TheLepidopterists [he/him]

I pretty much always go ibuprofen, but aspirin is fine.

I’m pretty sure acetaminophen is snake oil though (this is a joke but I can’t recall ever having it resolve a headache for me like ibuprofen does).

Chapter 3 analyses a “boots on the ground” invasion (the occupation would require a draft)

Good luck, I’m defecting as soon as they don’t have eyes on me.

First ever actual preemptive strike.

Damn you post this dumb thing a lot.

A 2018 year-in-review and prospective on fact-checking from the Poynter Institute (which develops PolitiFact[25]) noted a proliferation of credibility score projects, including Media/Bias Fact Check, writing that “While these projects are, in theory, a good addition to the efforts combating misinformation, they have the potential to misfire,” and stating that “Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific.”[26] Also in 2018, a writer in the Columbia Journalism Review described Media Bias/Fact Check as “an armchair media analysis”[27] and characterized their assessments as “subjective assessments [that] leave room for human biases, or even simple inconsistencies, to creep in”.[28]

Wow that’s pretty damning, almost makes it seem like someone using this to shut down conversations by claiming media outlets are unreliable could be acting in bad faith. Like some kind of pro-Western, pro-Israel ideologue.

Deep magic, black art, heavy wizardry, almost feels like cheating.

I don’t even know computer stuff, just picked these up via osmosis.

EDIT: blue screen of death is a very powerful abjuration spell

Okay, to be clear, in the discussion you’re jumping into, one of the interlocutors has stated that Jews are inherently genocidal.

I’m an atheist and I don’t particularly value religion but I do value people and there are many good people who do value their religion and I won’t stand for them being painted as inherently genocidal and neither should you.

There’s a time and place for nuance but I don’t know that this is it.

Some jackass once said:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.

Let’s see if he was right, you said:

You seem to think my view is that “all religious people have the same beliefs”. It’s not.

But no, here’s what I think your view is:

Are you saying that Judaism is an inherently genocidal religion/culture?

Your response?

Not any more than other religions, but yes, it’s in the book preached as the word of God and prophets. Israel is what happens when you put bronze age values in practice

Let me cut out all the weasel words for you

Yes

Yes, you think that Judaism is inherently genocidal.

Fuck you, you antisemitic trash.

There are nonreligious homophobes and misogynists and racists and trans phones. There are religious people who aren’t bigots at all.

Clearly the religion is an excuse for the bigotry and not the ultimate source of it, or neither of those would be true.

Saying that Judaism inherently inclines one to the kinds of genocidal crimes Israel is committing makes you a fucking antisemite and is clearly disproven by the number of religious Jews who have been vocally opposed to the genocide and to Zionism generally.

You don’t get to “I’m oppressed too” your way out of being called out for bigotry.

I was raised by evangelicals myself, and also went through a nu atheist phase when I was 14.

You’re a bigot and you need to grow up and put that away.

No, a ton of Israelis are secular and they support this just as much as religious Israelis, and this is clearly about land and wealth. The American government is supporting the genocide, and it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with supporting a white supremacist settler colony that functions as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a resource rich region.

This particular person is from .ml but honestly I’ve seen this kind of rhetoric popping up a lot recently on Hexbear and it’s frustrating.

If you have hatred and contempt in your heart for all religious people, you hate and despise the global proletariat.

As someone who has in the past relied on a public bus to commute, I’ll say that 30 minutes is a dream and my commute temporarily went from 15 minutes to over 60 because when my car broke down and I couldn’t afford to fix it, I had to go in the opposite direction of work and then come back towards work from there due to no direct bus route, and my time to myself at home shrunk even more because the last bus to arrive at work arrived well before my shift started while the first bus to leave after it left a while after it (I don’t remember exactly how far off, this was like 8-9 years ago, but I remember having minimal time to myself or to spend with my partner).

Frankly I could have easily lost my job and possibly ended up homeless, and if someone has destroyed my car on purpose instead of it being bad luck, I’d have been on the verge of over it.

Unless you’re in one of the like 3 places in the US with good public transit I think this is kinda shitty, and if you do it to a cheap car/poor person’s car, you’re actively a bad person.

Label looks like this

I’m pretty sure it was Venture on an Atari.

Malt vinegar or that pepper sauce from steak n shake. Well the generic from the grocery store, but it’s the same thing.

Very unserious understanding of world politics.

Of course they’re viewed more positively in middle income than high income countries. The high income countries are all part of a global military alliance focused entirely on destroying communism and have fed their populations anti-communist propaganda for decades.

They’re one the main geopolitical adversaries of the political block that all the rich countries have formed, whereas they are investing in and helping develop poorer countries.

It is an absolute laugh though that all the countries that destroyed the Middle East over the last 30 years think China is a threat to world peace.

Democracy is when everything sucks and gets worse every year while centrists keep eyeing Nazis as possible better allies than the left.

If you force the government to improve society in any what you’re an “authoritarian” (oooh, how scary. btw, I’m pretty sure “authoritarian” as a cudgel against the left that equates them to the right is against board rules).