vainglory

the euphoria of calling another man 'babe'

[bendingsignpost]

As a male author do you have thoughts on cis women writing Mlm?

Many!

Yay, more books!

Are you having fun? I hope you're having fun.

This is how we get more trans men.

[cringecorp]

they say you can't pour from an empty cup but i've been doing it my whole life and aside from all of these mysterious ailments it's working out great for me

[simnonmmnnoomnbnnmnm]

Jewish people: Antisemitism is still rampant and everyday the masses are getting closer to nazi level antisemitism and we don't feel safe anywhere and haven't for decades

Non-jews:

[insert-some-url]

Dear leftists,

Every time you call me a mossad/CIA agent you give me endless encouragement to continue exposing your beloved mullah regime and advocate for my country’s freedom. You may not know this but Iranians are used to being called that by regime fans every time we slightly oppose them. That’s how we know we’re on the right track ;)

So please go ahead. Show me how dumb you are

Sincerely,

A very tired Iranian ❤️🦁💚

[leftistextradorinaire]

i mean, i just think maybe the USA bombing civilian areas, trump admitting they accidentally killed 3 groups of people they were vetting to take over, and the history of Iraq and Afganistan falling to religious extremists after years of occupation by the US means that the US is not after making the lives of Iranians better.

Yeah the regime is bad and they need to be ousted and held responsible, but a bombing campaign with no goal isn't solving that. America has never replaced a country's leader with the intent to help the country, only to expand their own influence.

Im hoping this turns out well for Iran, but since we helped install the current regime im not all that confident.

[insert-some-url]

Your problem is viewing everything from the American lens and never listening to Iranian voices

As much as you want to believe it, US is not actively attacking civilian areas. If they really wanted to do that, they could have easily bombed the pro regime rally for Quds day where all high ranking IR officials were present. But they didn’t because lots of children were being used as human shields. Any civilian casualties that happen are because the IRGC “bisharafs” intentionally places their forces in schools and other civilian heavy areas to create more civilian casualties and draw sympathy online. If you spend an hour on Iranian twitter you’ll find dozens of videos from Iranians inside Iran cheering on the missiles that hit IRGC. The regime’s existence is scarier for them than literal bombs and yeah I mean that.

Everyone knows war is bad but there is literally no other way to get rid of this evil regime. We tried all peaceful ways and all we got was more death. This is what most non Iranians are missing out. We have no other way than military intervention.

And god I’m so tired of the orientalist bs that every country in the middle east is basically the same because THAT IS NOT TRUE! We have different social and economical structures. Just because Iraq didn’t end up well doesn’t mean Iran will face the same fate. We have a clear vision for our country as well as a chosen transitional leader

At the end of the day, it’s important to listen to Iranians who have lived experience in Iran. No matter how much you read about a country, the people who lived there know the situation better than you

I hope this helps clear things up

پاینده ایران❤️🦁💚

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Class, notice how the self-described leftist tried to almost completely change the subject to score "US bad" points, instead of actually addressing people who call OP a CIA plant.

Also notice how they went "Yeah the regime is bad and they need to be ousted and held responsible," without any detail, after detailed descriptions of how they think the US is bad.

I call it "fake reasonableness". It's very common, no matter who's doing it.

leftist>America has never replaced a country's leader with the intent to help the country, only to expand their own influence.

And now Leftist is "rebutting" an argument OP didn't actually make.

OP>Any civilian casualties that happen are because the IRGC “bisharafs” intentionally places their forces in schools and other civilian heavy areas to create more civilian casualties and draw sympathy online.

Gee, I wonder if anything like this is happening in other Middle-Eastern conflicts.

[cruelskypatron-deactivated20260]

If you ever try to justify killing civilians with "they made us do it." You should reevaluate your life

How many dead kids is acceptable for you? There's clearly a number besides zero

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Gee I wonder who this person blatantly strawmanning to deflect from the idiocy of someone on the left could be.

[insert-some-url]

I love how leftists pretend to care about Iranian kids or any kids in general when they actively deny IRGC’s role in using the kids, the massacre of Iranian protesters in January or how IRGC bombed residential areas in gulf countries

Don’t even get me started on lecturing Iranians about IRGC lol

[athingofvikings]

I'm just saying, Neo-Nazis and Leftists should be easier to tell apart when it comes to them talking about Jews. You know. Ideally.

