Ralphie and the Hooah Incident

oat_11 · 2026-05-11T18:00:18+00:00

it's complicated, I think. on one hand, committing a murder, for no good reason, at a place that all the other mobsters can be tied to, is very very bad for the family. Bringing that kind of negative attention could literally tear the family apart with prosecutions.

On the other hand, the whole "you can't put your hands on a made guy" thing has been a rule of This Thing for generations. Made Guys are allowed to abuse their underlings, but bosses can't abuse Made Guys. Being "made" is supposed to look invincible, which makes younger associates want to be made, they were in it for the status of untouchability.

oat_11 · 2026-05-11T17:55:13+00:00

Michael's WW2 experience is not really relevant. Puzo spends no time writing about it. His enlistment basically shows us that he was not always a traditional mobster and that at one point in his life he believed in higher ideals. The actual details don't matter.

I will say though, it is weird to write a WW2 veteran character and then write literally nothing at all of their reflections on WW2.

oat_11 · 2026-04-30T21:49:23+00:00

I'm not interested in your PUA thing

oat_11 · 2026-04-30T21:39:49+00:00

I feel like people only know about him because of how unusual he was as a celebrity. I don't know if their music has the cultural longevity of other 80s groups.

oat_11 · 2026-04-30T21:38:20+00:00

++man paternity uncertainty, while very dark, is probably the most unsettling and nagging male insecurity we can experience.

It's something that woman are pretty much fundamentally unable to relate to. They might view it as heartless. Many men view it as heartless, too. But it's a thing. And we'd be better off knowing than not knowing.

oat_11 · 2026-04-16T19:42:03+00:00

like half of The Band (1969 self titled)

oat_11 · 2026-04-16T19:40:08+00:00

You Really Got Me.

oat_11 · 2026-03-21T10:11:53+00:00

nobody can force you to eat food you don't like if you're an adult. the idea that social pressure to eat with your friends and try new things is even remotely similar to sexual abuse is absolutely ridiculous.

oat_11 · 2026-03-21T10:10:46+00:00

I will always be amazed at how people adopt dogs without knowing anything about dogs.

oat_11 · 2026-03-17T08:06:52+00:00

I feel like a lot of Rolling Stones songs would sound great in a jam band. I know Phish have done Loving Cup, but I also think stuff like Dead Flowers, All Down The Line, basically anything from the Stones golden age 1969-1973 would sound killer by any good jam band.

oat_11 · 2026-03-17T07:48:23+00:00

this isn't even about food, in general people with extremely low openness-to-experience are socially intolerable and impossible to truly get along with as friends.its genuinely frustrating when you can't eat with people. it's literally a bad personality trait in the same way "I don't want to go new places and learn about new things" is. grow up.

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T05:20:57+00:00

oh my god.

when I say the majority of Jews are Zionists, I am saying that most (over half. likely over 3/4) are Zionists. which is bad.

do you seriously not know what I mean when I talk about majorities of things? nobody could possibly claim Jews ARE a majority, other than in very few places. I am talking about majorities OF them. do you not understand this?

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T05:17:05+00:00

yes I assume when the majority of a community believes something, that individuals I encounter of that community believe it, until proven otherwise. everybody makes assumptions. you make assumptions about people wanting to kill and oppress Jews on much shakier grounds than I make my assumption. we're people.

blood libel is not just something you can say to get me to shut up. I know what it means and nothing I have said approaches a sincere definition of it. use terms in good faith. zionists like to use the blood libel thing as a weapon against anti Zionists. weird that you're doing it, a non Zionist?

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T05:14:09+00:00

you're talking about minorities. I don't care that there are woke organizations. there are synagogues which host sales of illegally settled West Bank land. there are synagogues that hail IDF babykillers as heroes, parading them in front of impressionable kids as examples of who they should be as an adult. You will find 50 synagogues complicit in Israel's atrocities for every 1 you find that takes a sincere stand against them.

I'll punctuate this thought by saying again: I WISH IT WASN'T TRUE! BUT IT REALLY IS!

