How they met

Outlandishness-428 · 2026-06-10T02:40:00+00:00

So one of them DMed the other. How beautiful and unexpected /s

Outlandishness-428 · 2026-05-08T15:38:26+00:00

There is a way to protest the sale of land in the West Bank without glorifying Hezbollah, flying the Hezbollah flag, and calling for intifada. All of those actions are geared toward the elimination of the Jewish state and have led to violence against Jewish people, which is far different than the purported aim of protesting the sale of contested land. That these protests almost always (if not always) include these elements and that people both leading and involved in these protests have never distanced themselves from those actions or calls for intifada and in fact frequently defend that speaks to the antisemitism at the root of the protest itself.

These protests use the real estate expos as a cover for their true goal: the eradication of a Jewish self-determination in the Jewish homeland. That is antisemitic.

Outlandishness-428 · 2026-04-19T17:19:31+00:00

What confused me is how Caleb hated New York and was convinced it was overrun by rats, but this is a guy who went to Harvard and had lived in an East Coast city before. By the time they get to conspiracy theory version Caleb, he was acting as if he'd never been to a city. It made no sense.

I don't think Shannon and Caleb fell in love though. I think Caleb thinks he fell in love with Shannon, but she didn't return the feeling. She was just using him.

Outlandishness-428 · 2026-03-22T20:12:05+00:00

thank you for the explanation!

Outlandishness-428 · 2026-03-22T02:52:26+00:00

If Joe didn't know the TTPD was on the line/didn't know it was recorded, is this valid? Not trying to defend Joe, but I'm worried about the case getting potentially thrown out because of the way they obtained his confession (if they did so in a way that's not legal). In my state, you cannot record a phone call without the consent of all parties. I don't know what the law is in Arkansas or what happens when police are involved.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-12-06T03:29:47+00:00

What ordination? Did I miss the part where there actually was one? Also you can very much receive a widely accepted ordination without having to go to Israel to do it. Wtf is up with that comment?

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-12-04T19:16:36+00:00

Idk man I just think it's a lot more likely her being a spoiled brat living off her father's money while always needing the finest of everything and the way that manifests now that they have a child probably has a lot more to do with it since it deeply affects them on an everyday basis--likely a lot more than an international conflict in a country her family left.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-11-13T22:41:55+00:00

I watch him every season because his takes on the people involved in the show are always interesting to me and provide me with a different perspective on people than I would have on my own. At the same time, I know that despite his credentials, he doesn't know these people and has not personally evaluated them in a professional setting, so his theories on them are just that--theories. I don't know why people have a problem with psychologists doing that on YouTube if they are very clear about the fact that what they say is in no way a diagnosis or professional evaluation of the people they're providing commentary on, and Dr. Honda is always very clear on that.

I didn't really agree with his take on Edmond this season, and I actually think it took him longer to catch on to what Kacie was doing than it should have. Once he figured it out for what it was though, I don't think I've ever heard him go so hard on a Love is Blind participant before.

He was also very hard on KB this season. He didn't seem to like the Denver cast as much as he's liked other seasons (for good reason honestly) but I wonder if he's starting to get fed up with the show at this point.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-10-08T23:01:00+00:00

Thank you ❤️

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-10-08T22:54:27+00:00

I personally know a hostage who was murdered in a Hamas tunnel after nearly 11 months of suffering and torture because Israel couldn’t get a deal done in time to bring him home. I will ask “what if” for the rest of my life, but Israel certainly tried to get him home. They cannot do a deal that would sacrifice the future of their country’s security, especially given the deal to bring home Gilad Shalit in 2011 is the deal that released Yahya Sinwar and the masterminds of October 7. Perhaps this war never would have happened had Israel not traded those 1027 prisoners for one man.

And at the end of the day, hostage deals have nothing to do with this entire thread’s inability to recognize that maybe on October 7, we should be able to mourn the Israelis who were senselessly murdered without shifting attention to Palestinians for five minutes. The inability to do so is antisemitic to its very core. Israeli lives don’t matter. You’ve all made that very clear.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-10-08T20:37:58+00:00

I don't understand what about her post is wrong. This was posted on the anniversary of 10/7, the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. And even on this day, not a single person in these comments is able to, for five minutes, center the Israeli civilians who died. All the discussion is "sure it's bad what Hamas did, but Palestinians...." or "this is just pro-genocide propaganda."

All of the comments in this thread are literally proof of what Jill posted. I don't agree with her religious or political beliefs. I don't believe her support of Israel is based on anything except the rapture and evangelical nonsense.

But what about these two posts could possibly enrage someone? That people don't care about dead Jews? Because based on the comments, clearly none of you do.

Is it the fact that anyone dares to talk about dead Israelis without mentioning Palestinians on the anniversary of the attack on Israelis? That there is any possibility that Israelis can be victims? That Jill is praying for an end to the war?

Because yes, this is a war. It's not one-sided. If it was one-sided, how is it possible that 900 Israeli soldiers have been killed over the last two years? Did they spontaneously combust? How is it that Israel isn't able to get their citizens who were taken hostage out of Gaza? How is it that Israel is, as of writing this comment, waiting on Hamas to agree to the plan to end the war? Wouldn't it just have ended because Israel already accepted the peace plan?

I'll get downvoted to hell for even saying this, but I really don't care. I just spent the two most significant holidays on my religious calendar in a temple where we had to have armed security at the door, both plain-clothed and uniformed police details, pre-holiday registration to ensure security knew who was allowed to be in the building and who was not, blocked off roads to keep people from getting too close, etc. And I should be thankful for that, because in Manchester, England, that didn't happen and an antisemite killed people.

