Look on the bright side Alan. Antisemites seem to have come a long way. He doesn't want to kill you, he just wants you to move to Israel. Now that is real progress. Of course, if you were to thank him for this generosity we can all imagine what his answer would be.
The rule is: Just Block. It's not your job.
I have sometimes allowed antisemitic comments to my posts to remain in the comments section. I leave them sitting there like little piles of shit, evidence of the dark pustular mind which excreted it.
Yes. Thanks for asking. On a personal note, I find myself pacing my living room clockwise, looking to the heavens, giving thanks, and praying for the final redemption, and then changing direction, pacing counterclockwise and saying in my best Christopher Walkin imitation: “It’s craaazy.”
If it means anything to you, I should say this: Lots of Israelis were born into this craziness, but you *chose* it -- and then moved away from Martha's Vineyard to walk the walk. Your life story is incredible to me. ... So when I'm looking for a sign that we're on the right path, I often look at you. Thanks for being there... and here.
I usually ignore them. But I sometimes worry if closing my eyes and blocking my ears is the best strategy. People aren't born anti-Semites. They choose to be anti-Semites. Ultimately, we are all choosing people. The challenge is to choose wisely.
Re: "he just wants you to move to Israel" --> So do you! :-)
So here’s the rule of thumb - argue if you wish in a comment thread on someone else’a post. On your own post/note frustrate such idiots by deleting their comments every time. Same effect as a missile interceptor mechanism that costs less than the offensive weapon - you win by spending less capital in aggregate. The mental energy and time you spend on defense should be far lower than the offense. Takes them a few minutes to write well; takes you one click to respond with a deletion.
It's a good rule of thumb. It's certainly bolsters one's mental health. Yet I worry about the bubble, my echo chamber, the Substack feed that tells me exactly what I want to hear. Plugging up my ears whenever someone tells me that the Talmud is Satan's diary and the Jews kill whatever they touch -- I'm not convinced that ignoring those people is the best move. I mean, they're still out there. Talking to each other. Reinforcing a worldview that's incredibly dangerous. If I just blocked people who said nasty things, I'd feel like a little kid who shuts his eyes when he sees something scary -- and concludes the scary thing has magically disappeared.
That said, I understand that engagement with anti-Semites might be futile or even counter-productive. Then again, maybe not. People aren't born anti-Semites. It's not baked in. They made a choice. But I believe they could potentially make another choice. A different choice. A better choice. Because we are all choosing people.
I get that. To maximize exposure I’ll argue with such retards in a comment thread on someone else’s post, IF I think there’s an audience that can actually be changed. If it’s a community of all brain-damaged Jew haters I’ll only do it for personal entertainment value. At least this is how I manage my energy.
For example, you’re comments on that ex-Evangelical, now Free Palestine cult woman was useful.
Being Jewish is not a choice. One can choose to participate in Jewish culture or not, but being Jewish goes as deep as being Chinese. We’re not simply a religion. If you’re basing that statement on appearances, that’s shallow. I hope not.
As I wrote to someone else, once a Jew, always a Jew. It's the Hotel California. However, over time, the Jewiish Story and identity can disappear. If your kids leave... and their kids show no interest... and their kids have no Jewish references or touchstones.... POOF! It's all gone.
Why do you think the Jewish establishment spends so much time on Jewish continuity initiatives? If "Jew" was and is always baked in, forever, then those initiatives could end. But they don't end because Jew and Jewish is NOT baked in over several generations. If there's no one around to tell the Story, the Story disappears. Which is why we were commanded at Sinai to tell our children the Story of our Exodus from Egypt. By contrast, the Chinese don't have to tell anyone anything. They can be Chinese, generation after generation, without even trying.
Antisemitism is all the Jews fault. They refuse to assimilate, staying in the ghettos to which gentiles have restricted them. Worse, when they do assimilate they excel because their culture puts high value on knowledge.
Next, all the most powerful communists like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro were Jews. At the same time, most of the rapacious capitalists like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk were also Jews.
In addition, even though Jews are subhuman, they’re also superhuman and control the world.
