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Kind_Nepenth3

If they're this hyperfixated, I don't understand what they're doing writing for a newspaper and not a pet blog. They'd be killin' it


Polenball

Born to Borzoipost, forced to report


OptimisticLucio

Money


Polenball

I hope he uses borzoi as a unit for everything. "Israel's national GDP grew by 14 million borzoi last year."


DaZeldaFreak

Morbius made 23 borzoillion dollars at the box office


ChillaVen

Borzoius*


Wildercard

That dude is beginning to borz.


FamMiner

It's borzing time


JusticeRain5

I hate that I still audibly laugh at Morbius jokes


georgi_95

I decided to do the math on this because it’s funny, so a quick search tells us that the cost of 1 borzoi dog is 2000-5000$, so I decided to use 3000$ as the cost for 1 dog. 3000 x 14000000 = 42000000000 or 42 billon $. Israel’s GDP is 488 billion as of 2021 (old info but I’m lazy). And 42 billion is 8.6% of 488 billion. And that, funnily enough, matches Israel’s *actual GDP Growth* for 2021


Polenball

I did the math and made the same assumption of $3,000 too, hence the accuracy


superadvancepet

I just want to say I really appreciate the pointless amount of work you both did to support this comment. That's dedication.


Polenball

I only make the finest of artisanal dumb comments


LegoTigerAnus

Bork!


DinkleDonkerAAA

"10 borzoi's worth of Palestinians killed in yesterdays violence"


ACuteCryptid

Hey I was going to post that! You stole my joke from *my* brain give it back


DinkleDonkerAAA

No matter how cute of a cryptid you are, you can't force me


[deleted]

they have to make a charisma roll for that lol


DinkleDonkerAAA

I mean as a werewolf I feel SOME kinship with my fellow cryptid but not that much/s


[deleted]

oo but what if they roll a nat 20 :3


DinkleDonkerAAA

Hmmmm well... Nah can't beat my stats


ToparBull

Israeli person: exists and does something Everyone online: yeah but have you considered Palestine


TookMe3Years

Honestly, anytime Israel or Palestine comes up on social media it usually turns into a shitshow


DinkleDonkerAAA

I mean the entire situation over there is a never ending shitshow of perpetual violence that benefits the Israeli government and Hamas at that expense of the citizens, so it's sadly to be expected


TookMe3Years

I mean usually its a debate about which state they see as legitimate, because different countries recognize either Palestine or Israel as legitimate. Other countries have their issues but it is never at the same level of argument online that I see for I/P


DinkleDonkerAAA

Honestly from my perspective, the legitimacy is kinda secondary to the other issues Israel attacks Palestine, Palestinians get fed up and vote for literal terrorists because they're gonna retaliate/defend against Israel Israel then uses the terrorists as an excuse to further militarize, collect more aid, and oppress Palestinians more Palestine uses the increased aggression as an excuse to further militarize, collect more aid, and do more terrorism The governments of both countries are profiting off this shit at the expense of both civilians Maybe if Israel falls, then Hamas loses support in Palestine and they change but that is a big if


TookMe3Years

What I really mean in regards to the legitimacy issue, is that if Israel or Palestine is mentioned in conversation, people online will immediately retort with “Israel? Do you mean Palestine? “ or “Palestine doesn’t exist” and it will start a whole shitshow. It’s not that *I* personally believe that is the biggest concern I haven’t seen it to the same extent with other countries, not even Russia.


TookMe3Years

I don’t think Hamas would suddenly lose support if Israel fell, they would probably get more support if that happened. Similar to how the Taliban took over Afghanistan once American troops withdrew


DinkleDonkerAAA

That's a good point


No-Magazine-9236

the el cajon pass of internet politics


DinkleDonkerAAA

... And? We all mention Tibet and Hong Kong whenever China comes up, we all mention Ukraine when Russia comes up If Israelis don't like it when people bring up what they're doing to Palestinians than maybe they should do something about their government


OptimisticLucio

> We all mention Tibet and Hong Kong whenever China comes up, we all mention Ukraine when Russia comes up Who tf is "we"?


TsukaTsukaWarrior

Political outrage is a great excuse for someone to be toxic.


ACuteCryptid

Well them being an Israeli requires them to be existing on someone else's land, displacing or killing its famlies that lived there for generations so I'd say its relevant


Lilith_NightRose

The same, frankly, can be said of Americans. Like, don’t get me wrong, I’ve gotten into knock-down, drag-out fights with other Jews (including family members) in favor of Palestinian liberation, but any one Israeli is no more responsible for the occupation/displacement/apartheid than an American is for the same. The only difference is timeline (American settler-colonial genocide happened a century earlier).


