Sword_of_Eos [she/her]

You know, from bible!

Why is he wearing the Amulet of Kings lmao

Saving what labor though? Labor that produces slop images? Labor that produces spaghetti code no one else can evaluate or debug? The social value of the labor saved by generative AI is negligible.

similar energy to Haha, You Clowns

Merry Kirkmas to all, and to all a good 9/11

Heard this to the tune of One Winged Angel

He’s right

Mod-heavy games that I like to fashion into my own perfect version, like Baldur’s Gate 1/2 or Skyrim, are games that I start modding AFTER I’ve played through it once or twice. Modding a game that’s been out for a week to take friction out is just strange entitled behavior

But engaging with a text is an idea that is just so foreign to the vast majority of the gaming industry

Vile racist, don’t you understand that the entire population of china are brainwashed robots who blindly say they support their government because they lack our enlightened western culture of freedom? Be more like me, the enlightened liberal who truly respects and cares for those hordes of conformist chinese vermin who need to be saved from their backwards culture

They probably mean the same sound as K, which can be represented by C often in spelling, which we tend to call “hard C”, as opposed to “soft C” which is the same as S

Referring to sounds by letter names can be confusing to do in English as you can see, since our spelling is so all over the place

In American English the voiced/voiceless distinction isn’t really the main way we distinguish T from D and P from B, etc. We aspirate (breathy h sound) kinda heavily on T and P etc. In my experience unaspirated T can be hard to distinguish from D and so on.

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This is a good point to think about. You’re right that it has its own particular character as the Zionist instance of European settler-colonialism and isn’t simply settler-colonialism in the abstract. And you’re right that in the apartheid, supremacy ideology is a social force that impacts the oppressed and not a mere belief. Hrm.

Judaism and Zionism are separate, and not all Jews are Zionists. There’s a great anti-Zionist community of Jews on reddit that I remember from before I left.

But in the media and the wider internet, I usually see “we have got to separate Judaism from Zionism and stop making all Jews responsible for Israel” deployed to disguise the nature of lone-wolf destructive acts of resistance against Zionist institutions that are synagogues. When a Zionist synagogue is graffiti’d or even attacked, separating Judaism from Zionism is the immediate brainless media reply and no one bothers to investigate whether the synagogue was sending money to the IDF or hosting West Bank land sales. In the media and parroted by the general discourse, the Zionist synagogue becomes just a synagogue free of all context, and therefore the graffiti or attack can only be an antisemitic hate crime. This comes even from nominally leftist libs like Hasan when he goes to the wider media to try to prove he isn’t an antisemite, which is what prompted the original discussion.

So I could definitely have been more specific about what I meant to avoid confusion, that’s on me. I meant that it’s not useful to belabor the separation between Judaism and Zionism when discussing about anti-Zionist actions and we should not use it to police anti-Zionism. However unfortunately that also means we need to critically scrutinize media reports of antisemitic hate crimes at Jewish institutions that may actually be anti-Zionist actions. I definitely didn’t mean to say that we should be conflating Judaism and Zionism, or that we shouldn’t be on the watch for genuine antisemitism to fester out of hatred of Israel’s actions.

I realize now in saying this that this is tough because I’m grappling with a contradiction: we shouldn’t be policing anti-Zionism and feeding the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, and yet we can’t let antisemitism fester in our spaces so language and attitudes need to be scrutinized. I don’t know what a synthesis looks like yet.

Comrade I’m saying that if someone replied to your first paragraph by saying “How DARE purpleworm say they want to crush synagogues? What an antisemite!”, that would be crybully behavior.

The whole argument about whether or not the Zionist entity is white supremacist or jewish supremacist seems pointless to me. Neither ideology is the cause of the genocide, which is caused by material relationships and conditions. What material condition? European settler-colonialism. So in one way I strongly agree that crying about “jewish supremacy” and focusing on the jewish character of Israel is stupid because it accomplishes nothing but signaling to antisemites that we share common ground, which we do not. But in another way, whining that Judaism is separate and distinct from Zionism, and most Zionists aren’t jewish and so on, is centering jewish feelings and crybully behavior that protects Zionist jewish institutions and people from anti-Zionism. There are many jewish institutions in the US and more in the UK that are linked to and materially support the Zionist entity and we can’t be whining about needing to protect them from anti-Zionism.

The synthesis is probably to not worry about whether streamers or youtubers (the source of the argument was Hasan slop) are conflating Zionism with Judaism or centering jewish feelings and to organize with anti-Zionist jews against Zionist institutions, but I know it’s annoying to yell “stop listening to streamers and do materialist analysis”

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