Finally, even though Jews make up only 0.2% of the world’s population, they’ve won over 20% of the Nobel Prizes. How dare they benefit the world like that? I mean, who do they think they are?
I would differ on one thing, though. If you don't have Jewish blood, it is possible to become Jewish. However, if you do have Jewish blood, it is impossible to **stop** being Jewish. You can be an atheist, you can change your name, you can even convert to some other religion, but you have the blood, it's cooties, no one asks what your beliefs are when they decide you're an evil Jew. You walk into a new community, you don't say "Hi, I'm a Jew," but everyone will treat you as if you have "JEW" flashing neon on your forehead, and they may be trying to be really polite about your cooties, but over time it will become painfully obvious, remarks will slip out. If you have the blood, being Jewish-American is like being African-American or Chinese-American in that it's your ethnicity, you can't leave your ethnicity.
Some ethnicities are allowed. Some ethnicities are forbidden. According to modern codes of anti-racism, all ethnicities are allowed except for the Jewish one, because Jews are responsible for all the evil on the face of the earth where the worldview of your right wing white supremacist pen-pal meets the worldview of the keffiyeh-wearing left-wing white savior.
Some people don't care. They're the precious ones. At least in my experience, they're rare.
Yup, I agree with pretty much everything you've shared here, Shelah. I'd only add this: Over time, it's possible to leave the Club. Marry out... have kids... raise them Unitarian or Methodist or nothing at all... their kids will probably continue to drift... Eventually, after a couple of generations, your Jewish presence in The Story will vanish. It's happened countless times over thousands of years. The challenge, I think, is to maintain some remnant, some recognizably Jewish community that carries on the redemptive vision of Sinai.
The *kids* born of intermarriage will cease to be Jewish, but you will not; for you, you couldn't stop being Jewish if you tried. I don't have kids of my own, but I'm watching my cousins' kids leave. Whether they can or not will depend on how bad the antisemitism gets in the US. They've been indoctrinated by the schools that Israel is the Ultimate Evil and that their zionist parents are by definition racists, so they're part of the As A Jew majority we have here in the northeast. I think they're all a lost cause but would the general public think they're not Jewish? That remains to be seen.
Didn’t 80% of the Israelites stay in Egypt? This is a recurrent theme. Every time the Jews get too assimilated, we lose a bunch, and then we get massacred, and of the ones that survive, some run away from Judaism and some run to it. The Jews that remain always form the core.
You used the word think in regards to your opponent, they can't, I don't know if it's been said before but my recent Epiphany was that they epitomize those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed in that forevermore upon choosing the curse analysis beyond ritualized talking points vanishes and essentially elevates the discourse to I suck because of the Jew, I got into it with one tonight and there's no analysis or engagement
I looked into pork parasites a while back and another theory which came as an epiphany is the symptoms of parasitization is irrational thought lack of ability to diagnose logic objectivity 🙄
Just like you I looked at his feet after slapping him around a bunch, I'm less inclined to engage with a friendly basis more to rub the history of Goi'tardery in their faces and point out how divisive and useless they are even when the Jews are gone the example being the 100-year war, you made your point nicely
So far with all of them I've been able to have the final word as they fade out, I use quotes from me false testament mein Kampf and Roman debauchery along with them getting the plague when the Jews didn't because they refused to wash their hands
To further throw them off pointing out nothing epitomizes a failed Messiah as a need to return a second time to accomplish what wasn't the first in addition to the reason it's called the crucifixion is if it was real it would be called the crucifact, I can smell the anger in replies and come out swinging
They do think that there's a magic Jew power that intertwines with everything everywhere forever more somehow making them suck
haters like this abound...yer lucky ta see only these couple a' rotten eggs.... wanna skeer yerself silly? go to Unz.com (sadly Unz is jooish by heritage...no connection to his natal faith, self-hatin' an' smart enuf ta know how ta manipulate facts, history)...Chew-hatin' is all over X... many other sites. Lew Rockwell (Mises) is an'nuther one. With these mindsets ya cain't argue...
ya know there are GROUPS of these "upright shittizens" gatherin' in person an' on substack ta address the JQ (the jooish qvestion) with plans like this: no holdin' office! no dual citizenship with Israel! no owning companies & havin' a place on the board of directors (even in companies they FOUNDED!), no professorships!... I mean these folks are SERIOUS... hope ta G-d we do NOT git pogroms here but birds of a feather are flockin' 2gether....
