SuddenDownpour @ SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works

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My mind fights my mind every day, and every day, my mind loses that fight.

Communism is when two old men kiss

Absolute bullshit move. If we're going to help Ukraine, it shouldn't be by forcing them to take a loan when they're at their lowest, at their moment of highest need. They should just be given the Russian assets and be called a day.

In case anyone wants to argue we aren't "forcing them": if your only options are living amongst the rubble for years and selling your future, you are going to have to sell your future in order to be able to eat today.

Still, I hope my metaphor went across.

Murdering and kidnapping civilians with the purpose of enacting their political goals does fit the label of terrorism. Then again, Israel does also murder and kidnap Palestinian civilians (and I mean kidnaps, because they don't have the legal grounds to imprison people at the West Bank) for the sake of their political goals, and they don't get called terrorists. So I call both Hamas and Israel terrorists, but a good general corollary is that there's always political motivation behind someone using or not using that label.

I didn't downvote, but I would argue that you can't call someone a freedom fighter if their ideology or political position fundamentally opposes freedom, just because they are fighting for the cause of one particular oppressed group. To put a comparison: some Ukrainians that fought against the Soviet Union during WWII could have seen themselves as freedom fighters who were fighting for the right of self-determination of their nation (as they were fighting a dictatorship, and that was probably their main intention), but you absolutely cannot call yourself a freedom fighter when you're helping the nazis occupy half of Europe.

"A couple of dudes amongst widespread protests across the country have done one reprehensible thing. This means the whole protest is illegitimate. Stop complaining about genocide and go back to work."

The important part about the history of Edison-Tesla relationship isn't some personal anecdote about how Edison was a bad guy, but the contrast between how geniuses are presented as miraculous thinkers who advance humanity who deserve their theoretical thriving under capitalism, and the reality that even the work of great minds gets easily appropriated by someone more socially privileged than them, or else it won't even be allowed to see the light of day.

If you understand the extent to which Israel has been harming Palestinians through history, framing the current conflict as:

[Hamas are] the ones that pushed Israel for so long that it finally snapped

is brutally dishonest.

You know that you don’t have to support terrorists just to condemn a genocide, right?

I don't support terrorists. In a fair world, the Hamas leaders who ordered attacking civilian population should rot in prison. But I'm going to fight fake narratives that pretend that the Israeli government doesn't have the lion's share of responsibility in this situation or that they aren't even worse terrorists than Hamas.

Regardless of whatever changes each side wants, stopping the shooting and bombardments would be a gesture that would represent actual intent in reaching a real ceasefire.

when they’re the ones that pushed Israel for so long that it finally snapped?

I guess Israel has never treated Palestinians unfairly, huh?🙄

Isn't the death star specifically a military spaceship? You can't just choose not to fire at a battleship just because there are engineers who won't personally shoot at you in it.

"Oh shit, we're finally getting backed into a corner to end the conflict I was using to remain in power. Now, hold on a second..."

Someone should tell Netanyahu that picking fight after fight to solve your own domestic issues has an ever growing chance of you ending up in the hospital. Or the morgue.

The fact that I'm mostly using Western media to support my claim that: "Hamas isn't at the endless levels of monstruosity to gleefully wish for more deaths of their own people" isn't the negative you think it is. But when you were born you had already lost the plot, so no surprises here.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-attack-aimed-disrupt-saudi-israel-normalization-biden-2023-10-20/

https://www.dw.com/en/has-hamas-reset-the-israeli-arab-agenda/a-67042746

https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/saudi-israeli-normalization-and-the-hamas-attack/

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-arab-normalization-agreements-0c4707ff246c0c25d1ca001f8b1e734a

You’ll soon be in the top 5% if you have a keyboard app installed on your phone

...Those won't go away, right? People aren't going to start talking on the bus for their phones to auto-type the text messages they want to send through chat, right...?

Hamas' reason for their attack on October was very likely to blow up the negotiations between Israel and other Arab countries to normalize diplomatic relations. Even if they also wanted the conflict to legitimize themselves in front of Gazans, I doubt Gazans need any more bombs to fall upon their heads to get the message.

I don't think it's impossible for them to tense the cord and try and get more out of the negotiations, but they don't really have anything to gain from extending the hostilities.

I was just mostly addressing the fact that none of the reasons for which you claim one of your kids isn't neurodivergent is actually a valid refutation.

shows kindness and acceptance towards all people, and adults frequently comment to me how mature he is when interacting with them

None of this is rare for people on the spectrum.

Makes friends easily, is a natural leader

Contrary to popular belief, autistic people don't have trouble to make friends on a vacuum, they have communication problems with non-autistic people. If your kid is on the gifted program...

Don't take any of this as offense. I'm autistic and I'm finding my way to thrive in life. It just would have been easier if I had been given the appropriate resources instead of being discriminated against.

Humble autism.