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I hope Israelis know that their choice to commit genocide right under our eyes means people are learning a lot of fucked up shit about Israel's history, like when they stole hundreds of Yemeni toddlers and gave them to childless Ashkenazi couples 1948-54.
This is very stereotypical colonizer behavior to be clear. You can look all across the globe and find one of the main tactics of colonizers is things like kidnapping kids and stripping them of their cultures to 'civilize' them. It's still happening in Canada and the US to Black and Indigenous children both. The whole adoption industry globally is connected to this type of colonization.
Israel's behavior is violent and horrific - and not remotely unique for colonizer states.
Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they'd get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.
idk y’all should treat fat men better. and i don’t mean mildly chubby guys i mean honest-to-god love-handles-and-double-chins fat guys. stop calling them shit like discord mods or gross weebs or nasty creeps or neckbeards or that they’re stinky or sweaty or beer bellied or whatever else. fatphobia isn’t cute, even repackaged in a neat little box of “ew men”
People in the notes have entirely misunderstood the point of this experiment and what it entails.
It’s not “proving that crickets can be traumatized”. It’s proving that *animals can genetically pass on the stress that a dangerous situation causes, and the offspring will instinctually respond to the same situation without ever having personally experienced it.*
And that’s a big deal for many things, including human psychology.
When Nazis invaded The Netherlands, local Dutch peoples were under extreme emotional and physical duress. The Nazi army took their food for the soldiers, starving the population. They patrolled the streets and harshly reinforced their new laws. Existence was horrible and some parents had to give their children away to wealthier families because they couldn’t feed them anymore. This event is known as the Hongerwinter, or Dutch Famine.
One generation later, the children of mothers who were pregnant at the time of the famine have been proven to exhibit intense reactions to stress, and heightened fight or flight responses. They also experience more obesity because their bodies are prepared for starvation.
Some of these children were never personally exposed to the famine. Their mothers gave birth after conditions had improved, or even after moving to another country. But the effects are there, and those people are now adults who can recognize this and attest that they didn’t experience something else traumatic during childhood. It was passed on in the womb.
You can read about it here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.amp.html
Babies born during the Dutch Hunger Winter became adults with higher rates of health problems. Now researchers may have found the genetic sw
This is called epigenetics. It’s essential to understanding how the human brain and body works. That our responses to stress can be passed on genetically. That it can show up in how we look physically, our physical health, our mental responses, our instinctual reactions. It’s especially important for people who are in therapy and need to understand *why* they act a certain way before they can actually work on it.
So no, this experiment wasn’t “haha let’s torment a cricket”. I’m not going to argue the potential cruelty of the experiment with people. I just want you to understand what it actually all MEANS.
a while ago i saw an anti-cnc meme that went something like "if your boyfriend learns not to stop at "no", do you really think he's gonna stop at Pineapple?" and ive been thinking about it a lot. like, it assumes that words have some kind of mystical meta-meaning that persists in all contexts, that if we discard the word "no" we also discard the concept of saying no in a symbolic sense. It's a lingually prescriptivist argument in disguise.
when you denote a safeword you're doing language. you're adding another meaning onto a word, i don't have to put it literally. for our purposes it means "stop for real, get out of character right now" and if my hypothetical partner ignored that, it would semantically be a normal violation of consent. weird argument.
the same applies to social scripts. beating someone can be affectionate, acts of violence don't have an innate quality of evil. maybe its the autist in me, i understand that social behavior is always arbitrary and constructed pragmatically and physical abuse as lovemaking isn't a stretch. sometimes piss is a delicious beverage, grow up.
he didn't even do anything he literally just looks normal. the boys should be a little dapper & chivalrous if they want to be, they shouldn't all be lumped in with this specific caricature of the Nice Guy™ that includes entitled sexist behavior but also for some reason a billion other aesthetic signifiers like fedoras and reddit and atheism and the word "euphoric" and fatness and neckbeards.
A lot is said about anti-sjw stock characters like big red, and that one lady with the big teeth, and that one woman crying after trump's election, but we had a lot of those too back in the day. Why was it just normal for that to happen?
I'm sure a lot of people have had experiences with entitled backpedaling dinguses but the extent of the hyperspecific details surrounding the "neckbeard" is just absurd and I sincerely doubt that even a fraction of women have specifically met this particular type of guy. has EVERYONE had a run in with an overly chivalrous fat ungroomed redditor who values his own intelligence? i'm sorry but most of those are positive traits for a man to have & im sick of pretending they're not
I think it’s funny when fans are shocked people saw mcr in 2005 for $20… like yeah you too can go see a future world famous band at a local venue for $20 right now
It seems some people are interpreting this as meaning that it’s impossible to see certain bands for this price these days? While yes you’re correct what I’m saying is that you never know who is gonna blow up so at one point every artist has $20 tickets. Also normal priced tickets are definitely still a thing if you don’t primarily see artists that are super famous. 95% of the shows I go to are under $50
You can literally be on the ground floor of seeing the next big band right now if y’all would go to local shows. The amount of insanely talented bands out there that play to empty rooms is a travesty. Go support local bands rn
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
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