sailingbythelee @ sailingbythelee @lemmy.world

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You literally called me a Nazi multiple times. Keep going. It really enhances your credibility.

Look, I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you aren't Hitler. But you should still try to get a grip on reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law#/media/File%3AGodwin's_law_t-shirt_at_Rally_to_restore_sanity%2C_2010.jpg

I don't agree with Rowling's concerns about transgender people. They are no threat to me or the larger society. I also don't think there is a transgender genocide going on. Again, reductio ad absurdum. Does that make me a Nazi? Again, who knew the bar was so low on Nazism?

It's hard to take you seriously when your argument is just a long string of logical fallacies, as I pointed out in detail.

She subscribes to Nazi ideology. Specifically the classifying of trans people as sub humans

• Hyperbole

It quacks like a duck. You seem to think Nazi = killing people. It doesn't.

• Straw man argument

She supports a genocide. That's all it takes.

• Does she actually support a genocide? Who knew the bar was so low?

Again, Hitler didn't open the camps on day one to anyone but political opponents.

• Slippery slope argument

This seems more about you liking Rowling and not wanting to admit what she's doing.

• Ad hominem attack

Once again, a transgender genocide is going on right now.

• Hyperbole

She is supporting it. If you deny that genocide is happening, or worse, claiming she has a point like the person I responded to, you're supporting Nazi ideology too.

• Ad hominem attack, again

Maybe the issue is that you agree with her that trans people are a danger to society?

• Ad hominem attack again.

Do you ever make valid arguments, or is your mouth just a fire hose of irrationality?

I will not apologize for calling a Nazi a Nazi.

She isn't a Nazi, though. That's the point.

Well, comparing JK Rowling to Hitler and her fear of tran women to the Holocaust might be just a wee bit of exaggeration, eh? The purpose of citing Godwin's Law is to remind people to step back and ask whether the person being discussed is actually similar in magnitude to Hitler and the Nazis.

I know what it means. And, by all means, people can and should talk about Hitler and the Nazis in their historical context. WW2 was the defining conflict of the 20th century, after all. But you used it in the reductio ad Hitlerum sense. It's just so boring to constantly see every Lemmy thread devolve into calling people Nazis or comparing them to Nazis, which is just the former with an extra step. It becomes meaningless after a while. So, when we are faced with an actual proto-fascist like Trump, the comparison has been exhausted and has little impact.

Ah, at last. Godwin's Law.

I suppose you have also logged into your Adguard server to verify that it can ping the internet?

In other words, you have successfully pinged Proxmox --> Adguard and Adguard --> Internet?

It is not a false dichotomy. It is the electoral reality of a two-party state. The rest of your comment and your expressed intentions don't matter when the net effect of what you are doing is to undermine Biden. The really ironic part is that by underming Biden, and thereby supporting Trump, if Trump wins you will have helped make Israel less accountable.

Have you tried setting the nameserver to Google or Cloudflare to see if that works?

Ad hominem. No assumption you make about my motives changes the effect of what you are doing.

No. There are only two choices in the American election. When there are only two choices, it is a zero sum game. Undermining one means supporting the other. Ergo, your undermining of Biden at this critical time means you are supporting Trump.

You are defined by your actions, not your intentions or rhetoric. You are supporting Trump.

You should stop supporting Trump.

Korean Jesus is the best Jesus.

https://youtu.be/hhtOGkUqVTU

Since we are talking about nuance, let me add a bit more. Hamas is different from the bulk of the Palestinian population, and Netanyahu's right wing coalition is different from the bulk of the Israeli people. Let's not forget that the Oct 7 massacre happened to a bunch of innocent people attending a music festival. Netanyahu is not popular in Israel. Therefore, let's not say simply that Israel is bad. I see way too many upvoted "fuck Israel" comments on Lemmy. Just as it is appropriate to consider Hamas separately from the rest of the Palestinians, so it is with Netanyahu and the rest of Israelis.

It's nice to hear a story with a good outcome. Thanks.

The Japanese were not ready to surrender unconditionally, and that was the internationally agreed endpoint of the war with Germany and Japan. Unconditional surrender and occupation was considered necessary to completely break the German and Japanese spirit and ensure no third world war. The Allies didn't want a repeat of the inter-war period between WW1 and WW2 where Germany was not occupied and could tell itself that it hadn't really lost WW1. The Allies agreed that the way to avoid this problem was to comprehensively defeat and then force unconditional surrender on the Axis powers, followed by occupation, re-education, and rebuilding. When you look at Japan and Germany's success after WW2, it's hard to argue that the Allies were wrong to take that stance. The atomic bombs are a side issue. The invasion of Japan would have been so much worse.

Imagine that you know someone who intends to kill you. You can run and hide, or you can can kill them instead. Genocide is that on a large scale.

Or at least that's the version of genocide thar is easiest to understand. There is also the Nazi version where you kill an entire people just because you hate them, not because they threaten you or have a resource that you desperately need for survival.

There is also the type of genocide that was committed against the indigenous people of the Americas. That happened over a long period of time and over two continents. It involved every type of genocide noted above at different times and places, plus the initial accidental genocide by disease (probably influenza) that killed off about 90% of the population prior to the colonizing that came later.

And just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean you wouldn't do it in the right circumstances. There is nothing more human than genocide. The only other animal that does it is chimps, if I remember correctly.

Sorry, that is a depressing note to end this comment on. Humans are scary.