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Naomi Alderman
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I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
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What do you mean “fat-shaming isn’t really understandable apart from the health component”? Is it impossible to witness any physical state with some health risks (eg someone riding a motorcycle) without being driven to find a way to humiliate the person?

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INTERESTING. My own 2c is: to disapprove of the project of Israel, America would have to say eg “it is wrong to take land from people, even if you are fleeing terrible religious persecution in Europe & you believe God has given the land to you”. Which… undermines the American project rather

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I don’t even remember how it was I learned that Christian Zionists mostly want Jews in Israel because then we’ll be converted during the Second Coming. I feel like it’s something I’ve always known, so must have been very young…

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What was it about my talking about fat-shaming that made you reply about blood sugars and lipids?

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Yes, almost no one seems to understand (and I get why really, because it’s complicated) that the most influential group of voters on this right now are US Christian Zionists.

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All I can hope is that this means there won’t be any more sport words in the normal one

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Well, lack of willingness to do things that would influence it to do something different? I think what’s going on right now is quite influenced by the assurances of friendship from all Presidents/candidates?

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Literally where it says at the bottom “if this was a party it was the feeblest event” I thought he was talking about the Tory party

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a perfect example of how completely insane people were in the 90s

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yeah. it has been incredibly, massively healing for me to witness the way that younger people think about bodies. bodies as something that is not definitional, in all sorts of ways. as something you can just *believe* people about, when they tell you how they experience theirs.

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Naomi Alderman
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I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
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