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That was a really long post. Nothing you said refuted anything I said. You're literally doing the thing I'm talking about.

Do you support Hamas? Just admit it.

After a decade of near-zero conflict Hamas unilaterally launched the largest offensive between the two states in a decade. They murdered babies and tortured and paraded civilian hostages around. They can't be trusted and should be destroyed.

In the last decade since the last Israel/Palestine "war" in 2014 Israel has had barely any military action against Palestine. It's not like there's some kind of genocide happening - if Israel wanted genocide Gaza could be wiped from the planet overnight.

Gaza has no democracy, no legitimate government, no industry, no trade. So no hope for the future. Countries don't want to take Palestinian refugees because they attempt coups and threaten to destabilize regions.

The instant that Gaza forms a legitimate democratic government the attacks would stop. The moment that Gazans formed a non military state, the conflict stops.

Don't get me wrong here - the situation for non-radicalized Palestinians is total dog shit. They are the biggest victims here but the blame falls on Hamas in my view.

I literally don't understand why people have a hard time with this.

Israel has organized, funded armed forces wearing uniforms. Hamas has teenagers in street clothes hiding in hospitals, schools, and houses.

Israel attempts to protect it's citizens, Hamas uses human shields.

If you agree with the actions of Hamas, which are designed to maximize fear and force Israeli troops to make hard decisions during combat, you support terrorists. Just admit it. Calling Hamas a terrorist organization isn't necessarily perjorative. But it is perfectly descriptive.

If you don't like that you support terrorists, then you have some deep reflecting to do.

Don't forget Coca-Cola Fanta.

Firefox with Adblocker Ultimate working fine for me as of last night. I'll check again tonight.

"some brands of bikes" make frames out of carbon fiber with wireless derailleurs and have rear facing radar to detect when other bikes or vehicles are approaching, how fast, and on which side.

When your exercise, your recreation, your hobby, and your transportation are all the same thing, it's easy to justify spending more to make those things as easy and pleasant as possible.

You can get a perfectly usable bike for very little money in America... Probably still made in China though 😂

I'm THRILLED with the promise of technology making human labor obsolete.

Is labor the best use of your limited time?

Why should we design a society where people must labor in order to survive?

However I'm DEEPLY concerned with our blind dedication to the private ownership of everything, exclusively for the purposes of growing the wealth of the few.

I don't believe we're in a post-scarcity world yet, and so I don't think we're able to stop laboring altogether. But we've definitely reached the point where many have stopped laboring and are surviving on the backs of others. Their lessers.

That needs to become embarrassing instead of a point of pride. We need to start shaming people into doing their part.

100%

Seriously, I don't know why this is news.

Wait, yes I do, half the population is stupid.

"That's not how the market works."

I've had to have this conversation so many times I feel like I'm losing my mind. Like I need to write a manifesto or blog post that I can reference instead of rewriting it every time.

Markets are not moral.

Market forces are like physical forces - we observe them and use that knowledge to predict the outcomes of situations. But by the same token we need to have a moral framework underpinning the way we use the knowledge, or else we will destroy the world.

Justifying low wages by saying "people are willing to take the job" is just saying "people would rather do this job than be homeless, starve, or be poor_er_."

I, personally, am fundamentally not okay with an economy that is fully supported by workers essentially being coerced into working from fear of death or despair.

We look at the nuclear bomb and the damage it caused and say "that was bad, let's not do that". But we look at inflation, wealth accumulation, class warfare, rampant shameless greed, and don't immediately see the cause/effect relationship.

Now the conversation about some work being harder, more unpleasant, more stressful, or more valuable than other work is an important one. But in my mind the important part is removing the coersion.

If people had their basic needs met and didn't fear starvation or homeless, I bet employers would have to give their workers a better shake in order to keep things running.

The shooters are commiting the same sins that their church leaders commit. Pride, greed, wrath.

I've heard "good Christians" hand wave their responsibility for bad behavior by saying things like "we're all sinners" or "I'll have to confess later!"

I guess that latter one is Catholic, but it's all the same.

Religion was a necessary framework for transmitting moral knowledge in a time when people didn't have a stable foundation. Centuries ago. It's absurdly flawed and grows communities that are extremely vulnerable to corruption and radicalization.

It's time to move past religion.

While it's a fact that the middle class is shrinking, I think you're miscalibrated.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4631736

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/middle-class-americans-crushed-rising-health-insurance-costs/story?id=67131097

https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2022/03/30/with-inflation-rising-medical-costs-hurt-the-middle-class-most-new-report-shows/

You're broke.

Just BROADLY speaking, the pro Palestinian take right now is that Israel should be removed and Palestine given all of the territory.

Like, that's the take. They don't just want an end to the violence - Israel wants that too. Hamas has been dedicated to the destruction of Jews and Israel for basically forever.

So it's asymmetrical.

The pro Israel take is "destroy Hamas so that these attacks stop and there can be peace." But it's important to note that up until the October 7 attack Israel only wanted peace. This new policy is a reaction to an unprecedented attack.

#! or bust

It's not purely satire.

In fact, they did polls with people who knew one rice crispy square was 15% sawdust and the other had none and people couldn't tell the difference. Even knowing.

Emotional Support Vehicle

All those extremists that were voted into power, are cheered for by Palestinians, and represent Palestine in the media and in international relations?

Underrated pun. Nice.

What's Threads?

No, nevermind, I don't want to know.