Elad Nehorai

@eladn.bsky.social

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Ex-Hasidic, pro-good-trouble | Writer: extremism, antisemitism, & how tech spreads both | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

What texting is like when you’re a Jew in LA

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

Yep, just like being white gives you more access to power, just as being a man does. It’s one of others and it’s been discussed plenty (and should keep being discussed). This one has amazingly been turned into a claim of discrimination when the truth is the exact opposite.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

Single characteristic? No, race, gender, access to power, and all the rest. But it is one important one that is consistently downplayed while we talk about the others, and now we are seeing the results of that failure. Also you’re responding to an article specifically about this being a motive.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:59 UTC

They’re not doing it because they’re old, they’re doing it because being old has given them access to enormous and unequal power which they refuse to let go of nor to encourage others to as it would endanger their hold on this power.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:25 UTC

I am so sick and tired of people telling us it’s ageist to point out how we live in a gerontocracy. The truth is the exact opposite: Millennials and younger have all been largely cut out of power, wealth, access etc. And now we are seeing the results. We need to talk about it.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

Seems relevant!

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Jonathan M. Katz @katzonearth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

From “The Big Truck That Went By” (2013)

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

One of the biggest problems with how we talk about democracy in this country is that so much of it is simply centered on voting, as if the most minimum requirement for a democracy is also all that defines it.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 04:04 UTC

The easiest way to see that Democrats don’t understand the threat Republicans pose is that they aren’t acting like their lives literally depend on winning.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

I swear to God if you mess with me I’m gonna send you so much damn Chinese food

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 04:22 UTC

🔥🔥🔥

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 04:18 UTC

And one could say that thinking we are smart means we don’t factor this into how we operate and think, which then makes us dumber!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:59 UTC

Exactly

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:54 UTC

Once something has been approved by the government, it’s no longer immoral!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:12 UTC

This is the way

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

I feel like an under-discussed thing right now is how the vast majority of people paid to be smart are not smart.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

Everyone is saying Hawk Tuah this and Hawk Tuah that, but no one is saying worship this and Jericho that!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 05:11 UTC

Love this

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Ari is doing aer best @raantuva.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 04:48 UTC

The point was wasting time. And a lot of people fell for it. You cannot reason with bad faith "arguments" and ill intent. So don't. Focus on the Day After. What happens when the issue is resolved and how do we achieve that goal? No one ever thinks of their why first which is how we got here.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 04:49 UTC

💯

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 03:41 UTC

Coup talk. Just out in the open. And not addressed as such by the opposing party or the sitting president.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

Uh, no, many people want fascism

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

I will be working on this, yes! And so agree that’s what we should all be focusing on now

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:24 UTC

I think what reveals how unaware of this they are is that they don’t realize that their lives actually hang in the balance here. They will be the first targeted. And they just seem to be completely unaware of this.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

I know it’s scary as hell out here right now and it feels like things are coming apart at the seams, but this isn’t a done deal yet and we have a very real window of opportunity to at least mount serious pushback to the encroaching autocratic state. We need to start now though and not hesitate.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:11 UTC

I've been inactive here for a bit, so I haven't shared my writing. But my most recent seems kind of relevant today.

open.substack.com/pub/eladneho...

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:01 UTC

Hahahah this is the way

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:01 UTC

Exactly

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

Yeah I mean, it's normal and justifiable

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

This is so important because the fascists are depending on us to be cynical and hopeless. It is literally part of their strategy.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

Everything Biden has failed at over the last two weeks has been things he's failed at since elected, but the stakes seemed lower so people felt comfortable ignoring it. Like climate change, we quietly see the problem but stay passive as we see the danger looming on the horizon.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 20:18 UTC

You know it's not just about business when it's an indisputable fact that focusing on results instead of process is by far the better approach, and somehow this stuff is seen as legitimate. It's just about control, not productivity, and that's how it should be framed.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 05:22 UTC

lol wow

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 05:01 UTC

Gonna be honest, Twitter is a joy right now

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 04:54 UTC

I didn't think it was possible to come up with even worse both sides takes, but life, uh, finds a way

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 23:42 UTC

I think it’s a testament to the fact that they don’t actually really care about those people and are largely interested in appeasing and appealing to the “middle” (aka conservatives)

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 23:30 UTC

For real. I was literally thinking about that for Stormy Daniels if Trump wins the election

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 23:29 UTC

Exactly. I’m honestly amazed by anyone, from judge to jury to prosecution, that put themselves on the line like this. It’s a testament to how many people still believe in justice and will do a lot to preserve it.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

Wow

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 22:28 UTC

Exactly. The propaganda worked.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 22:27 UTC

They weren’t clear. There is an entire propaganda machine that spent the last 8 months selling American Jews in particular on the claim that support for the war was synonymous with supporting the hostages.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

I don’t know how much more obvious it has to be that Hamas wants these kinds of casualties and is baiting Israel. This all serves their ends. The goal is to isolate and devastate Israel politically. Israel’s government, apparently, is happy to oblige as long as the blood keeps flowing.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

As the war progresses and it becomes clearer this was never about hostages, the talking points are predictably evolving. If only they had been this honest when they hoodwinked the Israeli and American Jewish public that actually cared about the hostages.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 22:05 UTC

They could not care less about the hostages, and yet in America you’d think this war is actually to save them.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

Or maybe it says something about how Tim Pool and his ilk have far more attention than they had in 2016.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 21:59 UTC

The images out of Rafah are beyond horrific. None of this will keep Israelis or Jews safe. It is simply revenge and pure bloodshed in the name of extending the occupation. All so Netanyahu can stay in power. What a horror.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

Really good example of how the desire to win elections over saving democracy is how Democrats themselves become tools of fascism.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] May 24, 2024 at 23:03 UTC

1. Yes it’s about larger infrastructural issues. 2. The solution is a revolutionary grassroots movement that creates decentralized, shared, networked causes and voices. This has to be built in coalition. This includes among writers and content folks who are working individually atm.

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