There’s a reason it became a more common adjective roundabout approximately, September 12, 2001.

“Judeo-Christian values” has always been as much of a dog whistle as saying “Traditional Western Values”. It’s just saying “white”.

It’s not always an issue of life and death, even for very Orthodox Jews (although you know, Orthodox Jews are only about 10% of the American Jewish population, and it’s pretty gross to blow off the other 90%, who are in total agreement about the religious requirement to have open access to abortion, as if what we’re…

I’m nowhere near an expert on Jewish texts, but I am more familiar with a lot of the state level laws that would be put in place or are being attempted. Many of them don’t have carveouts for rape, incest or age of the mother. With the exception of the last one I think “life of the mother” could be endangered from the…

Ya know, when I started seeing rabbis talking about this and then read this piece I thought to myself “I wonder if this is going to be the thing to bring conservatives back to their roots of out, open and proud antisemitism as opposed to the thinly veiled “support” and “defense” that’s really just their support and…

In case you haven’t noticed, the GOP publicly loves Israel but secretly hates Jews.

This kinda stuff is also why Jews are driven up the wall by Christians who love saying “Judeo-Christian”. There are multiple reasons why it’s inappropriate but my beliefs as a Jew are nowhere NEAR whatever the hell a lot of Christianity is apparently supposed to be these days. Yes, I know, they’re all bad Christians.…

Satanists have been making the same argument, abortion is a religious right. I believe there’s currently a court case in Texas over it?

I won’t bother watching this movie because I went through college studying the environment and climate change. It’s depressing and there’s no way that we can stop it. It’s wildly optimistic of people thinking that we can limit our emissions to like whatever degree of warming that is “acceptable.”

In an alternate…

Exactly. Gloabl warming, the pandemic, we’ve now seen how the world will act.

It’s only when things fall apart can we muster the resources to tackle an issue.

Rich people believe their wealth protects them from consequences. They can always buy their way out of problems, and the system that screws us is built to protect them and deeply cares for their needs and safety. They want to go to space because it’s fun, and because the concerns of the world are not their concerns. 

if we couldn’t do the small things a decade ago how the f’ing f are we going to do these huge things now?

It doesn’t help that we keep accomplishing things that seem like they should mark a turn-around, but they never do. You elect the right people only for them to be ultimately powerless. You support local candidates only to find that they’re outnumbered. We had all three arms of government for a minute in the late ‘00s…

I agree, though I would say that many do still talk about climate change, but with an increasing sense of futility.

We learn and advocate and engage. Meanwhile the other side sticks fingers in their ears, yells “what about global cooling”, blames windmills, or obstructs progress out of concern for the coal lobby and…

Why does it seem like the mega rich and powerful, those who could actually have an impact on how we deal with climate change, all act like they have a spaceship waiting to take them to some other paradise planet where they won’t be bothered by all us “lessers”? I have yet to understand that mindset. Either they really…

This is too true. The “raising awareness” part of climate change is past. The message has been beat into the ground. Those who get the message still get it. They’re the ones watching this movie. They congratulate each other on how smart they are and upvote it. Those who don’t want to get the message either won’t watch…

I think the reason so many of us aren’t really talking about climate change is because we’re fucking tired and hopeless. We’ve reached the point the characters reach in the final act - we’ve talked, we’ve advocated, we’ve “raised awareness,” we’ve supported politicians we thought would do something, and we’ve realized…

Lol.. I find her fascinating despite the naked political contradictions she represents: how could you scold black men about their “unsolicited opinions” and misogyny yet go about supporting, promoting, and hailing a white man with a reputation for being creepy towards women, and pretty much not taking black women…