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1/ A thread of comments & observations about the death of the cackling vampire Rush Limbaugh.

My first observations in the main thread are here, but this offshoot is needed because there's been so many wise & witty things I've

 2/ First, re: those who in their wayward moral obtuseness feel we "can't speak ill of the dead." I've said that this is what abuse enablers say, but I hear that some religious traditions preach this. Oy.
So there's this: https://t.co/7Ky4RA3nkZ & receipts:
https://t.co/ScpDZ4wEPf
3/ Drucker is another great wit, and this carries the proper mood
https://t.co/kexrXMcotl
4/ There's definitely a Jewish Tradition angle for how to treat evil people who die: the only respect is to justice, right & wrong, and above all compassion's existence necessitates condemning cruelty
https://t.co/c5nNjJkSip
5/ We're coming up on #Purim, and that's all about how to remember evil. There may be a reason, then, that I share the attitude of many other people committed to righting wrongs:
https://t.co/BtM3xCBrpU
&
https://t.co/bOYbGjpbBQ
6/ Well crafted Purim callout:
https://t.co/IOzySYGTyc
7/ More witty responses:
a) https://t.co/k1q6tClH72
b) https://t.co/k4pRzpuZPe
c) https://t.co/X8elhOzApf
8/ A key point: liking Rush condemns you as a person. He embodied cruelty. That is supposed to repel you.
https://t.co/dYi1eMTNsS
& https://t.co/JmlhvZvdiw
9/ That's personally why I can't understand "he was funny" - that's the bleat of people who laugh along with the bully when he crushes vulnerable people.

Really, examine yourself if you laughed along with him. It's not 'humor'

https://t.co/SbbSLhZ3sD
&
https://t.co/FO2yTBpZwV
10/ Instead of 'funny' the key descriptor is 'entertaining' and that is a through-line from Limbaugh to Trump (ym'sh)
https://t.co/sETuC5Qt93
and the connection between the two monsters is important to highlight
https://t.co/k83TxEmhvp
& https://t.co/EaxN91mjTe
11/ I actually didn't know how horrible he was - my parents are liberal and if my friends listened to him, they probably knew not to play it near me.

So here he is mocking AIDS patients. WHAT?!?
https://t.co/9RI0tmrCNi
& https://t.co/fFAqdJ0aLZ
& https://t.co/a0l88y0qHm
12/ Or truly loathsome comments about African-Americans:
https://t.co/i0TNFoFBe6

and here about abortion
https://t.co/LVwsnxIZKv

Seriously, how can someone say they listened to him with fondness? This is inexcusable immoral poison.
13/ And, like Trump (ym'sh) he mocked people with disabilities. In the clip below, he's gesticulating his arms around in order to mock Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson's.

Do people understand that anyone who does that is the worst sort of person?
https://t.co/ZTGpm7hHMo
14/ So who actually defends silence, and implicitly projects they defend all of the above cruelty? People like this guy who I was told to read during the election because of polling knowledge

https://t.co/YiTQEFAw7e
15/ The kicker is this guy from the National Review:
https://t.co/ITh28xuVKX

This is one witty response to that: https://t.co/wqCDE7sqAf
but this is a correct response: https://t.co/3zdhFe6dnV
16/ This will be it for now. We're at a moment when RedHats and other cruel fascists are trying to scurry under the garbage pits to avoid social stigma that they avoided when Trump (ym'sh) commanded the culture. Defending Rush is a sign of grotesque rot.
17/ If needed, I'll add more. But there's just so much filth I can stare at, even if the goal is justice. How much evil do you need to see before concluding it's unacceptable? My limit is very low.

@threadreaderapp please unroll.

@threader_app please compile.

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1/ OK a few more #Exodus thoughts (because I'm going through a mountain of parsha stuff amidst all my other writing) connected to the #DvarTorah here about the nameless collective-compassionate action of the multitude being the engine of the salvation.


2/ It struck me to link to another conundrum (kinda like the large plague frog in the room): how Pharaoh has his free will removed

So, the nameless action could be a purposeful contrast to the singular powerful individual who normally is history's

3/ IMO God manipulates Pharaoh in order to prevent one person making too much of a difference!

