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New law makes Canadian Jews second-class citizens | Toronto Star

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So here’s a terrifying implication of Canada’s new citizenship law that I’ve not heard anyone mention before.

I expected this when I heard about the standards of the new law :

Can a Jew formally renounce their Right of Return in a way that Israel would consider binding?

IDK, maybe Israel would be willing to accept some conditional renunciation of the right? Probably not, though.

This seems like a mess.

to hell with Judaism I’m American

I thought I was safe the day I took the oath

“Welcome home,” they said

(we’ll see what “they will consider expanding“ means)

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#the people in this riding are ever so polite #they are kind and they do not insult you to your face #they may even believe on some level that they like me #but they’re going to elect *him* again #oh I’ll do my part to fight it #I’ll cast the vote he didn’t think I should have #and it’s not going to work #I see those blue signs all over town and I think of every proudly xenophobic message he’s had placed in our mailbox over the years #one time he talked about asylum seekers from the European Union #he said it was suspicious #as if anyone from such an advanced place could *possibly* need asylum #(I don’t think he used ‘advanced’ but that was basically the implication) #he said this a couple weeks after I saw news about a mob in Hungary trying to lynch a Romany family #to this day it is what I think of when I think of him #our home and cherished land #(it says it in every post I make about Canada) #(the elephant in the room) #(the unspoken word) #(*native*) #tag rambles

Anonymous asked: How do I make comparativelysuperlative fall in love with me?

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argumate:

Well by posting this I am at least raising the possibility.

comparativelysuperlative

Speckled false-daisy, flexible ethics, and access to something I’m going to drink.

And what’s your position on love potions?

I’ve heard it’s quite enjoyable. Roughly analogous to recreational use of the Imperius Curse.

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I don’t know #I’ve heard about what it’s like being in love and I’ve heard about what it’s like being Imperiused #and one of those sounds a lot more fun than the other #I think a large percentage of you know which #sexuality and lack thereof #(romance and sex are intertwined often enough that that tag taken in isolation isn’t really much of a spoiler is it) #(but that tag was) #limerence sounds unpleasantly overwhelming to me really #(I was originally going to phrase the ‘I’ve heard’ tag ‘I’ve heard *stories*’) #(but then I remembered I’ve only actually heard *one* story about what being Imperiused is like) #(the canonical one) #(I’ve never seen any porn involving the Imperius Curse) #((nor any such fics not intended to be sexual)) #(I’ve met a fetishist with strong ties to the Harry Potter fandom and *she* had never seen any porn involving the Imperius Curse) #(as far as I know it is an unfilled niche) #tag rambles

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“I will only ask that you think twice and ponder three times again, the next time someone tells you to distrust me.”

…because that’s not suspicious at all. Especially from someone who proceeds to more or less state outright that he knows he’s in a fantasy novel, inhabiting the role of mentor.

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#Brin reads HPMOR #mostly unspoiled #a while back I was thinking about The Boy Who Cried Wolf #the supposed moral is that lying is bad #the friendly neighbourhood Cardassian thinks the moral is that one should never tell the same lie twice #but it seemed to me that the moral is that a reputation for honesty is important #not *being* honest mind you #having a *reputation* for honesty #tell enough truths for a long enough time and people will believe the first lie you tell #save up social currency so you can spend it at the right moment #sounds to me like Dumbledore’s making a deposit #(I guess I’ll find out) #oh look an original post

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Arrogant little bastard, but so entertaining.

