And all the antivaxxers I ever knew sure like recreational substances too.
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You know, this is actually the type of fear that the zombie horror genre really reverses back on us. Classic zombies are not fast. They're not smart. They can't run, climb, or plan elaborate traps. They have no sharp claws or terrifyingly large teeth. You can outrun them at a brisk walk.
But what makes them so dangerous is that they're relentless. If they get your scent, they'll follow you and keep following you. Blow their legs off and they'll crawl towards you. Remove all their limbs and they'll slither like a snake towards you. Only destroying their brain can stop them.
If you're on foot, it is virtually impossible to escape them, as they'll just keep on coming. And while you need to sleep, they don't. They can just keep right on shuffling towards you 24/7. If on foot being chased by a zombie, your best bet is probably to find a river you can swim across that will sweep them away. Oh, and of course, they are rarely alone.
Zombies are predators that turn our species's natural hunting strategy back upon us.
All cats believe in their hearts that they are mighty lions and tigers. Let them have this. :D
Imagine being hunted and killed by a team of power walkers.
No. He didn't steal. He is a mighty hunter. Yes he is. Yes he is! He hunted down the mighty sausage beast, stalked it, and killed it all on his own. Yes he did! Yes he did! And he did murder while being so adorable! Yes he is. Yes he is!
You're beyond saving. You cannot even recognize why it matters if you're participating in a genocide or not. A genocide is already happening, why not make a buck off of it? In a past life, you worked at IBM. There you sold computers to the Nazis to help them tabulate the Holocaust.
Read the article. The most egregious violations occurred during the Biden administration. Biden is better at Trump as a whole, but on the Gaza issue, both have support for Israel locked in at 100%. People often fall for the marketing - Biden virtue signals while Trump vice signals. Biden made a few token show gestures towards Palestinian rights, and Trump gleefully celebrates his cruelty. But in terms of actual tangible support for Israel? Trump's record is a direct continuation of Biden's. The Biden admin for example were the first ones to propose the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. That isn't something Trump came up with - he just vice signaled with his stupid 'Gaza riviera' plan, while Biden's plan for ethnic cleansing was discussed quietly.
When the US starts being the primary funder of them.
I ask you again. Why did they choose this plane? If your answer is, "lol, IDK, I guess they're just dumb." Then you're probably missing something very critical. You haven't even bothered to answer why they chose these planes. You just whine about it.
Again then, please illuminate us. This is a pretty well organized group. They don't just pick targets randomly. If you have all the answers, illuminate us on why these planes were targeted instead of just whining.
Well don't leave us in the dark. Why didn't you bother explaining what the planes were actually used for? You're clearly trying to portray the Palestine activists as cliche violent anarchists who destroyed government property for no rational reason. That is really the only reason you wouldn't explain why you think they did what they did. Likely it's something that's still clearly genocidal, but you didn't want to mention that so you could get that "moving the goalpost" zinger in.
So let's actually look into this, as you failed to do so in order to muddy the waters.
Oh hey, they're mid-air refuelers.
So we're not talking bombers carrying out bombing runs, we're talking about flying gas stations that top off the tanks of the fighters and bombers carrying out bombing runs. These war planes directly used to enable genocide.
Any sane person would call this "a distinction without a difference." You didn't bother explaining what they actually vandalized (really just painted) because you wanted to make it seem like they torched a random civilian airliner or something equally irrational.
But I guess this is just "moving the goalposts" in your warped reality. And in reality, I'm not even moving the goalposts. I said these planes were used to bomb Palestinians. And that's exactly what these mid-air refuelers have been used for, even if they didn't carry any bombs themselves. This is like arguing a loading truck that carries bombs from storage to the tarmac aren't involved in bombing. Sure, it doesn't directly drop a bomb, but it's still used for bombing.
You just have myopia and think that only bombers are involved in bombing.
