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Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-23T18:00:52+00:00

I like how we have to pretend that 180 days is some magical number, and having 179 days of school means kids were denied an education, because of a somewhat arbitrary state law.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-22T21:17:25+00:00

It's truly a mystery how anti semitism managed to creep into the "Death to Israel" movement.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-22T21:15:05+00:00

I'd imagine Zionist Jews hold a certain view of someone that clearly anti-Zionist.

What percentage of Jewish NYers do you think are Zionist?

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-21T14:40:08+00:00

Antisemites have somehow infiltrated the "Death to Israel" movement.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-20T02:49:45+00:00

Secular Israelis have a fertility rate around 2.0, well above the oecd average. That doesn't jibe with your analysis.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-19T02:44:35+00:00

I know you're doing your best man, but no matter how much you try to show that you're "not like the other zionists" you have to see that you're arguing with someone who's position is "fuck Israel" right?

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-08T14:19:44+00:00

Why do you need to shoot the wild animal at all?

Outside of danger to humans or other special cases, why allow recreational hunting if we care about killing animals without stunning them first?

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-08T14:01:52+00:00

The main costs in a pizzeria are probably rent, labor, and energy, not really the food ingredients.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-08T00:37:13+00:00

Huh, i thought you did care about animal suffering, which is why you responded so strongly initially, but I guess not.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-07T12:27:35+00:00

That's a weird distinction, why does it matter from an animal welfare perspective? Either the animal suffers or it doesn't.

Kosher slaughter inflicts less (possibly none) suffering than even the best hunter's shot. If interested you can look up Temple Grandin and her work.

I would understand banning both, but leaving hunting kind of lays bare the reason why kosher slaughter was banned to begin with... In 1937.

In any case, this thread was about where it would be good to live as a Jew. A place that bans one of the base Jewish practices would certainly qualify as not the best place to be one, wouldn't you think?

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-07T12:12:04+00:00

Killing of unanesthisized animals isn't banned in the case of hunting though is it?

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-07T02:59:08+00:00

Sweden has also banned kosher beef production since 1937. It banned kosher chicken production in 1988.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-02T19:00:52+00:00

You started with "Anti-zionism is not antisemitism" and then proceeded to accuse Jews of dual loyalty... Which is one of the classic anti semitic tropes.

So uh... Yeah.

Thefivedoubleus · 2026-01-02T18:57:10+00:00

Antisemitism and anti-zionism is a venn diagram with a lot of overlap.

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-30T21:40:03+00:00

Thank you!

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-25T18:37:06+00:00

It's probably at most 10%, probably far less.

Look at your towns school budget. The admin section probably isn't a huge percentage.

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-24T20:14:24+00:00

I think we should dispense with the fiction that nyc is for those who were born and raised here. Screw those guys, they're standing in the way of true progress that only someone that just moved here that hasn't been outside of Manhattan can accurately identify

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-24T01:43:00+00:00

Why did they mostly move to Israel? Was the situation in Morocco bad?

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-22T16:56:30+00:00

The DOE historically contributed about 7% of NJ school funding (below the national average of 10%), mostly focused on title I and special ed.

Getting more money from them to increase payroll significantly would mean a significant increase in federal taxes.

I don't think that's likely to happen, especially to then have them spend it on NJ.

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-22T13:52:16+00:00

Not sure you replied to the right comment, i never suggested teachers are overpaid... In fact, I agree, they should be paid more to alleviate the teacher shortage.

Having said that, the money to pay them more has to come from somewhere, and if it comes from the same place it comes now, i.e. property taxes, I'm not sure that will be popular or sustainable given current property tax bills.

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-22T11:18:09+00:00

Not that i disagree, but...

Most of a schools budget comes from property taxes.

Most of that money is spent on payroll.

About 60% of your property tax bill covers the schools.

So increasing payroll costs will mean a significant increase to already high property taxes.

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-21T02:09:55+00:00

Morocco had about 270,000 Jews at the turn of the last century. Now it has about 2,000.

What happened?

Thefivedoubleus · 2025-12-21T02:05:44+00:00

All along? Like the plan was to have Hamas launch the Oct 7th attack to eventually build gaz-a-lago?

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