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#five points to anyone who correctly guessed I was referring to Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres #(I wouldn’t be *too* surprised if someone actually *did* guess) #last night I was upset and looking for a good distraction #and it occurred to me that I would like to be a person who has read HPMOR #so I can understand better when people talk about it #(Worm will have to wait) #and I’ll probably enjoy the process of becoming such a person because I enjoyed other stories in the genre #and stories of that genre *are* very distracting #distracting enough that summer break is probably the best opportunity I’ll get to read such a long one #so basically there’s no time like the present #except not really because fifteen minutes before bedtime is a *terrible* time to start reading a book you expect to be page-turny #so I waited until morning #ftr I mentally composed this post halfway through Chapter 14 and wrote it up and posted it after finishing the chapter #I tagged the other post involving HPMOR #I still don’t have a rationalist tag #which is a weird thing to use as a category tag but maybe I will go back and add a proper one later #I’ll also throw in #Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality #tag rambles #oh look an original post

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so much fiction about the angst of immortality and just fuck that i want to live forever i want to build a house on mars and have sex in space and watch first contact on the news and i want to see how much better we can get as a species and i want to learn how to play every instrument and speak every language and i want to learn how hardcore cosplayers make those impressive sets of armor and i want to watch all the tv that will ever be made and i want to learn every weird science fact and i want to get married 50 times and i want to survive into an age where science will finally figure out how to fix my sensory issues and cure all mental illness and even if eventually all the suns die and i’m left immortally alone in a dark cold void for all eternity that would be fine i would just write fanfic in my head i could keep myself amused, it would be worth it

mostly though i want to know what happens

incidentally, none of this would be impeded by vampirism, so, stop whining lestat

I was always so frustrated as a kid by how vampires in fiction never did anything cool with immortality and I kind of made up a whole fiction world based around them actually doing shit

If I could, I would definitely become a vampire and start (consensually) spreading vampirism to others.

cyborgbutterflies you have read Luminosity and Radiance, right? Because everyone should but especially anyone interested in a book in which Bella Swan decides it’s a moral obligation to overthrow the Volturi so she can vampirize anyone who is interested, and then does it.

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#transhumanism #vampires #recs #I’ve read Luminosity #it was very well-written and engaging #and I found it very refreshing to see a narrative that viewed immortality as a valid goal #after growing up on Harry Potter’s bullshit #(they *tell* you all this crap about how ‘death is just the next step’ and Flamel still chose to die) #(and yet they *show* you that Flamel chose to die after over *six hundred years*) #(given the opportunity to set his own lifespan he made it several times longer than what he would have had otherwise) #(but I don’t get the impression we were supposed to read between those lines) #(the lines we’re *supposed* to read between are more the timelines of Voldemort’s life) #(he died his final death less than halfway through the life expectancy of a wizard) #(chasing immortality made him die *sooner*) #anyway enough ranting #I need to finish Radiance someday #death tw

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#my tag ramble was *so* long that Tumblr cut off the end #luckily I realised at the last minute that it might do that and took a screenshot of the draft #here is the final bit re-typed: #things make a lot more sense now don’t they? #and that’s just a *single fact* #I have more where that came from #I’m going to teach you sex ed the way that only I can #the way that no one else will ever think to do it #(save for the occasional scattered bits and pieces of truth) #(drowning in misinformation aimed at people for whom *that* is truthful) #just promise me one thing okay? #if you ever manage to reestablish this connection #tell me what you’ve learned and figured out given eight years’ head start #tell me what advice you have for me #so then: let’s get down to business #((a heavily personalised sex-ed class would then follow)) #((but this is very long as it is so I will leave it out of the tag version))

