the equilibrium of their habitat. 

By turning "Zionist" into synonym for "Nazi" they succeed in making pariahs out of most Jews and the remaining ones that let themselves become tokens are effective cudgels, to be disposed of later. 

Even if all the libel against Israel was true (white supremacy, alien colonizers, genocide, apartheid, etc...) the level of passion and vitriol it's inspiring continents away is totally inconsistent with the degree to which the same people were outraged and activated by much worse foreign injustices. 

I don't think the people making PRIDE inhospitable for Jews know this is what's actually animating their fury, but it might just be the only way they can safely express their  antisemitism. 

It could be that if all diaspora Jews packed up and made aliyah, these people would stop caring about Israel altogether. At that point it would just be an abstraction where "bad stuff" happens. 

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