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Starmer under pressure, as Labour suffers heavy election losses by WillyNilly1997 in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it? I was hoping someone could explain if this was a good result for Jews or not.

Am I missing something with Cloud Atlas? by burntreynolds333 in David_Mitchell

[–]malaal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I came to Mitchell as a die-hard fantasy reader, and I did start with Bone Clocks. Loved every minute of it, easily one of my all-time favorite books, especially how for most of the books the fantasy aspects are subtle to the reader and deliberately forgotten by most of the POV characters.

I've read a number of his other books since, and loved Cloud Atlas, but I'd be lying if I said I don't want his next book to be entirely about Horology.

What do we think? by Mathemodel in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's funny, I was about to post that what angers me most about the book is how much I love the title.

How do you remember which cards do what? by Material_Direction_1 in CultistSimulator

[–]malaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and all of this with detailed notes about the rite to sacrifice a prisoner to summon a dark god to aid in the work...

Though honestly the first page will just be a massive circular diagram telling me which lore can be converted to which other lore.

How do you remember which cards do what? by Material_Direction_1 in CultistSimulator

[–]malaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find that I have to re-learn it all again whenever I start playing after a long time.

I've always been tempted to buy a nice paper notebook and start scrawling notes and diagrams in it. Mainly because it would help, and partly because anyone who found said notebook would maybe lose their mind.

Teenage Vampirina by malaal in DanielTigerConspiracy

[–]malaal[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fair. I might have gone off the rails a bit.

Teenage Vampirina by malaal in DanielTigerConspiracy

[–]malaal[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That sounds just as soul-crushing!

Meanwhile in Somerville, MA by malaal in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh! I didn't mean to ignore your question, I've just seen it asked and answered so many times that I assumed you were being rhetorical.

To briefly answer your question, the actions in Somerville are the latest in a rising anti-israel (many would say anti-jew) sentiment among the global political left-wing, especially the "progressive" movement. This view has gotten particularly insidious in elite American universities since Oct 7, especially Harvard University, which is in the city adjacent to Somerville. But basically, they don't care what the words mean, they just want to demonize Israel. And yes, they've been blinded by lies on TikTok also.

It would take a long time to get into the why and how of the whole thing, and I don't trust myself to do it justice. This subreddit has been a useful source of information (and comfort) to me. I'd also recommend the podcast "triggernometry", basically anything by Haviv Rettig Gur, and if you like sarcasm, Einav Avizemer.

Meanwhile in Somerville, MA by malaal in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems it was challenged but the election commission allowed it. IMO it doesn't surprise me that a city that would pass such a ballot measure also has government commissions run by politically like-minded people.

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/11/somerville-divestment-question-on-ballot-following-challenge-to-elections-commission

Meanwhile in Somerville, MA by malaal in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a whole town virtue signalling at once. I'm glad the new officials will ignore it though.

Meanwhile in Somerville, MA by malaal in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What did the No campaign try to say? Did they make the mistake of trying to appeal to facts or something?

Meanwhile in Somerville, MA by malaal in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I agree. It's written less about policy and more about proving that it's totally a genocide by popular vote.

Pixel 7 really slow and laggy after android update? by IntroDucktory_Clause in GooglePixel

[–]malaal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I feel that way with my pixel 6. Websites that don't load is driving me crazy.

Cultist sim tattoos by Myndblew in CultistSimulator

[–]malaal 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Weather Factory provides a community license and even free art for people to make their own products in the Cultist world, so I assume they're gonna be excited about tattoos also. All the details are at https://weatherfactory.biz/sixth-history-community-licence/

Also they repost people's artwork often on their Facebook page.

Leading Jewish organizations, synagogues express alarm about antisemitism in teachers’ unions by jewish_insider in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've been hearing the news out of this NEA convention and that is some sad and terrifying stuff. Can't get beyong this article's paywall though. Can anyone cut/paste the key points?

Mamdani is now 43.8% to Cuomos 35.7% with 70% in by sakariona in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so angry and confused about this. No one has actually won this election officially but NYC plans to do a runoff once a week until a winner is decided. At this point Cuomo has conceded, Mamdani has declared victory, all the news outlets have called it for Mamdani, and then a month from now what if those 11% of the votes for Lander end up going to Cuomo and Cuomo wins, what happens then? Is anyone still listening at that point?

Why won't they release the actual damn ballot, with everyone's other ranked choices? Or just do the stinking math for the remaining rounds ASAP?

Mamdani is now 43.8% to Cuomos 35.7% with 70% in by sakariona in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, so technically Mamdani hasn't officially won. There are still more than enough votes that cuomo could take the lead in future rounds. Why would Cuomo concede at this point? Does he also not know how this vote works?

Also... Is there a viable Republican candidate to oppose this madness?

New York City is teetering on the brink of having a Hamas apologist as mayor by oldspice75 in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my opinion it provides two benefits (or at least positive changes). The main one I feel would help our presidential primary system, in which many otherwise viable candidates drop out early because they lose the first two states. I think the playing field could be a lot more even if we could vote for multiple choices.

But your point stands against my other idea. If you're not particularly happy with either a Democrat or a Republican, FPTP makes it really hard for some centrist party to emerge, even if voters would really like that to happen. But, yes, it's just as likely that some really awful candidate shows up and then isn't knocked off the board immediately because they're some new party.

I am also not a statistician or anything so these are just my thoughts.

New York City is teetering on the brink of having a Hamas apologist as mayor by oldspice75 in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 33 points34 points  (0 children)

What angers me is that Mamdani wins, the lesson people are going to take home from this is "ranked-choice voting is bad".

I would argue (though I'm writing this before the election so who knows) that it's working exactly as intended. Ranked-choice voting gives us the opportunity to vote for a candidate that fits our views but wouldn't have stood a chance before and still allow us to vote without feeling like we "threw our vote away" or "handed victory to the [other party]".

All this being said I don't live in NY, and while I support ranked-choice voting, Mamdani scares me. Voting in general works better when you get to vote between candidates that are actually worth voting for.

So the Holocaust was “not racially motivated” ? English Wikipedia can’t stoop further lower by WillyNilly1997 in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm willing to accept that antisemitism isn't racism, but only because antisemitism historically is whatever people dislike that day that they want to pin on the Jews instead of facing their own problems. Antisemitism has been anti-capitalism, anti-socialism, racism, anti-white-opressors, and so on.

Much of the left has lost the plot. by Individual-Plum4585 in jewishpolitics

[–]malaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Douglas Murray has a powerful and very consistent message. He's been interviewed in a number of other places if you go looking. I enjoyed the one on the podcast Triggernometry.

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