chemoelectric

chemoelectric, 13 hours ago

But back to journalism. If journalism "critics" from within the field were more honest, they would include the need of journals to please their customers as the foremost consideration, and then all would make since and there would be nothing to complain about.

They could simply make the recommendation that you not purchase the New York Times unless what you expect is appeal to Bergdorf-Goodman and that MSNBC has much lower standards than that.

chemoelectric, 13 hours ago

Probably fewer newspapers would be failing if journalists had been taught proper theory, too. If they knew what their primary role in society was was to appeal to customers, and that conveying news was a means.

If what they wished to do was to convey news, rather than appeal to customers, they'd invent or go into a different, but related field. They might become Cassandras, for instance. I am a Cassandra, perhaps.

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@paninid Bibi knows all about rewarding terrorists. He offered them a reward of removing Jews from France for attacking French Jews, too.

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@paninid Way back when, his government's response to the big attacks in Paris was not condolences and aid, but to encourage French Jews to move to Israel. French Jewish leaders were livid and "apologies" were issued.

But let's draw conclusions: Bibi LIKES attacks on the Diaspora. They aid him politically, by increasing his support base with fresh immigrants.

chemoelectric, 15 hours ago

@paninid Kahanists are banned! They go by other affiliations instead.

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@billykaren Where is the advertising value in covering that story?

Seriously, no one who writes about cable news coverage from any other angle is ACTUALLY writing about the subject. They are writing about some fantasy world. The issue is what is the advertising value of the story.

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

It's that black ash has an open grain, and so I wanted a fairly solid and smooth finish.

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@spacemagick @highercoffee He prefers Earl Grey, but it bothers me that we never learn exactly what SORT of Earl Grey he likes.

It basically means any (usually black) tea flavored with or as if with bergamot oil.

The original style was a Chinese black tea with a light flavoring, but most Earl Greys today are not made the same.

I want details!

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@joshourisman @SouthernLibtard

Indeed.

It is the Netanyahu family who have been caught peddling anti-Jewish caricatures, in fact. And Netanyahu himself doesn't discourage violence against the Diaspora (to put it circumlocutively). Calling for the ouster of Netanyahu is calling for the expulsion of antisemitism!

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@joshourisman @SouthernLibtard

All that may be true as well. It certainly is true that Netanyahu is a thief. The man is, apart from any war crimes, A HUGE THIEF. A person who steals.

And it certainly is true that the taking of hostages is an unspeakably degenerate act. Those are two things I like to emphasize.

(Netanyahu's antipathy towards the Diaspora is merely the one matter that's actually my business and not someone else's. People often butt in where they don't belong.)

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@joshourisman When justice actually has been satisfied, then I will take it more seriously. In a corrupt parliamentary system, however, I expect any crime to be easily undoable by cronies.

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@joshourisman I wish he were much older.

(Please read that in a Yiddish accent.)

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@joshourisman I have loathed Netanyahu since he was an underling appearing on U.S. TV a lot in the 1980s, saying things I found abhorrent.

chemoelectric, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

@GottaLaff It is a different case than the Republican primaries, though, where the ONLY thing Trump had to do was KEEP THE OTHERS OUT OF THE NEWS.

The media, of course, were entirely cooperative, but let us keep in mind their job is to advertise things that are for sale, and to do stuff like that. Covering politicians is the means to that end.

(Academic journalism critics will not say this. They have a sort of scam going that advances their careers but changes nothing.)

chemoelectric, 1 day ago

@GottaLaff Similarly, nearly the only thing Biden ever has to do with RFK is treat him as if he does not exist. And having his family treat him that way doesn't hurt, either.

chemoelectric, 4 days ago

Here's something about Judaism and forgiveness: there is no call for unconditional forgiveness, as some might be familiar with from their very non-Judaic traditions. One might offer it, but one is more likely to offer it after actual steps have been taken to right the wrong.

Oust Bibi, finally put him in prison for heck's sake (the man is a thief), and then we might talk forgiveness.

But, even then, you are lucky if you get it.

chemoelectric, 4 days ago

(Holding grudges—particularly against fellow Jews, Jack Klompus-style—is looked down upon, however. So one might simply be left unforgiven, but not actively persecuted.)

chemoelectric, 2 days ago

@deirdresm My core problem is that Israeli Jews and the Jewish Diaspora have an asymmetrical relationship: you scratch my back, you scratch mine.

I am 3/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, and on both the maternal and paternal lines, and went to Hebrew School at a very poorly attended Conservative synagogue in New Jersey. I am atheist. My relationship to Judaism is it is my people's "tribal" religion and a way of collecting our wisdoms, literature, stupidities, etc. Jewry is the term that matters here, though.

chemoelectric, 2 days ago

@deirdresm Bibi, after all, hardly follows Judaism. It is no secret he does not follow Judaism. But he cannot possibly avoid being a Jew, however much he might actually desire it. He is a carbuncle on the ass of Jewry.

He is the sort who try to convince the Gentiles (and keep in mind I am 1/4 Gentile, so no hating on the Goyim shall be tolerated) that he is like them and NOT like all the Shylocks out there (such as the caricatures Yair Netanyahu was caught peddling).

chemoelectric, 2 days ago

@deirdresm I can tell you from my own family background, a bunch of working Jews are no better than a bunch of working anybodies. Bigots and idiots like the rest. "Seinfeld" is reality. It is prejudice that Jews might somehow be superhuman and surpass that.

But this should be obvious. My Grandma was from East New York, where the next generation of kids after her were recruited to be part of Murder Inc. Jews were gangsters like everyone, because JEWS ARE PEOPLE.

This last is what few accept.