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I honestly disagree with a lot of stuff here.

I don’t think Bo sidelined Din at all. She was in the episode a lot and had her own great moments that were badass or included some much needed character development and backstory, and while Bo kept saving his ass and as a result had better action scenes, Din also had some really important character moments.

Din’s struggles with identity definitely have not disappeared; it’s the entire reason he’s STILL unable to handle the weight of the darksaber. Din’s security in his own beliefs in the creed and overall being Mandalorian has never wavered, to be clear, it was always more about Din struggling with the fact that not all actual Mandalorians wear their helmets all the time like he was told (so what else was he lied to about by the people who raised him?) trying to understand his place in Mandalorian society now that he knows this. He is questioning aspects of his faith, but not his entire faith - he has never wavered in being a devoted Mandalorian despite everything. Din said it in the episode - “Without the creed, what are we? What do we stand for? Our people are scattered like stars in the galaxy. The creed is how we survived” — This is why he is working so hard to bathe in the living waters below the mines to redeem himself. He struggles with certain rules, like not being able to show his face to his son or those he deeply loves, but in the end, he would not be Din Djarin without the creed, and wishes to honor and pass on his culture and traditions so the Mandalorians can continue to live on. Remember, this was only the second episode of season three - we’ve barely seen Din’s journey this season. I think as the season unfolds we will see Din find a way to balance his personal needs, the creed, and also to either find a way to honor those who raised him or completely move on from them.

I feel like people only feel this way because Bo was in the episode a lot and used the darksaber effortlessly, so they feel like she’s going to become Mand’alor again instead of Din. I don’t think that’s going to happen, to be honest. I think this episode exists because they needed to show the audience Din and Bo’s respect and trust for each other grow and develop; they are almost certainly going to be working together this season to unite the Mandalorians again. It makes sense tbh - Bo was always going to be a major player in any plot involving Mandalore and the darksaber. I think it’s possible Bo could become Mand’alor again, like never say never, but I do think the past 2 seasons and 3 episodes of BOBF showcase more foreshadowing about Din becoming Mand’alor than this one episode where Bo wield the darksaber.

While it's KIND-OF funny that Din sidelined Boba Fett in his own show, and now Bo-Katan seems to be sidelining Din on his own show in a similar way, it's also just... frustrating. I'm here for the story, I need them to stop moving AWAY from it to tell stories they're more interested in with different characters who aren't the main character.

I am here for Din's journey to rediscovering what it means to him to be Mandalorian, I am here for an identity crisis, I am here for a continuation of the emotional struggle we saw him going through in The Book of Boba Fett. But all of that seems to have disappeared now that his own show has started up. He's pretty secure in his own beliefs. He knows who and what he is, the problem he's facing is mostly just logistics in terms of figuring out how to get to the Living Waters and then bring back proof that he's bathed in them to the Armorer so he can be officially redeemed. He's not growing or developing towards that because, so far, he doesn't NEED to in order to accomplish his goal.

We don't really get any super emotional reactions to Din seeing Mandalore for the first time, or the Living Waters for the first time. All of the emotion in the episode comes from Bo-Katan. Bo-Katan is the one who's been given a VERY clear emotional arc set-up so she can develop across the season. Bo-Katan has lost faith along with the Darksaber and her followers and has to learn how to reconnect to Mandalore, its people, and figure out what it means to HER to be a Mandalorian. She has to come to terms with her own guilt for her part in making Mandalore weak enough to be destroyed by the Empire. We got more emotion from seeing BO-KATAN return to Mandalore and seeing BO-KATAN react to going back to the Living Waters than we ever got from Din.

I hope I'm wrong. I hope they start bringing up a more emotional arc for Din in this season and it doesn't just turn into a story that's more about Bo-Katan's redemption and identity crisis with Din just kind-of along for the ride.

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hey everyone! this is just your gentle reminder that “messianic jews” aren’t jewish, they’re evangelicals who appropriate jewish culture in an attempt to proselytize to jewish folk. the movement emerged in the 70’s with the specific mission of converting jewish people to christianity. they mainly do this through lying and infiltrating communities they have no business entering.

in order to make their “judaism + jesus is messiah” system work, they end up perpetuating a lot of really antisemitic beliefs. ( i urge you all to please read these sources on the specifics. op is able to go into way more detail than i can. )

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Demi Lovato has recently become an ambassador to Gaia, a streaming service that promotes conspiracy theories about antivax garbage and lizard people who rule the world, the latter being deeply rooted in antisemitic rhetoric. (One of Demi’s favorite shows is about said lizard people, by the way. Yes, a lot of people don’t know about the antisemitic aspects of the lizard people conspiracy theory, but a lot of other people do, which is why QAnon losers love Gaia. Regardless of whether their antisemitism is intentional, Demi is still promoting it.)

Demi is platforming some dangerous ideas. This is incredibly concerning and they need to be called out on this behavior. Speak up about this, spread awareness of how dangerous this stuff is, and actively criticize their choice to join up with this horrible company. This is unacceptable.

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wjat if you woke up and your husband has turned into an iguana?

well as he would be considered an invasive species in the state of florida i  would be obligated as an americna to kill and eat him ... sad but theres more husbands out there iguess

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on 9 november 1938, nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the jewish population in germany, austria and czechoslovakia. historians view it as a prelude to the final solution and the murder of six million jews during the holocaust.

ninety-one jewish people were violently murdered, hundreds of synagogues and thousands of jewish-owned businesses were devastated, tens of thousands of jewish civilians were captured and subsequently sent to concentration camps.

kristallnacht (commonly known as “the night of broken glass”) is one of largest pogroms to have ever occurred. it owes its name to the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues were smashed. may the memories of those who lost their lives serve as an eternal blessing.

