AFaithfulNihilist @ AFaithfulNihilist @lemmy.world

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The Israeli extermination force started firing indiscriminately at a crowd of thousands of unarmed starving people killing hundreds and wounding hundreds more.

There will be no consequences. Israel is continuing to exterminate Palestinians with approval and supplies from America.

I wouldn't want to be associated with anybody who thinks that what's going on over there is okay and needs my guns or dollars to enable it.

He needs to sack up and tell Israel to give Netanyahu the boot or we are not giving them any more money.

I won't really be happy until Netanyahu is sitting in the hague with all of his little genocidal cronies.

Discord's new mobile app is fucking unusable sometimes. Sometimes I just stuck with that add picture pop up and nothing I do will make it go away.

Not to mention that all of the controls disappear off the screen the second you don't click on them so you can't just mute yourself conveniently you have to tap the screen twice to bring up the icon to click so you can mute yourself but sometimes it doesn't recognize when you click on the screen.

I'm just impressed with how unbelievably terrible that app has gotten. I didn't even think about it before, It was just simple to use.

And if you do, they call the police on you!

My mom was supportive, but my dad couldn't let it go. People get weird about pushing kids around when they feel entitled to decide what is real and what isn't.

I'm a straight man from the middle of nowhere, and reading this sounds to me like we have not made any progress in accepting the variety of ways that humans develop or accepting the need to make space in society for everyone to feel like there is no need to hide. It really does seem like we are, at least in some ways, going backwards.

When I was 12 years old I saw a documentary on the Discovery channel about klinefelter's syndrome. The program was 45 minutes long but it briefly touched on various ways that the "third gender" had been expressed and incorporated into cultures around the world.

In this simple program from before the conversation about gender and sexual identity became a political cudgel to dehumanize a growing number of social groups, they didn't discuss the politics at all. It was just the science.

It wasn't controversial for '90's era documentaries to simply acknowledge that the brain is just a part of the body like any other organ and can experience the same if not more variation that all of the other organs do.

Instead, the program seemed hopeful about this burgeoning new science of the mind and its ability to help us illuminate something we have known about for eons.

10 years later I read an MIT magazine article that reference brain scans of different people trying to identify gender identity versus sexual identity. They didn't have a whole lot of conclusions but they found seven different clusters of data in the gender identity tests.

That seems to me a pretty strong indication that nature has at least a few varieties of human beyond man and woman, and although the science is encouraging...

It really shouldn't require proof of anything to inspire people to want to be kind to each other. I don't know that science can solve this, so maybe we have to find the faith and the hope to help it along.

When I was a kid, Columbine made national headlines for years. Now we have a school shooting almost every day.

When I was a kid, textbook rental at my public school in my senior year of high school cost more than any given semester of college tuition for either of my parents.

It's easy to look back and think you've seen this all before, but you never step foot in the same river twice and this one's a lot deeper and wider than the one you used to wade in.

Just because angels, gods, gremlins and Eskimos are imaginary doesn't mean that people can't be afraid of them.

Hamas is Israel's baby. Benjamin Netanyahu made it what it is today intentionally and specifically to undermine the legitimacy of palestine's right to its own self-determination.

October 7th was an inevitable response to the intentionally murderous apartheid prison state Israel has built to house the native population. The ethnic cleansing didn't start on October 7th, And it was the government of Israel that allowed it to happen both directly through funding Hamas and indirectly through ignoring all of the warnings leading up to that.

Israel is holding lots of hostages and murdering lots of children. They've also murdered lots of The Israeli hostages taken by Hamas when they're being released.

Israel let October 7th happen, they sacrificed their own civilians in a ghoulish attempt to create a pretext to finish the extermination of the Palestinian people whose land they have taken.

No one's down playing how bad Hamas is, maybe Benjamin Netanyahu shouldn't have encouraged funding them all these years.

I'm saying Israel is at least as bad because they have the same exact goal (ethnically cleansing a population they don't like from a country they think they own) but the only difference is Israel has lots of weapons and gets to do whatever it wants without even having to pay for its own bills or face any kind of international scrutiny.

In a just world, Israel sends the genocidal leadership of their own government to the Hague, ends the illegal settlements, ends the apartheid state, and starts paying reparations to the Palestinians they have been abusing for over 70 years.

Anything short of that and Israel is choosing violence, war, and genocide.

The problem is Israel.

Israel is making a really good case right now for why they might not be mature enough to manage their own state.

Israel is bad. It's not that complicated. Hamas is also bad.

Hamas is a less effective evil than Israel is. That's just how it is. No one is suggesting we send weapons to Hamas, we should just stop sending any form of aid at all to Israel unless they immediately stopped the genocide campaign, surrender their murderous leadership to the Hague, and immediately stop the illegal settlements.

That would be a good first step for Israel to show the whole world that it actually isn't evil, and just was led by an evil person.

How about in exchange for Israel stopping this new Holocaust we continue to agree not to aid, enable, or tolerate anybody who aids Hamas? We can't do it alone though We need Israel to stop propping up Hamas.

Also let's just never give them any more money ever again. Obviously if they have free college and universal health care they can pay their own fucking bills.

John Green is gonna be so mad.