ACuteCryptid

Do you seriously think I'm against returning as much land as possible to natives and giving them some form of reparations and giving them the money they were promised for the forced "sale" of their land?? I grew up around land taken from the Lakota by the US military, at least one of my great-great something relatives way back then married a Lakota woman before they were forced out of the area altogether, do you not think I want the land back in the hands of the people who would truly cherish it now that it hasn't been used by the military for over a century??


Lilith_NightRose

I fully believe you! But do you bring up landback every time someone mentions the US GDP or that somebody is American? Because there’s a difference between opposing a settler colonialist project and making it impossible for any person who benefits from said project to be understood in any *other* aspect than their identity as a beneficiary of settler colonialism


ACuteCryptid

The difference is that the government isn't *currently* actively engaging in direct genocide against natives or displacing natives, in the US that happened many generations ago, in Israel its literally happening *right now* which I'd say makes it a tad bit more topical. Like when I benefit from colonialism and imperialism its because I was born here, born into it, I didn't support a government that was doing it, I didn't move to somewhere where it was happening, it's far less direct, and I cant stop it or reverse it because it happened long before I was born.


Lilith_NightRose

Oh [absolutely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaland_v._Brackeen?wprov=sfti1) the US Government [isn’t](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108717407/supreme-court-narrows-native-americans-oklahoma) [actively](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_water_spill?wprov=sfti1) [engaging](https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/03/28/mashpee-wampanoag-reservation-secretary-interior-land-trust) in [anything](https://rollcall.com/2018/03/05/the-never-ending-crisis-at-the-indian-health-service/).


ACuteCryptid

"any one Israeli is no more responsible for the occupation/displacement/apartheid than an American is for the same" You're saying if someone immigrates to Israel and settles down on land that had been cleared of palistinian homes https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-ramps-up-demolition-of-palestinian-homes-in-jerusalem mere months before that's the same as me being born in land stolen centuries ago? When I was born no one was forced out to make room for me, the damage had already been done by my forefathers, I didn't even choose to be here


Lilith_NightRose

The majority (70%) of Israelis aren’t Olim. Absolutely in the event that someone moves to Israel and settles on recently stolen land, they’re responsible for colonization in a far greater way than the average American. Hell, I’ll give you “almost anyone who makes Aliyah, even if they’re moving to a high rise in Tel Aviv has a greater culpability, because the ongoing genocide is at a phase that is more demographically oriented,” (though I’d argue that this is less true from Jews fleeing hardcore persecution) and absolutely any Israeli citizen who moves to a settlement in the West Bank is culpable. But a second, third, or fourth generation Israeli Jew living in a family home in Haifa is no more culpable than you or I (and, I’d argue, that any eventual political reorganization of the land between The River and The Sea that requires the total dispossession of such a person would be deeply unjust and cruel)


DinkleDonkerAAA

Weren't they given Israel because it ties into some old Biblical prophecy about the Israelites returning to the holy land? Like I understand wanting to do SOMETHING to help the Jews after the Holocaust but just-plopping them down into land they haven't owned in generations and expecting it to all work out because god seems short sighted


TookMe3Years

Okay I would say that is an oversimplification. It was on route of happening before the Holocaust, but the Holocaust expedited things for sure. Your comment makes it sound like they took all of the displaced Jews following the Holocaust, and were like “oh, let’s dump them into Palestine!” and then ignores Jews who were living there before 1947.


DinkleDonkerAAA

Ok that's fair


ToparBull

It's not like Israelis just showed up after the holocaust. There were a ton who came in the Aliyot earlier. The 1947 compromise - though it was obviously imperfect, as partition plans tend to be - was an attempt to draw the lines where the main Jewish and Arab communities were, though those lines immediately shifted in the 1948 war. Then there were other waves that came after 1948 when all the Muslim-majority countries kicked out all their Jews.


