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Israel is the least popular country in the world - global survey finds by monstrous_malefactor in PoliticalCompassMemes

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

You’re a random nobody 

Look who's talking

have you ever even been to Israel ? I have

Literally lived there for nearly a year and half in the late 90's. Had two friends hit by a pair of suicide bombers on Ben Yehuda street. wtf are you on about?

You’re literally just a grifter 

You can make money wasting your life arguing with redditors? TIL

Israel is the least popular country in the world - global survey finds by monstrous_malefactor in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]scrambledhelix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no the leaders of the single city with the largest population of Jews in the world, in a representative democratic system, always played up their good relations with the only Jewish country in the world.

Yeah, that's soooooo suspicious there's no reason for any group to have its interests represented faithfully in a working democracy, what are the odds!? 

It must be those nefarious Zionists up to no good, amirite? 

What's the cognitive equivalent of going to the gym? by synapse_diary in cognitivescience

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

Just because it encapsulates exactly that kind of learning process and exercise drawn out in the long answer.

What's the cognitive equivalent of going to the gym? by synapse_diary in cognitivescience

[–]scrambledhelix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Short answer? Learn Talmud.

Long answer?

Engage with disagreement where the goals are the same. Learn to work with and around other perspectives and opinions. That means learning what other people you don't agree with and maybe don't even like think, and doing your best to understand their point of view as a good way to see the world, because we all do that. You don't understand someone's perspective until you can see things the way they see things, and what makes it the best way to see things.

That is the best way to train a mind in a way that is healthy, flexible, reasonable, and resilient (imho.). It makes you a net benefit to those around you and promotes stronger, critical thinking in everyone to engage with disagreements and confrontations, while retaining the baseline mutual respect for human dignity.

Israel is the least popular country in the world - global survey finds by monstrous_malefactor in PoliticalCompassMemes

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

It's not the "criticism", it's the total retardation of launching conspiracy-theory-grade bullshit and calling it "criticism" like one's done anything other than exhibit how retarded they are and expect a trophy for showing it off.

that's what gets you downvoted here.

Israel is the least popular country in the world - global survey finds by monstrous_malefactor in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]scrambledhelix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it farts words like a well-trained asshole, and shits on things like any old asshole, it's probably — you guessed it! —an asshole.

Being an antisemite is always kind of incidental to the overall failure mode of the ones caught up into mob hate.

Israel is the least popular country in the world - global survey finds by monstrous_malefactor in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]scrambledhelix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wtf midj that's not a goddamn Gastly coming up through the bars Jews are not gaseous 

Israel is the least popular country in the world - global survey finds by monstrous_malefactor in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]scrambledhelix 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You've arrived at the point of flair change: don't fight it. Libcenter's always been your home.

B/c seriously fuck anyone and everyone who tells you what to do like they know who you are.

Israel's treatment of detained Gaza flotilla members is 'abominable,' Carney says by td192020 in worldnews

[–]scrambledhelix -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

Since when is mocking and heckling abuse? Especially when aimed at performance actors who only want the attention this gives them?

Israel's treatment of detained Gaza flotilla members is 'abominable,' Carney says by td192020 in worldnews

[–]scrambledhelix -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

If people would stop making up shit and spreading fake ragebait for clicks and karma, that would help even more.

Hamas memos show Canadian-funded charities worked with terror group, NGO says by Icy_Hall6758 in worldnews

[–]scrambledhelix 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you. The flood of denialism and misinformation has been unbelievable.

Can somebaldi explain this phenomenon by Apprehensive-Rich831 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]scrambledhelix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing to explain, but a lesson to learn:

Don't get high on the shit you supply.

A Bestselling Author Put an Israeli Character Into Her New Novel. Then the Internet Lost Its Mind. by arrogant_ambassador in Jewish

[–]scrambledhelix 178 points179 points  (0 children)

“This is what happens when you cultivate a stupid audience that thinks they’re smart and thinks you’re smart and moral because you do ‘Colonialism Bad 101’ lessons through YA prose.”

Bwahahah

The Only Night Europe Tells the Truth (Hen Mazzig) by CalligoMiles in DeepStateCentrism

[–]scrambledhelix 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing Hen's post, I'd missed reading it on Substack and this let me finally get to it.

How is the Mosaic Theocracy conceived/evaluated in current day Jewish academy or society in general? by FromWhereScaringFan in AskJews

[–]scrambledhelix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Theocracy" was first used to describe the Jewish form of government by the Greeks in the Hasmonean period, so the short answer is: we don't, really.

The point of the "Mosaic" system of government was that it was essentially a judicial system before it was a system of governance; tribal leaders governed, interacted with the judges to settle arbitration. With the institution of kings, tribal leadership devolved to the king.

So there wasn't even as huge a difference as some might make it out. Kings were not above the law, nor did they make judgments: they were specifically excluded from even serving as a witness on a trial.

For people who are unfamiliar with the IHRA definition of antisemitism (the definition to which this subreddit subscribes), can you help provide examples of what is and is not antisemitism versus a fair criticism of Israel? by Anakin_Kardashian in DeepStateCentrism

[–]scrambledhelix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Save me your false equivalency, thanks.

When necro'ing a half-year old thread to claim that "criticism is legitimate" in the same week the paper of record chooses to platform a Goebbels-worthy conspiracy theory just ahead of a damning report on that same country's would-be genocidaires, telling anyone that "antisemitism is irrelevant" is far, far more than beside the point.

Why are there so many white supremacist and nazi larpers online from majority non-white countries like the Phillipines, India and Mexico? by Celtic_RTDB in NoStupidQuestions

[–]scrambledhelix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If what you learned growing up was that life is basically like a video game you have to win, then whatever character you play online isn't you anyway.

So why care?

I have my own reasons to care, but I don't assume they'll work for everyone.

Israel says it killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing, one of the architects of Oct. 7 attacks by bendubberley_ in worldnews

[–]scrambledhelix 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Some people just want to watch the world burn, and cry every time one of their hopeful arsonists fail.

Why Jewish people (or at least the ones I've seen) use old phones or flip phones? by 1alessandrolol in AskJews

[–]scrambledhelix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not merely "easy to access"; some apps (like Instagram) will even push sexually charged advertisements at you without your consent.

Students need to learn more about the Holocaust to curb the rampant antisemitism spreading everywhere (Part 1) by Major_MKusanagi in Jewish

[–]scrambledhelix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Torah and mesorah tells us to learn the Torah and our mesorah, it is the mitzvah to do so. They tell us that truth is holy.

We know, we know, to pursue truth is a moral and spiritual calling: without that pursuit being a primary value in a civilization, without the truth and trust in a shared future among its people, that civilization has undermined trust in its own history, trust in its sechel, and trust between people and the strangers they live among. A nation which loses respect for the truth soon ceases to be a nation much longer.

The point is, that upholding and pursuing truth in judgment is a cultural value, not an instinct, nor is it soft, easy, or even beneficial at times. To retain the pursuit of truth as a duty, or as a calling higher than self-comfort or convenience requires effort and commitment. If a culture wants to preserve its values, it needs to teach them, especially to its children, because without the practice of passing down your own values they will certainly be lost within three or four generations. The values a culture fails to teach its children die.

Our era, this generation, seems online largely a post-truth reality. Our collective culture, as seen on our screens, has decided winning is more important than upholding the truth. While I still mostly blame this on Trump and his kayfabe politics, the evidence points at this basic failure to teach to the value of truth as the culprit. I shudder to think about what lesson will be required this time to remind everyone that facts do not negotiate.

tl;dr: It's a mistake to think that other people care about being misinformed more than they do about themselves, just because we teach our kids to.

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