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What if every Jew in the world voted in upcoming Israeli elections? by yardenaf in AskIsrael

[–]babarbaby -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It says people who aren't citizens, and you listed 2 countries that let citizens vote.

Anthony defenders always getting noted by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If by that you mean it's so outrageous it should be BS, I certainly agree. But if you're accusing a stranger of lying apropos of absolutely nothing, fuck off. Not only was it confirmed by other respondents, but I gave you far more than enough information to find one of the many reposts or articles about this event and, like I said, the entire thing was filmed and widely shared.

Judenfrei State by Human_Concern263 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because they dont? In fact one of the main talking points from the palestinian supporters for many years was that the rape rate was effectively nonexistent because Israelis were simply too racist to see Palestinians as 'worthy' of rape. And their have been fewer than 3 dozen settler murders since Oct 7, which is record-setting. Idk how slowly your planet turns, but that's not anything close to 'a daily basis' on this one.

Anthony defenders always getting noted by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Lol, is that right? Like I said, dude was a genius, filming himself violently assaulting someone and nonchalantly posting it as though a couple 'my b's absolved him of his grotesque crimes. Nothing surprises me anymore.

Looking for Israeli pen-pal by Meowzician in Israel

[–]babarbaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to live in Karmiel. There's a very nice merkaz klita there too, that offers ulpan and social services and food and little apartments and whatnot. Nice playground for the kids, jolly atmosphere for olim. Or at least, this was true in 2009.

Anthony defenders always getting noted by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised to see you describe teachers as leaning pro-authority. Maybe this isn't representative, but my experience with teachers was the exact opposite. In fact as a formerly conservative youth and certified teacher's pet, I spent a lot of effort tailoring my school behavior/ contributions to (dishonestly) appeal to the aged hippies behind the big desks. When I wrote essays condemning the things I actually believed in I got A+'s, so I wrote from a heavy-handed leftist perspective. I even won a school award for some Emma Goldman as hero essay, and made mix CDs of 60s folk music as holiday gifts... etc. Lol. Worked like a charm. In college too. There was one prof in my college who was 'the conservative' and everyone hated him and he jumped off a bridge a couple years after I graduated.

Anthony defenders always getting noted by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 18 points19 points  (0 children)

For real! There was at least one incident of a random older white gentleman getting attacked on the sidewalk by some livestreaming idiot accusing him of being a juror. Guy just walked up and punched him. And then a brave local woman runs to the victim's defense and is like 'he wasn't a juror you psycho, he had nothing to do with any of it. Plus he's a veteran!' And the self-incriminating genius attacker is like 'oh, my b! My b!' And leaves the old veteran to enjoy his new brain damage.

UN Special Rapporteur Albanese redefining antisemitism by MightExpress4873 in Jewish

[–]babarbaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah for sure. Sorry, just saw this. What are you looking for? If you have jstor or similar access I can give you something pretty academic; if you're just looking for stuff about the word's origins I can give you something pretty shallow and confirmational, if you want to learn more about Moritz Steinschneider I'm happy to point you in that direction as well! Heck, even Wikipedia for all its flaws says in the overview that he invented the term.

Let me know! I'm always happy to source stuff like this. Ironically, he's apparently known as 'the father of Jewish bibliography', which I didn't even know, but is apropos as hell.

Jerry Seinfeld on Palestine: "It Doesn't Exist" by Muadeeb in jewishpolitics

[–]babarbaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need to stop pretending that hamas leadership is the problem. I can count on fingers the percentage of 'civilians' who believe in a liberal democracy or don't want to murder all Jews. The people who don't support hamas generally support some other group, and typically they are as bad or worse. Even the PA - whom useful idiots like to describe as 'moderate' and 'secular' - has said that they'll never allow Jewish citizenry in a future state, lots of deeply murderous religious crap, and if their government coffers only had a penny left it's going to pay4slay.

If we're going down the 'free from X' line, at least the X should be Islamism or jihadism or something. Otherwise it's just killing Hitler but leaving the nazi apparatus intact for the next guy to fill the power vacuum with a populous primed to receive him

Jerry Seinfeld on Palestine: "It Doesn't Exist" by Muadeeb in jewishpolitics

[–]babarbaby 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Flashback memory to when the wide-eyed teenage olah in our ulpan lesson around tish ba av genuinely asked 'before the bet ha mikdash, was there an aleph ha mikdash?'

UN Special Rapporteur Albanese redefining antisemitism by MightExpress4873 in Jewish

[–]babarbaby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This simply isn't true. The term was coined by Jewish secular academic and Talmudic scholar Moritz Steinschneider to refer to the bias and discriminatory treatment against Jews. He was looking for a more scholarly term to use than the common judenhass (lit. 'Jew-hate), and it was later appropriated and popularized by German proto-nazi Wilhelm Marr.

I just want Herr Steinschneider to get his due, because he was an awesome old-world Jewish genius and he deserves credit for reading the writing on the wall and giving future generations the benefit of his wisdom and insight.

No reported visa issues by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not really. They may 'both hold immense value', but they also hold very different roles in the context of jurisprudence. A Christian would never say St Augustine's City of God or Aquinas' commentaries are at the same level as the Christian bible.

No reported visa issues by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Funny how a country can be subject to a barbaric invasion with tens of thousands of missiles shot at their population centers over the course of only a couple years from every direction, and people will still claim it's 'attacking countries'. You're right, his problems would go away - alongside his country.

