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@wyf-of-bathe

The goddamn Oracle of Delphi of geopolitics; 🇺🇸, 21+, they/them, disabled

About me

🇺🇸, +21, they/them

Disabled and a disability justice advocate

Tldr: populism, fascism, imperialism, ultranationalism, authoritarianism = bad.

Tldr: civic nationalism, worker and intersectional solidarity, liberal democracy = good.

NO more partisan politics. Society has moved beyond the need for partisan politics. If you are a Democracy Enjoyer you are welcome in my inbox.

I really enjoy geopolitics when I'm not in domestic US hell so expect me to post opinions.

Pro-Ukraine, pro-Taiwan, anti-Maduro, anti-Khamenei, anti-Putin, anti-Xi, anti-Trump, anti-Netanyahu, anti-Hamas

Protect Jews, protect Palestinians, protect immigrants, POC, queer (esp trans!), and disabled people

I am so fucking mad dude. We should totally just stab Caesar.

Estoy aprendiendo español y soy autodidacta. Todavía soy principiante, entonces tenga paciencia conmigo por favor! ❤️

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The chaos of the past month in contrast to the stability of the past 4 years should tell people that Biden and his cabinet were actually very skilled at running the government, but people don’t admit they were wrong about the Biden-Harris administration because sunk cost fallacy is a hell of a drug

You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

i simply think if you are aware you accidentally create misinformation online the least you should do is lock the post with misinformation so it cant get thousands of reblogs from people who wont fact check it lol

"So You Just Fearmongered Online" helpful guide

image: gif demonstrating the process of locking a post from the edit/new post screen on desktop: click on the gear in the top right corner, scroll down to "who can reblog", and change it from "anyone on tumblr" to "no one". end ID.

You can tell how spooked I am by Trump and the MAGA populists by how much I focus on dunking on tankies. I am not oblivious to the problems of my own country, I am in fact scared shitless.

This has been a polite disclaimer.

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Some scholars believe that antisemites would often include the phrase "zionazis can screenshot this" on their most antisemitic posts as an apotropaic charm. Other scholars contend that the inclusion of the phrase was an attempt to brand anyone committing the action described - screenshotting the post - as undesirables, ie 'zionists' or 'zionazis.' Still other scholars believe the inclusion of the phrase was a genuine plea of someone absolutely desperate for attention and for their antisemitic message to spread by any means possible.

Germany’s Merz says Britain and France may need to “share” their nuclear weapons as America can’t be relied on to defend NATO. 

Europe targets homegrown nuclear deterrent as Trump sides with Putin

Germany’s Merz says Britain and France may need to “share” their nuclear weapons as America can’t be relied on to defend NATO.

Europe's politicians are openly discussing how they could tackle the threat of nuclear attack without American help, in a dramatic sign of the deep crisis engulfing the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump.

In what would be a huge shift in position, the runaway favorite to be Germany’s next leader said the continent must find new ways to defend itself without the U.S. military underpinning its nuclear protection through NATO.

I'm so angry about being right that I'm making memes to cope.

Congratulations to all anti-NATO lefties and pro-isolationist US MAGA populists! Enjoy your nuclear proliferation, you've earned it.

Germany’s Merz says Britain and France may need to “share” their nuclear weapons as America can’t be relied on to defend NATO. 

Europe targets homegrown nuclear deterrent as Trump sides with Putin

Germany’s Merz says Britain and France may need to “share” their nuclear weapons as America can’t be relied on to defend NATO.

Europe's politicians are openly discussing how they could tackle the threat of nuclear attack without American help, in a dramatic sign of the deep crisis engulfing the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump.

In what would be a huge shift in position, the runaway favorite to be Germany’s next leader said the continent must find new ways to defend itself without the U.S. military underpinning its nuclear protection through NATO.

Hey if you’re schizophrenic/psychotic I just want you to know that you’re a wonderful person and that you deserve so much better than the demonization, marginalization and stigmatization you face in this society.

Please consider reblogging this/other positivity posts for schizophrenic/psychotic people every once in a while. If you have more than 100 followers, odds are that a couple of them experiences psychosis and that they rarely see positivity posts for people with their symptoms.

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I love lurking on r/conservative lately because they are in absolute shambles. The MOMENT they got a GOP president into power, they've started eating each other. Now you know how it feels lmao.

But also. Some of them just say the funniest things imaginable.

"What you call 'MAGA populism' is just [literal definition of populism]."

Hey kids, is it a good sign that your side's term is going well when you feel the need to insist that the party out of power in all branches of government is losing support?