[athingofvikings]

Update: As far as I can tell, from sadly extensive exposure, Neo-Nazis and Leftists are now indistinguishable when it comes to talking about Jews.

[pagecommando]

Incessant obsessive conspiracy theories about Jews that are thousands of years old, occasionally updated with fun modern talking points. (Soros Space Lasers, Starbucks, Spotify)

Fetishization of Jews (Sounds contradictory, isn't)

Obsessed with supercessionism

Blame Jews for their life not working out the way they wanted it to and also every social ill that occurs to them really

Enjoy and justify cutting Jews out of public life (Bar tokens you'll turn on later)

Enjoy and justify lighting Jews on fire

Enjoy shooting Jews outside Jewish buildings (And inside too but hey)

Failure to realize that with the Jews dead the regime needs new enemies to justify its existence... and has also been going after said other enemies the whole time.

Has turned all of this into a fandom with religious aspects that is self-radicalizing at a dangerous pace with a tangible death toll.

[daughterofstories]

Neo-Nazis obsess about Jews murdering white babies, while Leftists obsess about Jews murdering Black and Brown babies. Also, Neo-Nazis think Jews are working with Muslims and Catholics to destroy White people, and Leftists think Jews are working with Christians and the West to destroy Islam.

So far as I can tell, those are the only differences.

[athingofvikings]

[dazeddwarf]

is this saying that the ongoing genocide in gaza is a conspiracy theory and not the broad consensus of genocide scholars (including jewish ones)

[athingofvikings]

Yes. Quite simply, genocide means something--the deliberate effort to wipe out a people by killing them or targeting their way of life and keeping them from continuing on.

If Israel was intending to commit genocide...

Then why isn't everyone in Gaza already dead?

They have the means, the ability, and the tools to do so.

The only answers that Jew-haters can come up to explain how 98% of the population of Gaza was still alive after two years of intense urban warfare--when the fighting in Mariopol, Ukraine, had a higher death toll despite taking less time--tend to fall into one of three categories:

Incompetence--the IDF intends to kill them all, but just somehow is too stupid to manage it.

Conspiratorial--the IDF intends to kill them all, but is being sneaky about it, in order to distract... somehow. Which is just "Untrustworthy Jews" in a different package.

Abject denial--"La la, la, The Jews are trying to kill them all! Hitler was right! I can't hear you and your evidence and details! I know in my heart that the Genocide is Real, just like how my parents know that Jesus is their Lord and Savior!"

And given that the "genocide scholars" in this case include a woman who has claimed a higher death toll and that the Israelis eat Palestinians and feed the leftovers to dogs, and a "genocide scholar group" that has no requirements for joining, and thus has "Emperor Palpatine" as a listed member... and several NGOs and states admitted that they would have to alter the definition of "genocide" to make what happened in Gaza count...

Yeah, there was a "broad consensus" in Nazi Germany that Jews were subhuman creatures that needed to be exterminated for the safety of the human race. Doesn't make it right.

Furthermore, in answer to the question...

No, it's how the Right and the Left have shaken hands and agreed that Jews Are The Problem And There Is One (Final) Solution that is acceptable. Going back to the original post, when a Leftist African-American politician was promoting a Jew-hating propaganda piece created by the KKK that claimed that Jews were responsible for 9/11.

Of course, the fact that the Left now loves the KKK-coined anti-Jew slur of "Zio" says everything.

[dazeddwarf]

the legal definition (UN Genocide Convention, 1948) doesn't require total extermination. it requires acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or IN PART, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

i'm not gonna argue genocidal intent, since that would require convincing you that there was intent which is clearly impossible, but we can talk about ethnic cleansing:

"The UN Commission of Experts described (United Nations) ethnic cleansing as "a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas," and stated that the coercive practices used can include "murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention... forcible removal, displacement and deportation of civilian population... wanton destruction of property."

so forcible displacement is part of the UN definition of ethnic cleansing

"Nearly all of Gaza's current population of 2.1 million people has been displaced, lacking access to sufficient shelter, food, life-saving medical services, clean water, education and livelihoods."

"More than 60% of the population had lost their homes... Gaza's economy has contracted by 84%... 'The scale and extent of deprivation across living conditions, livelihoods/income, food security, gender equality, and social inclusion, have pushed back human development in the Gaza Strip by 77 years,'" the assessment said.