Yeah the only cases I would consider it even remotely conceivable to use the word would be when you're actually trying to capture its horror in a historical context. Like if you're reading some newspaper from 1910 Alabama as part of a history lesson on lynchings. I don't know if those just casually drop the N word, but it seems likely. Same reason you might show examples of Nazi-era anti-Jewish propaganda. Sometimes we have to look at the ugly parts of history.
But even then, actually saying it out loud probably isn't necessary. If I was having students read some Jim Crow era news clipping, I wouldn't cross the word out from the page itself. The students can still see and read it with their own eyes. But we also don't need to read it out loud. Hell I would probably just have a frank discussion about it at the start of the lesson. That would probably be a good learning experience in and of itself.
Palestine Action are heroes. We should be singing songs about them, not prosecuting them.
Remember, legality and morality are only vaguely related. Beyond the natural crimes of murder, rape, etc. laws are just politics by another name. And the wealthy and powerful write laws to advance their own corrupt interests. Many moral obligations are criminalized, and many things that if there is a Hell will surely get you sent there are perfectly legal.
Those planes deserved to be vandalized. Hell, they deserved to be set on fire. It's a shame they weren't destroyed completely. If those planes are being used to carry out a genocide, then they should be destroyed. That is the simple absolute moral truth. If the law says otherwise, then the law is wrong. Anyone violating it still needs to keep the consequences in mind. But outside observers should not be afraid to speak truth to power. What Palestine Action did was not wrong; it was an act of heroism. The UK should be electing these people to parliament, not prosecuting them. Want courageous leaders who will actually stand up to powerful interests and do the right thing, even when it's hard? Well it seems you just found that exact rare kind of person right here.
Destroying planes that are bound to assist in bombing in Gaza is simply the morally right thing to do, regardless of the law. It's no different than a Jewish resistance fighter in the 1940s setting fire to a cattle train about to go collect prisoners for transport to Dachau. Sometimes destruction of government property is the only morally correct choice available to people.
And we shouldn't be afraid to say this. People in the UK should be contacting their politicians demanding a full pardon for these heroes.
You would have said the exact same thing about the Holocaust.
Doesn't mean it's not the morally right thing to do. Aircraft that are being used to bomb innocent civilians should be vandalized. Hell that's the minimum. The morally right thing to do is to set them on fire. Legality and morality are only weakly correlated. Obviously the law says what the powerful want it to say, but that doesn't mean it's right or just. Setting fire to a UK plane that is being used to genocide people is no different than setting fire to an empty train in 1944 that's about to be sent out on a run to gather up people to take them to a concentration camp. Sorry, but that's just the simple truth of it. You can cite evil laws you want, but you might as well be citing the laws of Nazi Germany. Everything they did was legal as well.
Some things are just wrong. And enabling them is wrong. And we shouldn't be afraid to say that. The people who vandalized those planes did nothing wrong. They're victorious heroes. We should be memorializing them in song and story. The laws of evil men are not even worthy of consideration, beyond the practical choices of those choosing to engage in such acts of bravery and heroism.
Samuel Clemens would be proud. Read this comment in Mark Twain's voice, and it is absolute perfection. Bravo.
How about this? On the front, an image of Charles signing a decree condemning trans women as pedophiles. On the back, a painting of an obese King Charles furiously masturbating to child pornography while an anti-genocide protester is chained naked in the same bed. That's the truest representation of the UK I can think of right now.
How about renditions of the movie Threads? That seems the most optimistic projection for the UK's future on its current path.
Define official.
¿Por qué no los dos?
I'll take every vaccine I can get. Hell, I would sign up for the smallpox vaccine if I could get it, even though that disease hasn't existed in the wild in decades. I want every covid booster. I want it all! Jab me up, give me that sweet MRNA!
And I'll take the other stuff too. I love me a good edible. I'm on tirzepatide myself, even though insurance doesn't cover it. How do I afford it? Simple! I pirate the hell out of it!