Sign in

Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡

@chaiaeran.net
91 followers 84 following 626 posts

Esoteric goth-y femme. Occasionally speedy. Liker of randomizers. Queer Jewish gremlin. 🏳️‍⚧️ Website at chaiaeran.net גלות ייד. דארטן, ווו מיר לעבן, דארט איז אונדזער לאנד דעלך סני לחברך לא תעביד. העם דורש פלסטין חופשי

PostsRepliesMedia
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 02/10/2026
All inhabitants who have lived on their territory since time immemorial are loyal citizens of their country only to the degree to which it protects their basic human rights. The essence of a civic union is contained in precisely such protection. It should be recognized that the state is an external social organization designed only to protect the needs of its members.
010
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Houkago Tea Time will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
Houkago Tea Time from K-ON!
030
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 26/08/2026
Nobody chooses how they are born. Some people are born rich and some are born poor. If you are born rich, with much greater wealth than you need for yourself, you are, I think, morally obligated to give away a lot of that wealth. This is a fairly common and uncontroversial moral intuition. It is what rich people who find their way into left wing politics have recognized. Being born wealthy is neither a sign of worth nor a reason for guilt. It is just blind luck. What we are responsible for is what we can control. When rich kids who may have lived privileged lives embrace left wing politics, that is good. That means that they have the moral fiber to recognize that they have been financially blessed by an unfair system, and that they should do their part to try to make the system more fair. It is easier for people whose parents are rich to understand and be honest about this than it is for people who get rich themselves. The heirs can see clearly that their wealth is a matter of luck, while those who gained great wealth through business or otherwise are sorely tempted, by human nature, to believe that they deserve what they have, while ignoring the many structural advantages they were given that allowed them to be in a position to get that wealth. This is unremarkable. Self-justification is one of the strongest forces on earth. But it goes to show why there are rich kids who are members of DSA, but there are not too many Goldman Sachs executives who are.
000
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 25/08/2026
Got some neat storm footage today! Cloud-to-cloud lightning is wild.
051
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
oh, ok
* In order to avoid misunderstanding I should point out that the threefold scheme of development of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis (that is, positive theory, negative theory, and deciding theory) which I shall use in this and the following chapters is different in nature from Hegel's law of dialectics.
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
dialectics spotteeeeed really getting into it now
AUTONOMISM, THE BASIS OF THE NATIONAL PROGRAM

I. The thesis of isolation; antithesis of assimilation; synthesis of autonomism.

II. Autonomy and heteronomy. The tradition of Jewish autonomy. The community as the historical core of self-administration. The old type of religious community as the core of the "religious nationality/' The "community of the synagogue" of emancipated Jewry. The need for secularization: the national community. Prospects for autonomy.

III. The answer to opponents: autonomy and the war for liberation. The merit of cultural "isolation." The fight against political nationalism.
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
MY BOYS MENTIONED
All that has been said here about universalism can also be said in relation to internationalism. This term, which is common in Socialist literature, was used with different meanings at different stages of its development. Marx and Engels used the term internationalism almost interchangeably with cosmopolitanism in the sense of a rejection of the national idea which, to them, appeared like a historical malady, a luxury that was unnecessary for the "proletariat which has no fatherland."
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Dubnow had absolutely no conception of what Jewish nationalism would become.
To all these proclamations by the high-minded individuals of the nations of the world the Jew might answer: "From your own point of view you are absolutely right. If I were in your place, if I were a Russian, a Prussian, a Frenchman, I would be ashamed of the term 'nationalist,' the armor of political oppression with which the powerful nations oppress the weak. I would be especially ashamed of the kind of nationalism that is primarily concerned with a policy of Russification, Germanization or similar forced assimilation, that is, the annihilation of the national identity of national minorities. Even if I were a Pole or a Czech, that is, a member of a national minority within a state, I would use the term 'nationalist' only under carefully defined conditions, because experience has taught me that these nationalities, too, while defending their own national liberty, are not very mindful of the national individuality of the smaller national groups among them, whom they oppress with force. . . . But as a Jew, I utter the word 'national' with pride and conviction, because I know that my people, because of the special conditions of its existence in the Diaspora, is not able to aspire anywhere to primacy and dominance. My nationalism can be only a pure form of individualism and hence completely ethical. . . .
111
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
These conflicts take on two forms: (1) a struggle between two national egotisms, that is, between two peoples, each striving to gain decisive advantage or supremacy over the other. This is a battle between two aggressors that leads to violent and devastating wars and to the plague of militarism which afflicts our time; (2) a conflict between national egotism and national individualism, that is, an attempt by a despotic nationality to deprive a weaker nationality of its political freedom or of its cultural autonomy and to impose its dominion upon it. In a case like this the aggressor has violated the ethics of society and those who protect themselves and defend their freedom and individuality are fighting for right and justice.