"Over 371,888 housing units have been destroyed or damaged, more than 50% of hospitals are non-functional, nearly all schools destroyed or damaged, and the economy has contracted by 84% in Gaza."

"Approximately 81% of all structures in the Gaza Strip are damaged... An estimated 320,622 housing units have been damaged." -- based on publicly available satellite imagery

it's not "sneaky" to not just literally nuke the strip and kill every single person inside. you can ethnically cleanse a group of people by destroying all their housing, their education, their economy, access to food, their healthcare, etc., and generally make the place unlivable. this has historically been an ethnic cleansing tactic, such as in the case of the holodomor in ukraine, and i would not say this is unique to israel or jews

it's also very weird to project all these anti-semitic tropes onto me; i didn't say any of that and i think they're gross, and i'm sorry if people have said stuff like that to you in the past

[athingofvikings]

And we have a Goalpost Move and a Denial of Antisemitism/Accusation of Projection twofer! That's Category Three, baaaaaybeee! -_-

So, to summarize:

You came onto a post talking about the Jewish experience with how chummy Leftists and Neo-Nazis have become over the last several years when it comes to hating Jews--to the point that Leftists are now endorsing Marjorie Taylor "Jewish Space Lasers" Greene--and basically went, "Well, have you considered that the consensus is that Jews are actually the bad guys and are doing what the Nazis did to them?"

And when I pushed back on that, pointing out the bias of the sources and how the situation does not show a genocide, you basically went, "Nuh uh" and shifted the topic, refused to engage with the discussion of antisemitism, and accused me of projecting antisemitism onto you, when you are engaging in antisemitism.

(And people have said that stuff to me this past week. This past day. It is constant, and if you exist as a Jew in public, your fellow "antizionists" make sure to attack you at every turn for daring to exist as a Jew.)

[dazeddwarf]

but you're not disputing the ethnic cleansing, right? clearly, you don't agree that it's a genocide, but are you saying my sources are wrong and it doesn't fit the UN definition of ethnic cleansing? or do we agree on that?

[athingofvikings]

You're the one who barged in here and demanded that I turn out my pockets in a tone that screamed bad faith, accusing me of conspiratorial thinking. Why do I have to answer you when your response to seeing "Hey, Leftists and Neo-Nazis are becoming indistinguishable from a Jewish perspective" is "But, but, but... Da Jooz ARE EBIL! Everyone Agrees!"

I owe you and your entire Jew-hating movement nothing until you police your own. At a fucking minimum, kick out the people who call Jews "inbred" (Piker), cannibals (Albanese), and the like... instead of, yanno, elevating them to be speakers of the movement. Until then, all I see is an old quote from Sartre:

You did that to a T.

[dazeddwarf]

so we agree on the ethnic cleansing, then. you're not disputing that

[athingofvikings]

*holds a candle up to your right ear and blows through your left ear. The candle goes out. The extinguished wick is still brighter than the intelligence and comprehension in your eyes, though*

Why is it so important to you that you get me to agree with you on this?

[dazeddwarf]

it's not important; i don't think you're going to agree with me. i just presented a good case that you're defending ethnic cleansing and you didn't dispute it. we can stop talking here and you can just block me if you want

[athingofvikings]

Ah yes. Because this is the perfect thread to have that discussion. You were literally just fishing for "proof" that "Jews are evil and engaging in genocide ethnic cleansing, and this random Jew I found online didn't dispute it! See, they admit it!" ...on a post regarding how Jews are treated by both the Far-Right and Far-Left as evil, murderous, and subhuman."

Sincerely, fuck you.

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

I need antizionists like the person above to realize that the Nazis also believed the Jews were committing genocide. They didn't have that word in their vocabulary, obviously, but in Himmler's speech from 1943 he literally says:

"We know how difficult things would be, if today in every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and the privations, we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and instigators... We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it, to kill this people who would kill us."

Shockingly, people who hate Jews make up lies to justify why killing them is a moral necessity. And you idiots fell for it. Again.

[notaplaceofhonour]

On top of all this, the claim that “the Israel-Hamas war was a genocide” is the “consensus” of Genocide scholarship is just false.

