"To avenge the murdered children we must murder thousands more children" vs "it's actually fine to murder children as long as someone else murdered even more children", nationalism is a disease
20.02.2025 19:43 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@kenanperry.bsky.social
Tour guide in San Francisco π³οΈβπβ‘οΈπ£ Israeli-American and no happier about it than you are, he/him
"To avenge the murdered children we must murder thousands more children" vs "it's actually fine to murder children as long as someone else murdered even more children", nationalism is a disease
20.02.2025 19:43 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0You are cozily nestled in a fuzzy blanket even though you, yourself, are fuzzy. Curious!
19.02.2025 02:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The "dark triad" of psychological traits (autistic, gay, Jewish)
16.02.2025 23:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01. It would be bad if I were killed
2. Therefore any applicable argument for killing me, like "some members of your ethnicity/nationality have done bad things", is bad
3. If it's a bad argument for killing me then it must also be a bad argument for killing anyone else
I'm joining the war on Mexico on the side of Mexico
12.02.2025 04:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll be dead in the cold hard ground before I recognize the "Gulf of America"
12.02.2025 04:41 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I truly don't understand how after a year and a half they can still think that there's some level of violence that would free the hostages and for some reason Israel just hasn't pushed the button yet
11.02.2025 18:22 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Right wingers will really look at the horrible condition the hostages are in and conclude "this makes it all the more important to kill the remaining hostages instead of bringing them home"
11.02.2025 18:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For autistic white boys Kendrick performing at the Super Bowl is like the Super Bowl
10.02.2025 01:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Italian tourist asked me "where's the market where they throw the salmon?" bro Seattle
09.02.2025 02:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Ah but what if they WANT to leave??" Idk, what if, have you tried asking them instead of pre-emptively deciding for them
06.02.2025 02:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The most galling thing is the people pretending that expelling Palestinians from Gaza would be an act of kindness or doing them some favor, can you at least own what you're actually doing
06.02.2025 02:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tearing up the walls looking for the nonexistent levers of the Cathedral etc
05.02.2025 20:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Would be extremely funny if in the midterms they were like "ok now that USAID is gone we don't have to campaign" and get predictably rocked
05.02.2025 20:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The whole tariffs thing is just this youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA
04.02.2025 02:10 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0It's Elon trying to do for the right what they think Soros does for the left
04.02.2025 02:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Republicans say that government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it"
04.02.2025 01:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Ah but the way in which those people do those things isn't different enough from the way other people do them for those people to deserve rights" who cares, get a life
03.02.2025 18:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No group of people in the world "has no culture" because that would mean that they don't eat food, wear clothes, speak a language, use objects, or have any interpersonal interactions or relationships. It's not a possible claim about anyone
03.02.2025 18:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Aristophanes has a bit where Right and Wrong are arguing about who you should follow and Wrong says "if you go with me you can fuck other guys' wives". Right says "but if the husband catches you he'll assfuck you" and Wrong replies "what's so bad about getting assfucked?" which wins the argument
03.02.2025 07:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Let's go pronunciamiento
03.02.2025 06:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pan-fry 'em in schmaltz with some onions and garlic and [chef's kiss]
03.02.2025 06:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reverse caning of Sumner
03.02.2025 06:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm joining the war on Canada on the side of Canada
03.02.2025 06:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That was bad too. Now Trump is doing it even more, which is worse
03.02.2025 02:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0People will never stop making the mistake of assuming "it would be really stupid and crazy and bad if [x] happened, so therefore [x] won't happen"
01.02.2025 21:51 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0In Euros
02.02.2025 04:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0[banging on clipboard] stove stove STOVE STOVE
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