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cool! i don’t have that much exposure to orthodox traditions. it reads like in orthodoxy the fertility symbol of the egg was recontextualized to represent Jesus tomb with the shell representing marble. the pictures are interesting, too. at first when you mentioned orthodoxy i imagined elaborate designs, but no. they’re a deep dark red. i suggest others look them up because it’s interesting seeing the differences in traditions.

in catholic and protestant descended easter egg traditions the most common colors for the eggs to be are blue, yellow, pink, purple, and green. these are springtime colors and in pagan traditions represented the potential for new life. the fact that we still do things like easter egg hunts and have a mystical magical bunny that brings children candy is a result of that the catholic church learned early on that if you strip pagans of their favorite traditions at first contact they get violent and angry because giving candy to children is fun and nice

neither is dying eggs. it’s a coopted pagan tradition, hence the easter bunny. it’s all just a bunch of fertility symbols. what denomination teaches the dyed red stuff?

bamboozle them with bullshit

bamboozle them with bullshit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil%3Fwprov=sfla1

appeasement doesn’t work

🤷 my great grandfather was a grand wizard. maybe it was just his chapter but they were pretty explicitly anti my mom’s family. but absolutely on the terrorist mlm thing.

Donald “Kaiser Wilhelm” Trump

i love that song

interesting. i’m also from the south and there are multiple far right anti-semitic groups i have to think about like Atomwaffen SS, the KKK, Patriot Front, the Proud Boys, several militias whose names i don’t know, but i know where their training facilities are

it’s the christofascist goal to return the jews to israel so that all the aspects of revelations can come to pass

or Russia’s Afghanistan

i read that at first as “camera to to set up the loch ness monster” and i thought they were trying to frame the loch ness monster of a crime she didn’t commit

back when there was still some fun and magic out there

i know they’re not. the parallel structures of power is the most important part

no i am not conflating these things. i myself am jewish and am anti-zionist. when i say the only way to get the republicans to move off their spot is to embrace anti-semitism, i say that because the right wing of america hates jews. they want to deport us to israel. they support the genocide because it gives them a place to ship us eventually. so it could be possible to get their base to hate republicans for giving weapons to jews. but that would be lending legitimacy to just shifting where the genocide is. it’s a dangerous game to play and we shouldn’t play it. a far better strategy is to, as i said, cordon republicans away from power, desperately try to shift the democrats left, and create parallel structures of power. the aim of these actions is to create an environment where our voices for liberation, be those voices Palestinian, Black, Ukrainian, Jewish, Asian, or Queer, can be heard and listened to.

crazy that everyone came after Rashida Talib for speaking the truth that most US politicians are more loyal to israel than their constituents.

the thing is we’ll never move the republican party off their pro-israel spot except through weaponizing anti-semitism, which will do no one any good. in our two party political system our best bet is to cordon republicans away from power and to shift democrats left through quite frankly desperate maneuvers. additiunally, we must develop parallel structures of power to protect ourselves. these parrallel structures of power is what the establishment fears most, which is why they’re so quick to label us terrorists

i did. and i encouraged as many people as i could to do so as well. my struggle is the people saying voting does nothing and the only way to get our scumfuck politicians to do anything is the way malcolm x did. and those people reveal something about themselves when they say that. malcolm x said “the ballot or the bullet.” he necouraged democratic participation AND radical action. you have to both. and what’s more is voting takes so little effort. i find it hard to believe people who are unwilling to put in the effort to vote are willing to put in the effort to take radical action. and frankly, that’s what i see out in the streets. who was protesting with me before the election were people saying we need to vote. and it’s all those same people now. i don’t see all those “we hate blue maga” people here on lemmy out in real life putting the work in to support the movement of meaningful justice, equity, and peace.

i think we need there to be like… enough time for someone to rehabilitate themselves. trump didn’t, and also the nature of his convictions were political corruption.

like. i think we fundamentally agree is what i’m saying, and i oversimplified it for my short little statement. i think there’s all sorts of people in prison right now who once out deserve to have their voting rights restored and be allowed to participate in society (drug charges and political imprisonments mostly), but the nature and recency of donald trump’s crimes should have disqualified him for running again, but the right is too addicted to power to risk giving it up to do the right thing.