This claim is based on a misrepresentation of a resolution put out by the organization IAGS. The problem with using this resolution as evidence of “consensus” in the field of Genocide scholarship is

IAGS has been somewhat controversial within the field for a while. While it is still the largest body of its kind, a lot of scholars do not take the org all that seriously for a number of reasons, one of which is emphasizing statements (such as this) over actual peer-reviewed research

Only 129 of its estimated 500 members even voted on the resolution

Membership is not limited to genocide scholars; being interdisciplinary isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the fact anyone with a credit card can join, and a lack of transparency by IAGS, means we can’t know how many (if any) of the members who voted are even in Genocide Studies, and that the IAGS’s statements cannot be taken as the authoritative voice of Genocide Scholarship

After this resolution, more than 500 scholars & experts in the field (i.e., a larger amount than IAGS even has members) signed an open letter condemning the resolution & demanding IAGS retract it

I Joined the Genocide Scholars to Prevent Atrocities. Here’s How They Failed

On September 1, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) drew international headlines by declaring that Israel is committin

So, to recap, an overwhelmingly higher amount of genocide scholars & legal experts who are willing to publicly put their full legal names & stake their professional reputations behind a statement that refutes the claim that the Israel-Hamas war is a genocide, vs. an anonymous vote made by a fraction of members of an org that is open to literally anyone. If one of these statements had to be taken as consensus on this topic, it wouldn’t be the IAGS’s.

[notaplaceofhonour]

one of the names for Shavuot in Jewish Swedish is “Toragivandets Högtid” (Torah-giving festival), and I think that’s beautiful

[notaplaceofhonour]

like that is so true, we were givan det tora

[hyperpotamianarch]

You'd probably love Laubhuttenfest, I think.

[notaplaceofhonour]

ja, I do laub hüttenfest, it has to be said

[romehbo]

[todaysbird]

A jackdaw very protective of his trash ❤️

it’s HIS garbage!

[kuttithevangu]

Gentle notice that “highbrow” and “lowbrow” are eugenics/race science terms and it may be better to just quietly retire them in casual discussions of art

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

"Kill your local sex offender!" Oh, you mean the guy who went streaking at his local college football game on a dare one time? That's a sex crime.

"No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.

"What? No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.

"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"

Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?

Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?

How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.

Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?

People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.

"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"

That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.

Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.

The only way out is to accept every life as worth saving.

EDIT: If you're going to go on this post to say that no, you think you really should be allowed to kill people you decide are rapists and/or pedophiles, I'm going to block you. I have already been blocking you, because it's clear that you aren't willing to engage with what I'm saying.

Also, if someone says something like that we'd be better off with rapists being dead BUT that they won't let that opinion shape their stance on public policy, and you reply to that person to accuse them of wanting to murder people, I'm also going to block you, because what the fuck that's a completely different sentence.

EDIT 2: Since so many people seem to fail basic reading comprehension, let's state it again, in different words:

1. Killing people is bad.

2. Killing someone can never be undone by any means we have.

3. If the government can kill people, they will want to kill their political opposition and other undesirables (WHICH CAN INCLUDE YOU PERSONALLY AND ANY IF NOT ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY).

4. If there is a class of people OF ANY TYPE who the government can LEGALLY KILL, they now just need to convince you their enemies count as that class (ever wondered why there's so much emphasis on claiming gay people are pedophiles? Now you know!)

5. If there is a class of people OF ANY TYPE that the public can LEGALLY KILL, murderers just need to convince people that their victims counted as that class (I murdered him because he's a rapist. Anyway now his job is free promote me into that position plz.)

6. As pointed out in the notes (thank you everyone pointing this out!), if the penalty for a crime is death, people are much more willing to silence witnesses to that crime (for example, murdering their rape victims), which is EVEN WORSE than just committing the initial crime.

7. THEREFORE the only way to keep those from happening is to have NO category of people it is considered okay to kill FOR ANY REASON.

[absurdlyinaccurate]

me, the motherfucker with over 50 abandoned works in progress: i have an idea

[havinganormalone]

Fanfiction is insane. You can write porn so good you make friends.

[effinbirds]

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

heartbreaking: none of artist's other songs are as much of a banger as the song I discovered the artist by

[gemstonesweetheart]

I need either affection or attention or a baseball bat to the temple. Whichever happens first

[mstgsmy66]

[tysonfurybattlepass]

public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time

[tysonfurybattlepass]

“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.