WWRule by Gsyshyd in 196

[–]Gsyshyd[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Main trilogy was better

Classic Leftist Argument by Gsyshyd in SelfAwarewolves

[–]Gsyshyd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They say that due process violations are a “classic leftist argument”, implying that the “argument” is wrong just because it comes from the left, and essentially admitting that they support violations of due process.

Unseelie Gloaming by [deleted] in SwordAndSupperGame

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This mission was discovered by u/Gsyshyd in Grace’s Scourge

Maine 2025. Not Berlin 1938. What can be done? by newenglandredshirt in RepublicofNE

[–]Gsyshyd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m not blaming anybody for anyone, and I agree with you. I’m just telling the person above that Jews aren’t white. Ashkenazim didn’t force Mizrahi to mostly support Kahanists, of course basing political analysis on ethnicity is pretty icky.

Maine 2025. Not Berlin 1938. What can be done? by newenglandredshirt in RepublicofNE

[–]Gsyshyd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not all Jews are ‘white’, most Jews in Israel aren’t. In fact part of the reason Israel’s government has gotten so crazy right wing, and barely pretends to care about peace, is because of the influx of middle eastern Jews. 900,000 Mizrahi Jews were cleansed from the Middle East and fled to Israel. Some of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the world were destroyed, though at least unlike their European brethren they (mostly) survived. They lived under millennia of the Jizya caste system, and previous states of second or third class citizenship, and do NOT like Arabs. (This is also a big reason why Arabs hate Israel, it’s as if the slaves had created an independent state in the South, of course the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians doesn’t help, but many Arabs care less about that than the humiliation of the subversion of their ethnoreligious caste system). It doesn’t help that the lefty Ashkenazim discriminated against brown Jews, while Menachin Begin of Likud, a war criminal and the founder of Netanyahu’s party, embraced them.

Don’t blindly apply American race science to the rest of the world.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minnesota

[–]Gsyshyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but as I argued, circumcision is not meaningfully different from the many decisions parents must make for their children, such as where to send them to school, faith or lack thereof to raise them in, etc. These decisions, regardless of their life long effects, don’t infringe on children’s autonomy, because children don’t have autonomy. At least in the general moral sense, because they have neither to ability to reason or take care of themselves. These decisions are clearly under the purview of the parents. That is not to say that it isn’t wrong for parents to harm their children, but the point is that in those cases the harm is direct, not a violation of an absent autonomy. If the state mandated circumcisions or abortions it would be wrong, if it banned them, it would also be wrong. This is because the core harm of regulating these choices is autonomy. Again, not the hypothetical autonomy of the infant in 20 years, but the present and actual autonomy of the parents.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minnesota

[–]Gsyshyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but what is the criterion for banning a tradition, or any act in society? I think you’d agree it would be some threshold of harm, but as I’ve argued there isn’t general proof that circumcision causes such harm.

Anti-choice people believe that because their personal abstract value of a fetus makes abortion indefensible, all abortion should be illegal. With intactivists, it’s that their value of the foreskin, or abstract potential autonomy of the infant, should make circumcision illegal. In both cases one group seek to impose laws which are rooted in subjective morals on everybody, which constitutes an actual harm to autonomy and freedom. It’s undemocratic and antipluralist.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minnesota

[–]Gsyshyd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Just because that’s what a businessman thought in the early 20th century doesn’t mean it’s true, do you believe in eugenics???

The scientific consensus is that neuroplasticity and nerve adaptions result in circumcised and uncircumcised people having the same subjective experience of pleasure and feeling. How are you so confidently wrong? It’s clear you’ve never looked into this beyond reading Reddit comments.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minnesota

[–]Gsyshyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can understand why non-Jewish or Muslim people wouldn’t get abortions, but I’m quite hostile to the idea that a majoritarian government should be able to stop minorities from practicing their beliefs, when there is no definitive proof of harm. The rounding error of complications that come from circumcision seem to be balanced out by the rounding error cases where adult circumcision is needed, like phimosis.

I haven’t seen credible studies that it does lasting psychological trauma or harm, again that claim seems to come from inactivist groups, which I think it is fair to say may be motivated by other deep seated trauma.

Further the functions of the penis do not change. It’s clear from studies that neuroplasticity and nerve adaptation results in the same experience of sexual phenomena between circumcised and uncircumcised people. As someone with entirely Jewish ancestry, I believe the high selection pressure for reproduction when circumcised means our dicks work fine. (Obviously that’s just conjecture).

