I think the UK at least has talked about putting troops on the ground as part of a peace deal which is huge.

As so many have said, amazing work, thanks for sharing! I’ve saved this for future reference, may look into the scratching the post for my elderly lady.

Physically, most of us are way weaker and in worse physical shape. (Look at old time photos for far people, or sideshow people labelled as “world’s fattest man” who would not raise an eyebrow lumbering through walmart these days.) I wonder how the balance of more manual work vs our sedentary and fatty lifestyles would play out.

I also think folks were more ready to die or get hurt as that’s just how things happened, so probably more willing to be beaten as part of a strike etc.

I have no idea what point you’re trying to make other than, I dunno, some crazy shit like everyone who disagrees with you is a Zionist or something?

But I stand by that post, if you voted for a third party, you helped trump. If you’re trying to wrap your stupidity around the plight of the Palestineans you either aren’t following the news or never really cared about them in the first place.

I get that this is probably the first humanitarian crisis you’ve seen on social media and pretended to care about but as you grow up, hopefully you’ll realize there are sometimes unfortunate restrictions around your choices. While I would have loved a better option than the Dems, the choice was them or trump. If you voted third party, you helped put an administration that is absolutely hostile to them and worse than what would’ve been the case otherwise.

Sorry if reality sucks but whining about it like a petulant child isn’t going to change it or rally others to your cause.

Ahahaha, “As long as you’re respectful one can disagree.” And a paragraph later “hey, this guy pointed out trump would be worse for Palestineans that means he is down with genoicde!!!”

Could you prove my point much harder?

I think on the Left we have a “virtuous” cycle/feedback loop that results in increasingly outlandish positions.

Essentially, for most people there’s a serotonin feedback when people upvote, applaud, reteeet etc. People, responding to incentives like anyone else shift their online discourse to match.

Similarly, even beyond the positive feedback, on thr Left no one wants to be a white cis male contradicting the feelings, emotions or arguments of a POC or LGBTQ+ person.

The Right doesn’t really have this problem as the Far right opinions are generally understood to be reprehensible to most people so those movements have evolved to work on dog whistles etc.

It’s a structural issue but one that puts us out of touch with the mainstream (consider defund the police, transgender athletes or immigration until we were getting murdered in the polls and it was too late to do anything.)

Thank fuck social media wasn’t around when I was a weird 10 year old.

Absolutely! And in fact, pretty good time to do so. A lot of ppl are transitioning from school to work at your age, so finding new interesting friends etc.

That being said, making and nurturing friends is work and you may be a bit out of practice. No worries, just be ready to feel a bit out of your depth or nervous at times, knowing is half the battle. Plus, I think your cohort/age group are way more open with talking about enotional intelligence and friendship and the awkwardness of making new friends, which is super helpful.

Probably not the right answer on Lemmy but Ford to Marx is pretty damned brutal:

“f you’d saved a penny for each daughter you named Jenny You might not have needed to bury quite so many”

(Among Marx’s retorts, I love “you were worse for Michigan than Flint’s water pipes”

I really love this answer.

Oh, a 10% drop is not super concerning. It’s more “what happens next.” The magnificent 7 have gone through the roof in terms of valuation since 2022… should those come back to Earth abruptly, it’s not just tech bros who suffer.

Sure but that doesn’t help the people who trusted their pensions would be safe.

… Also bad for some people with 401ks and similar retirement funds.

A lot of of families unable to hire bespoke financial advice put their savings into traditionally safer index funds like the S&P500 which have been increasingly weighted towards those companies.

Those lost trillions of dollars of value represent a lot of lo “retail” that is to say, not particularly wealthy, investors. Also a fair number of pension funds are probably similarly exposed, think teachers, nurses etc.

Awesome brother!

Generally agree though I suppose it depends on how the parents feel about swearing and how likely the youngins are to repeat the approximately 700 fucks in the movie.

“Do you have to use so many cuss words?” “The fuck you talking about?”

The Big Lebowski. I wasn’t a teenager yet, barely understood why anything was happening but damned if it wasn’t the hardest I’d seen my dad laugh.

If by too far gone, you mean I have actual current and historical knowledge and that makes your ignorant and facile comparisons harder to sneak by, uhhh, sorry? Knowledge has always been the bane of the purposefully ignorant.

I get using nazi as a perjorative feels cool but goddamn you look foolish and worse, make those who support the cause equally childishly ignorant.

I do hope you’ll grow up, read more and not just about what’s trending on your social media. Until, well, it’s pretty hard to take you seriously but I’d be pretty careful with making bold proclamations from a point of ignorance, just a thought.

Cheers!

Edit: Feeling a bit under the weather, I guess I’ll tell the boss I have ebola. As they’re both diseases and can be fatal (flu kills thousands a year) so they are clearly the same and distinguishing between the two would make me some sort of far gone medical elitist.

You are so close to getting it. Yes, comparing the Nazis to banning someone from a website is fucking dumb and makes the person making the comparison look silly.

Using nazi as a perjorative for any group committing an act of genocide is the same.

Comparing what is happening in Gaza with the Holocaust (which is the implicit association you are making when you call groups nazis) is fucking stupid. One was arguably the worst thing in human history whereas what’s happening in Gaza is the same sort of thing that’s been happening constantly across the globe for decades and is happening in three different places right fucking now.

And the sense of scale is insane. Including all Palestinean deaths, 45k in ~ 15 months of fighting (including civilian and Hamas fighters) you could run these casualty rates for **25 years **and not match the deaths in Auschwitz alone (more than a million, almost entirely civilians.)

Labelling Netenyahu as a nazi demonstrates you are either woefully ignorant of the world beyond your social media feed, or have a literally childlike understanding of relative magnitudes, same way my friend’s toddler cries at horrific injustices like bedtime and no candy for dinner, to her these may actually be the worst things she recalls but that’s part of being a child.

And of course there’s the delightful soupcon of stupidity in calling the leader of the Jewish state a person that literally most famously hates Jews. Just, you look so stupid on so many levels that it makes all us adults who oppose the war look dumber by association. That’s why it is infuriating; not only is it a foolish comparison but it makes everyone who is against the war look like a similarly ignorant goof.

If you’ll go back to the start, you’ll remember the whole thread was about the stupidity of calling Netenyahu a nazi.

By your logic, anyone that attacks a group of people on any group characteristics is a nazi. Which is goddamn nonsense.

I get the appeal of calling people doing bad things nazis, but you sound like a child doing so. Worse, it makes it much more difficult for anyone to take our side seriously. (Same way that it is fucking stupid when trump called Harris a communist.)

My workday is done and you aren’t worth my free time.

Have a good weekend.

That’s the one protest, as the Reich was falling, reeling from the defeat in Stalingrad. And there were plans floated about simply shooting all the protesters.

Again, it’s just nonsense to declare Israel is now a nazi country. Fascism is very different than what Israel is.

Doing terrible things doesn’t make one a nazi, and claiming it does makes you look like a child.