TheBananaKing @ TheBananaKing @lemmy.world

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You know how dems are always telling us to hold our nose and vote? How is this any different?

Okay, sure, so he's destroying democracy | bombing children, but we can't let the other guys win...

Because it's not 1860

My siblings and I were raised by an abusive narcissist who spent most of her free time screaming at my dad, when she wasn't emotionally abusing and neglecting us.

But of course the cultural narrative was that men are only and always abusers, and women are only and always abused - so we normalised it; our whole reality bent around the notion that she was the poor innocent beleagured victim just doing her best to survive.

We took a vast amount of damage because an interpretation where she was the abuser simply wasn't available to us - instead of forming defenses against her, we rendered ourselves more vulnerable.

I don't take kindly to being told to go fix women's problems first before mine will matter.

Imagine being told that your pain matters less because not as many people who look like you suffer from it.

So they're finally outlawing infant circumcision?

I really like ruby :(

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Mostly English mustard on smoked salmon sandwiches. I'll also throw some in cheese bechamel sauce, as it sharpens the cheese flavour right up.

I don't like american mustard, which is basically just turmeric sauce.

The blame falls on the people pulling the trigger. Don't fall prey to the fucking wifebeater's excuse.

So the assault isn't some necessary part of their plan to target Hamas, it's just a fucking holocaust they're using as a threat.

Good to know.

Fuck off.

Tetris teaches that success disappears but failures accumulate.

Protesting near a hospital: bad and evil.

Shelling a hospital: Quick, hand those people another billion dollars!

Promoting an artist's work is promoting the artist and their views.

The Harry Potter IP, for instance, is now the official flag of shitty transphobia, and hell will freeze over before I go waving it around or even stand under it.

It's not just a question of financial gain, it's a question of social impact and what we tacitly agree to tolerate.

Imagine, if you will, telling a rape survivor to just lie back and enjoy the masterful comic stylings of Bill Cosby, or at least to shut up while you watch it because they're ruining the funny, and YoU hAvE tO sEpArAtE tHe ArT fRoM tHe ArTisT.

What kind of message would that send? It would be telling them who you side with, it would be telling them that a rapist can purchase your undying loyalty and support just by being entertaining, and that as far as you're concerned, rape victims can just suck it.

It's not a good look.

Obviously, the worse and more immediately problematic the artist, the more pressing an issue this is.

The further back you go, the more unpleasantness you're likely to find, simply because social progress is a thing. But again in the case of JK Rowling, she's riding her popularity and influence in an attempt to drive trans kids to suicide right here, right now, which is just a leetle bit more pressing than the fact that some Victorian author was caught up in the casual racism of their day. Which is also not good, granted - but you triage these things.

You see that word you used: "but"?

This sucks, but Israel is our only ally in the middle east we can stage attacks from.

That's literally what 'but' means; you're saying that the benefit of using Israel as a staging area for attacks outweighs the genocide.

Try it out in literally any other context.

I know the traffic is awful, but the burgers at this place are amazing. [therefore, it's worth the trip]

It is a nice day outside, but there's a maniac with a machete on the loose. [therefore, we should stay inside]

Why - and how - would anyone read it any differently?

How is that a justification?

I complain on moral grounds that the US is not only being evil by supporting genocide, but being smug-hypocritical-evil by offering a shrivelled scrap of token mitigation that's offset a thousandfold by their continued funding and political cover.

In response, you point out that the US is only doing this so it can bomb other brown people... and that isn't the slam dunk you seem to think it is.

That's not a yes but kind of thing. That's even worse. You do see how that's even worse, right?

How, and on what fucking planet, does that invalidate a single goddamn thing I said, especially the fuck you?

So you admit that it's a fucking holocaust that it would be unconscionable to send people into, but you STILL continue to support and pay for it.

Fuck you.

"some protected characteristics"

Which would be what, exactly?

One side of my family is all heart disease, the other side is all cancer.

I'll obviously find a way to die of heart cancer.