Yep... did you ever read Terry Pratchett? There's a quote in one of the Discworld books where Captain Vimes says that to solve a crime you always follow the money and I feel like that applies to *so many* real-world situations. Which is to say, how much of this war is happening because Bibi doesn't want to go to jail for corruption and bribery and Hamas leadership want to keep sitting in their shmancy suites in Qatar? By hating on each other we are doing *exactly* what they want us to do. It's like the worst sleight-of-hand trick — when we are fractured they enrich themselves and get themselves more power.
Also. On the point of being a "real Jew." (*rolls up sleeves*)
No. One. Gets. To. Tell. Anyone. They. Are. A. Real. Anything.
These purity tests that pop up everywhere are nonsense invented by insecure people who can't handle the reality of messy human-ness and the magic variability of human experience. Pretend you're a duck and let that inanity flow right off your back.
100% to all of this. I often think of the Vimes Boots Theory when I hear economists talking about all kinds of nonsense, making things too complicates. Just, like, the Boots! And, yes the union strengthening is a huge source of hope <3
Yep... did you ever read Terry Pratchett? There's a quote in one of the Discworld books where Captain Vimes says that to solve a crime you always follow the money and I feel like that applies to *so many* real-world situations. Which is to say, how much of this war is happening because Bibi doesn't want to go to jail for corruption and bribery and Hamas leadership want to keep sitting in their shmancy suites in Qatar? By hating on each other we are doing *exactly* what they want us to do. It's like the worst sleight-of-hand trick — when we are fractured they enrich themselves and get themselves more power.
Also. On the point of being a "real Jew." (*rolls up sleeves*)
No. One. Gets. To. Tell. Anyone. They. Are. A. Real. Anything.
These purity tests that pop up everywhere are nonsense invented by insecure people who can't handle the reality of messy human-ness and the magic variability of human experience. Pretend you're a duck and let that inanity flow right off your back.
100% to all of this. I often think of the Vimes Boots Theory when I hear economists talking about all kinds of nonsense, making things too complicates. Just, like, the Boots! And, yes the union strengthening is a huge source of hope <3