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@The_Davos_Man True. But there still are very many Jews there and they’re growing their communities and building. In no way do I think Putin is anything but terrible, but specifically about Jews he hasn’t gone the usual Russian dictator route

Probably one of the best signs that Russia is going to hell is that almost all the Jews have left. When your Jewish neighbours pack up and leave, that's usually the biggest red flag that your society is about to go to hell.

@micsolana I stand corrected

@Jewdamann I am but a humble poster following in the footsteps of our father

there's no "blockade," and "communism would work if america would give things to communist countries" is among the dumbest things that leftists say. but I don't expect much from the granddaughter of a war criminal — to remain sane, she learned to not understand things years ago.

@SandyofCthulhu Not only is murdering someone actively trying to commit a rape allowed, it’s an obligation. One of the 613 commandments in Maimonides version of the list

Society derives zero benefit from having rapists and her 99.9999 number is completely false anyway. I would be content with every rapist shot dead before their assault is complete. This would directly lead to a better world.

@kilovh The problem with academia in the US is that it is influenced by Euros. Being a loser is a choice, but euros don’t believe in free will, so they just snobbified and glorified their form of losing

This is peak Europe. You cannot be more European than this. Do not avert your eyes from this horror

@eigenrobot American chuds were blessed by G-d to have the intuition to keep things right in the face of much “professional” pressure. Same can’t be said of third world chuds though.

ive known too many educated people to give this even the slightest credence. the chud veto is essential to our nation's survival

@habahurhahu @punicist Shabtai Zevi made a similar mistake. The sparks are in a dark place from creation / when g-d put them there, the same can’t and shouldn’t be said about peoples sins and mistakes

@Jewdamann @punicist Why do you think so?

Few (unless you're Jewish ofc) know this but the Hasidic Jewish creation myth is very different from the mainstream understanding of Genesis and it's the main framework that gave Religious Zionism theological legitimacy It's based on the Lurianic Kabbalah: Before anything existed, there was only Ein Sof (Hebrew for Without End). God as pure, infinite, boundless light filling everything. No space, no emptiness, no room for anything else to exist. How can God create a universe if God already fills all of space? The answer is an idea called Tzimtzum (צִמְצוּם), which means contraction/withdrawal. God deliberately pulled back, contracted inward, creating a kind of empty bubble of space, like a vacuum, within which a universe could form. God's first act was not creation but self-exile. God withdrew from a portion of infinity and made a void. God then sent beams of divine light into this empty space. To give this light structure and form, to make actual things rather than just undifferentiated radiance, the light was poured into vessels (kelim). But the vessels shattered: this is called Shevirat Ha-Kelim (the Breaking of the Vessels). The divine light was too powerful, too intense for the vessels to contain. They cracked and exploded and as a result the light scattered everywhere. Most of the light flew back upward to its source. But some sparks, nitzotzot, holy sparks of divine light, fell downward, tumbling into the lowest levels of existence, trapped inside the Kelipot (קְלִיפּוֹת), the "shells" or "husks", which is Luria's term for the forces of impurity, darkness, and evil. The result: nothing in creation is in its right place. Everything is dislocated, fractured, in exile. Even God is, in a sense, in exile, the divine presence (Shekhinah) is fragmented and scattered throughout a broken world. The Kabbalists had a word for this state of cosmic dislocation: Galut, interestingly, the same word used for the Jewish exile. The whole universe is in exile, not just the Jewish people. Jewish suffering is the visible, concentrated expression of a brokenness that goes all the way up to the divine level. God began repairing the damage through reorganizing the shattered world into workable structures. The first human, Adam, was supposed to complete this repair. He was described as a soul containing all souls, a being of pure divine light inhabiting a spiritual body. Instead, Adam sinned. And the cosmic catastrophe happened again, this time on the human level. Adam's soul, which contained all human souls within it, shattered, just as the vessels had shattered. The sparks of every human soul became scattered throughout creation, just as the divine sparks had been scattered. Tikkun (תִקוּן) means repair, restoration, rectification. And the Lurianic system says that every single religious act performed by every single Jew, as in every prayer, every commandment, every ethical deed, every act of learning, etc. has the power to lift a holy spark out of the husks it's trapped in and restore it to its proper place. This framework is also absolutely essential to understand Religious Zionism and its most important theologian: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Most Orthodox rabbis of the early 20th century looked at the secular Zionist pioneers (atheists, socialists/communists, Sabbath-desecrators draining swamps in Palestine) and saw heretics and rebels. Kook looked at the same people and saw something completely different: divine sparks trapped inside impure husks. Kook essentially took the Lurianic Kabbalah myth and applied it. The secular Zionists, he argued, were unwitting agents of tikkun. What he considered was their fierce love of the Land of Israel was holy energy, even if it was wrapped in an irreligious shell. To him, just as the nitzotzot fell into the kelipot and had to be retrieved from within impurity, the divine sparks animating Zionism had temporarily fallen into the husk of atheism. It was the job of religious Jews to recognize the spark inside and help it rise. Kook added one element to this framework though: evolution. He believed history itself moved in an upward spiral. Every new burst of divine energy appears first in a broken, impure form, and is only gradually refined and elevated. To him, (secular) Zionism was not a mistake to be undone. It was the first rough shattered form of something sacred still taking shape. This is what made Religious Jews later able to incorporate Zionism into their religiosity.

