The bathroom became the family room.
I go to shit and they both think it means I have attention to give them.

It’s really funny that my kitten watch me walk into the bathroom and go “awesome, family time”

The third one is amazing and married into the family. One of these people we’re all lucky are a historian

Also don’t get me wrong - I’m not pissed because anything Jesus. I have been perpetually angry at them for 12 fucking years. In 2014 you want to know - while I was living there - how many Israelis I knew with a politics of peace? Three and two of them were my own blood.

This is a familiar sort of evil to American culture. We shouldn’t see it as alien

And no one who follows me likely needs this reminder but a huge swatch of American Judaism view the form this state has taken, which regularly invokes the diaspora in actions which revile us, with true disgust.

It’s made of bullshit manosphere shit and unaccountability. It is a structure of men who are morally small and reactionary.

Israel’s horrific actions are a function of the culture that Israel designed. The IDF, on the ground, is not your mythical sort of monster. It’s the sort of monster created by a bunch of idiots from top to bottom. It might be horrifyingly efficient but

Israeli Soldier in Lebanon Sledgehammered a Statue of Jesus

Here’s a thing that I’ve been struggling to communicate but my tongue is knotted.
The IDF is not some shadowy dark force. It’s pretty safe to say it’s some refuge that’s laundering young men’s with gun and a truly destructive culture that Israel’s leadership itself courted.

We rode into the uncanny valley and murdered everything else that was closely related to us. I do believe that we have the capacity to do better. There are still skeletons of floriensis between us and the open air

*standing on top of a ton of hominid skeletons* I’d disagree. I think humanity’s job is to rise above its nature

Humans are so inherently violent and ready to dominate each other. The very clear difference is that Americans have more tools to enact violence and thy continue to do so.

Ari you are speaking to a Jewish South African. I fuckin know it’s not just America

What is just America is the volume of gun ownership.

I once picked up an AK-47 and put a round through a PBR can at thirty yards with no practice.

I looked at the guy who brought the fucking gun and said “neither of us should be allowed to touch this”.

He responded “the fact that we’re both standing next to a Kalishnikov is a policy failure”

The politicians I can influence are Murphy, Himes, and Blumenthal. They’re fighting on this issue. They’ve been fighting. But we’re Connecticut.

Right. But Lanza committed a slaughter in a school. I knew people who were in that school that day. The state of CT changed forever. The country gave no shits.

You and I are both political minds. It doesn’t take a political mind to just say the kids are dying and we need it to stop immediately.

Of course America is built on violence. America is also already built.

Our shouts echo as whimpers but it’s still worth shouting

I keep centering myself here, and it bothers me. I was already in pain, please forgive me.

But please, please, I want to stop seeing headlines about how we keep killing children.

And, importantly, fuck these people.

The fact that we shrugged at the massacre of children - 45 minutes drive from me - and allowed it to keep happening. Fuck this place.

Thank you fellow Joe

I scream impotently, while people keep walking into rooms full of children with loaded ARs.

I lived near Newtown and the ripples washed over me. I was on a volunteer list to counterpicket the WBC.

How did we not stop this there

STOP KILLING KIDS.

Guys I’m in a very bad place. Put the fucking guns down.

I’m a caring guy but there’s a limit - informed by my own emotional safety - to what I can care about. My countrymen play hopscotch with that line every fucking goddamned day.

Load him onto AF1 and set course for literally anywhere that isn’t the White House or Mar A Lago. Also put someone else in the Oval please and thank you

Point being, the man isn’t in his right mind and he’ll keep thinking about the ballroom so long as he’s in a place where he can see anything to do with the ballroom.

When I was 16 someone told me they were tripping on mushrooms and they saw worms crawling out from a hole in a sculpture. I quickly intuited that I had to move this person to where she couldn’t see that sculpture, so she’d stop thinking about it.

Once heard a friend with OCD describe Snyder footage as “it’s trying to look dirty but it looks like they told someone with OCD to make it look dirty”

Pettiness hates pettiness.