It follows that the defense of national individuality against national egotism is a necessary condition of human freedom and progress. Now the question arises: in what forms is a conflict between two national individualisms possible? Individuality means the striving of the individual to defend his internal and external liberty on condition that it in no way curtails the freedom of other individuals (for otherwise individuality would turn into egotism). To meet this condition it is necessary to set the limits of the legal autonomy of each individual nationality, and the line must be drawn beyond which begins the curtailment of the autonomy of others. The point at which the limits of autonomy should be fixed are debatable; but as soon as the limits are clearly established by law and have been firmly recognized in international law, the danger of conflict is diminished while the probability of peaceful relations between nations increases. And although pure individualism, free of admixtures of egotism, is a rare phenomenon, it must, in any event, be accepted as an ideal to be approximated and for whose realization we must strive.
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
The serious crisis which left the religious idea unharmed did not bypass the national idea. National intolerance is glorified in our own day with the same savagery as was religious intolerance in the past. One need only point to the bitter national conflict between Germans and Slavs in Austria, to the extreme nationalism of Prussians and Poles in the province of Posen, to the antics of the nationalists in France and, finally, to the pogroms in Russia, in order to understand the great danger inherent in nationalist passions. No wonder, then, that decent and fair-minded people are imbued with a skeptical attitude toward nationalism in general and that others find fault with it and condemn it as a dangerous force inimical to all positive social principles.
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
This paragraph in particular could've been written yesterday.
No attempt at an evaluation of ethical behavior arouses as many problems and difficulties as the national question. Some denounce nationalism as a reactionary movement; others laud it as a progressive movement of liberation. This is due in part to the complex content of the national idea and in part to the variety of forms in which it is expressed. Here more than in any other question we make frequent and erroneous use of the method of association of ethical ideas which judges this or any other idea, not according to its real meaning or all its various manifestations, but rather according to those accidental manifestations and factors which are dominant at the given moment. The national idea finds favor when it appears mainly as a liberating or defensive force, but it arouses aversion when it is given political expression in wanton aggression by nationalist extremists and fanatics of ruling nations or of nations with ambitions to rule. We are now in the midst of such a period, with danger to mankind in general and to Jewry in particular.
121
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
Gonna be real, I was NOT expecting to find a frank discussion of assimilationism versus segregationism a la Ibram X. Kendi in a work from 1907 by a Russian Jewish historian, but I guess bigotry is the same whether it's antisemitism or antiblack racism.
Assimilation came upon the heels of the sudden transition that Jews made from a condition in which they had no rights at all to that of full citizenship. It struck root in western Europe after the first wave of emancipation in France (1791) and, especially, after the second period of emancipation in Germany (1848). When the Jewish question was under discussion in the National Assembly in Paris in 1789, Clermont-Tonnerre, one of the protagonists of the Jewish emancipation, declared: "From the Jews as a nation we must take everything, but to the Jews as individuals we must give everything. . . . We cannot have a nation within a nation." Abbé Maury, speaking for the opposition, based his conclusions and arguments against emancipating the Jews on the idea that "the name Jew denotes not a religious sect but a nation," and that a Jew faithful to his national traditions could not be a Frenchman. Liberals and conservatives were at one in their belief that the Jew had to renounce his nationality in order to obtain equal rights, and that he could only remain a Jew by religion if he became a Frenchman by nationality. The only difference between them was that the liberals believed that such assimilation was possible and therefore demanded equal rights for the Jews, while the conservatives did not think it was possible and therefore fought against giving rights to the Jews. Neither of the factions understood that national rights are a part of the freedom of the citizen.
210
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
The view that since the Jews were exiled from their ancient homeland in Asia Minor they have no moral or legal right to European territory is so widespread that it is used not only by antisemites but also by political Zionists in their propaganda. Yet there is no more dangerous and likewise no more anti-historical error than the view that the Jews are "strangers" and foreigners in Europe. History proves that the Jews are old inhabitants of Europe, that they had established themselves in Europe even before the growth of European civilization and the spread of Christianity. From the time of Alexander the Great the fate of the Jews was strongly intertwined with the fate of the two world-empires of western Europe, Greece and Rome. The Seleucid rule in Asia drove a great number of Jews from Judea already during the period of the Second Commonwealth and Jewish cultural centers of the Diaspora thus came into being in Syria, in Egyptian Alexandria, and all along the Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean. When Rome extended its rule over Judea, it accepted the Jews as a matter of course among the subjects of the Roman empire and gave them the right to reside in the metropolis and in all the provinces, that is to say, in most of western Europe, without restricting their settlement to any "pale."
131
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/08/2026
Finally got around to reading more Dubnow. Got some interesting stuff in here.