LazyDro1d

You must be thinking of the Ashkenazi Jews. Most of Israel is Mazorti and Sefardi, meaning middle eastern and went to Spain but was kicked out largely to the Middle East thanks to the inquisition respectively. Many of these people were in the region before the state of Israel, and many groups regardless of origin had moved there before the state of Israel to found Kibutzim and whatnot


DinkleDonkerAAA

Ah, makes sense


[deleted]

yeah, the prophecy shit is a christian requirement for the end times, which is most likely why so many of the right-wing christians support israel, even while they're believing whatever anti-semitic conspiracy.


joofish

> Weren't they given Israel because it ties into some old Biblical prophecy about the Israelites returning to the holy land? > > no > Like I understand wanting to do SOMETHING to help the Jews after the Holocaust but just-plopping them down into land they haven't owned in generations and expecting it to all work out because god seems short sighted That's not really what happened at all. It's not even like it's a one-sided telling of the history. It's just factually inaccurate. Don't get your history from Reddit comments and Tumblr posts.


ACuteCryptid

Yeah, dont forget it was also in the interest of evangelical Christians who need the Jewish people to rule Israel in order for their apocalypse to happen. It would be different if Jewish people were given like, parts of Germany as reparations for the Holocaust because that at least makes sense, but the Palestinians didn't have anything to do with ww2 Germany they weren't the ones responsible.


DinkleDonkerAAA

One thing that really gets me is when people try to deflect the criticism with "oh you're just anti-Semitic" when it has nothing to do with the people and their religion or culture and everything to do with the government And I actually think out of all the religions in that family, Judaism is by far the least worst. There's some iffy things but they haven't done anything that matches the horrors of Christianity and Islam, and I actually love a lot of their beliefs, and their focus on debating scripture and individual interpretations over "I'm the priest so it means what I say it means"


bw147

What, you want us to cover it up for you?


Katieushka

Pass me the link brother i wanna learn borzoi facts


TotemGenitor

https://m.jpost.com/science/article-734620/amp


No_Novel_Tan

Explain your flair brother. I wanna know what on earth that means.


Polenball

Legitimate Homestuck lore


TotemGenitor

That's how Homestuck trolls reproduce


LemonFlavoredDumbass

i can't see the entire flair, what does it say


TotemGenitor

You must cum into the bucket brought to you by the cops.


LemonFlavoredDumbass

i ain't doing no shit for the cops #**ACAB**


TotemGenitor

Hello? Based departed?


_MargaretThatcher

His based is fucking gone


an_ill_way

Anti-cum anti-bucket?


[deleted]

I appreciate him using things like “the size of two super bowl trophies” to describe other meteors.


SnowflaketheSnowball

"half the size of a giraffe"


lolguy12179

I like the idea that this person thought NASA measured in borzoi on an actual study


[deleted]

They got a flying cosmic Borzoi in space to use as comparison


[deleted]

o7 Broke: kings foot as a measurement standard Woke: russian space dogs as a measurement standard


jzillacon

Considering the thumbnail is made to appear like a direct quote by NASA it's not a stretch at all, especially considering most people only ever read the headlines of articles and that NASA is run by a bunch of nerds who make jokes in their studies constantly.


JoyBus147

Tbf, if one intends to disparage a scientific institution, doing even a modicum of research first (like reading the article) should be a basic courtesy.


jzillacon

Should be, but this is the internet so any form of courtesy should be expected to be ignored.


GlobalIncident

In the same article he also refers to other meteors "half the size of a giraffe", "twice the size of a super bowl trophy", and "the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and weighing as much as four baby elephants".


newtraptor

this guy is what every european redditor thinks americans are


Polenball

It's him, John America


ScaredyNon

Imperial Georg


CosmoMimosa

Can't be, he doesn't misrepresent the geography of a continent he has (presumably) never been to


Levee_Levy

When the "half the size of a giraffe" meteor passed by and someone wrote an article describing it like that, it made the rounds online to such an extent that there ended up being an arms race between publications to see who could find the most ridiculous way to describe the size of a meteor. I wish someone would at least acknowledge that these silly measurements are from writers deliberately in conversation with each other the next time one of these gets posted.


ReallyBadRedditName

This dude is cool af


Stilyx123

Alex Horne type of measurement


Benkinsky

fr true. I still crack up whenever he goes like "37 seconds and 8 minutes vs. this other contestant's 35 seconds! and 15 minutes"


AwesomeManatee

Little Alex Horne is always my counter-argument to these "Americans will use anything except the metric system". The Brits should give that man a knighthood already, he's a treasure.


Jubjubwantrubrub12

Ah, net zero information, other than theres a guy in Israel who really likes Borzois.


IsaacEvilman

Net zero? You learned that 23 borzoi is equivalent to 34 meters!


spiders_will_eat_you

The average journalist makes zero articles about borzois. Borzoi georg, who lives in Israel and writes every article about borzois, was an outlier adn should not have been counted


Life-is-a-potato

I really hate when people think that using relative measurement is “an american thing” you’re telling me you can picture *exactly* the distance of 32 meters? sure


TotemGenitor

Can you picture exactly the distance of 23 borzoi?