My fam also started arrivin' here in 1904 due ta the pogroms in Lithuania (Vilna, Lidda) & Ukraine (Kherson!)....some arrived in Israel in 1906, some stayed in Vilna an' we know whut heppened ta Vlina durin' WWII.... (a few came from Bremen / Germany) Our "matriarch" great-great-bubbe Bertha (Breina) would also 've rolled over in her grave too! English wuz the 8th language she learned!
None a' my fam were subversives; they were Rabbis in the old country an' had ta reinvent themselfs here...as greengrocers, booksellers an' eventually all became lawyers & dentists & writers (journalists), teachers an' other such professions (sadly none returned ta rabbinical skool)....
Folks overuse the term "hater" I know... but I think it's apt fer those that despise us chews just for bein' chews...i.e. hate for who we are as a people, not as individuals... an' frankly I kin think of a lot more jews that contributed mightily to the USA! many universities, mooseums, hoss-spit-alls, an' other insty2shuns that benefit all Americans--have jooish founders, benefactors, halls & buildin's built by "our people"... this apart from nobel prizes an' so many authors, poets, concert moosicians, tin pan alley!...I could go on....but I'll jus' say don't waste yer energy sparrin' with hate... if ya find somebuddy of good will with a bias or misconcept 'er three... you can disabuse them, inform...but the haters are beyond repair (imho)...
Look on the bright side Alan. Antisemites seem to have come a long way. He doesn't want to kill you, he just wants you to move to Israel. Now that is real progress. Of course, if you were to thank him for this generosity we can all imagine what his answer would be.
The rule is: Just Block. It's not your job.
I have sometimes allowed antisemitic comments to my posts to remain in the comments section. I leave them sitting there like little piles of shit, evidence of the dark pustular mind which excreted it.
P.S. You & family doing okay?
Yes. Thanks for asking. On a personal note, I find myself pacing my living room clockwise, looking to the heavens, giving thanks, and praying for the final redemption, and then changing direction, pacing counterclockwise and saying in my best Christopher Walkin imitation: “It’s craaazy.”
If it means anything to you, I should say this: Lots of Israelis were born into this craziness, but you *chose* it -- and then moved away from Martha's Vineyard to walk the walk. Your life story is incredible to me. ... So when I'm looking for a sign that we're on the right path, I often look at you. Thanks for being there... and here.
I usually ignore them. But I sometimes worry if closing my eyes and blocking my ears is the best strategy. People aren't born anti-Semites. They choose to be anti-Semites. Ultimately, we are all choosing people. The challenge is to choose wisely.
Re: "he just wants you to move to Israel" --> So do you! :-)
Educational too. Thanks for your writing.
So here’s the rule of thumb - argue if you wish in a comment thread on someone else’a post. On your own post/note frustrate such idiots by deleting their comments every time. Same effect as a missile interceptor mechanism that costs less than the offensive weapon - you win by spending less capital in aggregate. The mental energy and time you spend on defense should be far lower than the offense. Takes them a few minutes to write well; takes you one click to respond with a deletion.
It's a good rule of thumb. It's certainly bolsters one's mental health. Yet I worry about the bubble, my echo chamber, the Substack feed that tells me exactly what I want to hear. Plugging up my ears whenever someone tells me that the Talmud is Satan's diary and the Jews kill whatever they touch -- I'm not convinced that ignoring those people is the best move. I mean, they're still out there. Talking to each other. Reinforcing a worldview that's incredibly dangerous. If I just blocked people who said nasty things, I'd feel like a little kid who shuts his eyes when he sees something scary -- and concludes the scary thing has magically disappeared.
