Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[DGuller]

Do you think that's happening here right now? Or are you more worried about the larger internet environement?

No, thankfully it's not happening here right now, though to be honest, I self-censor myself anyway because I know that any moment it can change.  However, it has happened to people like Martina Navratilova in this exact debate on the larger stage, so it does actually happen.

[Valmy]

I think the reason people are particularly interested in the women's sports angle for this is for two reasons: 

Well it is pretty much the singular only instance where being a transwoman is even the least bit controversial from my perspective.

[grumbler]

Since Renee Richards was brought up as a kind of model for the issue of trans women in money sports, let's hear what she has to say on the issue:

"Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I'd had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I've reconsidered my opinion." She adds, "There is one thing that a transsexual woman unfortunately cannot expect to be allowed to do, and that is to play professional sports in her chosen field. She can get married, live as woman, do all of those other things, and no one should ever be allowed to take them away from her. But this limitation—that's just life. I know because I lived it."

https://slate.com/culture/2012/10/jewish-jocks-and-renee-richards-the-life-of-the-transsexual-tennis-legend.html

Does that impact anyone's opinion?

[Syt]

Israeli Pacific Food Security Alliance

I was going to cry when I read this speech from the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, but at the end I said, "Glory to the God of Israel"
Let's read together:
Mr. Netanyahu said:
Only 70 years ago! The Jews were taken to slaughter like sheep.
🔵 60 years ago!
🔵 no country. No Army.
Seven Arab countries declared war on the small Jewish state, only a few hours after its creation!
🔵 we were 650,000 Jews against the many millions in the Arab world!
There was no strong IDF(Israel Defense Forces).
No powerful air force to save us but only brave Jewish people with nowhere else to go.
🔵Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia all attacked at the same time.
🔵the country that the United Nations gave us was a 65 % desert.
🔵 35 years ago! We fought the three most Powerful armies in the middle east, and we swept them in six days.
We fought against various coalitions of Arab countries, which had modern armies and many Soviet weapons, and we have always beaten them!
Today we have:
🔵 a State (Country)
🔵 an Army,
🔵 a Powerful Air Force,
🔵 A State-of-the-Art Economy with exports worth billions of dollars.
🔵 Intel - Microsoft - ibm & many high-tech companies develop cutting edge products in Israel
🔵 our doctors receive awards for medical research.
🔵 we make the desert bloom, and sell oranges, flowers and vegetables all over the world.
🔵 Israel has sent its own satellites into space!
🔵 three satellites at the same time!
🔵 We are proud to be at the same rank as:
🔵 The United States, which has 250 million inhabitants,
🔵 Russia, which has 200 million inhabitants,
🔵 China, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants;
🔵 Europeans - France, Great Britain, Germany - with 350 million inhabitants.
🔵 the only countries in the world to send objects into space!
🔵 and say that only 60 years ago,
🔵 we were led, ashamed and hopeless, to slaughter!
🔵 we have experienced the smoking ruins of Europe,
🔵 we have won our wars here in Israel with less than nothing
🔵 we built our little "Empire" from nothing.
Who's Hamas to scare me?
🔴 to terrify me?
🔴 you make me laugh!
🔴 Passover was celebrated;
Let's not forget what Passover is:
🔴 we survived Pharaoh,
🔴 we survived the Greeks,
🔴 we survived the Romans,
🔴 we survived the inquisition in Spain,
🔴 we have the pogroms in Russia,
🔴 we survived Hitler,
🔴 we survived the Germans,
🔴 we survived the Holocaust,
🔴 we survived the armies of seven Arab countries,
🔴 we survived Saddam.
🔴 we will survive the enemies present
Think of any time in human history ⚠
Think about it, for us, the Jewish people,
🔷 the situation has never been better!
🔷 then let's face the world,
Let us remember:
🔶 all nations, empires or cultures
🔶  who once tried to destroy us,
🔶  no longer exist today - while we still live!
🔶  Egypt?
🔶  Babylon?
🔶  the Greeks?
🔶  Alexander of Macedonia?
🔶  The Romans? (does anyone still speak Latin these days? )
🔶 The Third Reich?
And look at us
🔵 The slaves of Egypt,
🔵 The People of Moses
🔵 The Nation of the Bible,
🔵 We are still here,
And Hebrew is still the official language of the State of Israel today:
🚩 from the time of the Bible and now!
🚩 Arabs don't know yet,
🚩 but they will learn that there is a God.
🚩 as long as we keep our identity, we are forever.
So forgive us for not worrying,
🔶 not to cry,
🔶 not to be afraid.
🔶 things are fine here.
🔶 they could certainly get better,
However:
🔴 Don't believe the media,
🔴 they don't tell you alot of good things about Israel
🔴 celebrations continue to take place in Israel,
🔴 people continue to live,
🔴 people keep coming out,
🔴 people continue to see friends.
Some claim our morale is low.
🔵 so what?
Only because we mourn our deaths while our enemies rejoice in the blood shed & war.
🔵 that is why we will win, in the end.
The God of Israel created the Heaven's and the Earth.
The Guardian of Israel never slumbers or sleep! The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Forward this speech to the whole community,
💙 and to people around the world.
💜 they are part of our strength
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[The Minsky Moment]

