you guys have NO idea how frustrated i am knowing those finisher lyrics are ORIGINAL FOR THIS TIKTOK and i CANT listen to this 20s speakeasy lounge sounding ass motherfucker just spit lyrical subjugation for whole albums at a time
Anyone with chronic pain should read but honestly everyone should read it too see just how badly the cdc fucked up
A few gems
as a chronic pain patient who uses opioids and lives in fear of them being arbitrarily taken away, i would really appreciate it if you would read and reblog this post.
lifehack: when you see a Take One candy bowl in a restaurant, wait until noones looking and shovel candy into your pockets. god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own
“God may judge you but his sins outnumber your own.” We really need to start collecting and sourcing these Potent Quotables.
Hey everyone I’m sorry to bother but my tire blew out yesterday after work and I had to lump my way over to a garage. As you may know, I’m currently living in my car so this leaves me with nowhere to go and my mom and dad died and I have no family to go to. Is there any way possible I could please get help with getting a hotel for tonight and with the tire and Uber’s to and from work? The tire for my car was supposed to be shipped today but they called and said they’ll be receiving it tomorrow morning. Reblogs would be super appreciated!
Message for Zelle information and my PayPal is paypal.me/jpd05 I’ll try to update as I can at work.
Babe, wake up, it’s that fucking chocolate guy again
BABE!! NEW CHOCOLATE GUY CONTENT JUST DROPPED!
if Chocolate Guy had been alive and doing his thing in the mid 17th century the royal families of Europe would have started actual wars over who got to hire him
CRAZY to think abt the overtly Jewish themes in early comics, I mean superman is Moses, diana is a Golem, and Batman just straight up a matrilineal jew. All written by Jewish writers. And people just IGNORE that.
when i was making this post, i was only focusing on dc, since it is in relation to these comics that i have seen and experienced the most antisemitism. but as this reaches a broader audience, yeah! lets talk about it all!
lets talk about how captain america, an irish immigrant who grew up poor and ill, channeled his experiences into empathy and understanding and positive action, was made by jewish men to dunk on hitler.
lets talk about how the first marvel and dc comics were mocked up in “yinglish,” a mix of yiddish and english commonly spoken in jewish quarters. lets talk about how the format of the graphic novel as we know it was pioneered by an Auschwitz survivor
lets talk about how the first superman comics were clark picking up hitler and stalin, and dumping them at the united nations to be prosecuted for his treatment of defenceless and downtrodden people the world over
let’s talk about why x-men resonated with so many people who fundamentally share an understanding of oppression by discriminatory systems, across time and cultures. written by the sons of jewish immigrants.
lets talk about how comics by their very nature were crafted to imbue empathy and understanding, and challenge the very foundation of unjust institutions. and lets talk about the fact that this is a jewish art form. blending the power of language with the impact of visual elements. made that way by jewish people who had something to say.
not to mention the fact that the reason jews built the comic book industry from the ground up was because american traditional publishing, marketing, and newspaper companies often had antisemitic quota policies and wouldn’t hire jews.
so jewish people looked at a new, avante garde, fun, different kind of entertainment that had even been founded by a jew, and saw potential. jewish artists and writers positively flocked to the burgeoning comic book industry because they were quite literally blocked out of everywhere else.
so of course they wrote about fighting oppression, fighting those who willfully discriminate against others, fighting against hate and prejudice and ignorance. all of those things are what spurred on the comic book industry in the first place.
So a fun fact about me is that just this week I lectured on this very topic, and as much as all of the points here are very important, I actually had a much wider claim.
In short, superheroes are prophets.
No, like, legit. Prophets.
The rambam talks about the principles of prophecy in Guide to the Perplexed, and there are several orders of prophecy. The first order is shared by all of them, and it is, in short, the fact that a prophet must be someone who sees evil and feels the need to stop it. God is on their side, that’s vital, but they don’t need to talk directly to God, they don’t need to have visions, all they need to do is save someone. Prophecy is not a talent, according to the rambam. It is an action.
The first of the degrees of prophecy consists in the fact that an individual receives a divine help that moves and activates him to a great, righteous, and important action - such as the deliverance of a community of virtuous people from a community of wicked people, or the deliverance of a virtuous and great man, or the inspiring of greatness.
(this is a somewhat edited paragraph, as I’m contrasting the english translation with the Hebrew translation with my dad’s knowledge of the original Arabic text and finding it lacking.)
My lecture went into great detail showing parallels between different comic book characters and people from Jewish history (specifically moses and superman, david and captain america, and my personal favorite, “Other One”/Elisha Ben Abuya and magneto). But beyond that is my claim that we learn something very important from the first Hebrew - Abraham himself. Because his task is not only to create a people and teach them what is righteous and to deal justice (again, an action), but also that all people may learn from his example - see above, “inspiring of greatness”. The prophet must not only serve his own people, but also the whole world.
This is why superman’s motto includes not only the “american way”, but also “truth” and “justice”. This is why captain america becomes nomad when he is disillusioned post watergate/rebels against his own government in the winter soldier. Because there is a universalism inherent to the Jewish hero that requires that we not only help ourselves but also everyone we could possibly help (this is in the mishnah as well).
And with magneto, I claimed that what makes him a villain (an anti-villain, but a villain nonetheless) is the very fact of his interest in his own people alone. He cares for mutants and mutants alone, and even though his interests at times align with those of all of humanity/the marvel universe, if they don’t he does not hesitate to turn on those he might have teamed up with previously.
I didn’t say this in the lecture because I didn’t have enough time to research it properly, but I don’t think it’s possible to imagine a world in which we have comic book heroes that in any way resemble our own in an alternate history where Jews weren’t the people behind the concept of the superhero. Whereas christians value speech, self-sacrifice, and forgiveness, Jews value action and change.
It’s not just that our superheroes are Jewish.
It’s that they can’t not be Jewish.
And this is why any time somebody turns superman into a christ figure I look at them crooked. You think that superman is in any way the type to sacrifice himself? He is the savior not because of his powers of speech or getting people to follow him. It is because he inspires greatness in others, and above all else, because he gets shit done.
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