🤷 The woke mind virus got me.

I think it comes down to exposing myself to other people and their perspectives. As a teen I was as racist as any Zionist. Once I moved away from home and met people from outside of my insulated Zionist/Jewish community I started hearing other perspectives. This led me to take a serious look at Zionism and the state of Israel including how they operate to maintain apartheid. I didn’t like what I saw, I tend to be an empathetic person so it really hurt to see my people and culture I identified with take part in these Injustices.

What followed was years of deprogramming and the painful process of coming to terms with the fact that Israel were the bad guys in this scenario. I grew up in the West Bank on a settlement so the roots went deep and they were painful to RIP out. A great eye opening book I read was “A Day In The Life Of Abed Salama”. It really helped connect the puzzle pieces and pull down the propaganda curtain that I experienced growing up in a Jewish settlement.

Also my parents were born in the 60s so probably lead poisoning right?

I know my family are raging Zionist so I don’t even bring it up.

These people have co-opted the work “skeptic”.

I grew up Orthodox and became skeptical of god’s role in my life, now I’m agnostic.

My parents became “skeptical” of vaccines. Once they found their first antivax substack they are no longer “skeptical” but rather certain vaccines cause autism and covid vax causes heart attacks.

I find it hilarious (sad) they stop being skeptical once they find “proof” of their suspicions and then claim to be skeptics.

They of course have seen all the research supporting vaccines and deemed it insubmissable because it was funded by big pharma or the WHO (CHINA).

The only science they believe is the shit pushed by their “independent” researchers (crunchy influencers).

🤮

I bought a gaming PC that should be future proof to at least 4 years

They need to make an open source SMS version that just spams the collector number.

I gave a pretty big range that I absolutely know most fall into. They could be paying more or less but it’s unlikely.

That’s one take. If they have your info then somebody told them you owe money and they will not stop until you force them to by blocking or calling them and convincing them there is nothing for them. In my experience the right thing is report them to the CFPB, FTC, FCC or whoever takes complaints. That will put a top to them for a moment until they register a new LLC and start sending again. If everyone spam replied it would hit their wallets.

Standing.together.english on Instagram.

In my experience 1 in 4

Israeli democracy often resembles more of a Jewish “theocracy” I say that as a former Israeli voter. There is a huge coalition of religious politicians that work together to keep money flowing to the orthodox haredi voters whonare invaluable to them.

Most of my family believes similarly to this Rabbi. I feel like if I try to defend the Palestinians or put an ounce of blame on the Israeli occupation I’ll be excommunicated.

I instead try to teach the undecided, usually the ones who have been ignorant to the situation or those who haven’t yet “taken a side”. I grew up in an orthodox Jewish settlement on the west bank so I belibe I can speak with some amount of authority.

This is a Jewish Israeli extremist. Dont judge all of us based on this abhorrent example.

The law of return does allow for converts to move to Israel. They do look into your conversion though and if it is a sham they’ll decline.

I picked up 2 ancient kindles on FB marketplace for $25 and they work great as long as airplane mode stays on. They throw a fit trying to connect to Amazon if you get on WiFi.

Thats all fine and dandy but the conflict keeps both Israeli and Palestinian leadership in power. Bibi is the iron fisted wartime leader who reignites conflict whenever his support is slipping. Hamas is barely worse than he is. The PLO leadership is much the same. There won’t be any peace until the ones negotiating care more about peace than power.

Aaaaaarrrr the seas be tempt me more everyday

I grew up on a jewish settlement with goons just like these. Racism taught to them by religion and nationalism. Not too far off from a Nazi youth upbringing the way we talked about eradicating Palestinians.