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Yes, most Zionists I've met in the US are also antisemites.

This is entirely anecdotal, but the benefit of creating an ethnostate, in their minds, seems to be keeping them out of theirs.

To be fair, this can be a good part of the legislative process.

Create a law that serves as a framework. Perhaps it's overly broad or has loopholes, but it can't really be challenged in court. Once you have legal precedent, you can create follow up laws to fine tune it and protect people in more specific ways.

This assumes you have the political and legislative will to continue to enact laws.

Based on absolutely nothing, I'm going to guess Mochi is the calico and Yami is the void?

I'm glad you found it helpful. I love people and this process can be incredibly rewarding. More often it's deeply frustrating as people ignore arguments or roll over assertions rather than engage with the idea.

Sometimes you just want to shake people when they miss your point entirely.

But patience often bring new opportunities for increased understanding.

Thank you! I’m genuinely surprised and gratified anyone other than the OP saw the comment.

Helium isn’t exactly an abundant resource either, is it? I’m all for a future with a sky dotted with airships, but how could you possibly scale this up?

I’ll check that out, it sounds rad.

No one who carries a fetus to the third trimester wants an abortion. Almost all third trimester abortions are health emergencies for women who are trying to be mothers.

The idea that anyone would carry a pregnancy to the point your body is undergoing irrevocable changes just because they couldn’t be bothered to get around to it is absurd.

A third trimester abortion is painful, traumatic and difficult compared to a drug-induced first trimester abortion.

Any fans care to weigh in on their excitement level over this?

Darkest Dungeon never took for me. It felt too punishing and I didn’t enjoy the gameplay enough to press on.

I’ve heard the sequel is a pretty significant departure from the original, which caught my interest as I didn’t love the original. I’d be curious how the sequel has settled out as fans adjusted to it and are now looking at this DLC.

Love me some Alex Honnold memes.

For those who may not know, that’s the guy who climbed El Cap without ropes or protective gear.

He’s an absolute rockstar climber and seems to be living his best life with a wonderful wife and amazing child.

They certainly can dig in and the is no single solution for this. Over the years, I've helped many people adopt a more progressive worldview. I don’t have any debate tactics or strategies, because I’ve never come across any that worked for me.

That said, I can briefly share where I’ve found success. To begin with, it’s important that people know I’m on their team. This is usually accomplished by building a friendship on neutral ground, most commonly a shared hobby or interest.

In the confines of trust and friendship, I usually speak up when I disagree about an assumed worldview or political stance. By this time, they usually know me as a person and recognize I’m probably a little more ‘hippy’ than they are, so they’re not shocked or surprised when I disagree.

I never push beyond that vocal disagreement, however. If they ask for more, I explain why I believe what I believe. Over time this civil disagreement and discussion can become its own foundation for friendship.

The catch is to avoid what my brother calls firehosing, where I just inundate someone with all the reasons I disagree. There is usually a long list and people can find it emotionally traumatizing to have their worldview utterly pummeled by hitherto unknown facts and information. It makes them feel defensive and angry that they have no genuine response.

So I try to allow them to set the tempo of the discussion and stop whenever they’re unable to process further.

I lived in Lauren Boebert’s district of Colorado for many years. I know people who personally campaigned alongside her. I still know some of the most insane, disconnected people you’ll ever meet.

From that crowd I helped a several break out and become genuine champions for progressivism. Some of them are just less rabidly conservative than they used to be and still others are largely unchanged, but have at least learned that not all liberals are out to ruin America. The trick is to persuade without coercion, which is so difficult when the stakes feel as high as they are right now.

My best friend was a gun toting Republican who thought Democrats wanted to destroy the country when I first met him. Now, he’s sold off his guns, believes Democrats need to be more progressive and works in a courthouse to help those who need it most. He’s an incredibly smart guy and most of his growth is entirely his own, but he needed the help of a trusted friend to open him to the possibility of thinking differently.

It's not talking to people that's damaging. Being able to socialize and discuss via media is healthy.

The damaging component is when an algorithm pushes unhealthy content because it drives engagement.

No one set out to create a rage/depression/anxiety algorithm, but those emotions tend to drive engagement better than more positive experiences. So if engagement is the goal, you get destructive systems.

Removing the algorithm does a lot for helping people engage with their peers and society at large in a more constructive context.

Cute. I'm genuinely unfamiliar with the story of Solomon and the demon. I'd be interested to hear the story behind that.

Then viability seems an eminently reasonable threshold. If you're agnostic, there's no intrinsic value to a clump of cells. If the fetus is capable of surviving on its own but can't by virtue of being stuck in place it deserves protection.

Of course, when it's threatening the life of the mother then even though there's no malice or intent, it is legally justifiable to treat it as we would anyone else who would threaten a woman's life.

Is your belief that life begins at conception religiously founded?

The Bible prescribes an abortion (which would be murdering an innocent bystander, if the fetus was a person) as the punishment for adultery (Numbers 5).

Oddly, before 1980, there was no majority Christian consensus on when life began. When Roe v Wade dropped, the largest evangelical denomination called it, "a distinctly Catholic issue".

For the vast majority of Christian history it was generally held that life began at the quickening, the first time the mother felt the baby kick. This was considered the moment of ensoulment, literally when the soul entered the body.

Unfortunately, due to the antisemitic influence of Rome hijacking Christianity, that's a very Greek and neo-platonic view of when life began.

In Hebrew, spirit (ruach) means wind; the invisible force that brings life, the breath of God. Soul (naphesh) just means throat, it is the channel by which we breath in the life of God. So as many ancient and modern Jews believe, as would the early christians, life begins at first breath.

Of course, we're not bound to ancient views, which is why Roe v Wade determined viability outside the womb would be the standard point of protection, which is makes a lot of sense.

You are free to believe that life begins at conception. This is an issue people have discussed and debated for as long as we've been alive.

You can't believe that your view is explicitly taught by the Bible or is even the view of the majority of Christians for most of history.

The evangelical view of life beginning at conception began in the late 70's as a political wedge issue that tested incredibly well with audiences so people like Jerry Falwell began beating the drum in order to build political clout.

So I think those are tangentially related to the reason rural areas are conservative, but I think the biggest single factor is exposure to people who think and believe differently but are nonetheless good people.

My experience of rural people and conservative culture more broadly is the importance of tribalism and the tribal cultural bubble.

The more people are confronted with people who think differently, the more tribal thinking begins to break down.

So the internet and education are both really valuable tools if used correctly, but they can certainly be engaged with without ever addressing the underlying issue.

I just read that article and would be interested in additional research on the topic as I don't find those arguments particularly compelling.

If I understood correctly, conservative states are just slightly more likely to pay for porn subscriptions than liberal states: this is a difference of 1-3 subscriptions per 1000 people. A very small distinction.

And it's 6 out of the 10 least subscribing states voted for Obama while 8 of the 10 most subscribing states voted for McCain.

Given a very minor difference between the most and least subscribing states, I'm not sure this data actually means anything. Utah bought the most, but Montana bought the least per capita. Both deeply conservative states.

Edit: I don't say this as a defense of conservatives but as a call to better research and a caution against believing tenuous facts that reinforce our worldview. I personally believe repression leads to all sorts of problems, I just don't think this article or research really supports that argument in a meaningful way.

Can't wait for them to start suplexing.

They must be pretty strong swimmers to get that much of their head above water.

I'd love to hang out with some Capys someday.

If I were to paste that prompt into Bing, would I get the same results?