That said, I understand that engagement with anti-Semites might be futile or even counter-productive. Then again, maybe not. People aren't born anti-Semites. It's not baked in. They made a choice. But I believe they could potentially make another choice. A different choice. A better choice. Because we are all choosing people.
I get that. To maximize exposure I’ll argue with such retards in a comment thread on someone else’s post, IF I think there’s an audience that can actually be changed. If it’s a community of all brain-damaged Jew haters I’ll only do it for personal entertainment value. At least this is how I manage my energy.
For example, you’re comments on that ex-Evangelical, now Free Palestine cult woman was useful.
Fascinating!
Being Jewish is not a choice. One can choose to participate in Jewish culture or not, but being Jewish goes as deep as being Chinese. We’re not simply a religion. If you’re basing that statement on appearances, that’s shallow. I hope not.
As I wrote to someone else, once a Jew, always a Jew. It's the Hotel California. However, over time, the Jewiish Story and identity can disappear. If your kids leave... and their kids show no interest... and their kids have no Jewish references or touchstones.... POOF! It's all gone.
Why do you think the Jewish establishment spends so much time on Jewish continuity initiatives? If "Jew" was and is always baked in, forever, then those initiatives could end. But they don't end because Jew and Jewish is NOT baked in over several generations. If there's no one around to tell the Story, the Story disappears. Which is why we were commanded at Sinai to tell our children the Story of our Exodus from Egypt. By contrast, the Chinese don't have to tell anyone anything. They can be Chinese, generation after generation, without even trying.
Fair enough, but certainly the Nazis didn’t care if one “left” the tribe, even a few generations away.
Antisemitism is all the Jews fault. They refuse to assimilate, staying in the ghettos to which gentiles have restricted them. Worse, when they do assimilate they excel because their culture puts high value on knowledge.
Next, all the most powerful communists like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro were Jews. At the same time, most of the rapacious capitalists like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk were also Jews.
In addition, even though Jews are subhuman, they’re also superhuman and control the world.
Finally, even though Jews make up only 0.2% of the world’s population, they’ve won over 20% of the Nobel Prizes. How dare they benefit the world like that? I mean, who do they think they are?
I blocked this account. A total waste of time - and I am not even a Jew.
Thanks for the laugh.
An interesting exchange.
I would differ on one thing, though. If you don't have Jewish blood, it is possible to become Jewish. However, if you do have Jewish blood, it is impossible to **stop** being Jewish. You can be an atheist, you can change your name, you can even convert to some other religion, but you have the blood, it's cooties, no one asks what your beliefs are when they decide you're an evil Jew. You walk into a new community, you don't say "Hi, I'm a Jew," but everyone will treat you as if you have "JEW" flashing neon on your forehead, and they may be trying to be really polite about your cooties, but over time it will become painfully obvious, remarks will slip out. If you have the blood, being Jewish-American is like being African-American or Chinese-American in that it's your ethnicity, you can't leave your ethnicity.
Some ethnicities are allowed. Some ethnicities are forbidden. According to modern codes of anti-racism, all ethnicities are allowed except for the Jewish one, because Jews are responsible for all the evil on the face of the earth where the worldview of your right wing white supremacist pen-pal meets the worldview of the keffiyeh-wearing left-wing white savior.
Some people don't care. They're the precious ones. At least in my experience, they're rare.
Yup, I agree with pretty much everything you've shared here, Shelah. I'd only add this: Over time, it's possible to leave the Club. Marry out... have kids... raise them Unitarian or Methodist or nothing at all... their kids will probably continue to drift... Eventually, after a couple of generations, your Jewish presence in The Story will vanish. It's happened countless times over thousands of years. The challenge, I think, is to maintain some remnant, some recognizably Jewish community that carries on the redemptive vision of Sinai.
The *kids* born of intermarriage will cease to be Jewish, but you will not; for you, you couldn't stop being Jewish if you tried. I don't have kids of my own, but I'm watching my cousins' kids leave. Whether they can or not will depend on how bad the antisemitism gets in the US. They've been indoctrinated by the schools that Israel is the Ultimate Evil and that their zionist parents are by definition racists, so they're part of the As A Jew majority we have here in the northeast. I think they're all a lost cause but would the general public think they're not Jewish? That remains to be seen.