This ties into another larger point I often make about the culpability of the Egyptians & how actually they, not Pharaoh, are the focus of the plagues.

4/ My point contrasts how the Egyptians - who were responsible for being enslavers, for dehumanizing & stealing the labor of Israelites up to the point of joining in the Pharaoh command of infanticide (see

5/ These individuals needed to make their choices without coercion from the autocrat, hence Pharaoh lost 'free will' in his capacity as someone who can move the engines of political power.

He lost free will in order to preserve the free will & action of his subjects
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1/ I'm just reflecting about how many leaders from the Modern Orthodox community passed away in 2020. The list is an overwhelming pantheon of pivotal, unique, and creative rabbis. I'm stunned by the enormity of the loss.

2/ Right at the end of the year, the 9th of Tevet, we lost Rav Henkin z'l, probably the most prominent & compassionate Dati-Leumi posek we had! It's rare to have a highly superior halakhist with unimpeachable standards who is also wise &

3/ Another Dec. loss: Rav Schwartz z'l of Chicago, another towering posek who took brave & indominable positions that understood modern society while having complete, airtight respect for tradition.

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4/ In Nov. we lost Rabbi Dr. Sacks z'l! His paramount leadership wasn't in halakha but in theology. He was able to navigate the secular & traditional worlds at the highest level; a rare rabbi whose philosophical work was universally recognized as

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1/ Another observation the #Literalist fallacy I see about how much Trump (ym'sh) has planned all of the chaos & violence. My overarching point will be that society is structured & that means there's an inherent pattern to effects no matter the 'intelligence' behind the causes

2/ The virus should teach us this. #Literalists claim it was made in a lab because they see a killing-machine that carves its way through society and they must apply individual force & cause to the effectiveness of the biological organism

3/ #Literalists see only the tree, not the forest, so they think every effect stands alone, and thus has individual cause. This is the root fallacy of 'intelligent design'

its what led my ancestors to presume every disease is caused by a demon. Nature becomes personified.

4/ [Note, I'm not a deist, I believe in an active, caring God - the God of the Exodus, not just Genesis - but, ironically, in our hidden-faced age I can only see God's presence in the anomalies of nature (miracles), when it skips a pattern, and not from it's surface efficiency.]

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1/ Many people remark that we wouldn't have survived 4 more years of Trump (ym'sh) - and I agree - but this was a 40 year project of destroying the democratic form of US gov., starting with Reagan, and accelerated from Gingrich.

DJT was to almost the final hammer blow.

2/ Both Roosevelts changed the function of the government from preserving the entrenched power to an instrument to help people survive & thrive

TR was a Progressive, tore down the monopolies, established public health etc. When he left the party, the GOP became what it is today

3/ Wilson took up TR's platform (TR helped by splitting the 1912 vote) and when the GOP won in 1920, they actively tried to undermine the entire new project of what America would do for its

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But FDR, thank God, was able to pull us from the brink

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They were and are revolted by SF glorifying murder but dont know or care about the deaths of catholics here. As I’ve seen the apathy to the life my parents lived, and the fear I grew up with, I always make it understood I’m Irish but from the north. Because it’s important

Showing absolutely no interest in the murder of the people in the areas SF are elected to represent is really selectively deciding whose lives you think are worth anything. I doubt anyone south of Louth Monaghan or Cavan could tell you or care about the Reavey brothers

There was and is no hand wringing about children being shot in the fields by soldiers in front of their parents or hunted down in their own house and killed in front of their families- where were the marches, the songs, the movements?

“But Sinn Fein said this”- is of zero comfort to victims of state or loyalist violence and you are actually framing their loved ones murders in such a way that you’re almost making them partially culpable for their own fate or excusing it somehow when it’s nothing to do with SF
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Prior to capitalism, there were plenty of elite-centric, exploitive systems in place. European and Japanese feudalism. Roman mass slavery. The corvee labor of the ancient hydraulic state. Etc.

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But as exploitive and repressive as these systems were, they still retained some sense of mutual obligation among classes. Elites depend on the masses to survive and thrive. You can only exploit them up to a certain point, beyond which you threaten your own labor supply.

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