Corona Cargo Cult Needs 12-Step Deprogramming

If You Want Forgiveness, Emily, Here’s Your Program

Being lectured to, condemned, ridiculed and hated by elitist bullies is bad enough on a single day or for one issue.

This behavior went on for over two and a half years, for nearly a thousand days, in a thousand ways.  The economic, social, interpersonal, and educational costs associated with the idiotic mandates and unscientific policies will last a lifetime for many, and certainly shortened the lifetimes of many more.

The suggestion printed by the WEF-loving, pro-war lefties at The Atlantic is that they and their global team of unscientific lemming-like nanny-state bullies – just possibly – were a bit misinformed (not their fault) in 2020/21 regarding masking, untested genetic injections, and actual death rates, etc (not their fault).  This bully squad accepted without question the lies their government told them (not their fault).  They not only eagerly, but radically and angrily defended and promoted those lies (partly their fault).

They hope we understand that it wasn’t entirely their fault, and that they are still smart and educated.  They really just wanted to live and survive a flu-like disease with a death rate comparable to any other bad flu – and their nagging and incoherent jammering and name-calling was just so we also wouldn’t die – unless we refused the experimental free required shot and continued to live our lives and try and keep our businesses open, then if we died it was kind of funny to them.

Their excuse was fear, but in reality it was not fear at all, and nor was it hate although it looked like it. It was contempt from Day One.  Leftover contempt from the Trump era, pumped up and recirculated via a government over-response to a disease that now we understand to have been created via gain of function in a government lab by American scientists, including several who had close personal and professional relationships with Fauci. It was individual contempt, political contempt, and institutional contempt for the masses as demonstrated by the Gates Foundation and its compadres, the Democratic Party, and numerous government aligned institutions and industries.

Emily Oster wants us to forgive each other, but it isn’t hate they dished out to us.  If it had been, that hate might be forgiven.  If they hated us because they didn’t know any better – and now they don’t hate us anymore because they know better – well, that can be forgiven.

However, contempt is not something that can be “forgiven” by the formerly contemptible. Their contempt for us has nothing to do with us, and it isn’t our problem.  Their contempt for us should be eliminated – not by our “forgiveness” which is irrelevant – but by their own internal change, their own decisions, individually, that we are at least their equals, and quite possibly, in the case of the COVID policy fiasco, examples they could and should have followed, rather than condemned.

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From LRC, here.

What’s So Great About a ‘Religious’ Majority in Knesset?!

Is this image supposed to be funny?!

As the great Rabbi Brand points out in his works, “religious” errors tend to stick, no matter how bad and harmful.

When change occurs, like starting to live beyond the Green Line or separating mixed youth groups, it isn’t forthright, either.

Also, when the ostensibly religious purposely do political evil, this is a Chillul Hashem, unlike with seculars (yes, malice).

Lastly (for now), they have no earthly idea what to do with political power (other than base cynicism) and refuse to think deeply.

Welcome to the new bosses…

For example: What to do about Chillul Shabbos? Prison time?!

To quote something I once wrote in Hebrew:

עונש מאסר בכלל הלאו של גניבת נפש בעשרת הדברות (מלבד חיוב שֶבֶת וכו’), גם אם אין מיתת חנק ללא “והתעמר בו”. (ראה כאן ובדף שאחריו מ”ש הרב אלישיב.)
כמובן, האיום בכל גזרות המדינה, במישרין או בעקיפין, היינו בית כלא. והמפלגות החרדיות מעבירות פסבדו-“חוקים” רבים…
ולעצם הענין, כפי’ גורמת שנאה, הן כלפי המצוות והן כלפי הכופים, ומולידה נקמה, פוק חזי (כמו חזו”א יו”ד ב’ סוף סקט”ז בדין מורידין בזה”ז).
ועוד, שעי”ז מעוותים הל’ שבת, כי החוק לא מדויק ולא יכול להיות מדויק, כי הוא תלוי במו”מ ומשפטים וכו’.
ובכלל, באיזה זכות יכפו החרדים על אחרים כשגם ה”חרדים” מזלזלים בכמה דיני שבת (שלא לדבר על ספרים שלמים שלא שווים את הנייר), וגורמים לנהגים לחלל עבורם שבת בכניסת השבת וביציאתה?!

Should We Revoke R’ Yechezkel Sarna’s ‘Litvak’ Membership Card?

(Sarcasm.)

“Dalyos Yechezkel” vol. 4, pages 432-435 has something called: דברים נבחרים מכתבי מוה”ר נתן ז”ל.

He means Rabbi Nosson Sternhartz, the main student of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.

(The contents are often either incorrect or too brief to be useful.)

It’s so short it’s likely just “שלא להשאיר הגליון חלק”. And it’s missing from the Table of Contents, too (איידי דזוטר מירכס maybe?).

But still…!

On the other hand, Rabbi Sarna, a student of the Alter, was sure a Litvak in other ways…