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robbienorlyn

@robbienorlyn@babka.social

I’m an author who lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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TonyStark, to random
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Calling for the expulsion of Jewish organizations at Pitt while still claiming to not be antisemitic is an interesting intellectual exercise but not one Jews are going to pretend not to notice.

Pitt chancellor responds to pro-Palestine demonstrations | 90.5 WESA
https://www.wesa.fm/identity-community/2024-06-03/pitt-chancellor-responds-pro-palestine-demonstrations

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark They aren’t even shy about showing their siding with Hamas. This makes them a threat to democracy and therefore deserve nothing less than a sentence of treason. Everything Hamas stands for is contrary to The Constitution and these people are nothing less than amateur terrorists doing the leg work for older more experienced terrorists. It’s frankly embarrassing that these people pretend to have anything to do with academia.

dukepaaron, to Jew
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"In his new book, and the 1753 Law Controversy, author Yoel Sheridan, born and educated in , analyzes the ancient and long-enduring phenomenon of antisemitism in . Essentially what he demonstrates is an abiding element within society, ever ready to boil over into violence in earlier times, and later into hate speech and discrimination. Since antisemitism is essentially irrational, he demonstrates that the trigger for antisemitic action at any one time can vary with the religious, social, or political weather."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-804200

robbienorlyn,
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@dukepaaron It seems like a lot of the time when looking at these historical takes the problem is a denial of identity and the origins of that identity. The more folk people tend to hate the intersections of their hallowed heritage being because of anything “alien” being responsible. Offshoots of identity have a real problem with this because they want to kill off the parent identity. They tie up their authenticity of personhood to the myth and don’t want to recognize worldly complexity.

dukepaaron, to random
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Big Lag B'Omer shul party in full swing... in walks young guy in a hawaiian shirt covered in a thousand little watermelon slices.

Nobody blinks, notices, or cares. People welcome him like they welcomed everyone else.

Rabbi gives typical 'respect each other even when you disagree or don't even like each other' speech.

Kid looks seriously disappointed for the rest of the shindig.

End of story.

robbienorlyn,
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@dukepaaron Hah! That’s great!

littlemiao, to Israel
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There is no such thing as the Judeo-Christian tradition. It is a figment of the supersessionist imagination. It is a term meant to co-opt Jews and Jewish history into a narrative to give legitimacy to that narrative. It is a term that erases and . Everyone should stop using that term.

robbienorlyn,
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@antonia @serge @littlemiao In America this is just common knowledge. It is said that the country has roots in Judeo-Christian values. Every single major Protestant branch in America holds this view too.
I’m kind of surprised that this isn’t something you haven’t just heard in passing even in Germany. Like it’s so common of a statement that you can find it in sci-fi non-religious programs like Stargate SG-1. Teal’c bugs O’Neil about it at least once or twice being an alien living on Earth.
Most of the thought boils down to Christianity having important works and figures from Hebrew history and culture in their Bible. It is composed of works translated for the Greeks from Torah, Tanakh, their own Testament, Epistles, and a variety of apocryphal works depending on who is reading it.

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark @antonia @serge @littlemiao Yup, the facts that “moderate” and a good number of liberal Christians hate. The right wingers love to erase Jews because of their need to be “superior.”
In fact, it’s kind of interesting reading the accounts of the Christians who reclaimed territories from Muslims complain about Jews.
Also, to be fair, living conditions under either of these groups was contingent upon whatever their warlord rulers felt or wanted at any given time.

robbienorlyn, to random
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Imagine waking up thinking that killing a bunch of kids, murdering strangers, or raping women systematically will make you happy or ever build a better world. This is what happens to your brain on terrorist programming.

TonyStark, to random
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I’m no fan of libertarians anyway. Trump’s hardly one as he’s an obvious fascist. But both Trump and libertarians have no interest in helping anyone but themselves.

Relentless booing aside, my favorite part was when he told crowd -- with zero self awareness -- that they can't let "the worst President in history come back and finish the job" of destroying the country.

Trump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at Libertarian convention | Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-booed-heckled-by-raucous-crowd-libertarian-convention-2024-05-26/

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark I’m pretty sure destroying the country is on the libertarian wish list.

TonyStark, to random
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I try not to use too often but this account and instance deserves it if it’s not already suspended where you are.

If it’s not suspended where you are and you report it to your admin, it can be isolated.

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark “Restore the kings [sic]”

No, you don’t want that.

robbienorlyn, to random
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Steps on how to be a “cool” left leaning liberal:
Complain about the luxurious lifestyle you have in the diverse democratic republic you live in. Accuse other diverse democratic republics of committing genocide when they go to war regardless of any facts (feels only please). Back groups that commit terrorism with the goal of establishing an ethnostate because “reasons.”
Rinse and repeat to keep being “cool.”

robbienorlyn, to random
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Someone told me that Hamas is irrelevant to the war going on in Gaza. I honestly don’t know how to reply to that in a forthright way. It’s just mind boggling.

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark Sadly, in real life.

robbienorlyn, to random
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Imagine waking up and thinking that there were smartphones in 1935. This is seriously an incredibly ignorant claim.

