I don't know if I'm the conservative friend or you dare to have more than one! But I did send a list of supplies because I was following news out of Asia as to what items (toilet paper!) were selling out there. Didn't need science to hear from friends that certain items were disappearing from the shops. I did not say anything about how often to sanitize your hands but I'm very pro-sanitizer, way before pandemic, so I probably telepathed it. Not being part of the same-thinking crew helped me during that time (and also now.) Despite my lack of scientific background I used common sense throughout the pandemic and got many things right that "experts" got wrong. I knew that cotton mask Mickey Mouse mask wasn't doing anything, and wearing it outside was stupid, pretty early on. Got lots of abuse for saying so but also had a lot of support, whispered and otherwise. As always, a lot of the problems you identify are happening primarily on the left. I've only had to unfollow one makeup tutorial account and one handbag account over "all eyes" nonsense. There's a whole world over here, away from leftist samethink and it's quite nice. Ready for all the post-7th Jews who had their eyes open to figure out the rest of it.
Howdy! Would be interested in reading your reaction to the 3 pieces you referenced making your heart sink. Having read them, there's a lot there, much of it with deeply troubling long-term implications.
Howdy. The Times Magazine piece, I think, explains the other two. The settlers have been at this since the 70s and have succeeded in subverting the institutions of the state to their project. The Palestinians lost the sympathy of the electorate after the Second Intifida and as a consequence few in Israel recognize the settlers as the existential threat they are. The Dati Leumi community in general wins good will by serving in elite units in the IDF. So people train their hostility on the Haredim instead and see them as the stone dragging us under. Sooner or later we will need to actually fight back against the settlers, but I worry things are too far gone for that.
I don't know if I'm the conservative friend or you dare to have more than one! But I did send a list of supplies because I was following news out of Asia as to what items (toilet paper!) were selling out there. Didn't need science to hear from friends that certain items were disappearing from the shops. I did not say anything about how often to sanitize your hands but I'm very pro-sanitizer, way before pandemic, so I probably telepathed it. Not being part of the same-thinking crew helped me during that time (and also now.) Despite my lack of scientific background I used common sense throughout the pandemic and got many things right that "experts" got wrong. I knew that cotton mask Mickey Mouse mask wasn't doing anything, and wearing it outside was stupid, pretty early on. Got lots of abuse for saying so but also had a lot of support, whispered and otherwise. As always, a lot of the problems you identify are happening primarily on the left. I've only had to unfollow one makeup tutorial account and one handbag account over "all eyes" nonsense. There's a whole world over here, away from leftist samethink and it's quite nice. Ready for all the post-7th Jews who had their eyes open to figure out the rest of it.
Howdy! Would be interested in reading your reaction to the 3 pieces you referenced making your heart sink. Having read them, there's a lot there, much of it with deeply troubling long-term implications.
Howdy. The Times Magazine piece, I think, explains the other two. The settlers have been at this since the 70s and have succeeded in subverting the institutions of the state to their project. The Palestinians lost the sympathy of the electorate after the Second Intifida and as a consequence few in Israel recognize the settlers as the existential threat they are. The Dati Leumi community in general wins good will by serving in elite units in the IDF. So people train their hostility on the Haredim instead and see them as the stone dragging us under. Sooner or later we will need to actually fight back against the settlers, but I worry things are too far gone for that.