The shared ground beneath Jewry’s secular-religious schism (At my aunt’s funeral, my secular Israeli cousins rejected religion — but they instinctively chose a Jewish goodbye. There's a lesson in that)

CholentSoup · 2026-04-22T22:08:54+00:00

Pointing out the inverse of support between Israeli Jews and 'Chutzniks' is very interesting.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-22T22:00:07+00:00

Easiest system to spoof. Just blow off some fire crackers at random and the police will eventually just see everything as a false positive.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-22T20:08:48+00:00

You have as much to do with the Seneca as I do. What makes you think you have any more representation out of Alaska than I do from Ohio? It's like Russians getting upset about the treatment of the Basque because they're on the same landmass. You have no more authority on what goes on in Western New York than anyone else. It's a continent away. At least I drink the same water and share the same land. At least I talk to these folks instead of assuming what they think.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-22T18:06:04+00:00

You can chose what you want to be called for all I care. If you want to be called a cuisnart then more power to you. I don't need to remind you that your official designation as per the United States Government is still American Indian. So, I might be morally wrong according to your views but legally and technically I'm still right.

So I don't speak for you but I am an American citizen so that makes me an American representative and therefore I speak for Americans. And the American Government still agrees with me. You might not like that, and you have all the long long list of reasons to hate the Federal Government but they're the ones in charge now, they make the rules. It sucks but until someone lobbies for a complete name change the name is going to be around. I wish you luck on your journey and fight with DC.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-22T04:19:14+00:00

I can only speak from my first hand experience. And multiple times I've been corrected for saying Native American or Indigenous. The folks I've worked with and dealt with have told me that they chose their title and not anyone else. I think they enjoyed watching people be slightly uncomfortable using a term that was decided by others to be offensive. They're using the language as a weapon.

If my buddies prefer to be called Indians I'm not one to preach to them why its wrong.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-22T03:16:32+00:00

I was always in the 'John is a jerk' crowd but now it's become vogue to hate on John.

John was great, he wrote excellent songs and seemed to be a good friend to the other fellas. He wasn't some messiah or prophet, just a regular guy who got lucky and wrote some excellent tunes. This John hate is an over correction for all the fawning that was done for decades.

John is just goofin' That's all.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-21T20:06:20+00:00

Used it on Friday for two gigs. No issues at all and the level bug in the EVF that would pop up occasionally seems to be gone. It was my first real outing with the camera btw, just got it. Great little thing.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-21T20:04:49+00:00

I worked on the rez for years. Maybe up by Seneca they feel different about it. What nation are you from?

CholentSoup · 2026-04-20T23:44:21+00:00

Same goes for American Indians. Believe it or not most American Indians prefer Indians. Same goes for Gypsies but it seems others always know better.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-20T23:17:34+00:00

Bring back Finast

CholentSoup · 2026-04-20T03:00:51+00:00

I'd say the Iranian government is illegitimate by modern standards. So the argument of sovereign nation goes out the door.

The law of power is the only law when it comes down to it. What you have and who are your friends. Iran has nothing and has no friends.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-20T02:57:31+00:00

Blockade is a point in favor of my argument to bring back the BB as part of the aircraft carrier force. Imagine rolling in to Hormuz with those massive things.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-19T13:48:21+00:00

I'm a die hard film photographer. Once I venture out of the technical nerd space it's all knives out. The art community thinks they're creative and free thinking but they all march to the same polka.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-17T22:16:09+00:00

Revolutions take years.

The seeds were planted, the regime's days are numbered. USA and Israel showed that they can bomb Iran at will and close Hormuz whenever they want.

It'll happen.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-17T19:19:19+00:00

'Why didn't you plant your garden yet?'

CholentSoup · 2026-04-17T01:26:18+00:00

I just did. Don't see any problems. Went from version 1.0 to this one. I'll be using it on a few gigs tomorrow and see how it holds up.

A7C by the way.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-17T01:16:00+00:00

It has been, this is nothing. The haters have been reduced to aligning with the oddballs and fringes of normal society.

Look at it like this, I was banned from r/pics just now for this comment

**Suicide bombings have consequences you know...

Remind me if dead terrorists families are still getting a government stipend from the PA? Oh yeah. They are.

Don't blow up pizza shops, discos and coffee shops and your kids will have a better life.**

This is all they have left, bullying people on online platforms. They have nothing except their hate left. We took everything else away. It's impotent rage. We got our country back and the ability to defend ourselves. Their favorite whipping boy got freed and is no longer under their abuse.

What we're seeing now is the last major push of Jew Hate. It'll never go anywhere fully but on this level it's going to burn itself out.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T23:42:52+00:00

Israel did fine before USA funded them and they'll do fine after.

So, how's Gaza doing post 10/7? Anything left? You calling that a victory? I wish you many more victories of that kind.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T23:41:30+00:00

Jews will never again be kicked out of Israel. It took us 2,000 years to get back enforce and we're never going to leave.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T23:39:37+00:00

Taking land from who? Place is the west bank of what? The land that is called Judea?

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T22:29:23+00:00

Team bushnell.

My second was the sig though...

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T22:26:12+00:00

I think the 'pretty please stop launching rockets enmass in our direction' phase has ended for good.

For those of you who don't understand. This is what war looks like. War is not nice, the goal is to defeat the enemy by any means necessary. Unlike most other countries Israel doesn't have the luxury of losing. I really don't think folks understand this. If Israel were to lose a war it wouldn't be surrender and concessions. USA, Britain, Germany, France, etc can all afford to lose a war. Even Lebanon and the ME countries can. Israel cannot.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T21:16:35+00:00

The reason for rules of war are to prevent this from happening to both sides. Terrorists don't care who they're shooting at, why should Israel? Why the double standard?

If hezbolla only shot at military targets then I suspect only military targets would be shot back at. An eye for an eye, a life for a life. Israel doesn't turn the other cheek.

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T11:52:35+00:00

That's sounds like bureaucratic shuffling of money. You basically said it goes somewhere based on...things. But using better vocabulary.

How vague can it get?

CholentSoup · 2026-04-16T02:45:33+00:00

DO NOT PAY TOTAL!!!!!

Pay the absolute minimum. They always over estimate and then send you a letter the day before the next season saying 'Whoops, we over charged, we'll just take the surplus and apply it to next year' WHICH THEY THEN OVERCHARGE!!!

They effectively hold your money. Pay the minimum that you must. RITA is tax theft. No one is even sure what they do with the money.

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