Israel =/= Judaism

There are Jews who don’t like the government of Israel, and Israelis critical of their own country.

Watch me supporting human rights in the global south by reads notes arming religious fanatics who want to turn women into cattle

Prior to WWII, there were a lot of different conflicts where most of the main actors in WWII were involved. Spanish civil war with the coupists supported by the nazis, Germany annexing Austria and Czechia, Russia trying to occupy Finland, Italy doing whatever the fuck Italy was doing… Of course, that doesn’t mean that a world war is a necessary conclusion, but I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking it’s a hint.

If the citizens supported getting the president out, why not vote for it? Coups in democracies are almost always the instrument of those who cannot win elections.

Women experience a fair amount of harassment in the open league. They aren’t forbidden from participating, but the environment discourages it, so they set up a women’s league too.

If there wasn’t widespread cognitive damage amongst a fair bunch of male players and organizers, they could implement a far more sensible solution: punishing harassment.

None of y’all are getting it. Trans women have an unfair advantage in chess because they can turn the king into another queen.

Not as meritorious as you, who are working hard on publishing your dumbfuck comments for everyone else to suffer secondhand embarrassment.

My grandma got her left-handedness beaten out of her by the nuns. Paragons of virtue, the whole lot of them, right up there with Teresa.

Doesn’t that turn the point of that panel null though? I thought that the point was that you get your hand dirty because, when writing from left to right with your left hand, you’re more likely to stomp over what you’ve already written.

I think people generally agree that the drafts for the Vietnam war were not justified.

BATTLE-POPE, INITIATE COMBAT SEQUENCE.

If it’s a crime, do not fire them, lock them up in pris-

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the actions “treason” and has initiated criminal proceedings.

Oh. Oh well.

It was probably framing it like

Fun fact: All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover.

Instead of something like “we noticed the effects of climate change exceptionally this year because we stopped blowing sulphur (…)”. Yes, this is probably pedantic in a room where everyone understands anthropocentric climate change. Still, I can understand why some people might want to be extremely clear with how we use language regarding this topic, given… Everything that’s going on.

If you want to share what you’re making, dip your toes into the water. Some communities will appreciate the self-promotion as long as you do it in a sensible way, and other won’t. Right now, some degree of self promotion is great because it’s new content, which the Fediverse needs.

Yeah, given the Fediverse’s much smaller amount of active users and its shorter history, it barely has niche communities nor a wealth of specific knowledge. Anyone who wants the Fediverse to be able to support that role that Reddit currently fulfills of non-corporate information has to know that there’s a very large road ahead and it needs active building.

UGH people just HAVE to shove themselves on your face, don’t they?

Why won’t they think of the children? Why do they have to push their heterosexual agenda on them? 😔

Get someone killed because you irresponsibly drunk before driving and you get sent to jail. Get someone killed because you wanted to cut costs to make more money, have a slap of the wrist and perhaps pay reparations to the family and off to home you go.

Note that the EFF is a minority party that is nowhere close to getting the government. Mandela’s party, the African National Congress, is nowhere the same at all. Don’t let idiots conflate the two.

Some important distinctions that must be made:

Resisting active colonization is a fair goal, but these people aren’t calling for the expulsion of people who consciously made the decision to invade their country, but for the ethnic cleansing of the descendants of those colonizers too, which doesn’t make it any less of a call for genocide.

Reclaiming reparations and economic justice is fair. You can do it by investigating crimes committed during apartheid and finding out which wealth comes from taking advantage of an unfair economic framework based on exploitation and racism. If you go through the route of claiming “all white people in South Africa are colonizers and therefore may be stripped of property”, the logical conclusion is that a poor white dumbfuck who was born after Mandela’s rise to power, didn’t get an inheritance of some sort, but worked hard and bought a small plot of land should receive the same treatment as Elon Musk’s father, which is an insane take and not based on a desire of economic justice, but on identitarian, racist lines.

Agreed with the take that Ukraine is going to have a difficult road ahead if they want to join the EU. But that shouldn’t be the end of the discussion. We can set up EU-Ukraine deals like we have with Norway, UK, Switzerland and many other countries in the meantime. Deals to guarantee Ukraine’s defense and to provide help in the reconstruction of the country should have high priority.