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Rothschilds conspiracy theories manage to actually get more antisemitic with age, because they’re no longer anywhere near the richest people in the world. So anyone continuing them is just playing the old hits with even less of an excuse.

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"Don't make me tap the sign" meme where the bottom text reads-

"Religion is not inherently bad, and people (especially christian-affiliated atheists) should stop using their extremely narrow and often incorrect view of religion to demonize it, especially when they know nothing about most religions."

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just popping in to say hello to anna diop as starfire only

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why do people insist on comparing every modern genocide/act of oppression/etc to the holocaust. like the holocaust shouldnt be a metric of how terrible something is? and i keep seeing this rhetoric of "oh people care about the holocaust and xyz orchestrator of the genocide was prosecuted but why dont people care about THIS issue" for one people literally deny the holocaust happened to this fucking day second yes this is all true but you dont have to reduce 6 million peoples deaths to a rhetoric point. there are so many horrible things happening in the world rn that should be talked about and stopped but people act as if the holocaust happened and then the jews lived happily ever after the end. a literal genocide shouldnt be reduced to a talking point and a comparison to prove that xyz group is oppressed. shut UP

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Thinkin about how neo conservatives are the first to call leftists antisemitic over their criticism of Israel while also jumping at the opportunity to downplay the Holocaust whenever it suits their political agenda. They compare the Holocaust to so many things to further their agenda. Abortion and vaccine mandates come to mind. These things have nothing to do with the Holocaust and will never, ever be remotely comparable.

This hypocrisy goes beyond just the fact that they “support” jews in one breath but openly mock our oppression in the next. The absolute magnitude of the suffering and death that the Nazi party caused the Jewish people to face during the Holocaust is one of the only coherent justifications for a Jewish state to exist.

I absolutely do not think Israel is the solution to antisemitism. I do not think there is any scenario where ethnonationalism of any kind makes anything better. Israel is certainly not an exception to this, as any Palestinian living under Israeli occupation could tell you.

That being said, I empathize with Jews who want a Jewish state. A lot of Jews who grew up in certain parts of America were never properly educated about the violence that Israel’s government inflicts on the Palestinian people. I did not know virtually anything about this issue until my mid teens. It’s not that I didn’t want to learn, I just had no idea of knowing that this was happening. Even if you ARE educated on the abuses of power the Israeli government has committed, and understand the importance of freeing Palestine, I can still understand wanting a Jewish state to exist, in a different location or under different circumstances. I don’t think there are any scenarios where that doesn’t end badly, but I understand the rationale behind wanting a country to exist that will always be safe for Jews, since there are few countries on earth that have not at some point in time been an unsafe place to live as a Jew.

That being said, I have zero patience or tolerance for gentiles, especially conservative white gentiles, who are pro Israel. The fact that they see the Holocaust as nothing more than a talking point to further their political agenda of the week is proof that they do not push for Israel’s existence to protect Jews from another tragedy like the Holocaust. It has nothing to do with Jews. The only reasons a goyische right wing politician or pundit has to support Israel is to pander to evangelical Christians, virtue signal about antisemitism to their antisemitic viewers and constituents, or because of a deep seated hatred and fear of Palestinians. Usually it’s a combination of all three. It never has anything to do with helping Jews. To them, we exist to be their token religious minority, their talking point, their pawn, until it’s no longer convenient to talk about us. They will never care about us.

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Girls…are like strawberries

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I have two moods.

1. Constant panic and worryng about every little detail

2. It is what it is

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everyone needs to stop using rhetoric that throws other marginalized people under the bus. please be thoughtful in how you phrase things bc words matter. i see people constantly trying to draw attention to celebrities’ bigotry by saying “if [x] was racist, everyone would care” (ex: jkr). first of all she IS racist, and people DON’T care. and even if she wasn’t: stop acting like nobody gets away with racism anymore. stop acting like racism is less serious than your marginalization.

i see nonblack poc talking about blm the same way. implying that black hypervisibility results in black issues getting more support than ours (that’s not how it works: more attention doesn’t automatically equate to more support), erasing the decades of work that went into raising awareness for this issue, implying that black people have privilege over us, and erasing the fact that we ourselves are complicit in antiblackness. this happens with a lot of the “us centric” rhetoric too. nonblack people will unironically use blm as an example of “american issues getting more attention”. people will act like increased awareness of the blm movement implies black people in the us have “us privilege.” is your primary example of “american privilege” really black people? it doesn’t take a history pHD to know that the us has never given black people anything close to “privilege.” or ripping off of their work by using the “[x] lives matter” format – which they have repeatedly explaines dilutes the power and specificity of the slogan, which was specifically designed to bring attention to antiblack police brutality.

another example of this that pops up all the time is with genocide. people will unironically say things like “how come everyone agrees the holocaust was bad but thinks [x] is a complicated issue” or use holocaust imagery or comparisons to make your point. actually you can easily argue genocide is bad without being antisemitic. not only does the repeated use of this rhetoric erase the uniquely horrific nature of the holocaust, it’s also offensive given rising levels of holocaust denial & antisemitism. jewish people have repeatedly asked to avoid this rhetoric, and explained why it’s offensive.

you can make the exact same points without randomly throwing other people under the bus. it doesn’t help you get more attention but it does contribute to discrimination against them. also: stop reblogging posts with this rhetoric, even if you agree with the other points. you cannot justify antiblackness or antisemitism in the name of activism for other issues. find (or make) another post that doesn’t use antiblackness or antisemitism to make its points.