Or is it possible that your dumbass is doing shit that is so fucking unpopular and openly unconstitutional that all but the most intense is splitting? Because even the MAGA movement is figuring out the differences between conservatism, populism, and a cult of personality?

I went deliberately looking for how Fox News decided to spin DOGE cutting the 9/11 survivors' fund and uh

They simply didn't. :) Simply didn't report it at all!

I love lurking on r/conservative lately because they are in absolute shambles. The MOMENT they got a GOP president into power, they've started eating each other. Now you know how it feels lmao.

But also. Some of them just say the funniest things imaginable.

"What you call 'MAGA populism' is just [literal definition of populism]."

Hey kids, is it a good sign that your side's term is going well when you feel the need to insist that the party out of power in all branches of government is losing support?

Or is it possible that your dumbass is doing shit that is so fucking unpopular and openly unconstitutional that all but the most intense is splitting? Because even the MAGA movement is figuring out the differences between conservatism, populism, and a cult of personality?

U.S. stocks fell sharply after reports showed that worries among consumers and businesses about President Donald Trump’s policies may be hit

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN LIE ALL YOU WANT BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE THE PRICE OF EGGS

I love lurking on r/conservative lately because they are in absolute shambles. The MOMENT they got a GOP president into power, they've started eating each other. Now you know how it feels lmao.

But also. Some of them just say the funniest things imaginable.

"What you call 'MAGA populism' is just [literal definition of populism]."

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Why do you care so much?

I've been asked this question a few times in the past year - why I spend so much time thinking, reading, and reflecting on antisemitism, especially because I am not Jewish myself. There are a few reasons, really. One of them is that I think antisemitism is a hatred that spawns other hatreds, but even if it did not, it would still be worth studying, because the fact that it is a hatred at all is enough. The fact that antisemitism impacts Jewish people is enough of a reason to oppose it.

It's also because it's important to oppose because of the way it damages the thinking habits of people who believe it. I saw somebody say, "Jew-Hate makes you dumb," once. And though I think it was probably an off the cuff statement for them, it stuck with me, and I think they're right. In my religion, we say hatred is one of the three poisons - it can seriously harm your mental well-being in a way that deepens your suffering in all aspects of life. Often, hatred can also be spread like a contagion. It's something that destroys social harmony and causes severe social dysfunction. And right now, I think antisemitism is the most contagious of hatreds - I've seen people in my life fall off the cliff, I've been able to talk some back from it, and I've seen how so many people wander towards it without any idea that that's what they're doing.

Part of the problem is that antisemites consider themselves righteous in a way I think most racists don't. Often, you'll see "I'm not racist but" I almost never see that with antisemitism. They don't add that qualifier. They just say it. Most racists I know will make a tacit acknowledgment of the racist implications of what they're about to say - antisemitic people don't. They often even engage in anti-Jewish racism while invoking anti-racism.

I don't really know any Jewish people in real life, perhaps only two. But I don't need to know them to know that hating them is wrong. I think I also have a debt of gratitude to many people in the Jewish community because of the advances in Buddhist Studies made by Jewish people, which sounds strange - but it's true that many leading voices and researchers, both in academia and within Buddhism itself happen to be Jewish. I'm not sure why this is, but it's absolutely true. The most prolific translator of Pali into English that I can think of is Jewish. The most impactful Vipassana instructor in America I can think of is Jewish. The most impactful voice in Deity Yoga, for Tibetan Buddhism, is Jewish. People who are Jewish, for some reason, contributed probably more than ex-Christian Americans or atheists combined to the proliferation of Buddhism in the United States.

Buddhists and Jewish people are known to have a close relationship. There are a lot of different reasons for this that I would suggest, but none that add up to explain the amazing contributions to Buddhism made by American Jews.

I think another reason I have for being so interested in antisemitism as a non-Jew is the kind of... political disillusionment I've been experiencing? It's been a disturbing few years, and I haven't seen many people elaborate very well on this feeling of abandonment and horror, witnessing people who you thought shared your values become hateful and deeply violent in their beliefs. The only people I've seen consistently speak about it happen to be Jewish.

I think all of this has helped contribute to a feeling of closeness to Jewish people as a group, despite that I don't really know Jewish people in my real life, and only have one or two Jewish friends online. This year has been a horror show of watching people's minds become twisted - it's so scary in a way I can't quite capture with words right now.

