Jews: “So, these are the laws that we have, and these are the ‘fences’ we have culturally put up around the law, to prevent accidentally breaking them, or accidentally leading others to break them. Understanding what those ‘fences’ actually are and their implications can make it a lot more feasible to actually follow these laws. If taken to the most extreme, things can get unwieldy. It’s commonly understood that we live by the laws, not die by them. For example, even though people might assume this isn’t kosher, it’s totally permissible because—”
Edgy atheist whose family dragged him to a Baptist church every Wednesday: “Jews rules lawyering God to get around their stupid oppressive made up laws 🙄”
Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.
we know Dukat and Garak were on terok nor at the same time and tbh though deep & complex headcanons are tremendous and tremendously appreciated, and founded on very canon declarations, to me it is always secretly funniest if they hate each other just, like… because they ran into one another sometimes and just did Not click