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22 Jan, 10 tweets, 5 min read
1/ This thread is an attempt to capture some of the week's discussions about Q*non and how to handle the cult followers and the danger they embody

(Side note, I plan to ask the Trumpites I know who're still clinging to their hate, "How's Q?" so they can confront the association)
2/ First, a snarky reaction. Here is a functional strategy: basically harness the bubbling loonies and turn them to anodyne ends.

3/ Anyway, this is a thread with some valuable social science analysis:

4/ A thread from @Iron_Spike (who I enjoy following) about understanding how difficult it is to rid someone of the cult mindset.
5/ A mini-thread from @CZEdwards (who I strongly recommend following) in the same vein: how cults operate and what happens when they fall apart

6/ An academic mini-thread about ambivalence in dealing with the cultists. They're pathetic, yes, but also believers in a crazed, violent, hate quasi-religion.

6/ Another thread analyzing the danger and mechanics of cult behavior by @GoAngelo, the head of the invaluable @mmfa.

7/ Another social science thread about the resiliency of these types of cult by another person I follow @gnrosenberg.

Key point for me: the cultist has emotional needs & their mindset & behavior is predictable if you track how their needs are met.
8/ And, last for now, from @JewishWonk, another person I enjoy following, a necessary approach: Q*non is a horrifying, violent belief system that aspires to murder people based on hate-filled nonsense

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18 Jan
1/ Happy #MLKDay

My archives for Parshat Bo include notes for a sermon I gave in 2005 which was, in my words, "Erev Yom Ha-Melekh" (on the eve of King's Day)

Title: "Civil rights in Jewish thought and in Halakha"
2/ (I had only the outline for the sermon, sorry)

A.Halakhic underpinnings

1.Kavod ha-briyot [honoring humanity]
2.Ahavat ha-briyot [love of humanity]
3.Darkhei Shalom [ways of peace]
4.Kiddush Hashem = Tikkun Olam [ideological mission to be a "light unto the Nations"
3/ [I must have given an overview of these topics - a yearlong course, each, but in 3 min]

B.We help those who are oppressed because of our history of oppression

[This is the connection to the parsha. The Exodus carries a message that we can't perpetuate domination or cruelty]
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16 Jan
27.01/ Week twenty-seven starts here, Jan. 16-22, 2021. Last week's thread is below
27.02/ I was just teaching my children about the wonders of my childhood toys, including the one time I got for my birthday a Lite Brite and the amazing Shrinky-dinks.
27.03/ Played "Lawyers, Guns & Money" for my 11yo daughter who thought it was hilarious & suggested we change rock, paper, scissors to those 3

rock = guns (weapon) 🔫
paper = money 💵
scissors = upside-down for 2 feet (lawyer is a type of person, no?) 🤦🏽

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13 Jan
1/ Many people remark that we wouldn't have survived 4 more years of Trump (ym'sh) - and I agree - but this was a 40 year project of destroying the democratic form of US gov., starting with Reagan, and accelerated from Gingrich.

DJT was to almost the final hammer blow.
2/ Both Roosevelts changed the function of the government from preserving the entrenched power to an instrument to help people survive & thrive

TR was a Progressive, tore down the monopolies, established public health etc. When he left the party, the GOP became what it is today
3/ Wilson took up TR's platform (TR helped by splitting the 1912 vote) and when the GOP won in 1920, they actively tried to undermine the entire new project of what America would do for its citizens.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Unit…
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12 Jan
1/ OK a few more #Exodus thoughts (because I'm going through a mountain of parsha stuff amidst all my other writing) connected to the #DvarTorah here about the nameless collective-compassionate action of the multitude being the engine of the salvation.
2/ It struck me to link to another conundrum (kinda like the large plague frog in the room): how Pharaoh has his free will removed

So, the nameless action could be a purposeful contrast to the singular powerful individual who normally is history's focus.
jewishanswers.org/ask-the-rabbi-…
3/ IMO God manipulates Pharaoh in order to prevent one person making too much of a difference!

This ties into another larger point I often make about the culpability of the Egyptians & how actually they, not Pharaoh, are the focus of the plagues.
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12 Jan
1/ Another observation the #Literalist fallacy I see about how much Trump (ym'sh) has planned all of the chaos & violence. My overarching point will be that society is structured & that means there's an inherent pattern to effects no matter the 'intelligence' behind the causes
2/ The virus should teach us this. #Literalists claim it was made in a lab because they see a killing-machine that carves its way through society and they must apply individual force & cause to the effectiveness of the biological organism
3/ #Literalists see only the tree, not the forest, so they think every effect stands alone, and thus has individual cause. This is the root fallacy of 'intelligent design'

its what led my ancestors to presume every disease is caused by a demon. Nature becomes personified.
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10 Jan
26.01/ Week twenty-six, Jan. 9-15, 2021, begins here.

Last week's thread is here:
26.02/ Maggie H reports: "I asked for comment from the WH on the chants to hang Mike Pence. 'We strongly condemn all calls to violence, including those against any member of this administration,' said Judd Deere, a WH spokesman" & I love this response:
26.03/ Dr. Perry is right on the money here:
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