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@stupidjewishwhiteboy
My instant block policy has officially evolved to include making arguments we’ve all heard a billion times that have counter arguments we’ve all heard a billion times. If you’re boring, you are not worth my time, and you’re getting blocked
"Zionism is Jewish supremacist because it supports a Jewish state run by Jews" is the most blatant double standard Jews are held to.
Imagine saying "Wanting Palestine to exist is Arab supremacist because it supports an Arab state run by Arabs."
If you think the principle of self-determination becomes racism when Jews do it then you're just antisemitic.
They square that circle by claiming that the Palestine they want is secular and non-sectarian, and just totally ignore that the two most powerful Palestinian movements are respectively explicitly Arab supremacist and explicitly Islamic supremacist
Yep. Many people have decided to be willfully-ignorant of the reality of what the Palestinian movements are. The truth of what those movements hold dear does not fit nicely into their narrative, nor does it play at all nicely with many of the left's chosen "voices of victimhood" like lgbtq+ folks or the many groups of indigenous peoples.
it truly blows my mind how so many lgbtq+ people in particular made the decision to root for a cause and a people who would actively hunt and murder them in the name of Islamist ideologies.
but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually
still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah
people love being antisemetic.
they love racializing jews and tearing apart our culture and harming our peoples, to then turn around and whitewash our entire community. act like we are privileged as can be. that this is merely punching up, we should be willing and happy participants, lest we are one of the bad ones.
its a white saviour, faux progressive's wetdream. socially acceptable brutalizing of a racialized group, while feeling oppressed and like the perfect white jesus to all the "real" marginalized groups. (they don't gaf about those people either, just like the ego boost of feeling like a good person)
I was debating pre- and post- smartphone existentialism with an older gentleman today and he stopped part way through and said “Why are you a security guard? Why aren’t you teaching this at some college somewhere?” And I didn’t know what to say so I went with “Well I used to make art but nobody pays an artist”
I want to invoke thought and wonder and introspection and encourage the passions of every soul I meet forever and ever and dig until I find the glorious potential for creation and experience and joy in every single one but unfortunately I must pay rent and so I stand, a meat shield, an NPC with unlockable dialogue
#capitalism brain tells you that anyone interesting must fight to the top of their interest#and precludes the possibility of everyone everyone everyone already being interesting
i've been obsessed with this video so i downloaded the video file off of youtube so even if the internet goes down i can always watch frogtimelapse.mp4
matching tail squad
Jews 👏were👏not👏welcomed👏in 👏Middle Eastern 👏countries!!👏
Stop with the revisionism jfc!! They were exiled/killed/forced converted/faced discriminatory laws
"Zionism is Jewish supremacist because it supports a Jewish state run by Jews" is the most blatant double standard Jews are held to.
Imagine saying "Wanting Palestine to exist is Arab supremacist because it supports an Arab state run by Arabs."
If you think the principle of self-determination becomes racism when Jews do it then you're just antisemitic.
They square that circle by claiming that the Palestine they want is secular and non-sectarian, and just totally ignore that the two most powerful Palestinian movements are respectively explicitly Arab supremacist and explicitly Islamic supremacist
It also confirms that leftists doesn't sincerely believe in anything except what gets them clout as online activists, and the worst possible thing that could happen to your cause is that group decides to make it their whole personality.
ok so which subculture of judaism (ashkenazi, mizrahi, sephardi, secret fourth option) is the most jewish to you then
(surely this wont spark a war between all of us lmao)
I dont rly have an opinion abt who's the most Jewish. I dont think any of the modern renditions of judaism are an accurate representation of the og judaism, and they cant be. Too much time has passed and too many exiles have occurred with too much assimilation and intermingling. All of modern judaism is based on hzl and hzl are also late and speculatory (not to mention biased) retellings of traditions and events that predate them by a thousand yrs. I dont think there's any point in looking for or trying to reconstruct og judaism, its impossible. Just to accept that its complicated and there aren't any definitive answers for who is a Real JewTM outside of ethnicity.
Thoughts on tattoo artists using AI to create designs for them?
plenty of tat artists use AI but not in the way that u think. theres nothing wrong with using AI to generate references and the low iq luddite crowd that calls it "stealing" has yet to explain how exactly is it different from going on google and tracing a photo of a random cat. ur still using someone elses photo or someone elses drawing as a reference, ur methodology of reaching it is just different; the source material (google) is literally the same whether u physically google it urself or ask a model to do it. AI becomes an issue in tattooing when u use it to make the actual designs, and not because of "stealing", but because it just looks like shit. not everything that looks good on paper will look good on skin, and the computer has no way of gauging that. its good for lazy ppl who forgot how to b creative and dont care abt how their shit will look like on someone in 10yrs
On the one hand, it kind of feels like every mildly offbeat date idea being stereotyped as a lesbian thing functions mostly as an excuse for straight dudes not to step up their game.
On the other hand, I've genuinely seen more lesbian couples in observation rooms at aquariums than in literally any other venue, so
@lazyuser03 replied:
Does that mean Denji and Asa are lesbians?
You can make a pretty solid textual argument that this is the case even without the aquarium episode.
…Somebody please elaborate on this, I need to hear this argument.
People come to my like "why don't you support [game], it looks like it's right up your alley" and [game] is a title with $170 USD worth of DLC.
"Oh, surely he's talking about one of those hyper-detailed flight simulators that charge separately for each individual model of plane or something like that":
Fascinated by the number of people in the notes earnestly arguing that pay-to-win DLC in an offline single-player game is somehow less odious than paid DLC which at least substantively expands the base game.
Editing an RPG is the kind of thing where you can suddenly realize you have to use "median height" instead of "average height" because of a handful of multi-AU outliers.
You know how medieval villages near disused Roman aqueducts would just gradually dismantle the aqueduct for worked stone rather than quarry their own? I want to play a tabletop RPG with a classic shitty-little-village-with-ancient-ruins-under-it dungeon crawling setup that's basically that. You're not going down there to loot gold and magic swords: you're looking for pieces of sorcerous infrastructure you can pry loose and repurpose to meet the village's everyday needs. Give me the fantasy equivalent of those rural English taverns that don't have indoor plumbing but do have flatscreen TVs.
#stonetop (via @sklarissa)
Stonetop sometimes gestures in roughly the same direction, but as written it's still got way too much trad dungeon crawler focus on self-contained Magic Items that individual player characters must Make Terrible Sacrifices To Master, while I'm talking more about repurposing infrastructure. The distinction is important!
(Numenara has much the same issue, to anticipate the most obvious followup isn't-this-just.)