Can an individual who separates himself from the ruling nationality of the state be a good citizen and be devoted to the country of his birth? It is strange that this kind of question is raised only with regard to the Jews, but not with regard to other nationalities living in multinational states. ... A member of a national minority will be a faithful citizen of his country and will work for the common needs of the state as long as his national rights are not curtailed and his national individuality and inner freedom are not trod under foot. All inhabitants who have lived on their territory since time immemorial are loyal citizens of their country only to the degree to which it protects their basic human rights. The essence of a civic union is contained in precisely such protection.
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 19/08/2026
So, I maaaay have gone off a little in the video I'm working on...
020
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 17/08/2026
4. Orpheus's song
011
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 14/08/2026
"In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."
Without naming the Film, say a line that would make any true fan immediately recognize the film?
010
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 13/08/2026
040
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 12/08/2026
ok yeah i just got punched in the face huh
SOUL VIRTUES EXTRACTOR
KINDNESS
GREEN SOUL
No matter how many times I got hurt, I never let that make me cruel.
KINDNESS: 78%
JUSTICE: 68%
PATIENCE: 57%
INTEGRITY: 37%
DETERMINATION: 34%
BRAVERY: 26%
PERSEVERANCE: 25%
000
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 08/08/2026
3. Don't Forget
120
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 08/08/2026
2. His Theme
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 08/08/2026
I've been quietly learning a new skill, and while I'm not, like, amazing at it or anything, I'm proud of the progress I've made! 1. Clara's Diner
130
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 21/07/2026
The Trinity Shield, but modified: Nirvana (the band) Is Not Nirvana (Hinduism) Is Not Nirvana the Band Is Nirvana
071
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 20/07/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18?
The Shape of Water
020
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 20/06/2026
literally just like a year off, damn
Mental Age: 28
"The world is such a cold, scary place."
010
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 18/06/2026
i gave painting a try!
A paper masquerade mask shaped like a cat. It's been painted black with gold trim.
120
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 18/06/2026
If you see this, post a picture of you in glasses
Chaia in glasses, holding packets of guitar strings.
160
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 16/06/2026
Like... there's a reason the Anti-Fascist Action flags are black and red. It's an explicitly socialist movement, and trying to reconcile it with American nationalism cheapens it, reveals a lack of historical understanding, and kinda just seems like you want to go back to brunch.
The Antifascist Action logo. The words "ANTIFASCIST ACTION" surround a pair of flags; one black, one red, representing anarchism and communism.
130
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/06/2026
...yeah, that tracks
A Neon Genesis Evangelion personality test result:
Shinji: 85%
Rei: 80%
Kaworu: 65%
Ritsuko: 60%
Asuka: 55%
Misato: 50%
Gendo: 10%
020
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/06/2026
i drew a ragatha (haven't seen episode 9 yet, so plz no spoilers) #tadc
A pencil drawing of Ragatha from The Amazing Digital Circus, looking tired and worn-out. The work is titled "mom friend".
030
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 13/06/2026
if i took my favourite/most-related-to characters from each piece of media i've ever strongly fixated on and put 'em together... wonder what that would say about me?
A 3x3 grid of characters from various media.
Stolas | Susie | Shinji Ikari
Rebecca Bunch | Ruby Rose | Ragatha
Adora | Pyra | Clara Oswald
041
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 10/06/2026
view from my balcony rn #mbstorm
080
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 05/06/2026
they're... adding the meditation on depression and self-loathing disguised as a mecha anime... to the funny sonic racing game
ralsei from deltarune saying "Okay."
120
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 27/04/2026
I'm reading specifically the chapters of Naomi Klein's Doppelganger that relate to Judaism and Jews, and there's some interesting stuff in there.
In Europe, whenever multiethnic groups of workers and peasants started to build power from below, threatening to challenge entrenched wealth, spasms of anti-Semitic propaganda soon followed. Again and again, rootless Jewish devils were pitted against the rooted, ethnically pure Christian citizens of the nation-states in which Jews were never fully accepted, from Spain to France to Poland. The perennial evil twin. These methods have recurred through the centuries for a simple reason: they work. They were a reliable means of blasting apart nascent alliances and coalitions of working people and safeguarding the interests of the wealthy and powerful.One way to understand Jewish attraction to Communist and socialist ideology might be “Wow, the left really is a Jewish conspiracy!” Another could be that, because Jews have been the targets of so much hatred and discrimination, they are preternaturally concerned with tackling injustice in its many forms (one of the flattering lefty stories I grew up with). But there is another, related possibility: that Jewish interest in the theoretical side of what we now call Marxism—with its sweeping and scientific explications and analyses of global capitalism—is an attempt to compete with those conspiracy theories that have dogged our people through the ages. That all the thousands of pages of theories and manifestos are, partly at least, a long procession of Jews banging their heads up against the brick wall of history and saying: No, your money problems are not the result of Jewish “shysters” ripping off hardworking “goyim”—they flow from a system that was designed to extract maximum wealth from working people. And that system is not called the “Illuminati” or the “Elders of Zion”—it’s called capitalism. And only unity among members of the working classes—regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or religion—will ever stand a chance of winning a fairer world. And also: Please don’t kill us.
010
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 23/04/2026
"What is characteristic of phantasms is that they are placed (and place what could be called "the subject of phantasm") on both sides of a border, a boundary, a limit, a frontier. When there is a border, a limitation, the phantasm lets one on the other side, and not only provides a contraband access through the border, but also keeps one on both sides at the same time...