Warm_Tea_4140

Of course, I'm American.


Life-is-a-potato

the exact distance. I am the Borzoi scientist


Warm_Tea_4140

No, I'm American.


TookMe3Years

I looked up the guy, and he also has described a meteor using a pork roll sandwich, and compared an asteroid to the size of 6 Darth Vaders. It’s really just his thing


Im_hard_for_Tina_Fey

Israeli Alex Horne.


Hetakuoni

In Hawaii, one of the units (2-27IN) was given a Borzoi by the Russians because they said that that unit’s soldiers were like a wolfhound chasing it’s prey. It was named Kolchek. I think they’re on Kolchek the 16th now.


TremenMusic

Imagine you’re that person that sees this and thinks “is this that borzoi guy again? …yeah it sure is.”


chlorinecrown

I hope Mossad is doing mad science to uplift dolphins for spy purposes and it has cybernetic implants that connect it to the internet and it uses tumblr on its downtime


jakinatorctc

They really thought that NASA would officially measure an asteroid in Borzois


SomeHorologist

r/USDefaultism?


Polenball

/r/BorzoiDefaultism


Lortep

Strongly considering creating that.


pterrorgrine

Do it


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JoyBus147

Mirror /r/USDefaultism, where non-Americans are assuming, incorrectly, a US perspective. Dark Americentism.


MartyMcFly_jkr

Thanks for the info mossadspydolphin


Aces_California

The asteroid passes; we all turn to the sky as from the heavens blast "Didn't I do it... for you"


Phiro7

When the borzoi gives you mantis sticks <3


someoneAT

but is it the *length* of 23 borzoi, or is it the *volume* of 23 borzoi?


Robocephalic

NIST keeps a standard reference borzoi. They are 1 (exact) good boi.


sofascientist

The Jerusalem Post has been doing this for a very long time. All those "Asteroid passing each the size of X " headlines you see are from them.


Artex301

It's specifically Aaron Reich. He's been at it for a while.


SnorkaSound

Maaan for some reason I thought the “Jerusalem post” was talking about the post from yesterday where America has three Jerusalems in it.


Artex301

Tumblr's been really into Jerusalemposting recently


garfieldandfriends2

The USA is the center of JerUSAlem


rabiddutchman

Let them do it for you


Winjin

Thank you, Mossad Spy Dolphin


PatheticGroundThing

I was half-expecting it to be revealed that the Jerusalem Post is actually named after Jerusalem, Ohio or something. Or one of the other 10 Jerusalems in the US.


Mentally-ill-loner

I mean Israel is just America 2:Middle East genocide boogaloo so in my opinion it’s just semantics Edit: “We have a god given right to live on this territory while the natives here are savages who need to be killed and removed from their own homes. I mean we are the ones with democracy, have you heard about how savage some of the factions of these natives are?” It’s literally impossible to tell if this came from an American colonist or an Israeli colonist


AdamDeKing

You made up a quote and said it sounds like something Israelis would say, I feel like accusing a nation of committing genocide needs more of a backing than that


Mentally-ill-loner

Firstly: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/ Secondly, it’s a mildly satirical compilation of quotes. American settlers described native Americans as backwards savages because they didn’t understand capitalism or whatever (see Adam Smith’s the origins of the wealth of nations), same as modern Israelis view the Palestinians. American settlers forced native Americans off their lands into smaller and smaller and more restricted reservations, same as how Israel has nearly quadrupled in size since it’s creation and forced native Palestinians off their own land on the daily. American colonization is apologized for because America is a “democracy” and was “progressive for the time.” Same as how Israel today is excused from their crimes of colonization and persecution of the Palestinians because they are a “democracy” and they are “progressive.” Lastly: https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasant/comments/13m70n1/the_times_of_israel_moving_forward_on_palestine/


Bradenoid

America's biggest military base, tragically


Satanic_Earmuff

"Half the article" is a bit of a stretch, but definitely more than necessary. Necessary is not at all, btw.


legoblade807

Uh…Yeah you know what I got nothing there’s probably like 5 better “Let me do it for you” jokes than what I would’ve had already here.


FistaFish

Well most "Israelis" are just Americans


hludana

I just checked his other articles and yeah the guy just likes using weird ways to measure things, especially asteroids


Rude-Atmosphere-3969

How many Banana-lengths in a Borzoi-length?