The Quuuuuill

in any given population 15% will believe they’ve encountered a wolfman. i’ll try to find you the info, but basically it’s about how when sampling data for what a collective believes you’ll always find some absolute kooks

welcome to the wolfman constant. always assume any polling data over ~65% is an overwhelming majority and that ~75% or more effectively indicates “everyone with a functioning brain”

then think about that 95% of black women voted against this

chuck schumer is a vile and hubris filled man. he is the embodiment of all that Jewish people for millennia have resisted and fought against. my Jewish kindergarten teacher (southern Galitzyen Jew, just like schumer’s ancestors) was very adamant that any evil ethnostate is anti-jewish by nature, and that includes israel. the point of the dietary restrictions, the holidays remembering dire times, and all of the stories about the history of the people is to build an understanding that domination cultures are bad and that a good Jew should resist them. even the common way of tracking “jewishness comes from your mother” is a point of resistance against a largely patriarchal hegemonic society (and also emphasizes food as what makes a people a people).

chuck schumer is not a good Jew and he does not represent what it means to be Jewish. you want a good Jew at a high level in politics? look at Claudia Sheinbaum and what she’s up to. you wanna know what state most accurately reflects the Jewish identity in 2025? it ain’t the one that’s telling you it’s Jewish. it’s Mexico. because the point of being a good Jew isn’t to be vocal in your Jewishness, but to be a good person first: kind, gentle, compassionate, patient, and strong.

antisemitism: jews have no place in this society

zionism: jews have no place in this society

hopefully this helps people see the problem with labeling anti-zionism as antisemitism

pride month itself is not a cynical ploy since it’s for us by us. what’s cynical is corporations’ participation in it. but even still, your point still stands. corporations participating in rainbow capitalism this year in particular are taking a risk to convince us to spend with them and are also getting our message in front of people who wouldn’t have otherwise seen it.

no i am not conflating these things. i myself am jewish and am anti-zionist. when i say the only way to get the republicans to move off their spot is to embrace anti-semitism, i say that because the right wing of america hates jews. they want to deport us to israel. they support the genocide because it gives them a place to ship us eventually. so it could be possible to get their base to hate republicans for giving weapons to jews. but that would be lending legitimacy to just shifting where the genocide is. it’s a dangerous game to play and we shouldn’t play it. a far better strategy is to, as i said, cordon republicans away from power, desperately try to shift the democrats left, and create parallel structures of power. the aim of these actions is to create an environment where our voices for liberation, be those voices Palestinian, Black, Ukrainian, Jewish, Asian, or Queer, can be heard and listened to.

crazy that everyone came after Rashida Talib for speaking the truth that most US politicians are more loyal to israel than their constituents.

the thing is we’ll never move the republican party off their pro-israel spot except through weaponizing anti-semitism, which will do no one any good. in our two party political system our best bet is to cordon republicans away from power and to shift democrats left through quite frankly desperate maneuvers. additiunally, we must develop parallel structures of power to protect ourselves. these parrallel structures of power is what the establishment fears most, which is why they’re so quick to label us terrorists

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