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TanneriusFromRome [they/them, comrade/them] @ TanneriusFromRome @hexbear.net
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Contrapoints gives her full take on Israel/Palestine and it’s as bad as you expect.

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  • This is an absurdly good joke. So good that I had to log in to let you know.

    • Is being a prosecutor as much as ghoul job as I think?

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  • Prosecution can have significant elements of victim advocacy, and when the right person is in the role they can influence things like, e.g., more sexual offending being prosecuted (even going against police recommendations). Prison abolition (not the broader defund movement) is a hard one for me, tbh, because there are people who just aren't safe to be in society the way it is (serious family abuse and things like that spring to mind), and we have no alternative structures to remove them in our society currently.

    This is a key idealism vs materialism thing for me, and I think leftists knee jerk it too much. Yes, a LOT of prosecutors ARE ghouls, but I don't think it's necessarily a ghoulish job given what's currently available to us as societal tools for public safety.

    Edit: My point is more leftist prosecutors please. You may get the wall by affiliation given the above knee jerk, but you can do material good as well.

    • Anyone have any advice on hating people less?

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  • What reengages my empathy muscle is remembering that lots of these people are fucking miserable, even if they lack the introspection to appreciate it. Imagine being a fucking evangelical conservative housewife for instance - no real agency or support or avenue to grow. Even imagine yourself as an evangelical conservative bread-winning husband - no real avenue for self expression or discovery, and you harm the people around you constantly without a framework to understand that.

    Even when you look at fascist states like Israel, how fucking tragic for all of those indoctrinated people that their worldview is as narrow and corrupted as it is, and, honestly, most of those people didn't have a hope in hell. Fucking cooked because they happened to be born in a fascist state.

    Whenever I go down this line of thinking, I always end up feeling that it's just so... sadly rational that so many awful people are full of that weird impotent rage.

    NB: I am also definitely not saying that I'm some saint who can always keep this thinking, it is truly advice on framing that makes me personally hate people less when I have the energy for it.

    • "Unless Trump wins and we get rid of the mountain of smothering regulations (that have nothing to do with safety!) humanity will never reach Mars. This is existential."

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  • lmao I'm so fucking glad he outed himself to a much wider population as a lil' ol' not-smart weirdo with... y'know... everything he's done recently

    Still not ideal

    , but at least fewer people at work will repeat this to me as a serious claim, and those who do with less enthusiasm on average

    • US leaves Hurricane Helene survivors behind while funding Israel’s genocidal war. As the death toll from the storm climbs to 204, Congress has made no efforts to secure more disaster relief funding.

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  • I hadn't even considered how jarring the political switch to antisemitism will be. Dems through a lens of nauseatingly misused left-adjacent points, and Reps with more overt racism and exciting language. If the NYT runs an article called "Were the Alt-Right right about Israel?" I'm putting my fucking head right in the lathe next

    • Significant Hezbollah military retaliation to Israeli aggression

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  • Nah, I'm just a normal person without an editor. MB fam

    • Significant Hezbollah military retaliation to Israeli aggression

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  • I think I got it

    • Significant Hezbollah military retaliation to Israeli aggression

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  • That's a fair point

    I had meant purely that I didn't recall a Hezbollah retaliation as wide scale as this before now. Clearly they're being intentionally provoked, and are not in any sense the aggressors here.

    What do you think is a better way to say it? I will edit

    Edit: I just made it super academic and it fixed it as far as I can see.

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    Significant Hezbollah military retaliation to Israeli aggression

    Libs are coming close to realizing that these are the same exact thing.

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  • "Hah, how wonderful! And how do they reply when you say you don't necessarily want them to die?"

    "I don't say that."

    • you are antisemitic if you don't think the National Guard should be called up to murder peaceful student protestors

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  • The word "antisemitism" has lost all meaning.

    They're pretty explicit in talking about the word, not the concept. Nobody here is saying antisemitism, the concept, doesn't exist or isn't important, but that the signifier less and less frequently refers to the actual concept of antisemitism.

    I think you might just be arguing at cross purposes. Original post was borderline a purely linguistic observation, but you're talking about the underlying phenomenon.