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#so you know how you don’t quite trust devout Jews? #(if you haven’t decided you distrust them yet please forgive me) #(you know how terrible we are at remembering *when* things happened) #(and having a functional ultra-long-term memory compiler–while totally awesome and highly recommended–does not make that easier) #(it just gives you an even *wider* span of time in which the thing may have happened) #(anyway) #it doesn’t quite seem *right* that they’re so enthusiastic about Heritage #and you kind of suspect that given half the chance they would force you into their mould #heedless of what bits they would have to carve off of you to make your proverbial peg fit in that hole? #(and denying all the while that they’re carving you) #(because you have the same Heritage so of course you must already fit) #(they’re only making you see it) #well you had the right idea #but the first time around you didn’t apply it broadly enough #you were born to and raised by feminists #and that makes feminism part of your Heritage too #I’m not saying don’t be friends with enthusiastic feminists #the same way you shouldn’t avoid being friends with enthusiastic Jews #but keep them just a little bit distant #just distant enough that they can’t take a whittling knife to your soul #(and hope like hell that the divergent-timeline butterfly doesn’t have you fall in with a *worse* crowd) #so that’s the bad news #here’s some good news #depending on how far you are into 13 you may have heard of asexuality #and you thought it was great and wished you could be like that #well you *wanted* to be like that because you *are* like that #also: there’s this thing called hypno-fetishism #it’s possible for hypnosis to be *sexual* for some people #no don’t worry I’ll wait here while you re-evaluate your entire life #…

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This is my home! This is my home! How can you sit here within it and tell me that nobody lives here?!

(and say it like it’s obvious, say it with condescension, I am so fucking sick of my lived experience being met with condescension and casual declaration of impossibility, or at best saying that it may well have happened but I should still shut up and just let the first-generations speak, their problems their experiences are more numerous more important the only ones worth public acknowledgement)

(You say you want a world like mine, a world with people like me in it. You say you work to achieve it, to achieve us. Decide now how you will react to us when we come to be, for we are already here. You cannot afford to wait until you deem the tide to be turning in your favour, for the world is vast and contains multitudes and the tide is always in your favour somewhere, even if those places are small. Even if those places are small, they may still be big enough to raise a child.

Decide now. Decide wisely.)

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#my issues with sj let me show you them #in which Brin hails from a subculture in deep denial about its own subcultural status #did you know? #in the particular SJ sub-subculture where I was raised ‘queer’ *had been* reclaimed #past tense #it was just what you said when you wanted an umbrella term for people who weren’t straight #(sometimes also people who weren’t cis) #you didn’t have to be queer to use it #connotations of the word were neutral-to-positive #I didn’t even know for seventeen years that it had *ever* been negative #that’s how thoroughly it had lost that negativity #I’m probably the only person reading this who actually knows what a successfully reclaimed word looks like in practice #everyone else I’ve met on the Internet comes from places where it hasn’t been done and thinks those places are the only places #I’ve watched that ignorance hinder their own attempts at reclamation #rants #oh look an original post #(I’m not even thinking of a particular person right now this just happens to me a lot) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #our roads may be golden or broken or lost

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#the inside of my head on a bad brain day #the really nasty part is that thinking in terms of ‘mandatory’ and ‘permitted’ and ‘forbidden’ #rather than ‘right’ and ‘okay’ and ‘wrong’ #is itself forbidden #sometimes I think my home culture could stand to be a bit more *overtly* authoritarian #because supposed anti-authoritarianism #tends to be a euphemism for ‘one of our rules is to never admit that we have rules’ #’even to yourself’ #and that’s just cruel #(I suspect this post ties into the recent Sorting Hat post in some way) #there is probably some warning tag I should put on this but I am not sure what

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Luna Lovegood would be fascinated to learn that Crumplehorned Snorkack was a real person and a successful British actor to boot

# Do I need a ‘anything that makes Brin laugh this much deserves a reblog’ tag? # Probably not but I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve asked myself that (comparativelysuperlative)

So, what happens if you make me laugh by saying this?

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#reply via reblog #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I’m glad I instituted that policy #it helps make my blog the kind of place I want it to be #and it’s always good to have a URL handy where I know the contents are things that will cheer me up #(and similarly a URL I can give to people asking for links to cheer *them* up) #(I used to have trouble finding things for such requests) #(because my bookmarks didn’t distinguish things I liked because they were funny from things I liked for other reasons) #it’s good to see confirmation that other people like it too #(…I make my reasoning sound kind of sad when I put it like that) #(mostly I decided to do this because I wanted to share my laughter with my followers rather than just liking stuff)