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Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea of this practice. I can easily see how this form of monasticism can be beneficial and harmful.

It’s far more than just looking to one set of scripture when it comes to the charedi movement in Israel. They’re reading in thousands of years of Rabbinic Judaism, most importantly the idea that the sacrificial cult of Ancient Israelite Religion (A.K.A. Torah) is the way God wants people to engage in worship. It’s using thousands of years of anti-Semitism as a cudgel to state “we can’t be oppressors because we were oppressed.”

My hot take is that one reason for a strong connection between the U.S. and Israel is that Israel is a settler-colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal, theocratic apartheid ethnostate. There’s a non-insignificant portion of the U.S. populace who wish the U.S. had the same kind of government.

While I think ableism is an issue, I don’t see you describing that. What I see you describing white supremacy, because that is what created and reinforced inherited wealth. Add on the Property Theology (which I’ve been told has origins in Calvinism) and it helps solidify race and class hierarchies.

I came in here to say just this. I’m a Jewish clergyman, so I deal with this kind of shit a lot. The term isn’t just brainwashing; it’s actively seeking to erase Judaism as part of Christianity. It’s shit like this, combined with Christian Nationalism, which makes me jumpy at first when someone identifies as a Christian.

I’ve been seeing a number of people talk about this laptop on Lemmy, and I can see why. I have dreamt of building out a laptop like my desktops, and these folks seem to be able to make it happen.

That made me lol

I’ll chime in with my vote for NewPipe as well. It’s served me very well, and does so much.

And it’s so blatant too.

Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.

First thing listed in the article is control the message, which is done by controlling the media. Straight out of the fascist playbook.

I got you, friend.

I love that site! I’ve gotten so many books from there. Thanks for making sure more people know about it.

I recommend pairing that with Calibre to manage all the ebooks you get, and to convert them into useable formats for your device(s).

Social media as already fostered multiple genocides and destabilized democracies. It does not surprise me that this would be added to the list.

If no one was telling them it was broken, why fix it? That costs money, a cardinal sin against capitalism.

I don’t expect the people running a company to have morals, because moral behavior is bad for business.

Well, this is terrifying. Just what I needed today.

Just read an article about this at The Guardian. It makes me sick that people feel okay denying women necessary health care. It’s one more step towards theocracy.

I do hear you there. Perhaps I could have phrased it by acknowledging that a broken clock is right twice a day.

TUBERVILLE: My opinion of a White nationalist – if somebody wants to call them that – to me, is an American. It’s an American.

To be fair, he’s not wrong about that. Sadly, White Nationalists are not strictly Americans.

Honestly, that doesn’t surprise me that much. We already know that the GOP cares about money more than it cares about people. This is just confirmation.

Leave it to the U.S to use and export munitions banned by ~120 other countries because they’re practically a warcrime.

Damn, you’re making me want to take my DS version out and start playing again. When I emulated it, I was at a point where I had unlocked every ending and beat Spekio in his final form.