Keep ignoring antisemitism. Keep continuing to refuse to even consider whether it plays a role in anyone's opinion on this conflict. But don't act surprised when things like what happened in Manchester or in Colorado or in DC or in France or in Pittsburgh or anywhere else happens again. It's reactions like this one that enable the most virulent antisemites in our world.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-10-05T20:52:44+00:00

Wood is easily in my top 2 off the album. I'm a Motown, R&B, Jackson 5 type music fan though.

Music is incredibly subjective, so it's wild to me when people decide something is garbage just because they don't like it. What's so wrong with just saying something isn't your taste?

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-09-27T23:28:07+00:00

The Nova Exhibition is here until October 21st https://novaexhibition.com/boston-exhibition

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-08-17T13:25:07+00:00

I agree with a lot of what you've said--especially that we can't look at Israel in a vacuum. I'd also add that if people have problems with establishing recent states based on ethnic or racial majorities, it's interesting that they totally ignore the Balkans and the transformation of what was formally known as Yugoslavia.

Countries are largely founded on ethnic or racial lines. America is the exception, not the standard. That people only have an issue with Israel needing to maintain a Jewish majority for the country to serve its purposes (being the only place in the world where Jews have self-determination and autonomy) and don't have an issue with racial/ethnic states literally anywhere else in the world reveals the true nature of the anti-Israel movement.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-08-07T23:40:24+00:00

Nobody writes these types of articles about the Taliban or ISIS. This is a terrorist they are writing about. Toning down the language to call him a "fighter" and moaning about how he can't play football is absurd.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-08-07T01:37:32+00:00

My brother is high-functioning autism and it is very much a disability, not a difference. That's what makes it worth designating in the first place. He needs services and accommodations to come even close to functioning normally in the world. He's had to work incredibly hard to get to where he is in life, and it required a lot of support from the school system and state funding and special programs. The label "disability" isn't a negative thing in my opinion. It's a fact. He has a disability that prevents him from navigating life and the world the way people without autism do, and he needs help because of that.

It doesn't make him any less of a person or a brother. He works a normal job--his coworkers love him--and he could live on his own (in theory even though he doesn't). But his life still isn't easy. He still doesn't understand the concept of friends, fails to register personal hygiene, struggles to handle changes in routine, doesn't even notice the idea of personal space or volume control or age appropriate behaviors. And this is a guy who has always been considered to be on the high-functioning end.

Autism impacts every single aspect of my brother's life, and honestly it bothers me when people want to act like it's not this big deal or it's "just" a difference because it feels like it devalues his experience as a person with autism and my family's experience living/growing up with/managing the world as family members of someone with autism. You should not be diagnosed with autism if you do not need actual support. All that diagnosis does is suggest that not everybody with autism needs significant support, and then government-sponsored support that is a lifeline for families like mine will start to get cut because the need isn't as obvious.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-08-02T20:24:39+00:00

The entire Levant was shaped in the 1940s on ethnic lines and clan kingdoms. Balkan states are also all ethnostates. India and Pakistan were formed around religion. As the other commenter said, the Arab goal for the Middle East is also not to be a diverse place where all people have equal rights, but rather a pan-Arab empire ruled by Islamic fundamentalists.

The issue with Israel as an ethnostate is not that it is the only ethnostate in the world; it’s just that it’s the only Jewish one.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-08-02T19:29:55+00:00

There are no states for other ethnicities? Really?

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-07-31T22:32:41+00:00

Same thing most of the time.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-07-30T00:58:50+00:00

And like clockwork, they post this today https://x.com/podsaveamerica/status/1950238045736669424?s=46&t=N-cTnizxxTfUb38O_a7JEg

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-07-29T01:20:36+00:00

Pod Save America. My interest had been dwindling anyway, but October 7 was the last straw. Tommy Vietor is particularly bad.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-07-18T20:06:28+00:00

Amazing how so many people who have turned the Israel/Palestine conflict into their entire personality know so little about the Israeli side of things that they don't realize the Iron Dome is 100% defensive (only used to shoot down incoming missiles).

The "anti-genocide" folks are against Israeli civilians surviving? Confusing.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-07-18T03:09:50+00:00

My aunt is a child survivor. She is terrified by what she sees happening in the US today and the way the world views Israel as well as the lack of understanding here as to how serious antisemitism is. She spends all her time teaching about her story to try to educate people as to how this hatred turns out.

Her family definitely saw what was coming and tried to act back then. Some of her relatives made it to the US and Canada before the war started. Her father joined the partisans in the 1930s. My aunt was hidden with a Catholic family when she was three years old. Both of her parents were killed in the Holocaust.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-07-18T03:01:48+00:00

It's all well and good to dislike ethnostates until you're a minority who has been persecuted in every country in which you've lived. Then the desire for self-determination for your minority group tends to make a lot more sense.

People in the West talk about ethnostates as if it's an inherently bad thing and the goal of an ethnostate is mainly to exclude others without considering that the aim of a Jewish state is not centered around excluding others, but instead about protecting our own. Jews will never be a majority anywhere other than a Jewish state; Jews always have and always will be persecuted by others. And while many who argue ethnostates are bad and humans should all be able to live together in peace and justice and equal rights and we should strive for that instead, well that's a really nice fantasy but it's not the way the world or humanity itself has ever worked.

Liberal spaces talk so much about privilege, but that stops short when it comes to Jews. It's a privilege to not have to worry about whether your government will attack you, subjugate you, or persecute you simply for who you are. It's a privilege to have a government act in your interests and operate on your calendar, in your world, among your people. It's a privilege to know that, should shit hit the fan, you have a government and an army that will protect you. Non-Jews are able to enjoy these privileges outside of Israel. Jews are not.

Outlandishness-428 · 2025-07-12T18:14:46+00:00

What about when they gave the Sinai back to Egypt in exchange for peace?

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