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  1. More fantastic insight, truly Reddit is a beacon of a better future. It doesn’t matter because he’s stacked the deck anyway by announcing you only get to count the RIGHT kind of atheist and atheism.
  2. Just me, but I believe that fake anger-bait that is designed to incite divisions and advance ignorance is worth pushing back on.
  3. Internet atheists joining the chat to remind everyone that the vast majority of people in recorded history were religious and therefore most bad things were done by religious people. Also the bad non-religious people were actually more like religious people, so count them in the same bucket. Truly crushing insight, everyone will wither before such pure logic and rationality.
  4. You don’t have to think that’s the play. It’s the play. Most of what the GOP focuses on when it comes to elections is finding ways to get fewer people to vote.
  5. I have never heard “no skin off my back” but my very Texan dad said “no skin off my nose” all the time.
  6. As a kid there was one house in my neighborhood that left lights on and put out a pumpkin on Halloween. Then you’d ring the doorbell and get actual Jack Chick tracts. My family was Sunday AM, Sunday PM, and Wednesday night CoC people and my parents described them as “jerks.”
  7. I don’t think getting yourself twisted in knots over this is helpful and it is exhausting. More of a “if you’re made aware of something and it makes sense, just try to drop it and not cling to it.” And don’t police others. It’s just not the biggest battle out there and we can’t be experts in everything.
  8. About two years was once in a seminar for academics being given orientation for a program they were all in and a mathematics professor from West Texas A&M called a colleague “an Oriental whose nationality I’m not sure of.” That place fucking ERUPTED.
  9. TIL that many movies, tv shows, and books have social, political, and cultural subtexts; I’m devastated by the extent of these psyops and will exclusively consume Glenn Greenwald and The Gray Zone in self-defense.
  10. Equally as interesting his how some vernacular gets inaccurately retconned into offensive origin, like “rule of thumb” in your example or “picnic” which has been alleged to have racist origins. It’s always good to reassess and use better words especially when the origin and associations are clear (sell down the river) but I also think it’s best accomplished through gentle reminders and intentional action on our own part and not angry policing of people who don’t know better.
  11. This is not the homeless thread, but it’s related. Every day, I walk by a man’s little tent area and have for five months. He has two tents set up on a sidewalk in a high-traffic, high-pedestrian, shopping and student district. Here’s a list of activities I’ve seen— just me, personally, and not stories: 1. Burning things in a make-shift fire pit on the sidewalk. 2. Writing in his own semi-cuneiform script all over the sidewalk and walls. 3. Flashing his dick at people 4. Lunging at a woman and telling her he’s going to kill her. 5. Screaming at everyone he is going to kill them. 6. Shitting on the sidewalk. All these conversations keep coming back to the idea of dignity and human treatment and I just have to ask myself every single time— where is the dignity all around? Where is the dignity for that man who is shitting on the sidewalk and screaming for hours in a tent compound, not to mention every single person who lives or works or just passes by. Is this really a “choice” anyone makes to live that way? I mean, gotdam, I’m not in favor of confining people to awful mental asylums out of sight but what if we confined people to nice mental asylums where they were treated with dignity and not left to shit on the streets and dickflash pedestrians? Would that be an option anyone discussed?
  12. I think that you can have a robust debate on bombing campaigns, my understanding is that we were focusing on the “on the ground” type stuff like My Lai or the IJA and Wehrmacht everywhere. You’d also want to talk about Bomber Harris and the European strategic campaigns. Agree with @statsman that eliminating Hamas isn’t about “revenge.”
  13. I don’t think we are ever going to get anywhere so long as we insist in treating October 7 as an awful and unfortunate side effect of war and not as the end-goal. We keep going around in circles on this even though there’s a a substantial body of international law dedicated to exactly this. Parsing out your examples: - SS: Committing atrocities is their raison d’être; it is both sanctioned and directed by political leadership because leadership viewed the extermination of undesirable groups as a strategic aim. - Wehrmacht and IJA: Committing atrocities is an integral part of their strategy while pursuing a military aim. Political and strategic leadership directed and sanctioned the atrocities as a means to pacify a civilian population and bring it under full control. Perpetrators are celebrated and promoted. - U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam: Atrocities are committed during the pursuit of a military aim. Leadership does not direct and sanction the atrocities on a political or strategic level but may do so at the operational or lower level; perpetrators are subject to a spectrum of discipline. Atrocities are not a central aim nor critical to the military mission. There’s an argument to be had as to where Hamas and IDF fall on that spectrum (I’d say Hamas trends towards the SS end and the IDF to the U.S. end) but it’s a grave mistake to wipe away the spectrum completely.
  14. I have no doubt that Stefanik had a bunch of garbage gotcha questions lurking farther down in her paper. But instead all of them walked into the doorframe so there was no need for the bucket of slime to crash down, she just sat there and watched them bonk into it again and again.
  15. Такер Карлсон will talk to Alex Jones about 9/11.
  16. It’s almost like there’s a pattern out there of how excusing leads to tolerating leads to coddling leads to accepting leads to party capture and that loons need to be policed and excluded. Not excused. It’s also almost like for extreme edge-lords, it’s the extremism and the anger that’s the draw and not the politics and they will go where they can get that fix.
  17. Sorry, but it isn’t just deli harassment. It’s targeting of individual students, of Jewish organizations, demonstrating and targeting Jewish and not Israeli organizations. It won’t do to say “the people on my side are just confused kids, the ones on the other side are evil and really it’s my political opponents fault .” We’ve heard that from the right long enough, that these are just people who feel alienated and condescended to by the democratic elite. It’s just the classic reframing of “maybe (my erstwhile allies) are wrong but it’s not their fault.
  18. It’s an easy call to say “calling for a genocide of Jews or any other people is a violation of our code of conduct for students.”
  19. You seem wound a little tight, @Brian Fantana, if a click hole article affirming that Elise Stefanik is a total piece of garbage who stumbled into being right about calls for genocide has you this upset. You OK out there?
  20. Jews aren’t a race for sure, as a survey of Jews in Israel and outside will reveal. The impetus to treat them as a race in our sense came from the (literal) Nazis who sought scientific and genetic justification for supposed Jewish inferiority and so I’d be cautious of referring to them as a race in the modern sense. I think it’s accurate to refer to a Jewish culture or nation or “people” with religious customs being a significant cultural marker but not necessary, there are secular and even atheist Jews. It is unique but then again the Jewish experience is unique as a people maintaining an identity formed in the Bronze Age and maintained and further shaped during a forced diaspora of millennia.
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