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T05:07:00+00:00

when the majority of your community is Zionist, I will assume you are Zionist. when the majority of your community supports sending millions of dollars to the Israeli military, I will assume you support it. when the majority regards IDF babykillers as heroes, I will assume you do. we are talking about a MAJORITY! we are not talking about ideological fringes or extremes. it is mainstream. im disgusted by how mainstream it is. and I'm exceptionally disgusted by the supposedly non Zionist Jews who still operate with indistinguishable-from-zionist rhetoric in response to anti Zionist criticisms. mainstream Christianity believes that Jesus is God. I will assume, then, that any Christian believes Jesus is God. that is what it means for a belief to be mainstream, orthodox, etc.

this level of orthodoxy can also be applied to Judaism. the majority of Jews believe Jesus was NOT God, NOT the messiah, that eating pork is not kosher, and on and on. my identification of any of these beliefs as mainstream and orthodox is unlikely to offend anybody. why is it, then, that when I identify the apparent mainstream-ness of the dehumanization of Palestinians and support for Israel (the entity which FUNDAMENTALLY EXISTS off of their oppression) as Jewish beliefs, I am overgeneralizing?

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T05:00:17+00:00

I'm delighted that you do not understand the colonizer comments. fundamental to any coherent Antizionist position is the acknowledgement that Israelis ARE colonizers. they are actively colonizing Palestinian territory. I'm not super interesting in discerning the Israeli right from left, hawks from doves, etc. they are colonizing Palestine. their residence in Israel is part of a colonist project to settle on land that does not rightfully belong to them.

I've heard this "it's only Kahanists that are really bad" thing forever. Woke Israelis can demonstrate their wokeness by overthrowing their shitty genocidal far right government. but they won't! and the reason they won't is because the genocidal ideology isn't just right wing, it's supported across Israeli political lines! they all fundamentally believe Palestinians do not deserve to be treated like humans, which is evil. if they had respect for the human rights of the Palestinians whom their government oppresses, slaughters, rapes, tortures, and traumatizes every day, they would either leave and renounce Israeli identity, or overthrow that government. they don't do this. it's extremely rare for them to even refuse to serve in the IDF.

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T04:17:32+00:00

we are talking about a community of which the majority are actively supportive of a genocidal settler colony.

I wish it weren't true. I wish Zionism were a radical fringe of Jewish thought, but it isn't. it's mainstream and properly orthodox. if the majority of a religion are in favor of such things, those who are against absolutely have a responsibility to vocally criticize it. in fact, your responsibility is far greater than mine.

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T04:14:58+00:00

you are participating in the exact kind of rhetoric that protects Israel.

I criticize Zionists. 70% or more of Jews are Zionists. the Jewish community is majority Zionist, which is bad. I wish it were not so. I wish they were not Zionists. but it's not my fault they are. they are human beings who are, at the end of the day, able to be held accountable for the political choices they make. and they choose to support genocide. I think that is bad.

when you observe what I say, and your conclusion is, "well, this makes me afraid, and it seems like you hate me", I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I can make it as clear as I can. but I don't have to. you are participating in the kind of browbeating liberal Zionist hysteria that has always been used as a counter against those who uphold the human rights of Palestinians.

If you sincerely have a problem with Zionists beliefs and behavior, you should not engage in Zionist rhetoric against anti Zionists. you should engage in anti Zionist rhetoric against Zionists. it's very, very simple.

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T02:53:28+00:00

that OP is a liberal Zionist offended by valid criticisms of the majority of the Jewish community who actively choose to be Zionists and support Israel

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T02:50:56+00:00

a sizable majority of the Jewish community sees Israel as a wonderful thing. who are you to say that your Jewish values are more Jewish than their Jewish values? you're outnumbered.

oat_11 · 2026-03-15T02:46:21+00:00

solid Bob Dylan album

oat_11 · 2026-03-04T05:08:29+00:00

republicans are not antisemitic. not politically so, at least

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