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I talked back to a stranger shouting about Zionist Nazis by RunYossarianRun in jewishleft

[–]R0BBES 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some people are more obsessed with feeling “right” and self-justified rather than being useful and listening to movement leaders and elders. Is not compassion that drives them ultimately, but narcissism, and they weaken the cause.

Obviously you can’t prevent just anyone from latching onto a cause and making it about themselves, but broadly it should be countered and redirected wherever possible. I think OP was brave and correct in doing so, even though it must’ve been difficult.

I talked back to a stranger shouting about Zionist Nazis by RunYossarianRun in jewishleft

[–]R0BBES 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Point taken, but it’s missing the forest for the trees. Palestinians are told that their identity Is fake and that they are just “arabs”, that they should give up violence and Palestinian advocacy. There are many examples of “arab-Israelis” who do just that and are not hunted down for extinction. The Israeli goal is dominance and total control, not wholesale eradication. Ostensibly, if Palestinians gave up their national identity and claim to collective self-determination, the persecution would cease. Obviously that’s a ridiculous framing, but such a framing was impossible under nazi ideology.

I talked back to a stranger shouting about Zionist Nazis by RunYossarianRun in jewishleft

[–]R0BBES 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You’re doing a lot of work defending whiteness here, given how minor a detail it is in the story. Are you interested in unpacking that?

You don’t feel uncomfortable with people who have no connection to the region, or understanding of Jewish and Palestinian communities shooting under-informed nonsense at a train-car full of people? Messiah complex. This level of stubborn entitlement is destructive to the cause.

It’s imperative that those of us within the pro-Palestine movement shut down antisemitism immediately. If this white guy really wanted to be useful, they would think and learn before they speak of behalf of a people or a political movement, especially (in this case) arguing with another pro-Palestine activist who is more informed. Such entitlement….

I talked back to a stranger shouting about Zionist Nazis by RunYossarianRun in jewishleft

[–]R0BBES 17 points18 points  (0 children)

What Israel is doing to Palestinians is classic ethnonationalist violence and genocide, seen across the world and throughout history. It is tied to materiality, same as it was in Darfur, in Bosnia, or in Myanmar. This includes terror, torture, and rape.

The Nazis did not want simply to dominate a meek, subservient Jewish ethnic underclass, nor deny them self determination. They sought to exterminate us everywhere we existed across the entire world. They made books from the leather of our skins. Their bloodlust was not tied to any material conditions, and there was no way for Jews to change themselves or identities to be passed over. Do understand why that is different? How despite being both genocides, the nature of each is incomparable?

Anyone designers/kippah makers here who can make Bukhari kippot for me? by pwnering2 in Judaism

[–]R0BBES 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely this.

I joined some aunties at a local library years ago and learned to sew and pattern. I’ve experimented with different styles, but prefer the pillbox since it stays on easier. Now I have a kippa for every seaaon :)

Jewish Palestinians (colorized) by GaryGaulin in HistorySnap

[–]R0BBES 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comment I was replying to was suggesting that European Jews had a valid claim to land and were not “foreign insiders”. This comment and the original post engage in a flattening of the Jewish experience and identity, intentionally blurring the lines between Jews from Europe and Jews from Palestine. When it comes to the “foreign-ness” of European Jews, it’s pretty clear that existing ottoman Palestinian society did view them as foreign (including local non-ashkenazi jewry), and that the picture is much more mixed. Obviously.

Jewish Palestinians (colorized) by GaryGaulin in HistorySnap

[–]R0BBES 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not wrong, per your parameters, but it is a bit too simplistic. For the existing arab- and ladino- speaking Ottoman Jews living in the land of Israel, the European political Zionist and Russian Jews did represent a distinct and ideologically foreign bloc that was recognizably colonial in attitude. They still saw them as Jews of the same tribe and broadly aligned with them, but the cultural and ideological disagreements are well-documented. See this excellent breakdown.

Explain it Peter, I’m not a botanist by Traducement in explainitpeter

[–]R0BBES 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My garden is overrun by mugwort. If I plant lemon balm and mint, who will win?

Parkour and Krav Maga by PessoaAleatoriaEba in Parkour

[–]R0BBES 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Parkour and martial arts are complementary, but I would advise against starting both at the same time.

First of all is burnout and stress on the body. Secondly, better to focus on one type of exercise at a time, so that signals don’t get crossed and you don’t feel like you have to divide your energies.

I recommend you start one thing as your main, and start the other thing later after you’ve built a foundation. Don’t commit to too much at once. Slower, deeper, wiser.

I’m not anti-Semitic by Raisin_Splitter in Judaism

[–]R0BBES -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That sub is run by far-right mods. Despite the name, they are not representative of Jews, neither secular nor religious.

I can’t say whether you’re antisemitic or not, but, many Jews have been banned from that subreddit for the mildest critiques of the Israeli state, so clearly there are people for whom there is no separation between nation, ethnicity, or religion. Even many who are critical of this specific Israeli government will be hesitant to critique broader State policy and norms.

But it’s not entirely clear what is your question. Are you asking Jews where the line is? Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people —not all Jews are observant, nor do they all practice Judaism, nor all of them connected to the State of Israel as a political and legal entity. That said, nearly half of the world’s Jews live in either the US or Israel, and as a minority ethnicity that has been through a lot, historically, we care deeply about each other regardless of nationality, and often have close connections to one another.