@annakhachiyan You can’t respond to people who are just waiting for the correct moment to pile on. It’s not real, they’re not real people and don’t have real opinions about anything real. I disagree with a some of what you say but you’re not an unreal person. Unreal people cannot be spoken to

Lol even leftists now don’t think it’s a theory they just disagree that it’s bad

@eigenrobot The purpose of the pact was to make AI videos about the Sunni nato to combat the Houthi AI vids. AI has completely revolutionized Muslim warfare

@eigenrobot Pakistan is unstable on a good day, picking a fight with an extremely volatile Iran is something they can’t afford. Is there an example of a country in that region ever acting upon a contract of this type? It’s all BS posturing, and all parties knew it when they signed it

worth reading, discussion of the saudi-pakistan security pact is pakistan obliged to attack iran? would pakistan actually follow through if called upon? what would the consequences be? who even knows

@eigenrobot @CoughsOnWombats @MunicipleOrrery Can you make a list of 5 accounts worth following? Just people with common sense and deep thoughts about what’s going on around them. Specifically non professionals

@CoughsOnWombats @MunicipleOrrery its infuriating

@MunicipleOrrery still ghost banned. I remain unhappy about this. My estimate of twitter's operational competence is- mostly unchanged tbh, but this is making their shortcomings very salient. Also, he's my friend.

@wil_da_beast630 This is great content

Deeply and darkly ironic.

Imagine the Jews being persecuted throughout the entire Middle East and Europe so an idea was birthed to go to a centralized place in the pursuit of safety that had a religious and historical connection to Judaism. Then Jews legally buy 7% of the land from Arabs for decades who sell it to them at way over market prices, and then the Arabs decide to slaughter Jews in 1920, 1921, and 1929 so the Jews say maybe we should create self defense organizations so we don’t get slaughtered again despite most of us being pretty woke lefties that just want to farm and be safe, so much so that despite killing us and losing our trust, we still want to be good neighbors and split the land with you into two countries where one didn’t exist before. Imagine the local Arabs saying no repeatedly after multiple offers were made for a state and launching a war to attack Jews and verbatim drive them into the sea, and then getting their asses kicked by a bunch of Auschwitz survivors. Then they tried again twice, and lost both times. Then the Israelis offered them a state again, and they said no and launched suicide bombing campaigns while the Israelis kept building their country. And now here we are - they keep trying to destroy, the Israelis keep trying to build, and the axis of resistance is in literal shambles and all of the top guys have fucked their people over for no other reason than militant religiously fueled radicalism. Palestinian leadership has consistently prioritized a struggle over a state and they’ve gotten it. The Israelis will continue to build, and the funny thing is, they just want those around them to do the same. But you’re too ideologically captured to recognize that.

@Agamemnonuwa This is amazing! Is it still on the wall in the tunnel? Is it possible I read it there 15 years ago? I have a vague memory of it

In reality, the average Arabic speaker understands almost none of the text, even assuming a solid grasp of Classical Arabic and a flexible mind, no more than ~15% of its content will be intelligible. In contrast, a speaker of the "fake dialect" will understand ~90% of it.

The Siloam inscription, written ~2700 years ago, is the longest Hebrew inscription known to us. I've transliterated it in Arabic below. If Arabic truly is "closer" to the language of this inscription than "the fake dialect" Israelis speak, you'll have no issues understanding it.

This from Paul Ehrlich will make you think "If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor." Link in reply

@nfergus @Policy_Exchange What’s the deal with China? Has Islam (non gulf) become synonymous with thirdworldism? (At least Russia is anti-US directly, I find china to be more telling in this poll)

The polling in the excellent new @Policy_Exchange report on British Muslims' attitudes is full of sobering data.

@RabbiLandau Convenient for a Jew to say women don’t differentiate between big and small

Woman don't differentiate between big and small. So, when you break a small promise, you lose her trust just as if it was the biggest promise. She views every broken promise as a referendum on YOU... doesn't matter how small it was.

@memeticsisyphus It’s amazing how the left can’t understand a form of politics whee the govt doesn’t give you things, all we’re asking is you don’t screw it up

A bulwark, if in rhetoric only, against the openly hostile anti-male anti-white anti-straight movement present in media education and government messaging for the last several decades.

@engrishmuffins @Historycourses Best example you could choose, what is davening without experiencing talking to G-d and the associated emotions (it’s in Shulchan Aruch/Tur hilchos tefila, יתבונן בגדלות הא-ל וכו׳) RETVRN!!

@Historycourses hmm not sure where Tues morning shacharis fits into this

The proper register for religion is a combination of ecstatic and terrifying. The rest is kitsch.