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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I feel like the real reason would be that Reddit suits know that Reddit is stereotyped as a gooner website and don't want people to think redditors are gooners, which is very wishful thinking as everyone already knows they are some of the biggest gooners out there online.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yup it's like Trump has some magical realism aura where he's allowed carte blanche for literally everything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They interacted with Catholics and got genocided. As for other native faiths, I don't really know much but they were very much an empire and treated other peoples very poorly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Couldn't say it better myself. People here say that people have no stomach for revolution, but they'll have plenty of stomach for it when they haven't eaten two meals during the inevitable famines.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Source? I'll admit I'm very new to Israel-Palestine, that's why I keep quiet about it most of the time, but I felt like speaking up for other people who know even less about the issue would be a good idea here on Lemmy where people seem to have a great deal of knowledge on the subject.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I don't support most of the crackdowns on the protests, but it's silly to think that people are suddenly fascist for wanting state power to crack down on what they BELIEVE is antisemitism. If I believed that the protesters were doing it more out of weird racist shit than concern for Palestinians, I would want them out too. ESPECIALLY now.

And before you say "well they should know better!" I mean sure, but not everyone has the luxury of spending tons of time analyzing every single piece of news, looking into multiple sources, reading the history of a middle east region the size of New Jersey, etc, etc. What makes it even harder is that Israel and Palestine are ultimately foreign countries, no matter how much of an alliance the U.S has with Isreal, it's still a country in the middle East.

Then there is the nuance, Hamas are still terrorists and Netanyahu even supported them until October 7th, Israelies were trying to actively get red of the guy until the 7th, the country was set up by the British have both sides fight and hate eachother forever, real antisemitism is rising all over the world and fascists are trying to take advantage of that and connect it to Israel-Palestine. Then Add media bias and how even video footage can be fake with AI and you have a basically completely out of control situation.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

Let me guess- if you are American you stopped hanging out with your right-wing neighbors/family? Because for some insane reason, I didn't. This is 100% what they actually believe. They really think that anything left of Trump is part of the deep state conspiracy, homeschool their kids, think that bringing back "god" in school/state will fix everything, that Trump will save the country, etc, etc. Some of them already know about project 2025 and have greeted it with thunderous applause, the rest of the right will too.
If you are not American, fuck off. You have no idea how bad the right-wingers really have become

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (16 children)

Don't worry. I'm sure they don't really mean to install Trump as the president for life, make LGBTQ+ illegal, instill Christianty as the state religion, deploy the military for law enforcement, etc, etc. Hitler didn't REALLY mean he was gonna kill millions of people!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Republicans are always gonna disrupt any real action anyway, they are full mask-off on the Christian nationalism thing and believe they must support Isreal 100% no matter what to make jesus come back.

[–] [email protected] 165 points 7 months ago (184 children)

The UN passed the resolution calling it genocide so I agree with that, I trust a democratic vote of the UN despite their inability to actually do anything compared to South Africa. I'm still going to vote Biden though because I know about project 2025 and know that we will probably get genocided in our own country if he loses. It sucks but that's how I feel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They are vaxx maxxed which of course gives you superpowers a la Residen't Evil's T-Virus.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2184104-vaxmaxxing
(sorry for the know your meme link but I lost this image on my computer)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

His brother must have because his brother joined the Ottomans and converted to Islam. Coincidence?

 

Does anyone here know what exactly happened to lesswrong to become so cult-y? I had never seen or heard anything about it for years, back in my day it was seen as that funny website full strange people posting weird shit about utliltarianism, nothing cult-y, just weird. The aritcle on TREACLES and this sub's mentioning of lesswrong made me very curious about how it went from people talking out of their ass for the sheer fun of "thought experiments" to a straight-up doomsday cult?
The one time I read lesswrong was probably in 2008 or so.

 

How far are parents willing to go to give their children the best chance at life?
What do you think would happen if you asked the redheaded couple about race and IQ?

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