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Evagating Beewolf (she/they)
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Hello!
Profile picture is a cropped and remastered version of The Blue Marble: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Blue_Marble_(remastered).jpg
I was formerly known as Jess Smith but changed it to this. Evagation, according to Merriam-Webster, is "a wandering of the mind". Evagating, thus, is the act of having one's mind wander. A beewolf is a real animal that occurs near where I live, according to INaturalist.
AuDHD Jewish Pittsburgher. Interested in interesting stuff (yes I know that's a tautology).
This bit used to be about the election in the US, but now it's happened.
So.
Don't give up.
You can't give up; giving up lets them win. Giving up is what they want. Fight them every step of the way.
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." ~ John Stuart Mill, philosopher
"[T]he opposite of life is not death, but indifference[.]" ~ Elie Wiesel, Nobel prizewinner and Holocaust survivor.














anon reply
Growing up in a religious Jewish household, Israel was meaningful and important to a lot of my family members, some of whom were holocaust survivors.
(Try, for a moment, by the way to put yourself in the headspace of a holocaust survivor on this. You've been through hell and back and lost most, if not all of your friends and family on the other side, your entire life has been defined and dominated by antisemitism and being an outsider.
And then you find out Jews are getting their own m***********g country. HOT DAMN. Sounds pretty f*****g sweet. So, I get the appeal.)
So there was a lot of subtle pressure in my life to see the actions of Israel's government in a positive light, pretty much no matter what, and most of my Jewish peers went on "birthright" trips to Israel and came back really adamantly zionist (it was a little spooky even).
And I really just wanted to believe that and wanting to believe it for a long time functioned as believing it until... it just didn't anymore and now I'm just a self-aware critic of Israel. I don't think Israel can be made to not exist as a country, but I think there needs to a be a radical reformation within its government and culture that moves it away from being a flagrant ethnostate.

notreallysrs reply
I thought people who didn't want go to college or people who didn't even try to pursue a higher education were making a mistake. Now with the cost of college, student loans, and meeting people who were successful without college, I totally get it.

anomefasullo reply
I used to be anti-union, because I saw too many "lazy" workers being protected. After a few years, I saw too many "great" workers left unprotected. I realized that unions help protect the balance.

