Sam Brody

Hi, new followers! I wrote a book back in 2018 about Jewish anarcho-theocracy. You might like it if you are interested in the idea of God’s direct rule without a human intermediary, as devised in Weimar Germany and with application to colonial Palestine. Also if you only know Buber from “I and Thou”

every Jewish Studies colleague I know who had an NEH grant saw their funding cut earlier this year. now we know where the money went: to the far-right, "western-civilization"-worshipping Tikvah Institute to promote their vision of "Jewish Civilization" as a foundation stone of "the West"

almost one year in i feel like my analogy between 2024 and 2004 is still mostly holding? bush II got increasingly unpopular while doing authoritarian things on the basis of a false perception that he had a massive mandate (i.e. won for real after previously only fake-winning). wound up disgraced

live your life in such a way that it won’t be considered an insult to your memory to post unedited direct quotes of things you said in public repeatedly

just cannot say enough how much people should not care about this and should continue to publicly demonstrate contempt for the idea that saying mean things about the president is treason

“Israel is a refuge for all Jews” Unless they try to help Palestinians who are being attacked by fascist settlers during their olive harvest, then apparently it’s deportation time. This is an escalation in the state’s effort to redefine “Jewish” in a supremacist way.

paid for something in cash today and was totally unprepared for the sudden and intense rush of satisfaction at having completed a transaction that did not incur a new debt

if you can't read these posters, maybe stfu about zohran being antisemitic

It is better to be freaked out about early vote than to be complacent. Complacent people stay home, freaked out people knock doors and make phone calls

What are people’s favorite examples of left activists awkwardly, clumsily, perhaps lovably trying to connect “their” issues to the Current Thing? (Could be about climate, gender, whatever. Ideally not about Israel-Palestine, because that’s what I want to draw a comparison to)

They did this to Obama too when he said “Pah-ki-STAHN” and “ih-RAHQ.” The point is that to be a true red-blooded American you have to intentionally mangle the sound of other tongues. Obama, by getting it right, proved himself a foreigner; same thing they’re doing to Mamdani now.

once again would like to thank my new bot followers for getting me to 6K. to repay you I will endorse one (1) bit of slop that you suggest in the replies. go!

“I am interested in history and Rome constitutes a large part of the history of western civilisation,” Musk said... [AI] would fill knowledge gaps by writing “a new history book based entirely on ancient material and archaeology”. Translation: Grok slop history with only interpretations he likes