• Embargo@lemm.eeEnglish
    65·
    6 hours ago

    Mara seems like a really cool person. I just listened to the behind the bastards episode with her and she felt exceptionally genuine.

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      21·
      6 hours ago

      Same here, I actually got this post from the Behind the Bastards sub. She was a great guest.

      • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Usually Robert and Sophie are good about getting the guests that vibe with the show back for more so here’s hoping! Ed Helms wasnt bad either but he didn’t riff as well with Robert

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      she was active in the Weird Twitter scene (pre musk) and blew up a bunch of mine and my friends dumb joke tweets.

  • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.orgEnglish
    331·
    6 hours ago

    Mara is fantastic. I especially like her voicing „The Old Woman Who secretly lives in your house“ in „Welcome to Nightvale.“

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    This made me look up the term secular in context to Judaism. How did I not know that until now?

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      How did I not know that until now?

      Unironically, I’d like to know. Not having a go at you. There seem to be lots of people who don’t know that. But without that bit of knowledge, the holocaust doesn’t make sense.

      The nazis defined anyone with jewish grandparents to be part of a jewish race, by law. That even included a few christian priests. Of course, the nazis didn’t invent the idea. People never liked converts much. When you prosecute someone, you want to get the loot. It’s never about selflessly helping people go to heaven.

      Historically, it’s a truism that a race is a result of racism. First, a group is hated or subjugated. Then membership - and supposed negative traits - become defined as unalterable, heritable facts.

      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        I think it was something I’d been told beforehand, but it wasn’t filed away correctly. For me, the Holocaust was always a tragedy. Such a massive loss of human lives will always be a tragedy. In that regard, I didn’t see it as more of a tragedy because secular Jews were caught up in the mix. It’s a tragedy because any life was caught up in the mix. But I also feel the Trans-atlantic Slave Trade is a tragedy and we continue to feel and reap the rewards of that to this very day, where there’s a bunch of people that don’t even realise Africa is a continent.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      5 hours ago

      For those that don’t know, being Jewish is the only ethnicity in the world that also refers to religion and (though no longer used due to antisemitic usage) national identities. Secular Jews are quite common

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        I also have a few friends who are practicing Jews (I don’t know if that’s the right phrase), and also atheists. Judaism appears to be more focussed on orthopraxy (doing things correctly) than belief, which was confusing to me at first, as someone who grew up steeped in Christianity

      • klemptor@startrek.websiteEnglish
        16·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah my dad is a Jewish atheist (or agnostic, depending on how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol)

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 hours ago

          I am also a Jewish atheist married to a formerly Christian (although not since she was a child) atheist.

          And for those who say that you cannot be an atheist and a Jew, the following people are/were atheists:

          Larry David
          Sarah Silverman
          Both Carl and Rob Reiner
          Gene Wilder
          Jerry Lewis
          Randy Newman

          Even (although I hate to bring him up) Woody Allen is an atheist. Good luck convincing people either Larry David or Woody Allen aren’t Jewish.

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
          6·
          3 hours ago

          how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol

          Please tell me she has, at least once, made a reference to “your people killing my savior”

          I know an ethnically jewish/religious catholic couple that do this every time they get into an argument and realize it’s stupid to argue about, one of them will go “WELL YOU KILLED MY GOD!” and that’s basically the end of the argument because they’re too busy giggling.

          • klemptor@startrek.websiteEnglish
            9·
            3 hours ago

            I wish! My mom is DEVOUT. She has no sense of humor about it. If any of us tried to joke about it she’d send us right to purgatory (aka the catholic pattern buffer).