It looks like the riots in Marseille may have included some rioters specifically targeting Jewish shops and a synagogue.
Maybe it'll turn out that it was just generic property destruction. We'll see I guess.
Four years ago I'd maybe assume generic property destruction in a riot until proven otherwise.
Now that's reversed. 🤷♂️
I enjoy being reminded how far down the European race science rabbit hole the FediLeft has descended.
It makes me feel better about my decision to stop putting effort into an attempt at making this thing here hospitable. Impossible task.
Anywho... this is literally shit I used to see monitoring Stormfront as an antifascist.
Formula: Hand pic a handful of shitty people (or use acting), pretend they're representative of 15+ million people, then introduce race science into the ether like it's real.
Absolute fucking Klan-style wingnuttery.
UW baby.
Tons of Strava PRs and 2nds today. I did lose about .5 to 1 miles data at the start but I did not lose the giant chunk between there and Redmond I was worried about.
Matthews Beach Park... back in Seattle on the Burke-Gilman Trail. I forgot the ride from Bothel through Kenmore is also kind of fucking ugly for the most part. Back to lovely here.
I like stopping at this beach just to look at the lake. No real other reason. It's pretty much easy riding from Redmond back to UW. Which is next. UW to catch the light rail south.
I think I screwed up my Garmin data somehow. I'll find out after the train I guess. I'll be pretty annoyed at myself if I did.
After my earlier fueling stop at Victrola Coffee in the south end of Seattle this stop was in... Redmond? I think Redmond. At a place called River Trail Roasters.
Victrola has better coffee.
Anywho... rode up to the light rail, took it to UW, few blocks to the 520 Trail. Now I'm on the Sammish River Trail. After this stop I'll head north to the Burke-Gilman Trail around the lake and down the other side back to UW to catch the train back to the south end. I'll stop at Mathews Beach Park later for a nice lake pic.
Should be about 40 miles total. This loop is like 34-35. 520 Trail is mostly ugly other than the views from the bridge but everything else is gorgeous. Definitely snagging a GoPro for some black friday deal or something.
The ride from here to the next stop was pretty delightful. It's the stretches of the 520 Trail with all the assholes on it. Sammamish and Burke-Gilman is usually delightful until you hit UW trail congestion.
Doing general searches for Jewish content around the fediverse... there is a dearth of interesting, relevant, and/or positive Jewish content since I stopped posting it.
Primarily, content about Jews is posted by gentiles (or news services) where Jews are included as some kind of foil for a story not really about Jews but rather about gentile host countries or Jews as a victim or nemesis. And the posted commentary is broadly fucking awful.
Oh well. I can't bring myself to waste a bunch of energy making the larger fediverse more hospitable if it's, very clearly, entirely quixotic.
So more importantly... I'm fueling up for a big(ish) ride since I have Indigenous People's Day off from work.
Bikes Not Bits, MFers.
One of the most common antisemitic slanders against Jews was "blood libel" - the notion that Jews desired the blood of Christian for nefarious purposes.
#Germany #antisemitism #folktale #folklore
https://sunkencastles.com/2024/01/29/antisemitism-in-german-folklore-part-2-blood-libel/
Recent bit of vandalism in the traditional Sephardic Seward Park neighborhood on Seattle's south end. Very Modern Orthodox area.
Yesterday targeting a specific family. That has its own problems of course.
A few days ago this graffiti went up in Be'er Sheva Park shown in the photo I've included (same neighborhood).
Look... I got no beef with anti-war protest (or vandalism for that mattter).
Targeting families in American Jewish neghborhoods strikes me as a great indication that your otherwise legitimate protest about Israeli wars is tainted with hating Jews and far less about the war itself.
The celebration of Oct 7, and particularly doing it within this American Jewish neighborhood is a choice. Any celebration of civilian deaths is pretty gross, so as I watch this stuff play out I continue to keep this movement at arm's length. It's equally gross when the pro-Israel crowd celebrates civilian deaths in Gaza.
Anyway, I'm as anti-war as I am anti-you. Fuckheads.
3rd day commuting by bike/train in a row today. Different work location but im kinda missing my normal wfh routine.
Most importantly I somehow ripped my mini pump off the bike yesterday so got a frame pump coming that won't be in the way like that. Also exchanging my pdw cages for more minimalist minouras and since I've been riding in the dark with no light I have a houri 1300 I ordered last week on the way.
The pump I wanted is no longer available in the US market (whut?), so I picked it up off blue lug which meant it was now worth also snagging one of their triangle reflectors and cycling caps since shipping was the same.
And all that is to say I successfully avoided Oct 7th competely.
Worked, little bike commuting, went to parents night at the kids school. Almost zero internet that wasn't about buying a couple of odds and ends I needed.
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"Once again, the state gestures toward shielding us, but only after allowing the embers of hate to smoulder long enough to serve its own ends."
Oh hey I got in the promo game 😁
Interesting coming across lefties posting about Jewish Exceptionalism explaining Jews™ occupy a status in the Oppressor Class.
The fediverse never disappoints. Bing bomp boop :kermitsip:
Anywhooo... hope everyone had a joyous Simchas Torah!
There's a picture of Yehonatan Ovadia (Satmar Hasid) protesting alongside Neturei Karta in articles about him from Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Forward and the image caption in both refer to Neturei Karta as Hasids.
They're fucking Litvaks. Can we not even get our own shit right? Are we really that divorced from ourselves?
Do big global Jewish news agencies think everyone in a black hat is a Hasid?
There was a long time, until recently really, where I appreciated the distinctions inside the internal Jewish dialog between zionism, anti-zionism, non-zionism, and post-zionism (just to get at the main ones here).
Those were interesting, wildly argumentative, and different approaches to the topic, but were very much unrelated to the distinctions between zionism and anti-zionism in gentile discourse for the most part. Not always, but mostly. It was a Jewish discourse.
That was changing over time, but accelerated rapidly after Oct. 7 and its global fallout over the diaspora.
Now that internal dialog has been all but assimilated and we're left with just the gentile discourse.
We've been overtaken. Again.
Troy Jackson doesnt have a nazi tattoo or anything but... saying some weird shit about Joos. Dems are on a real streak with this Maine seat.
The Sunkist Fruit Gems turn-around is the most important thing happening in Jewdom right now.
Total freakin' victory!
Hey everyone, lets go eat in our bronze age roofless hut in the pouring rain! 😂
Chag Sameach!
My *favorite current internet mass hysteria is that THE JEWS™, often depicted as being haredi, are occupying the NYC sewers to false flag a failed assassination of Netanyahu while he's there at the UN.
*And by favorite I mean fuck right off with that shit. Allayall are fn exhausting.
You know... it would be fuckin' awesome if I could turn my electronics back on after any holiday and not read about some fucking firebombing, shooting, or whatever violence towards Jews.
Just one holiday. Not too much to ask.
Taking a mental health day and going for a long ass bike ride.