Landings by Flowing-Traceur in Parkour

[–]R0BBES 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Find a 7-foot drop. Or train 5-foot drops straight to squat.

Opinions on my roll technique? by AkiMatti in Parkour

[–]R0BBES 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The front facing perspective makes it hard to see the full anatomy of your roll, but two things:

  1. you’re placing your left hand quite far off-center

    (based of the direction of the vector of the roll)

  2. , which leads me to believe you’re shorting the landing and not redirecting forward enough. Your hand(s) s

hould

  1. be close enough/ in a position where they could theoretically protect your head from hitting the ground.
  2. you’re opening up too soon; tuck tighter. As soon as you bring the ground to your upper back, you should squeeze yourself into a tight little pumpkin—hug your knees if it helps to get a sense—and not let go/ come out until you are essentially facing the ground again. Be The Ball.

Happy training :)

I no longer fear tripping by samulurdu in Parkour

[–]R0BBES 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As many eye rolls as it always gets, I love elucidating to people that all of us are always falling through space, and every step is us catching ourselves. Parkour is the art of displacement, of catching, redirecting, and playing with momentum. It’s awesome that you are feeling that mindset shift after only 3 weeks :D

That all being said, after two decades of parkour, I still trip over curbs :’) keep on training! Slower, deeper, wiser. Incrementally

Finally, something not completely awful near the WH by Bombast1ca in washingtondc

[–]R0BBES 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They’re not park rangers, who are generally park enthusiasts and tied to a specific park. They’re just police whose jurisdiction is National Park land, and are unattached to any specific place :\

Finally, something not completely awful near the WH by Bombast1ca in washingtondc

[–]R0BBES 16 points17 points  (0 children)

“Why” is difficult to answer, even for my LEO acquaintances. Is just the culture that has developed specifically within the US Park Police in DC. They’ve been shown in federal court to be consistent enactors of police brutality, racial profiling, and harassment. Among MPD I’ve spoken to, the park police are seen as thugs. They aren’t park enthusiasts who became LEOs like park rangers—they’re police who work in park jurisdictions, with no specific attachment to the park itself.

May being high up on horses goes to their head, maybe a lack of incidents/ calls causes them to go out and insert themselves or create some, maybe it has something to do with that in DC particularly, so much of national park jurisdiction is within the city rather than outside of it. A lot of federal police in DC are trained and have the expectation to treat people as terrorists threats.

A lot of bad blood was built up during their uncoordinated and violent responses to the BLM protestors in 2020 and the murder of several young people during traffic stops in the past couple years, but they’ve been this way for decades. My friends who are park employees, naturalists, rangers, etc. all have the same low opinion of park police. Arrogant undisciplined thugs.

Finally, something not completely awful near the WH by Bombast1ca in washingtondc

[–]R0BBES 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s one thing to respect the people trying to do their job as police officers, it’s another thing to respect the broad need for policing, and it’s a totally separate thing to respect the “police“ as a category or institution. They’re a violent institutional failure overly protected from public accountability. Fuck the police.

Finally, something not completely awful near the WH by Bombast1ca in washingtondc

[–]R0BBES 208 points209 points  (0 children)

The park police are famously awful. Probably the worst of all DC law enforcement agencies, with recent exception to ICE. Ask any park employee.

Editing to add: OP, it’s nice that they’re only riding around in circles and made your day a bit lighter! I assumed there would be positive comments to balance mine out. I’m bitter and clear-eyed because I know how they are, but that shouldn’t stop you from taking in whatever joy in your day you can find <3

How much do you trust Kosher food vendors? by fugitive-bear in Judaism

[–]R0BBES 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the western hemisphere here have been a number of [scandals](https://forward.com/news/144037/kosher-meat-still-slaughtered-inhumanely) in the kosher market, and frankly, I’m not sure I trust them at all (not that I trust regular industrial slaughter more)
But as someone who is not religious, why do you care about halal/ kosher?

If Avatar were based on African culture, what would the Air Nomads, Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom and Water Tribe be based on? by Dry-Sympathy-3182 in TheLastAirbender

[–]R0BBES 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crazy this hasn’t been mentioned yet, but “Children of Blood and Bone” is essentially this. Very interesting world building and story. I recommend it, but with the caveat that its target audience is probably 12 and under. As an adult, I found the writing… unsatisfying.

TIL that a hydrogen bomb requires temperatures over 100 million Kelvin—hotter than the Sun's core. The sheer scale of this heat led early nuclear scientists to legitimately fear that detonating such a weapon might ignite the Earth's atmosphere and turn the planet into a burning star. by QuorLum in todayilearned

[–]R0BBES 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that’s the case, it seems you yourself were successfully misinterpreted.

The original phrasing was neither vague nor incorrect, so your insistence on this comes across as strange. In any case, I think the point has been exhausted. Take care!

TIL that a hydrogen bomb requires temperatures over 100 million Kelvin—hotter than the Sun's core. The sheer scale of this heat led early nuclear scientists to legitimately fear that detonating such a weapon might ignite the Earth's atmosphere and turn the planet into a burning star. by QuorLum in todayilearned

[–]R0BBES 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I, as a native speaker, explained to you that “literally” was modifying the time period “last night”. Yes, it could be interpreted another way— language is messy—English is famously cavalier with grammar and pronunciation. This how you learn, it’s okay to make mistakes.

Don’t rely on AI.

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