I also sometimes have a back and forth with myself about when and if to mention I'm not Jewish when I talk about antisemitism, because I do think it's totally necessary to explain the perspective from which I speak, but to be honest it feels kind of icky to be like "I'm not Jewish, but antisemitism is bad", because antisemitism is bad whether or not the person saying so isn't Jewish, and I think it might be a negative for people to think "not being Jewish" is something which makes it any less valuable to be against antisemitism, and talk about how against it you are. It's very real that people who talk about antisemitism are perceived to be Jewish, and obviously, it's important not to lead people into thinking you're Jewish when you're not, but adding an "I'm not Jewish" qualifier to statements about antisemitism I worry might contribute to the perception that those against antisemitism are Jewish.

Antisemitism is such an insidious ideology. And it's everywhere. I see it daily in so many different spaces. It has the largest impact on Jewish people, but it also impacts non-Jewish people at times. I distinctly remember being mocked throughout school for "looking Jewish." I think about that Greek restaurant which was attacked because they were thought to be Jewish. Or that man in the Amsterdam violence who tried to help and was then accused of being Jewish himself. It's so deluded, violent, and manages to consume people's thoughts like a parasitic worm in their brain.

Anyways, I planned for this post to be more organized. Oops.

To OP:

OP, I’ll never be able to thank you enough for this.

As a Jewish person, the most actionable response I have to this post is to PLEASE NEVER BE AFRAID TO SAY YOU ARE NOT JEWISH. PLEASE SAY THAT YOU ARE NOT JEWISH.

This is NOT because you are co-opting our pain if you don’t. Don’t worry! It’s because there are so few Jews in the world and it is alarming to the extreme that most of the acknowledgments and condemnations of what we are experiencing right now are 1) primarily from Jews or 2) dismissed by non-Jews because we are perceived as biased rather than accurate sources about the racism perpetrated against us. Whether or not it SHOULD be necessary is, unfortunately, a non-issue. Because at this time it is necessary. It is necessary both to show Jews that we are not alone at a time where we feel extremely isolated and alienated. It is also necessary to give legitimacy to our perspective to those who refuse to listen to us about our own subjugation, persecution, and oppression.

One tag that I use very often is “life under stochastic threat.” I use it because Jews are very much under attack worldwide right now in ways that are outright violent or that encourage isolation and fear without outright violence. Because there are so few Jews in the world and we are so spread out in diaspora, people don’t often see our suffering in the same way they would if we were all in one place. It is easy to write off one incident of violence in France and a violent mob in Amsterdam and some extremely rough stories from college campuses in Canada and America. Why is it easy? It’s easy because there are people who take things to extremes everywhere. And people can easily say “oh, it was just one synagogue.” “Oh, it was just one coffee shop.” “Oh, it was just one professor.” But the problem is that it’s “just one” SOMETHING in every single Jewish space everywhere in the world. Which means it’s something every Jew can s experiencing right now.

When you identify yourself as non-Jewish, you both signal yourself as safe as well as someone who is willing to combat the stochastic threat in the spaces in which you participate. Even if you don’t know any Jewish people, the people who you know might know Jewish people or even just have opinions on Jewish people. And it’s extremely comforting to know that people like you exist in places we can’t reach, because it means we don’t have to rely only on ourselves to combat antisemitism, which is often how it feels.

As for Jewish contributions to Buddhism: I cannot speak to Buddhism specifically, but I can say that seeking knowledge and understanding are core Jewish values and we deeply care about increasing knowledge and helping others do the same.

I deeply agree with the Buddhist perspective on hatred being a poison. I think that’s a wonderful way to put it.

Your post means a lot to me. Especially because I worry about how much Jew hatred can fester in communities where no Jews are present. Simply because the biases are so deeply engrained into most cultures as a result of Jews being around and despised for so long and in so many places. To know that you and voices like you exist in the world is more comforting than I can ever express.

Thank you for everything you’ve done here. It may not seem like a lot. But it’s so, so much. 🩵

To Other Non-Jews Speaking Out For Us:

I love you. I love you all. Thank you for what you’re doing. I know it’s not easy or comfortable. I don’t have the words to express my gratitude.

everything @edenfenixblogs said. I'm one of two Jews in a particular friend group and I get real tired of being the Enemy Of Fun in that group when someone says something that has antisemitic undertones. I know people don't necessarily know what they're saying is playing into an antisemitic trope, but that's why I tell them, and sometimes I can feel the eyerolls even when they don't happen.

please, please continue speaking out for us. there are so few of us and we are so tired.

Oh, Sartre, we're really in it now.