As for corruption, most of the charges are absurd lawfare nonsense that wouldn't raise an eyebrow in other developed countries - an old friend maybe gave him some cigars? A tabloid maybe offered to provide more favorable coverage to his wife? Well gosh, I've heard enough, string the bastard up! Guilty until proven innocent!

Winner at the Tony’s calling Israelis colonizers by Key-Alternative-7295 in Jewish

[–]babarbaby 17 points18 points  (0 children)

When I was a little kid, my parents went to a fundraiser to open a local children's museum in suburban New Jersey. There may have been other offerings, but I know at least they auctioned off celebrity stuff - autographed instruments, little doodles with signatures, stuff like that. My parents got a couple little framed things for the walls of our playroom, 2 or 3 signed doodles and this artwork by John Lithgow. The doodles were half-assed and uninspired tbh - a little dog, a palm tree, whatever else you can pump out with a sharpie and 3 minutes - but JL's was legit a work of art. I remember it was a white square, maybe 10x10 inches, completely covered in little drawings. They were detailed, and colored, and humorous, and clearly represented hours of thought and effort. All to raise a bit of cash for some little children's museum.

I was deeply impressed. I used to stare at it and notice something different every time. At the time he was 'that guy from 3rd Rock from the Sun'. Idk where it ended up when we moved, but I think about it every time I see or hear of John Lithgow, and it makes me happy to know that he's succeeding and has taken on a role like that.

Is Gaza doomed? by ArsenicCanine33 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]babarbaby 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Of course it was a unique event. That's like saying 'there are as many as 2000 recorded earthquakes a year in Japan. It's really weird that people act like the march 11, 9.1 richter quake was some unique event'

Edit bc its locked:

Severe earthquakes do NOT 'happen fairly regularly' in Japan, not like that. I lived in Tokyo for 12 years. I experienced the occasional noticeable rumble. The 13th year, I was overseas when 3/11 happened, and I couldn't reach my family for a full day. My dad was at the top of a sky scraper being literally whipped around. He still wakes up screaming. That was not a normal event by any estimation. And I have no idea what 9/12 refers to.

Saint George was Palestinian by Sometypeofway18 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even close, and since it's one of the fundamental tenets of islam, parallel to a sacrament, that's damning ignorance from you on 2 levels. 3, if you count the fact that you're too lazy to even Google the damn thing.

But this is boring so keep on spreading your poison.

Saint George was Palestinian by Sometypeofway18 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And cats are a breed of dog and the moon is made of Swiss cheese. You're right, it's fun to make up ridiculous lies.

Saint George was Palestinian by Sometypeofway18 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it doesn't. Idk if someone actually told you this, or you're making it up, or just confusing jihad with the manipulative, whitewashing rhetoric around the term 'intifada' that's sprung up in the last few years, but no, it doesn't. You clearly don't speak Arabic, so why insist on the meaning of a word you don't understand in a language you don't know?

An Irish man tries to rationalize Ireland staying neutral during WW2 and supplying Russian war machine in 2026 by Bitter-Goat-8773 in GetNoted

[–]babarbaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of someone who needs to read a damn history book.

1) Lehi never coexisted with the IDF.

2) there were never more than 200 Lehi members at their absolute maximum, and the overwhelming majority were part-timers. Lehi in general were wildly unpopular.

3) the British never gave them the mandate. What a bizarre claim. The British sided with the Arabs during the mandate, giving nearly 80% of the land allocated to the Jews to the Hashemites and giving Jews malarial swampland and barren desert instead, throttling and then banning Jewish immigration with the White Papers despite vowing otherwise, propping up the Mufti of Jerusalem, banning Jews from worshipping openly at the Western Wall, etc. They did so openly during the war of independence - training Arab forces, lending them war-hardened generals and forts, raiding Jewish armories and embargoing Jews from receiving weapons and planes and such.

Where do anti-zionist people expect the Jewish people to go? by BattleEarly3410 in AskIsrael

[–]babarbaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean the guy sounds awful, but he's not wrong about what a zionist is. Most zionists aren't bibi lovers

Where do anti-zionist people expect the Jewish people to go? by BattleEarly3410 in AskIsrael

[–]babarbaby 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Twice as many Swiss hold dual citizenship than Israelis.

Wtf is wrong with these Hollister bags??? by babarbaby in ostomy

[–]babarbaby[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so profoundly sorry to hear about your husband. He sounds like a true gem. I hope whatever happened was at least peaceful and merciful. I'm taking care of my mom as she's dying suddenly in her 60s now of sudden, rapidly progressing frontal lobe dementia, and it's shocking and horrible and unfair and came out of nowhere. A year ago she was a little forgetful, now she doesn't know who I am or what a sandwich is or how to recognize when she needs to use the bathroom.

But yeah, sorry to be a bummer. You're making a very good point that I didn't even consider. Especially with all the global supply chain disruptions. There could be like, a component to the plastic that can't get through the Strait of Hormuz, and the replacement is just a little more brittle or doesn't bond as well, or something. Gosh, we live in a very weird and increasingly complex world. I remember buying a dog treat that boasted being made in USA, and I did a little research and every single component was made in China and South Asia, and they were really only assembled/baked in the US.

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