There is no logic of the phantasm...

The phantasm is phantasm because it allows one to stand on both sides of a border, for example, allowing one to imagine one's own corpse, while being still alive."

Darin Tenev, "La Déconstruction en enfant: the Concept of Phantasm in the Work of Derrida"
000
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 16/04/2026
this quote took me out at the fucking knees lmao
EMBEDDED: Do you try to limit your phone use? If so, what methods have been helpful for this?

SCAACHI KOUL: The more sex you have, the less you’re on your phone. I’m really not on my phone that much.
010
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 05/04/2026
new record :3
Well done! You named every Pokémon in 00:32:40!
000
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 26/03/2026
me when this life is mine #RWBY
the my city now meme, but it has weiss from rwby getting sucked into the tube in v8, and the text says "my life now"
010
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 21/03/2026
A screenshot of Celeste. Granny is saying "Promise me that you'll take care of yourself, okay?"
022
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 21/03/2026
i think this is the most me I've ever been
Discord screenshot of Chaia saying "one day i Will drag all my friends into watching this obscure canadian children's cartoon from 1999 about mouse monks" with a picture of Matthias from the animated Redwall series.
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "WHITE JEWS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO UPHOLDING WHITE SUPREMACY"
000
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "ANTISEMITISM REDIRECTS CLASS RAGE AWAY FROM THE BOURGEOISIE"
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "LEGACY JEWISH INSTITUTIONS NEVER ALLOWED A VOTE FROM THE PEOPLE THEY CLAIM TO SPEAK FOR"
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "THE WORD "ANTISEMITISM" WAS COINED BY ANTISEMITES TO MAKE THEIR BIGOTRY SOUND MORE SCIENTIFIC"
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "JEWS HAVE A RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT ANTISEMITISM WITHOUT BRINGING ISRAEL INTO IT"
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "THAT WHICH IS HATEFUL TO YOU, DO NOT DO UNTO OTHERS. THAT IS THE WHOLE TORAH; THE REST IS COMMENTARY"
110
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "THE ADL CONSIDERS PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS MORE DANGEROUS THAN ACTUAL NAZIS"
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "THE CONSECRATION OF THE ISRAELI STATE CONSTITUTES AVODAH ZARAH"
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD IS NOT CONTINGENT ON A COLONIAL STATE (READ SHIMON DUBNOV I SWEAR TO G-D)"
100
Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡ @chaiaeran.net · 15/03/2026
A Super Mario Bros. Super Show title meme. The text reads, "THE "PEOPLE OF ISRAEL" IN JEWISH TRADITION AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL ARE NOT THE SAME THING"
100