I completely agree that she should be using chartered resources. That alone dramatically reduces the amount of selfish waste involved in her jet setting.

If her presence in a public airport would cause a riot, then it seems like the law and security are ill-prepared to deal with her presence. That seems to indicate that she has inadequate security AND that law enforcement is not handling the crowd with the same sincerity they would any other kind of riot.

I think the disconnect between you and me comes from what we think the most important issues here are. I think in your estimation she is a security risk to the public in the form of 'potentially inspiring a riot' and that justifies (or even obligates) her use of private plane travel. Where in my estimation there is no ethical or moral use case for a publicly subsidized luxury not available to the public.

I think she's morally obligated to opt out of a system that is immoral to begin with. I think she's ethically required to speak out as an activist against this kind of luxury being publicly funded. I think she should be going out of her way to make sure that all of the public expense associated with her lifestyle is offset by her directly.

I don't really think we disagree I think we just have different things that we think are important sources of criticism.

I think I made it pretty clear that if she's willing to pay the actual cost of her transportation then we would all have fewer reasons to resent her behavior.

Flying private jets is exclusively the purview of people wealthy enough to value their time more than yours. There's no moral or ethical way to use that infrastructure as long as it's being publicly funded by people who can't afford to go to the fucking doctor.

The right thing for her to do is opt out.
Because she is so wealthy, because she is so famous, because she is so influential, she has a greater obligation to actually find some fucking convictions and stick by them.

If her traveling around makes people unsafe then maybe she should stay put. That's what any other regular person would have to do. It wouldn't be fair, but it would be what they had to do because the system is not going to bend over backwards to accommodate them.

Taylor Swift is not special.

It currently is. It's currently publicly funded. That's how private jet flights work.

That's the entire context of all of my comments. It's why the majority of the words in my comments here have been on the specific subject of the public expense attached to private jet ownership and infrastructure.

Her private jet costs taxpayers, most of whom can't pay their own bills without government assistance, tremendous amounts of money.

It is reasonable for people to resent her, a billionaire, for allowing the public to pick up the tab for her outlandishly luxuriant lifestyle.

Just like when people did this to Elon Musk, tracking private jet flights is a piece of accountability. There's nothing wrong with tracking their flights, and there is definitely something wrong with them trying to use the their money to force the legal system to silence people who are tracking their flights.

Yeah I'm not really sure what your point is in all of this. It's entirely reasonable to resent publicly funding this private luxury.

Maybe we publicly should not be subsidizing the private jet industry, private jet infrastructure, and teeny tiny little airports for ultra wealthy people.

If she wants to fly private then she has to accept what goes along with that. It is a very inefficient, environmentally harmful, selfish way to travel. Private jet flights are another great example of wealthy people leaching off the public.

I think her getting mobbed is not my problem.

She's rich enough that she can afford private security. She's a private citizen who can decide where she goes and where she does not go.

Nothing about anything you've described justifies stripping other people of their rights.

If she's being assaulted in public, that's an actual crime, and she should invoke the legal system then.

The legal system does not entitle her to silence people sharing publicly available information. The person who shared the movement of her private jet is not to blame for her lack of security when she gets where she's going. No one's mobbing her on the tarmac, no one's crowding into the airport past security without a ticket.

She is not special. She's just an American, she's entitled to absolutely nothing extra. Her attempt to use the law as a weapon of intimidation simply because she has money to push it around is exactly why she deserves negative attention right now.

Airports and the entire airline infrastructure is dependent upon government subsidy and protection. You're paying for other people to fly whether or not you ever fly, and private jets benefit more from this per seat and per flight than anyone else while paying the least to support it.

there's a high public cost to private jets

I think the security issue is a non-issue, and there's no way to "solve" it without creating greater problems and degrading other people's rights.

The truth is, she doesn't give a flying fuck about the consequences of her wealth getting. In some ways she is opposed to the right wing noise machine, but she is still acting as though she's entitled to special treatment from the government including extra rights just because she's rich.

She only decreased the number of private jet flights she was taking, and decrease the number of private jets she owned because of the public pressure. Her security is not more important than the environment.

She volunteered to take the heat off of Elon. I don't know why she would do that, but she definitely volunteered for a lot of negative attention when she decided to target a private citizen doing something they are legally entitled to do and use her money to intimidate them out of exercising their rights.

That's who she is deep down inside, entitled.

Maybe we all need to stop subsidizing the airline industry so that these rich assholes who want to fly around all the time for their convenience can pay the entire price themselves. Airlines and airports are publicly funded and utterly unsustainable without massive infusions of government cash and protection at every step along the way.

The fact that we pretend these airline companies and airports are in any way actual businesses Is just a way for the wealthy who get to fly all the time (private jets or not) to offload the cost of their convenient transportation onto the American people.

My father used to make fun of me for saying that I could hear the TV on even if it was muted, or that I could hear the furnace 'scream' before it came on.

One year, I got as a gift for Christmas, a handheld recorder and a fancy microphone from my stepfather a university music professor And that recorder could actually record the sound which he was able to show me on the computer.

That was like 25 years ago, I've been working with computers ever since, and now I am familiar with many many many devices that make high pitch whines.

It really is so much easier to destroy than it is to build.

And I agree with you, A little bit of vandalism goes a long way to mucking things up.