@Jonathanglick You know a lot more about this stuff than I do, and I have to say I am less inclined than I ever have been (which, admittedly, has never been much) to study Jewish tradition, but wouldn't the predicate of that story (God spared the livestock of the righteous) call into question that very ugly conclusion?
“They portrayed him as a cog, but in the end a machine is made up of cogs and he was a willing part of that.” ~Rev. Beth Glover via @ddayen, re a 2013 Wall Street case https://prospect.org/justice/2024-05-31-juries-rule-trump-trial/
does rule of law imply a law of rules?
are you a hypocrite to claim you respect the rule of law if you don’t always respect the speed limit?
“Silicon Valley is the land of low-capital, low-labor growth. Software development requires fewer people than infrastructure and hard goods manufacturing, both to get started and to run as an ongoing operation. Silicon Valley is the place where you get rich without creating jobs. It's run by investors who hate the idea of paying people.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/
@realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world (maybe my life doesn’t count as IRL TBH)
@BenRossTransit @dpp even the pundits pundit that the mar-a-lago documents case is a slam dunk. but a friendly judge has put that one likely past november. this being-in-office-to-squash-your-criminal-prosecutions trend is disheartening.
@dpp in the punditosphere this was a weak case, the one that seemed like a real stretch. if all the highly paid politics-knowers thought that, you’d think at least one of twelve would have been persuaded by the defense at least consider it somewhat marginal and have to mull over it a bit. i haven’t followed reporting on the presentation at trial closely, but the prosecution was apparently very persuasive!
@rst well, the hearts on rockets thing certainly was presidential!
@realcaseyrollins oh, in the new york times and associated podcasts ezra klein and ross douthat both advocated that. the good state of the union address calmed them for a bit, but recently i’ve heard (some random podcast probably, i don’t remember) it discussed again as the polling has gotten bleak.
@realcaseyrollins i wish i knew!
so much talk (however unmoored) about a withdrawal and an open Democratic convention. any such talk on the R side?
@Transportist well, i think this jury was compensated.
the speed of the verdict seems astonishing.
@Jonathanglick absolutely.
@Jonathanglick It is absurdly poorly argued, by a person who puffs himself up as an intellectual so extraordinary solidaristic values must give way. He caricatures every position not his own, although to be fair, that one caricatures itself. 1/
@Jonathanglick It’s not the shoddy argument that’s interesting in the piece. It’s the overtness and self-consciousness of the embrace of anti-universalism and overt supremacy as “Jewish”. There’s an extraordinary polarization occurring. Of course, two Jews three opinions. But when, somehow, this miserable war comes to a merciful close, will you and I and he recognize ourselves to be part of a shared community in any meaningful way at all? Should we? /fin
His ethical tradition does not strike me as unsurpassably subtle. To describe it as the Jewish tradition would be inaccurate and deeply antisemitic.
“[In times of war], it is correct to kill even the righteous among your enemy” seems like an excellent exoneration of Hamas.
What does “chosen” mean? To some, to the piece’s author, it’s exceptionalist, supremicist. To many Jews it is bitterly ironic and reflects a duty to which we are called rather than any privilege.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/live-law-die-cross-israel
@the_roamer i just often feel this way …
“The Complex Problem Of Lying For Jobs” @ludicity https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-complex-problem-of-lying-for-jobs/
love the humans even when so often they’re intolerable.