6-8 month psych wait here 
Army brat. Made me realize the US military is evil.
I hate streamers, I hate YouTube unless it's an instructional video or something
It's all good, even the Judaism subreddit (don't go there, it's ass) had a bot that would automatically make this correction when posted, its a common one even for people that are religious/deep in the sects
Reform Jews, not Reformed
It's in name only these days, pretty much everyone there is not Jewish
They have ideological commitment. I think there will probably gonna be some more riots if they continue to try to conscript them.
Not reform here, im reconstructionist. But yeah lots of Reform jews are Zionist and many many Conservative Jews are highly zionist as well.
To add to this, yeah Israel has done a lot of work to make people conflate Judaism as a religion with Zionism and muddying the waters, when Zionism is first and foremost a secular settler colonialist ideology.
You might be thinking of Karaites, which is a split from Rabbinical Judaism and they only think the Torah is valid and not the Talmud.
Karaites are a SUPER small religion worldwide, off the top of my head I'd say probably a couple thousand people. (Edit: more then I thought I guess, Wikipedia says 50k max)
The Haredi are definitely rabbinical Jews like 99% of jews worldwide and Talmud is extremely important.
Like important to the point where they dont even work a job, their wives work so they can study their entire life. But yeah "studying Torah" is just a shorthand for Torah + Talmud study.
This is what I've been trying to express but poorly, this is much more succinct.
Haredi don't tend to migrate in large numbers, and the last big wave was in the 50s. Most of them were born there. Their parents + grandparents + great grandparents mostly moved there either during Mandatory Palestine or right after Israel was established as a state. Most of the Jews moving to Israel recently are American and European reform/conservative Jews.
Most Haredi oppose Zionism as like a core principle. They think that only the Messiah can establish Israel, not humans.
But some that are born there live there for the same reason your average Death To America left type broke white person still lives in America.
Anti-zionism is not necessarily pro Palestine. But yeah, most of the haredi over there are anti-zionist.
I posted this on here 4 years ago and I had no idea what the future would hold back then
Sometimes people I just met (in a platonic context) will ask me things like "hey, what's your Instagram, let's keep in touch!"
My standard answer is that I don't do social media, but I have found that people take it as bragging perhaps? I get answers like "oh, good for you! I wish I didn't" or whatever.
If I say oh here's my number that seems too odd these days, people not that much younger than me (I'm 31) don't seem to text anymore. They use fb messenger or Instagram or others.
Also saying something like "I'm a privacy advocate and I use the fediverse" is also an odd thing to say unless I'm around techy people and even then it's weird tbh.
How do I approach this? I don't think I am better than people that use social media, its just not for me. I would prefer to text but I am not sure that works for a lot of people.
Or should I just bite the bullet and get an Instagram so that I don't seem weird, and then perhaps ask for further contact details via that platform?
Abstaining from social media can be extremely alienating.
autistic btw if you couldn't tell lmao, I have spent a lot of time thinking about this problem
Like there was Best of 2020/21 with the worst takes ever. I'm looking for links to those plus the 2022 edition if anyone's got it.
I vaguely remember a few:
- Bernie reminds me of when my abusive dad throws the pot roast at the wall when he talks too loudly about healthcare
- political consultant white woman with dyed hair who looks like a hunger games villian and tweets like 90s era snoop dogg. I'm talking like "yo yo wiggity wack" levels of cringe
- Person who says they would genocide 1 billion dogs to save a hypothetical baby, unprompted
- Anti mask woman who posted a mask that looks like someone rubbed fucking Cheeto dust on the inside and says everyone's mask looks like that at the end of the day
- hornyposting about sex w/ Beto or something
There's tons of others but these are the ones that live rent free in my head.
I have no idea what the fuck's going on most of the time unless I hear about it second hand.
- I do not watch videos (I am a boomer)
- I do not listen to podcasts (boomer)
- I don't use social media except hexbear/lemmy
- not gonna read the paper or w/e (not that much of a boomer)
- I only read WSJ/HuffPo/Politico/CNN whatever for the laughs every once in a while
Any good sites you go to for reputable news? Blogs that are not necessarily news but are maybe about the news are good too. Lately I've been reading a lot of Erin in the Morning, for example.
Bonus points if it has an RSS feed