Yes. I agree. Re: your cousins' kids -- it's a huge problem. And a challenge.
Didn’t 80% of the Israelites stay in Egypt? This is a recurrent theme. Every time the Jews get too assimilated, we lose a bunch, and then we get massacred, and of the ones that survive, some run away from Judaism and some run to it. The Jews that remain always form the core.
You used the word think in regards to your opponent, they can't, I don't know if it's been said before but my recent Epiphany was that they epitomize those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed in that forevermore upon choosing the curse analysis beyond ritualized talking points vanishes and essentially elevates the discourse to I suck because of the Jew, I got into it with one tonight and there's no analysis or engagement
I looked into pork parasites a while back and another theory which came as an epiphany is the symptoms of parasitization is irrational thought lack of ability to diagnose logic objectivity 🙄
Just like you I looked at his feet after slapping him around a bunch, I'm less inclined to engage with a friendly basis more to rub the history of Goi'tardery in their faces and point out how divisive and useless they are even when the Jews are gone the example being the 100-year war, you made your point nicely
So far with all of them I've been able to have the final word as they fade out, I use quotes from me false testament mein Kampf and Roman debauchery along with them getting the plague when the Jews didn't because they refused to wash their hands
To further throw them off pointing out nothing epitomizes a failed Messiah as a need to return a second time to accomplish what wasn't the first in addition to the reason it's called the crucifixion is if it was real it would be called the crucifact, I can smell the anger in replies and come out swinging
They do think that there's a magic Jew power that intertwines with everything everywhere forever more somehow making them suck
haters like this abound...yer lucky ta see only these couple a' rotten eggs.... wanna skeer yerself silly? go to Unz.com (sadly Unz is jooish by heritage...no connection to his natal faith, self-hatin' an' smart enuf ta know how ta manipulate facts, history)...Chew-hatin' is all over X... many other sites. Lew Rockwell (Mises) is an'nuther one. With these mindsets ya cain't argue...
ya know there are GROUPS of these "upright shittizens" gatherin' in person an' on substack ta address the JQ (the jooish qvestion) with plans like this: no holdin' office! no dual citizenship with Israel! no owning companies & havin' a place on the board of directors (even in companies they FOUNDED!), no professorships!... I mean these folks are SERIOUS... hope ta G-d we do NOT git pogroms here but birds of a feather are flockin' 2gether....
My fam also started arrivin' here in 1904 due ta the pogroms in Lithuania (Vilna, Lidda) & Ukraine (Kherson!)....some arrived in Israel in 1906, some stayed in Vilna an' we know whut heppened ta Vlina durin' WWII.... (a few came from Bremen / Germany) Our "matriarch" great-great-bubbe Bertha (Breina) would also 've rolled over in her grave too! English wuz the 8th language she learned!
None a' my fam were subversives; they were Rabbis in the old country an' had ta reinvent themselfs here...as greengrocers, booksellers an' eventually all became lawyers & dentists & writers (journalists), teachers an' other such professions (sadly none returned ta rabbinical skool)....
Folks overuse the term "hater" I know... but I think it's apt fer those that despise us chews just for bein' chews...i.e. hate for who we are as a people, not as individuals... an' frankly I kin think of a lot more jews that contributed mightily to the USA! many universities, mooseums, hoss-spit-alls, an' other insty2shuns that benefit all Americans--have jooish founders, benefactors, halls & buildin's built by "our people"... this apart from nobel prizes an' so many authors, poets, concert moosicians, tin pan alley!...I could go on....but I'll jus' say don't waste yer energy sparrin' with hate... if ya find somebuddy of good will with a bias or misconcept 'er three... you can disabuse them, inform...but the haters are beyond repair (imho)...
Just block rather than argue with these people.
And remember we're descended from apes
Those accounts are always anonymous because they are owned by cowards who can’t stand behind their words. Probably an incel too.