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark I know, right? Even though the Nazis were trying to keep the camps secret from even Germans uninvolved with the operations they kept first class records of everything because it was a military operation. I have no idea how anyone could look at all of the records that they kept and the evidence presented by literally everyone else who has been able to dig into these camps and say “Oh, man, I would really like to believe you but you don’t have any PHOTOS of Jews being killed in the showers!” WTAF?

TonyStark, to random
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Demanding to cut ties with the Helen Diller Foundation, a charity that has given $1.1 billion to UC San Francisco to fund a comprehensive cancer treatment center in addition to other gifts to Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz and demanding to cut ties with Hillel may be within your right to free speech, but that free speech can definitely be called out and should be.

Students for Justice in Palestine tells UC Santa Cruz to boycott Hillel | JNS | clevelandjewishnews.com:
https://www.jns.org/students-for-justice-in-palestine-tells-uc-santa-cruz-to-boycott-hillel/

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark Because the best way to save lives is to cut funding for cancer treatment research! /s

These people don’t care about anyone indigenous to the Levant.

TonyStark, to random
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If you don’t have the gun companies trying to put a gun in everyone’s hands, people can just ask another person to move out of their driveway.

Teen pizza delivery driver shot at multiple times after parking in the wrong driveway:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-pizza-delivery-driver-shot-multiple-parking-wrong-driveway-rcna150638

robbienorlyn,
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@TonyStark Peak bravery, defending the home front from the Dominos kid! /s

robbienorlyn, to random
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Notice: I will not be online from April 22nd to the 30th. Thanks!

serge, to Israel
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This is such an important article. I hope people read it.

There is a ceasefire proposal in front of Hamas, one drafted by Arab nations, and Hamas is rejecting it. It would rather see the war continue and the Gazans hurt or killed, rather than provide a reprieve.

Maybe that's because Hamas leadership isn't in Gaza. They live elsewhere, in other countries far away from the fighting, and yet on the ground, Hamas runs Gaza.

What Israel should or should not do, or how it should conduct the war is absolutely a question on the table, but fundamentally a ceasefire must be two ways, a ceasefire from both sides, and if Hamas does not accept one for the sake of the Palestinian people, then it's they should should be attacked by the media.

Gaza must be freed from Hamas so the people there can live full lives, and for the possibility of peace.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-rejects-israels-ceasefire-response-sticks-main-demands-2024-04-13/

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #ceasefire

robbienorlyn,
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@serge Wow, just looking at a couple of the comments below this. Are these people for real? “Hamas exists because of Israel.” What an incredibly ignorant statement. “I fail to see how bombing to dust…” Just, wow, also astonishing. The continued ignorance on this topic is beyond belief. You know who is intentionally misleading with such exaggerated and inaccurate statements.
P.S. - I learned as a CHILD to ask questions before pretending to know anything about anything. Some people could really incorporate this into their lives.

Bam, (edited ) to random

I24 reporting via the Mossad: Hamas has rejected latest ceasefire-hostage deal proposal.

(Edit: Same report now by Jerusalem Post)

robbienorlyn,
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@Bam Hamas cannot even return forty hostages apparently. I am pretty sure all of the hostages, assuming that there are still any, that they can keep track of, are in poor health.

keithmorrisnm, to random
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robbienorlyn,
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@keithmorrisnm They thought to themselves “What a strange way to fundraise for the local police? I mean it’s just baggies of homemade flour, right? I should ask if they still have some.”

silentbeauties, to random
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Inlook forward to taste this Korean ginseng tea. It seems good.

Have you ever tasted ginseng? Do you like it?

Overleaf - A little bag of Korean ginseng tea with the description both in Korean and English languages.

robbienorlyn,
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@silentbeauties Yes! I love ginseng tea!

robbienorlyn,
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@silentbeauties It is true that most of the ginseng teas are really weak. I think many find it can be too strong for them.

robbienorlyn, to random
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I’m kind of really upset about the World Central Kitchen tragedy. This is bad and the leaders involved with negotiations on this matter are making it worse.

stux, to random
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At the phone with PayPal again.. hopefully a better fix this time so i won’t have to call again within a few days

When I login on my PayPal account I get the message:

“We need another way to verify your data, call us.”

After a few years of using it. And now twice in a row within a few days

robbienorlyn,
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@stux Them: “You need to call in for security reasons.”
Me: “You wouldn’t know if it was me or not.”
Them: “Loops back to the beginning.”

dannotdaniel, to random
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anyone want to save this SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS from a trip to the municipal transfer station - speak now or tell it to Dr. Sbaitso 🦜

I'm not even sure what all these mini jacks are For but I think it supports surround systems pretty sure the green is your standard stereo output though and the pink is the microphone

robbienorlyn,
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@dannotdaniel Good sound card if you don’t have a noisy video card.

robbienorlyn, to random
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“Because the Moon is getting smaller in our skies, total solar eclipses won't go on forever. In about 620 million years, they'll only happen when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit. The last total solar eclipse will occur in about 1.2 billion years.“ - The Downlink

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