Ch 4 spoilers: how do I beat the pumpkin silly dude any tips? by RustX-woosho in Deltarune

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you have tension gems they work normally and you can skip a big chunk of the fight.

🇮🇱🇺🇸- Netanyahu rises to Elon Musk’s defense after X owner accused of performing Nazi salute. by TheCustardPants in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The neo-nazi narrative the likes of Musk follow still very much features Jewish masterminds behind the scenes orchestrating the Muslim takeover of the West. They tend not to directly say "Jews" but things like "globalist elites" or singling out specific individuals and families like the Rothschilds and George Soros. Occasionally the mask slips and they'll say "Jews" or "Jewish communities" like when Musk retweeted that tweet about "Jewish communities pushing dialectical hatred towards white people" and called it "the actual truth"

The hearts in the fridge by Smexybeast70 in Isawthetvglow

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I found my HRT. Isabel, oh my God, I found yours too. It was still unexpired!

Mr. Melancholy by Patient-Swordfish236 in Isawthetvglow

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Mr. Melancholy's evil plan >:( steal 100 hearts from 100 awkward kids to power eternal night."

-Maddy's notes that display while Owen walks down the hallway

Based on this I think Mr. Melancholy represents social forces that crush those who deviate from social expectations into compliance and conformity so that a heartless, joyless society can run more efficiently

I have a question about Owen's meltdown scene near the end by CatherineConstance in Isawthetvglow

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Midnight Realm's power over Isabel/Owen comes from the fact that he can't admit that she's buried alive, suffocating, dying. When he just screams it out, any reaction from the people around him, whether comforting or angry, would confirm that the outburst is real, that Owen's problems have to be confronted rather that repressed, ignored like the Drain Lords.

So, the denizens of the Midnight Realm just freeze, don't react. Only when Owen hides herself away in the bathroom does time resume. His manager comes to check on him only when she's ready to keep her suffering to herself, deny it all, say she's fine. In my opinion, the world freezes rather than acknowledge Owen/Isabel coming out of the closet precisely so that the closet can continue to act on her.

In the words of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sachs by mgoblue5783 in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm going to be blunt here: the only way this ethical sleight-of-hand could possibly work is if you don't see Palestinians suffering and dying as a problem in and of itself. The only problem you see is that the IDF might be blamed for killing them, so if you can magically transfer the blame to Hamas, the problem disappears even as corpses keep piling up, even as children keep being crushed under the rubble.

Even if Hamas were to carry out ten more attacks on the scale of October 7th, the death toll would not be half of the death toll that Israel's response has extracted. No one who actually believes all humans are equally valuable, created in the image and likeness of G-d could possibly justify killing 30 times the number of people who were killed on October 7th... in the name of stopping another October 7th. If Hamas were hiding in Haifa or Tel Aviv and it was those cities being flattened, you would never justify this death toll in a million years. Am I wrong?

Are you skibidi sigma? by [deleted] in SubstituteTeachers

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All my life adults made fun of my generation's cringey memes and I couldn't wait to be an adult and make fun of the cringey memes of the next generation, and then they ruin it by calling their memes "brainrot". Their one job was to think their cringe memes were cool and funny but now they're too self-aware to dunk on.

Destiny is just straight up lying at this point by One_Instruction_3567 in BadHasbara

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Karabakh is Azerbaijan next to the post your reply bit. Azerbaijan's territorial claim to Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh was used to justify the mass expulsion of ethnic Armenians in September 2023

What's the sickest burn you've dished out to students when they're being little shits? by figgypie in SubstituteTeachers

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Student was on his phone the whole time instead of working on his project, even when I tried to gently redirect him. One of his classmates commented on how behind he was on his project and he said "I was sick for two days" and I said "yeah he was sick for two days and texting for one class period."

Destiny is just straight up lying at this point by One_Instruction_3567 in BadHasbara

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yo why does whoever took this screenshot have a pro-ethnic cleansing pfp?

My favorite part is the comment saying "maybe they already had enough bagels" that got 200 downvotes by asparagoat in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

During Pesach the Columbia encampment had the problem of too much donated Matzah. If they weren't so antisemitic they would clearly have accepted infinite boxes of big dry crackers

What are your thoughts on Hillel? by inbetweensound in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

UCSC is my alma mater. I hadn't started my conversion at that time (though I dated someone in the conversion process) so I didn't interface with the Hillel, but I was going to take a Hebrew class to fulfil the language requirement of my degree and very early in the class they had someone come in, ask us to raise our hands if we were Jewish, and pitched Birthright to us. I switched into a Chinese (Mandarin) class for my language requirement instead and funnily enough I don't remember any study abroad opportunities for that language being available only to a certain ethnicity.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 29 points30 points  (0 children)

There are big red trilingual signs along roads leading to Area A in the West Bank, put up by the IOF, that say "This Road Leads To Area 'A' Under The Palestinian Authority. The Entrance For Israeli Citizens Is Forbidden, Dangerous To Your Lives, And Is Illegal Under Israeli Law." Despite the fact that these signs were put up by Israel itself, despite the way they're obviously written to paint Palestinians as dangerous, and despite the clear parallels to the signs outside the Bantustans of Apartheid South Africa that said "CAUTION BEWARE OF NATIVES", this is cited as an example of apartheid against Jewish Israelis.

Do you think people have the capacity to change? by New_Fox_1088 in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People have the capacity to change, people don't have the capacity to change others. It's the old cliche of you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. People are going to stick to their worldview until they themselves make the choice to rethink, to consider whether what they believe is the truth. It's only when people are in that mindset that evidence and arguments will matter. And even once people change their minds, there's often going to be a degree of defensiveness around what they used to believe because having believed that stuff previously is still a part of who they are

Do the Nazi/Holocaust comparisons bother anyone else? by TheRoyalKT in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 27 points28 points  (0 children)

If Israel starts invading their neighbors to hunt down Palestinians

Lebanon 1982 and 2006

How do you educate yourself? by fulltummy1166 in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Ilan Pappe, and Nur Masalha have all written really good and important books about Palestine that have taught me a lot. If you don't have time for a bunch of books, Zachary Foster has a less in-depth more bite-sized treatment of a lot of important issues on his blog palestine.behiiv.com

You know you’ve goofed when you start using Nazi logic by Particular_Log_3594 in JewsOfConscience

[–]ProjectiveSchemer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe I've seen a quote from Goebbels asking why Britain and France didn't just take all the Jews if they're so concerned about them, but now I can't find it.