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- Comment on I don't think it's a mistake... 2 months ago:
Wins. And MacOS.
- Comment on Gaza Death Toll Denial Debunked 2 months ago:
So if Israel had any kind of military base near civilian areas, would that mean it’s using Israeli citizens as human shields?
- Comment on Gaza Death Toll Denial Debunked 2 months ago:
“Echoing his leader, Major General Igor Konashenkov, chief spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defence, stated in a news conference on February 28 that “the armed forces of the Russian Federation strike only at military targets”. Discussing the capital, Kyiv, he added that “the leadership of Ukraine and the authorities of the city, having announced a curfew, are persuading the residents of the capital to stay in their homes”. This, he concluded, “once again proves that the Kyiv regime uses the residents of the city as a ‘human shield’ for the nationalists who have deployed artillery units and military equipment in residential areas of the capital”.”
"Then on March 3, Moscow accused Ukrainian authorities of holding a group of 6,000 Indian students and other foreign nationals as “human shields”. Indian authorities themselves denied the claim. A couple of days later, Putin declared that “the neo-Nazis” were obstructing the creation of humanitarian corridors requested by the Ukrainian government to evacuate civilians trapped in the line of fire, claiming “the militants” were keeping the potential evacuees as human shields."
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Basically this in every capacity.
Immigrants are easy to hate and kick out. They are already probably vulnerable as a group, so kicking them while they are down while screaming, “YOU DON’T EVEN BELONG HERE!” makes emotionally immature people feel like they regaining control and protecting their country. This however has nothing to do with the other. Societies where racism begins to thrive will pick any vulnerable group. In Nazi Germany, it was the Jews. In China, it’s the Uyghurs. In many European countries, it’s the immigrants.
What exasserbates this further is that hating on immigrants (or any vulnerable group) worsens their conditions which makes it easier to point the finger and blame them for crime or lack of resources. Rinse and repeat. The spiral continues. The racists get more validation after pushing the immigrants down, and the immigrants become more frustrated with a country that doesn’t value their taxes and contributions.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
As someone who was raped as a teen, I would still do anything in my power to prevent you from killing my rapist. Because if you kill them, you’re just worse than them, really.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
Right. So you only want to murder child molesters. Thanks.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
Not choosint violence = concern troll? Come on, I just disagree with you.
I don’t support violent solutions when I don’t deem them absolutely necessary — I don’t think that punching Nazis will inch the Nazis any closer on their path back to sanity. Using violence causes trauma. Traumatized people are at risk to create more violence which results in more traumatized people. What I am advocating for is breaking the cycle and choosing therapy and connection rather than war and violence. If a Nazi walks armed into your home, fuck them up no problem. But punching a Nazi while they are being interviewed on TV? Punching a Nazi for having a swastika tattoo? Fuck no, that’s the spot where you will create trauma just so you can feel like you’re the big guy here and could defend yourself from the “evil Nazi”. It’s incredibly black-and-white to use this as a blanket license for violence. You then inch closer to the ideals of Nazis, you become the monsters you want to fight.
The quote I have is a play on the Kissinger one. Netanyahu is a war criminal and it makes me what to punch him to death but I won’t because I can control my fucking emotions and can never predict the violent spiral coming in the future if I choose to kill a person.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
Yeah exactly so I was asking who else you would include other than child molesters. Or is that where you draw the execution line?
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
So I cannot disagree with them without using violence that makes me no better than them? How sad this sounds.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
No friend, the gray area is about execution.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
Can’t do any crimes if everyone is dead. By your logic we should start poisoning the water.
Who else is on your list that we should strip of basic human rights? Rapists? How about killers? Thieves? Anyone in politics?
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
He is a cool guy but what the fuck. Senselesd traumatizing violence and nothing really changes.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
And that will help how??
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
That’s how you make scientific conclusions… don’t like it? Take it up with the statistician.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
Are you sorry for the Roma that you generalize against, when they suffer the effects of such stereotyping?
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
I have a friend who hangs out with ANTIFA to punch Nazis. He does it for the symbolism, makes him feel like a hero when he is violent. No thanks.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
It gets easier of course when they don’t focus on the racial aspect but instead pick some other factor: we need to steal their children because they are poor, these children deserve better!
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 3 months ago:
Like I said, they convinced you they are not able to stop weapon exorts to a war coming nation. Did they have a problem like that when it came to Russia? Nope.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 3 months ago:
She has the.potential to be President yet doesn’t even want to offer this! It’s unreasonable that even the current US President won’t somehow find a legal way to stop weapons exports to a people literally committing war crimes on a daily basis by the admission of almost every expert worldwide on anything related to law, the UN, global health or humanitarian work.
It’s not because they are incapable. It’s because they have no spine. And worse they have somehow convinced people like you that it’s our of their hands.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 3 months ago:
What kind of democracy is one where you can’t even criticize the candidate because “it’s not the right time” right before the elections when the candidates are forced to make changes to make the public happy? After they are in power, it’s another 4 years of BS, and by the third year the same cycle begins and you are not allowed to criticize your candidate.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 3 months ago:
She isn’t even promising it. She won’t do it nor ask Biden to do it. She is helping fund the genocide. Neither have spine.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 3 months ago:
The Americans are lost. Their version of democracy has collapsed over their own heads. In a way, they deserve this shit. If they put all this crappy energy into unitedly voting for third candidate, it just might work. But nope, gotta wake up every day and go online to accuse people who refuse a second holocaust of being tRuMp SupPorTers.
Free thought is dead in America and the Americans killed it.
Go ahead downvote me to fucking hell, haters.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 3 months ago:
Yeah… no. If she was working towards that she would have ended all weapon supplies to Israel. What she is doing is putting on a face and pretending to care.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 3 months ago:
Ah yes everyone not happy about genocide is a trump supporter /s
- Comment on Goth Moth 4 months ago:
Why fluttering horror is chaotically flying into my way?
- Comment on Coyote 4 months ago:
100% is greater than 50%. Got it.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 4 months ago:
That’s a good point, that it could burden the system, but why would you ever put someone on chemotherapy for the model described in the paper? It seems more like it could burden the system by increasing the number of patients doing more frequent screening. Someone has to pay for all those docter-patient and meeting hours for sure. But the benefit outweighs this cost (which in my opinion is good and cheap since it prevents future treatment at later stages that are expensive).
- Comment on Breast Cancer 4 months ago:
How would a false positive create more harm? Isn’t it better to cast a wide net and detect more possible cases? Then false negatives are the ones that worry me the most.
- Comment on the election debate the good ending 5 months ago:
Seeing them both together after hardly being able to watch the debate has made my day considerably worse.
- Comment on Civilization is just a human zoo 8 months ago: