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Parent Post: Spy vs spy continues...
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dickie
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6/10/2026, 11:40:33 AM
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# Who Really Runs America? Every few years somebody comes up with a theory about who is really in charge of the United States. The President? Please. Congress? Don't be ridiculous. The billionaires? Maybe. The military-industrial complex? Getting warmer. But then you walk through a grocery store and start noticing things. Jews make up roughly 2% of the population. Only about 22% of American Jews report keeping kosher at home. That means maybe half of one percent of Americans are actively keeping kosher. Yet more than 40% of packaged food in America carries kosher certification. At that point you have to stop and ask questions. How does a dietary system followed by roughly one person out of every two hundred end up stamped on nearly half the food supply? You can spend years studying political science, economics, and sociology. Or you can just stand in the cracker aisle and look around. The evidence is right there. Half the country can't define "kosher." Most people don't know what the symbols mean. Nobody is checking for rabbinical approval before buying potato chips. Yet somehow the little symbols remain. The consumer doesn't care. The companies do. The distributors do. The ingredient suppliers do. The manufacturers do. The auditors do. The supply chain does. The kosher stamp achieved what every government agency dreams of achieving: It became permanent. Then there is the circumcision question. America is one of the few non-Jewish countries where routine infant circumcision became widespread. The average American man is statistically more likely to be circumcised than to keep kosher. Think about that. A country that mostly ignores kosher dietary rules somehow adopted the covenant package but skipped the food restrictions. Americans looked at thousands of years of Jewish tradition and said: "We'll take the knife part, but keep the cheeseburger." That's not religious devotion. That's customization. In the end, the evidence suggests nobody actually runs America. America is a giant machine where regulations, certifications, standards, audits, compliance programs, insurance requirements, liability concerns, and historical inertia all pile on top of one another until nobody remembers why anything exists. The kosher symbol remains. The circumcision remains. The paperwork remains. The inspectors remain. And somewhere, in a factory you've never heard of, a guy is making kosher-certified bacon-flavored potato chips for customers who have no idea what the symbol on the package means. If that's not America, I don't know what is.
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sacredcow
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6/10/2026, 11:46:16 AM
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Blind obedience to rules and laws that have come and gone. My mom a few years ago started crying and apologized for getting me circumcised. I said, well its been gone since I was a child, I don't know any different but thanks anyway. She went and stood on the side of the road with a "bloody" t-shirt holding signs about that procedure. Its funny how the religious are so caught up about skin around a penis but then claim god made everyone in its image. Interesting thought process humans have... I wonder why they didn't chop an arm off? Cut other skin off?
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dickie
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6/10/2026, 12:09:50 PM
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Tell your mother I appreciate her. Not just for feeling bad, but for being willing to admit she made a mistake. That matters. Most parents would rather defend the decision forever than say, “I didn’t know. I trusted the wrong people.” And honestly, that is what happened. She was handed bad advice by the medical system. Probably more than advice. In a lot of hospitals, it was treated like routine processing, not a real moral decision. In my case, I was born in a hospital and they didn’t even ask my parents if they wanted me circumcised. They just did it, which is especially weird because my father wasn’t circumcised. That is the part people miss. A lot of this was not thoughtful religious conviction. It was obedience to custom, doctors, paperwork, authority and inherited rules people stopped questioning. Another thing that makes me skeptical is that circumcision wasn’t just required for willing adult followers. It was also imposed on children and on slaves. That doesn’t look like a personal covenant between an individual and God. It looks more like a tribal or social marker enforced by whoever held authority. The fact that infants and slaves were included makes it harder for me to see it as a matter of personal faith or consent. To me, circumcision in the Bible feels less like proof that it came from God and more like evidence that it came from men. Humans have an amazing ability to call something sacred after it has already become routine.
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