Henry

@henrythedog.bsky.social

A small white dog interested in politics and some other dog things

ran into a particularly ridiculous case of omnicause brain rot reading a "scholarly" book on American humor between 1750-1850 and particularly how "comedy" was used to build and reenforce a white male democracy (think Black Face) then the overlong intro swerved into "other settler colonial states"

or wild and crazy thought you could focus on the issues that matter to and effect the lives of a country with 5 times as many people as Israel-Palestine, you could do that

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you know I was reassured by my betters that Mamdani's buddy-buddy act with Trump in the Oval was to keep ICE out of NYC, oh well I'm sure he got something out of Trump...

aw the UK Greens have lost the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, they were heading for an easy win that would have brought their leader into Parliament and handed Labour a humiliation but then they destroyed themselves in public by pushing an antisemitic resolution

I hate when people make the philosophical argument that it is the "purpose" or a defining characteristic of the Jews to be in exile and more importantly an example through our suffering to all mankind, its usually made by privileged American Jews for whom Jewish suffering is comfortably theoretical

it is interesting that Mamdani getting accused of "Genocide" is getting a much more "well thats just silly/crazy" reaction than other American political figures who also didn't do genocide being accused of doing genocide in those cases even their defenders felt the need to explain not so here.

lots of people have issues with "Ms. Rachel" but my main one is always that clearly with her name and her own statements and marketing she's trying to us Mr. Rogers but her programing is actually the antithesis of Fred Rogers' philosophy of children's programing

there definitely a feeling after the 2024 that a lot of people let out a sigh of relief on the left Democrat side of the political spectrum that at least the election relieved them from the obligation of pretending to care about Jewish suffering

David Darmofal@daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Those of us who were at @kamalaharris.com's 2024 Democratic National Convention participated in what was likely a ten-minute standing ovation for Rachel Goldberg-Polin & Jon Polin, whose son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped 3 years ago today & subsequently murdered by Hamas. 1/

Oct 7th as a Jew outside Israel, was a uniquely bizarre and traumatizing thing because you were just glued to watching it happen, and so were all the Jews in your life, and all your Goyish friends had no idea or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 3d ago

I remember going to sleep just after mid-night October 7th 2023, and the first reports were just starting to trickle in, not anything to indicate what was really happening, scattered reports of individual paragliders its really hard to sum up the before and after of it

I remember going to sleep just after mid-night October 7th 2023, and the first reports were just starting to trickle in, not anything to indicate what was really happening, scattered reports of individual paragliders its really hard to sum up the before and after of it

I don't understand gender reveals, not just on generalized trans grounds, but like... I can't imagine that much time, effort and imagination (people setting up Rube Goldberg machines to blast them with pink powdered sugar) for something that does not matter