בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה, יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ, מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה.

I can accept this take. Thanks.

instantly when Hezbollah started in, and the other Iran proxies after that), putting up Gaza as the only ‘allowable’ target for hostilities.

The US does influence Israel. But not to the extent that it would have prevented war at all. 3/ end. My armchair 2cents

If Biden had been hands off, would Israeli retaliation been to Gaza? Or would they have gone direct to Iran instead with better outcomes for everyone? I don’t know. But it seems possible given Biden’s public statements to reduce regional spread of the conflict (which was actually regional 2/

It is not even performative? Who is he convincing with this? Proponents know he is full of shit, other dems don’t care, and republicans will what? Be fooled? Baited into aggressiveness?

I don’t see /trust that there is any strategy here, and performance at least always comes with optics strategy.

And that is cruelty, because water change while transformative is vicious in its slowness. That while the water wears down rock, cutting away at the unnatural dam, others drown bitter, choking and slow.
Strange fruit. Stagnant water.

3/end
Excuse me while I hurl.

People use a lot of metaphors for social change: crush the opposition like a hammer to rocks, burn it all down with wrath, blow it down with words.

But this one thing? I think it must be water. Water carving rock. Water soaking cloth. Water on ground that feeds plants like rain and river.
2/

It is not normal in Chabad.
I hope the synagogue tonight is better

It is very sad that our society decides that equality must mean equally bad for everyone rather than equally good.

I don’t move in philosophy circles, so I had only ever Arendt in passing, and only with disgust. So when I saw the obvious good moral content I was confused and looked her up.

And there it was. She wasn’t bad afterall, just Jewish and trash talked.

Thanks for educating me.

And punishment will come from trying. And I just don’t know what to think because there is nothing left to take from me.

It is a truism that not everyone who is nice is your friend, and of course it is true here.

I know he is in a different world: different city, work culture, and work site. And while it is easy for me to talk through those things, I have reason to believe people from his former company cannot 3/

Hand, the new boss decided to give me double lowest without even talking to me about it, knowing it would be out of left field. I just don’t know what to do with the contradiction, because that was real harm that was easy to avoid and he chose not to. 2/