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My current earworm is Edda Moser as Mozart's Queen of the Night (the video is a bit primitive, but the singing more than makes up for it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJiczQZwhY

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Mar 17, 2023·edited Mar 17, 2023

As for the vanishing Jews, part of the problem is that it is "validated" (and protected) by current sociopolitical fashion, and another part is that (liberal) Jews have long been very fashion-conscious and fashion-observant, so they are conditioned to stay that way. I am not Jewish, but even before wokeness became a thing, my perception was that Jews were averse to going against the prevailing grain, presumably to avoid being excluded and marginalized as they were historically.

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Mar 17, 2023·edited Mar 17, 2023

I wouldn't call America weird at this point; I'd call it considerably worse, not least because of the pretensions of the (self) righteous among us, who are apparently convinced they have achieved perfect enlightenment, and that everyone else is unworthy if not evil and should be treated accordingly.

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