• fxomt@lemm.ee
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    51 minutes ago

    Trump stops the genocide

    OOP must have been fucking zooted out of his mind, no sensible Arab or person in general believes trump is going to solve anything; in fact, he will make everything so much worse.

    At this point, i wish the best for our brothers and sisters in Palestine, and i hope they live to see the end of the genocide. It’s a lose-lose situation for them either way, but one way is clearly worse.

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    The fact that some people voted for a basically open fascist because of something happening outside of their country is fucking wild

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      I just hate when they say one imperialist colonizer is bad (Israel) yet another good (Russia). Fucking hypocrites don’t actually care about the suffering - just the political wedge they can use.

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        I haven’t ever even broached Tibet because I don’t think I could stomach witnessing the ensuing trainwreck of logic.

        It’s just so incredibly intellectually disingenuous. I got in it with one at one point (big mistake on my part) saying that no country or system is perfect, and a meaningful indicator evidencing critical thought is the capacity to criticize your own system. What, in their mind, were the top issues with China?

        1. Too much freedom in the market.
        2. Doesn’t project it’s system outside it’s border enough.

        Ok. I’m talking to a rational actor. Lol.

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    People need to remember Netantahu wants Trump in power, so is going to make decisions that are good optics for Trump when he can. He similarly made decisions that are bad optics for Biden on purpose. While Biden did himself no favors, never forget Netanyahu is the one who put him in that position.

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      Henry Kissinger did something similar to delay the end of the Vietnam war, in order to get Nixon elected.

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    I would like to remind people this conflict is decades and decades old, it’s not a democrat thing, or republican thing. America has supported this genocide for over 50 years. The democrats and republicans of now will surely, if unfortunately, continue.

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      7 hours ago

      Just like when Nixon sabotaged the Paris peace talks, or when Reagan betrayed the American hostages in Iran.

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    …are we counting “no Palestinians left” as the end of the genocide? 😬

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    One can hope.

    Other than hoping, I am donating a few bucks to the most pro-Palestinian politicians.

    I have been looking for protests but they are hard to learn about.

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      Wow. Just universally equating all Arabs to one another. So, to you, there’s no difference whatsoever between individual Arabs, they all believe and act exactly the same, all over the world? Doesn’t matter who specifically did the things you’re claiming, they’re all guilty?

      Quite possibly the most blatantly racist comment I’ve seen to date on Lemmy. And you have the audacity to call out others here.

      I hope you do some serious introspection before speaking on this topic again.

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        I’m honestly confused. What on Earth does the way you wipe your ass imply? And how do you know that?

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          I think it comes from the fact that if you have a vagina and the accompanying microscopic perineum then you should not wipe back to front, as that could potentially move bacteria from fecal matter towards the vulva, where it could get into the urethra and cause a UTI or any number of places and cause all sorts of undesirable issues, and thus doing it is “stupid” as in a bad idea. From that it became a more general way of saying someone is “stupid” like “you sound like you ate play-doh/glue/whatevs as a kid”. Got picked up on some twitter-adjacent parts of the internet and now it’s slang.

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          It’s just a terminally online way of calling someone stupid. Don’t think too hard about it.

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      Sadly there are too much Anti-western actors interested in it being perceived as genocide, no matter what’s happening on the ground. With billions of Qatari/IRGC/Putin/CCP money it can be easy to spread a narrative, especially against the only state that is Jewish

      And kudos for combating “the poplar” narrative, I used to argue quite a lot about politics a year ago back on kbin, but after a bunch of the same discussions and buzzwords lost motivation to do it

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      Your hasbara saves me from having to check the modlog for why you’re banned from .ml for a year.

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    And then there is the rest of the Fediverse thinking this squabble between. World and. Ml is fucking retarded

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        Sorry but I dont sugar coat the word to holdback progress, development or accomplishment.

        Total humbug it is censoring ones self.

        But thank you for your input

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        Every single word which has been used to refer to a mentally disabled person will, eventually, become a slur.

        “Idiot” and “moron” used to be technical medical terms. There actually used to be a whole spectrum, with “idiot” being a pretty profound level of disability, meaning that someone’s mental age was around two years old or younger.

        “Retarded” was a new invention, to introduce a new term which didn’t overlap with the slurs for a non-disabled person who was being stupid. Eventually, it came to be used as a slur, at which point we couldn’t used it for actually disabled people anymore. This cycle will repeat, I think, without end.

        Probably the best thing to do is use terms which are too cumbersome to easily become slurs. “Mentally disabled” is one.

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          No, messing around on lemmy while your anus is bleeding is retarded, GO SEE A DOCTOR!

      • nevaseerius@sh.itjust.works
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        Real talk, how is stupid any less ableist than retard? Same meaning, same origin. It’s like telling people to stop calling black people n-words, call them coons instead. Pretty silly imo!

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          Stupid is the lower end of normal intelligence variation, retarded implies a developmental or other condition outside of the normal variation.

          Stupid doesn’t refer to a disability, retarded does. That’s how stupid is less ableist.

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          I don’t know if I completely agree with the R-word being now not acceptable as much as the N-word.

          But I believe the reason behind it is ‘stupid’ is and always has been general term for anyone and always has been.

          ‘Retard’ was actually used as a medical term for a class of people that had cognitive issues outside of their control. And while a good majority of people have re-used the word to general mean ‘stupid’ over the years with no intention to imply said person you are saying that to actually has ‘cognitive issues’ outside of their control.

          I believe that’s why its derogatory now, but yeah… language is always changing.

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            Stop implying the word and say it, because of your inability to say said word means I now say it in my head because you use a silly other word to call the word what it is now placing the burden on me because you are a coward to say a word. Go to Australia and yell cunt, ya wont even get a reaction but I bet you will say something about me saying cunt because you are one.

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          Stupid is a behavior, an action.

          Rtrded is an outdated way to describe a permanent mental/learning disability.

          Generally it’s best to make fun of things people do choicefully, not things they were born with. It’s also best not to make fun of people by suggesting they have a permanent condition that real people are dealing with. (Especially using outdated language to do so, from when even less respect was paid to the people who had that disability)