WTF is that?!

[Syt]

WTF is that?!

I was wondering the same and therefore posted it before the luminaries of this forum.

[The Brain]

Since Renee Richards was brought up as a kind of model for the issue of trans women in money sports, let's hear what she has to say on the issue:

"Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I'd had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I've reconsidered my opinion." She adds, "There is one thing that a transsexual woman unfortunately cannot expect to be allowed to do, and that is to play professional sports in her chosen field. She can get married, live as woman, do all of those other things, and no one should ever be allowed to take them away from her. But this limitation—that's just life. I know because I lived it."

https://slate.com/culture/2012/10/jewish-jocks-and-renee-richards-the-life-of-the-transsexual-tennis-legend.html

Does that impact anyone's opinion?

My guess is no (for several reasons).

[The Minsky Moment]

WTF is that?!

I was wondering the same and therefore posted it before the luminaries of this forum.

To start, what is going on with the color scheme and the bullets??

Let us remember:
🔶 all nations, empires or cultures
🔶  who once tried to destroy us,
🔶  no longer exist today - while we still live!
🔶  Egypt?
🔶  Babylon?
🔶  the Greeks?
🔶  Alexander of Macedonia?
🔶  The Romans? (does anyone still speak Latin these days? )
🔶 The Third Reich?

OK.

I think we can all stipulate that Alexander of Macedon is no longer alive. I suppose one could see the hand of divine Providence in the fact that he failed to reach the age of 2376; on the other hand, what should we conclude from the premature deaths of Moses, King Solomon and Rabbi Akiba?  Also - Alexander does "live on" in the sense that Jews continue to give children that name in commemoration of Alex's sparing the Temple from harm.

We can also agree the Third Reich was defeated.  Yay!

Last I checked Egypt and Greece are still around; the Greeks are even still speaking Greek. There are also plenty of people speaking Latin languages; quite a few more than are speaking the modern day derivates of ancient Hebrew.

[crazy canuck]

WTF is that?!

I was wondering the same and therefore posted it before the luminaries of this forum.

To start, what is going on with the color scheme and the bullets??

Let us remember:
🔶 all nations, empires or cultures
🔶  who once tried to destroy us,
🔶  no longer exist today - while we still live!
🔶  Egypt?
🔶  Babylon?
🔶  the Greeks?
🔶  Alexander of Macedonia?
🔶  The Romans? (does anyone still speak Latin these days? )
🔶 The Third Reich?

OK.

I think we can all stipulate that Alexander of Macedon is no longer alive. I suppose one could see the hand of divine Providence in the fact that he failed to reach the age of 2376; on the other hand, what should we conclude from the premature deaths of Moses, King Solomon and Rabbi Akiba?  Also - Alexander does "live on" in the sense that Jews continue to give children that name in commemoration of Alex's sparing the Temple from harm.

We can also agree the Third Reich was defeated.  Yay!

Last I checked Egypt and Greece are still around; the Greeks are even still speaking Greek. There are also plenty of people speaking Latin languages; quite a few more than are speaking the modern day derivates of ancient Hebrew.

And never a mention of celebrating the Persians.  Tsk Tsk.

[Syt]

[Josquius]

And this is from a German?

[Syt]

And this is from a German?

Ex-German.

[The Brain]

And this is from a German?

Ex-German.

Jesus. I don't want to imagine what you have to do.

[The Minsky Moment]

"Nazi's stood for National Democratic Socialist Party" is in the pole position for the most idiotic sentence of 2021.

Still - there are many months to go and there are still a lot of Republicans on twitter.  Expect vigorous competition. 

[PDH]

"Nazi's stood for National Democratic Socialist Party" is in the pole position for the most idiotic sentence of 2021.

Still - there are many months to go and there are still a lot of Republicans on twitter.  Expect vigorous competition.

This race will go to the steady of stupid, not the quick of idiocy.