@subnetter @icedquinn when I was a kid I had a bleeding heart leftist friend in my debate group say "jews are just rich white people". the stereotype is prevalent enough in the left that Bernie sanders always calls himself a pole

@feld @lain its a social contagion

@HatkeshiatorTND I think its unfair to group christian zionists and philosemites (as if its bad to be philosemitic) with jews tbh. I understand why you ask that question but western jews have had an outsized influence since napolean, and whether you think its negative or positive is highly subjective. its really not dissimilar from some secular jews in weimar germany supporting communism and libertine social values, and that didnt justify their genocide.

@lain this guy gets the goy pass

@technicallydifficult I fucking wish. its in english but most of the important phrases are translations of sanskrit terms

@icedquinn youre probably right but it still bothers me when I see even leftists justifying antisemitism

ive written like five paragraphs of my hymn prayer thing, but only one paragraph is pretty much 100 percent complete

being jewish is so uncool now that white people proudly call themselves goy (word ive never heard a jew say btw) while also calling eachother the n word instead of cracker or something because being black is cool even though they hate black people as much as they hate jews. and people will just blame israel when this culture leads to jewish kids being bullied, as if antisemites didnt always have an excuse based on jews own behavior for their hatred.

@lizzie its kinda crazy how much liberty the abugidas took with brahmi

@technicallydifficult didnt listen to the whole thing I'm working on my hymn. my favorite so far is your racism in islam song

I love searching an adjective or epithet of many hindu gods into a search engine and seeing which god it decides it refers to. theres usually a pretty unanimous result

@technicallydifficult I will youre very talented

@technicallydifficult Arabic seems much harder though

@technicallydifficult I find hebrew easy to read

@meeper by alphabet I of course mean abugida

@meeper its so neat that the vedas are way older than the script used to write them. I love how you can write sanskrit with so many alphabets, there is no sanskrit alpabet

@meeper honestly I should add Punjabi to my list well before bengali and kashmiri, I find Sikhism really beautiful and maybe I can convert them or they can convert me

brahmic scripts absolutely mog all other scripts, no contest

gotta learn modern standard hindi with a good helping of urdu slang for the communication with north indians and understanding of most modern hindu literature.
absolutely gotta learn classical and epic sanskrit for the devotional literature and esoteric knowledge. might learn vedic sanskrit one day, but right now that old stuff doesnt interest me. its cool for the PIE understanding though.
gotta learn middle and to a lesser extent modern tamil, middle for the devotional literature, modern for the communication with very south indians.
i also wanna learn telugu, which enjoyed a cultural prestige in the south during its early modern phase, and is still the most spoken dravidian language. im super interested in the apparent euphonicism and in understanding Carnatic south indian music, which is written in telugu or sanskrit apparently. I also like how if I did this hindi, telugu and tamil would form a continuous landmass of my understanding.
lastly, I'd like to learn modern bengali because its another indo-aryan language with many speakers, and using my knowledge of it I could talk to my step brothers wife's family. it would also be neat to speak to indians, pakistanis (with my hindustani) AND bengalis.
as a bonus, and this is a reach, kashmiri. not because its the language of kashmiri shaivism, but because its the language of modern kashmiri shaivis and also kashmiri muslims. maybe I can solve the rift who knows. :P

@technolyze theyre almost always dudes in my experience also. I guess women turn tricks instead -_-