assassin_aragorn @ assassin_aragorn @lemmy.world

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Even if that's all true, we owe it to our forebears to still try. And I don't mean literal ancestors, but the American left throughout history. They fought against slavery, for equal civil rights, for the right to vote, and for the dignity to be seen as a full person. Workers rights advocates fought to give us safer working conditions and better work life balance. And all of these people were beaten and some even killed in the process.

Things don't look great right now, but I don't know if things have ever looked good in the US. It's always been pretty terrible in some regard if you weren't a rich white straight man.

Maybe the struggle will be futile in the end. But I don't want to give up, because the people before us didn't give up, and honestly faced harder odds.

Edit: forgot to also mention. We’ve had an explosion of gang-rapes towards underage girls (aged ~13-15) lately, done by immigrants of arab background. Makes me uncomfortable to even think about. Can dig up sources if necessary

Prove that the incidence of these are higher among immigrants than your citizens. Republicans in the US love to talk about illegal immigrants killing and raping people but then become suspiciously silent when Republicans and conservative donors are outed doing the same things.

I'm guessing that if you look into sexual assault committed by your country's citizens, you'll find the incidence rate is actually higher, because the majority of rape victims are raped by people known to them.

Oh I was just going off of what "just asking questions" xenophobes usually do when their so called evidence is torn apart

Excellent job by Lauren Windsor. A full mask off, candid discussion that shows blatant partisanship is a step up from the other wrongdoings we've heard of Alito and Thomas so far.

Republicans are a craven mafia family so they'll do nothing, but this is still a very important news story. Change to the Court will only come once the public passes a critical threshold of distrust for it, and this story brings us closer and closer to that tipping point.

The Court will be reformed in our lifetimes. It's gone too far and will be course corrected. It's just a matter of when. And I can only hope it will be while Alito and Thomas and McConnell are all still alive so they can see the consequences of their partisan actions.

Nah conservatives will be eager to put Asians in the "not white" category at the drop of a hat.

And now they won't respond. You've done a through job debunking them.

Perhaps instead of mocking America, you guys should've spent more time making sure politicians like American conservatives didn't get elected

France has been uncomfortably xenophobic for as long as I can remember. It's never really been addressed.

Nah Galveston is Carcinogen Coast.

Houston is "want to drive to X? 30 minutes". No matter how close it is.

Oh I saw CNN air this. They had absolutely no pity for the tears and the anchors basically said "sucks to suck, doesn't exactly inspire sympathy"

No, but I'm fully aware I'm a hypocrite there. I think most people are when it comes to their loved ones. If I was family of the hostages, I wouldn't care how many innocent people died to get them back. I'd support the IDF.

If I was the family of the nearby Palestinians, I wouldn't care about the hostages, and I'd let them die if it meant my family would be safe. I'd support Hamas.

This is why geopolitics can't be personal. The best decision is not one that you insert yourself into, because you have a much higher threshold for acceptable collateral if it's your own family on the line.

At the same time though, this is also a lesson in why a ceasefire is crucial. You put yourself into everyone's shoes, and you understand why this needs to end. Everyone's families and loved ones are dying or in captivity, and it's perpetuating a cycle of violence. It needs to end. Israel has the power to withdraw from Gaza and pursue purely diplomatic means, and it should.

For the 200 deaths today

The big question on all of our minds -- was this worth it?

No. It probably wasn't.

50 civilians killed indiscriminately per 1 hostage freed. And that's not counting everyone that's already been killed in this war.

I think anyone with a shred of morality is heavily conflicted by this. Saving hostages? Great. Killing 50x as many people as those saved? Not great. Not great at all.

It naturally leads itself to the question we're all thinking -- was it worth it?

And I think many of us have the same answer, although we may not like it -- no. It pains me to say it, but it would've been better to let them stay hostage for longer while developing a plan which wouldn't kill civilians.

Maybe the Palestinians themselves devalue their own lives compared to Israeli lives.

What the fuck

That would require Hamas to care about Palestinians. Their leadership is a bunch of wealthy shitheads living it up in the UAE. They hold a dictatorship over Palestine and refuse to have elections.

To actually get Hamas there, you probably need to target the rich people giving orders.

Man, I don't know how I could stomach that guilt. Knowing that your rescue came at the cost of many more innocent civilians killed and wounded, including children. I don't think I'd be able to look at any of the victims who survived in the face, let alone grieving family.

What's really twisted is it isn't the hostages' faults either that all those people died. I don't know if I'd even blame the kidnappers for those deaths. Surely the IDF could've done more to prevent civilian deaths.

It would take a monstrous person to not feel considerable guilt after this. I guess we'll find out the type of person these hostages are.

To be clear this was a conversation over the phone, not a tech review or something. And I was explicitly naming the units, it was just jumping all around that had him confused.

Official documentation and programs should always be explicitly clear on what units are being used, especially pressure.

Engineer here, I just use whatever's convenient. It's handy to know both.

That said, I did confuse a poor coworker of mine this week when I was using bar for tank pressure and psi for the safety reliefs. That's totally on me though.

Hello fellow Missourian! I've been planning to move away to be closer to friends, but I want to stick it out for the rest of this year so I can vote for abortion and hopefully tell the Republicans here to go fuck themselves in the process.