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מרכבות פרעה's avatar

What does that mean he generates no actual income? If a janitor works for a museum, is that also not income, since it's from public funds?

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Rational Traditionalist's avatar

In context, yes, maybe technically the same point will apply to a janitor getting paid by public funds to mop a floor that 90 percent of the public couldn't care less if it existed, assuming that janitor spends a lot of time online deriding people for doing essentially the same thing. Or maybe a lamdun can come up with a chiluk (I think I can see the seeds of a mehalech or two). But so what. I think our point is fair either way.

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Leib Shachar's avatar

It took me some time to get this one but I am assuming your point is that everyone seizes the opportunity to make a buck when offered.

Honestly I was pretty disgusted when pants of a Gadol went up for auction. That's a real bizayon.

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Rational Traditionalist's avatar

You're overthinking it. We're just having some fun. Slifkin trying to drum up some paid subscriptions by pulling the low voiceover "the following contains sensitive material" shtick, I figured he should be called out for it. That's all.

As for the guf hadavar - of course it's disgusting and embarrassing. Almost everybody - chareidi or otherwise - feels the same, and says so. That's why it was eventually pulled. This is not some Slifkin einfal that it's distasteful. Leave it to him to go and make a chareidi versus rationalist thing about this.

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Leib Shachar's avatar

You're right. To be honest, I don't know how he finished the post because I myself couldn't bring myself to part with a few more bucks.

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