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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I manually loaded reel-to-reel tape storage a few times. It’s terrifying the first time (omg I’m going to destroy the tape aren’t I?!), becomes fun for the next one to two times, then gets really tedious really fast.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The fact that Dawkins has a rigid belief system doesn’t mean other atheists necessarily do, which is the argument you seemed to be making.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Indeed we do. We also have very strongly established mining/extraction companies, with extremely well established and funded lobbying and political donation arms.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Specifically note the bit “I just have a mother whose mother was [culturally Jewish]”.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Please read my comment again. Genetics is not just “the content of your genome”. The term genome comes from genetics, not the other way around.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It is not a choice. I’ve never been religiously or culturally ‘active’. I just have a mother whose mother was, and the “Jewish nose”. Just having the nose has been enough for me to be physically attacked by neoNazis, and you can be sure my genetics would have got me killed by the original ones.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Why they are who they are: they never had the success they felt *entitled* to. Mediocre swimmers. Middling alcoholic soldiers. Failed screenwriters. The reason they aren’t winners couldn’t be *their* failings. It must be all the trans/brown/female/queer DEI that kept them from being winners.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Plus it starts the ball rolling on the acceptability of un-personing anyone they don’t like: the easiest precedent to establish it before spreading it to others.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

70% of the people I had sex with while at university I met through the tabletop RPG club, and 70% through the leftist political groups. It actually works out: 40% were in both.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

...Violence that is used to "justify" Israel's claims that a Palestinian state is impossible due to some supposed flaw in the Palestinian character, rather than every attempt to achieve it being undermined and attacked by Israel.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Israel is absolutely dead set against there *ever* being a Palestinian state. It's why Israel funded Hamas when it was a tiny fringe Islamist org - to create a counter-faction to secular PLO, and both split Palestinians politically and produce a new source of violence as the PLO moderated.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

There are twice as many Zionists as there are Jews, so it is not just possible but logically necessary. Christian Zionism is a very big thing in evangelical circles.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It just makes no sense to me that I - as an Australian Jew - can go to Israel and automatically have citizenship available to me, but people whose parents were displaced in 1948 and still have the key to their house have no such right and their house is occupied by Israelis without recompense.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Most of the Zionists in the world aren’t Jews, and many Jews are not Zionists. Zionism is a supremacist political movement, like various forms of Islamism or fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. Just as many/most Christians and Muslims are not supremacists, neither are most Jews.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It’s pretty hard to argue it is just a homecoming and national renewal when Jewish *converts* get automatic “right to return” but the families who were kicked out in 1946 don’t.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If I and several million of my fellow Australians decided to create a nation by displacing the residents from a section of Great Britain, it wouldn’t be seen as just return to our “historic homeland”. The migration of Jews to Palestine could be seen as such, but not Israel and the Nakba.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

When you have Theodore Herzl and Cecil Rhodes patting each other on the back about their colonial plans, you can be pretty sure those plans are colonial by both modern *and* 19th century standards.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, described Zionism as a colonial project right from the start, and said the project would Europeanise the region.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Not going to argue on the local wars, but most conflict in the region is a product of past colonial conditions. On “racist terrorism”: international law says that an occupied population has a right to fight back against their occupier. Israel has been a colonial project since the late 19th century.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I simply do not understand this seeming attitude that anything less than immediately launching The People’s Revolution is to be spurned as unacceptable equivocation. Progress is progress, and every step that reduces harm or improves people’s lives is worthwhile on the path to liberation.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

You do know what “in the mean time” meant? I didn’t mean “electing the left(ish) candidate is as good as it gets, we’re done”. It is a tiny step towards better times that still have to be worked for.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The thing is, Wikipedia is actually accurate in its summaries of many things, including the two political philosophies under discussion. And while I’d prefer a mass movement towards a genuinely worker owned economy, I’ll accept some better than average electoral candidates in the mean time.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We’re discovered! I guess I misremembered your CRT collection details.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I didn’t say Mamdani is a saviour, I just clarified the distinction between social democracy and democratic socialism. I’m well left of both of those, though I now lean more to anarchism than any of the major Marxist strands of communism. And truly neither of the presidential options were good.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

1. Wikipedia isn’t a bad source, just a very basic one. Perfect for folks who don’t understand SD != DS 2. The democratic socialist candidate isn’t campaigning on immediately expropriating landlords and turning over industry to workers councils, so they aren’t really socialist?

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Social democracy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_... Democratic socialism: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra... The former aims for equality and social safety nets within a capitalist system, the latter seeks to establish a socialist economy and society.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I don’t doubt that Mandan is less extremely left than I would like, but he is distinctly left of any of the other likely candidates for the election. Plus, he isn’t a social democrat, he is a democratic socialist, the latter being further left than the former.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Not in general, just with a certain flavour of neurodivergent enthusiast. And we’d better hope my son doesn’t see this exchange or he’ll be pestering you for your parents’ contact details.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Nice article!l. I like the way you linked the themes. One of my kids is into retro gaming and TV from the time of *my* childhood - Famicom and NES, and CRTs to run them through. When he watches a movie in his room it’s from streaming, but with the output going to a big old Trinitron CRT TV.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“There are reasons people have no empathy for Texans.” I don’t see any “apart from children and progressives” or “MAGA Texans” distinction in there. You basically said “I don’t care if any and all Texans die” just in different words

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

They’ve made no attempts to confirm whether the people sent there are actually gang members. It really looks like they have just grabbed any South American man with any kind of tattoo and sent them there, including a gay stylist and a man whose only tattoo is an autism awareness one.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Eric blocked me for my reply to him, and presumably is also the person who left a reply on it that I can’t see. Anyone care to tell me what he said?

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

“Armed gunman” implies that Gambia actually fired, when there is no evidence that he even raised his gun before the “safety” volunteer started shooting.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

They’re WWII Sherman tanks. The parade had a “US Army through the ages” progression from Continental Army blue coats to the modern day. Could have been kind of cool if it weren’t for the ongoing echoes of US imperialism, and the shitgibbon using it as a birthday dedication specifically to himself.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Not from a holiday in Cambodia? Sorry, I can’t help it - I’m a dad.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

That was the point they were making: the radicals that have been most successful in reshaping the power and information structures are the regressive bigot radicals.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

It was coined for those that lauded the entry of Soviet tanks into Hungary in (I think) 1956 to suppress a movement that wanted to do communism “the wrong way”.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

You’re assuming they didn’t just ask ChatGPT to write the whole thing.

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𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕤 ✡️🇵🇸 @judgemingus.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Sport has, famously, never been a civil rights issue… sportsconflict.org/racial-segre...

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