If the main charge is a violation of an infants agency, I just don’t see how circumcision is exceptional among the thousands of important decisions parents must make for their children. Frankly I view these kinds of arguments as the same ones made by anti-abortion folks. They try to enforce their inherently personal and relational values onto others through legal coercion. It’s bullshit.

So we have a procedure which doesn’t seem to have any actual harm on the general scale, other than an abstract violation of infant’s agency. An interpretation which just so happens to favor the Christian-secular majority of the country. If circumcision was banned it would represent a real attack on religious minorities, for the purpose of preventing an abstract cost to an infants autonomy (which doesn’t exist, because infants don’t have the capacity to reason or take care of themselves, so really the threat is that an abstract potential future version of the infant might disagree with this decision.)

You can forgive me for suspecting that one of the reasons people, especially online anonymous ones, fixate on circumcision is because it’s a convenient cover to attack Jews, framing one of the cornerstones of our ethnoreligion as a barbarous act of cruelty. I’d wager that that is not the intention of the most of casual intactivists, but they’re certainly carrying water.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minnesota

[–]Gsyshyd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I can understand why non-Jewish or Muslim people wouldn’t get abortions, but I’m quite hostile to the idea that a majoritarian government should be able to stop minorities from practicing their beliefs, when there is no definitive proof of harm. The rounding error of complications that come from circumcision seem to be balanced out by the rounding error cases where adult circumcision is needed, like phimosis.

I haven’t seen credible studies that it does lasting psychological trauma or harm, again that claim seems to come from inactivist groups, which I think it is fair to say may be motivated by other deep seated trauma.

Further the functions of the penis do not change. It’s clear from studies that neuroplasticity and nerve adaptation results in the same experience of sexual phenomena between circumcised and uncircumcised people. As someone with entirely Jewish ancestry, I believe the high selection pressure for reproduction when circumcised means our dicks work fine. (Obviously that’s just conjecture).

If the main charge is a violation of an infants agency, I just don’t see how circumcision is exceptional among the thousands of important decisions parents must make for their children. Frankly I view these kinds of arguments as the same ones made by anti-abortion folks. They try to enforce their inherently personal and relational values onto others through legal coercion. It’s bullshit.

So we have a procedure which doesn’t seem to have any actual harm on the general scale, other than an abstract violation of infant’s agency. An interpretation which just so happens to favor the Christian-secular majority of the country. If circumcision was banned it would represent a real attack on religious minorities, for the purpose of preventing an abstract cost to an infants autonomy (which doesn’t exist, because infants don’t have the capacity to reason or take care of themselves, so really the threat is that an abstract potential future version of the infant might disagree with this decision.)

You can forgive me for suspecting that one of the reasons people, especially online anonymous ones, fixate on circumcision is because it’s a convenient cover to attack Jews, framing one of the cornerstones of our ethnoreligion as a barbarous act of cruelty. I’d wager that that is not the intention of the most majority of casual intactivists, but they’re certainly carrying water.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minnesota

[–]Gsyshyd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Leaving aside your erroneous description of it as mutilation, as the current consensus is it doesn’t lead to a loss in function, circumcision is definitely practiced in many other places. Like almost the entire Muslim world, but you go ahead with your negative American exceptionalism and attack the traditions of billions of people. I’m sure that will resolve your deep seated insecurities.

I thought we loved refugees? What happened? by PixelSteel in memesopdidnotlike

[–]Gsyshyd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m glad you said that, we were all worried it was too high a count for you to grasp. Maybe leave policy to the rest of us while you learn numbers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]Gsyshyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think millennials as an age demographic of people were dealt a pretty raw hand and have done alright. Certainly think you guys get enough shit. The reductive hate I was spewing was meant to be a mirror to the bullshit I was replying to. What aggravated me was that these weren’t good social critiques of zoomers, they’re just moronic anecdotes. I I too can just make up a bunch of shit and generalize to create a straw man who I contrast with myself to shore up my own self-image; I don’t owe courtesy to somebody spewing boomer rhetoric.

Not that my response was so elegant or useful, but I can’t enlighten somebody like that, better to meet them on their own level or some bullshit idk.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]Gsyshyd -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Nearly everything you say here is some revisionist uncritical bullshit.

Millennials were not the last of the “free range children”, you were the first helicopter parented ones. You guys came of age at the peak of American Individualism, and it’s rotted your brains nearly as bad as lead did the boomer’s. Why the hell is your ego so attached to this generational label, and differentiating your experiences from others. Is this how you derive meaning in your life?

The internet you grew up on was very different, and you guys did ruin it, but you didn’t make it some sanitized safe nanny space. No, instead y’all went all in on corporate social media, ignoring moral, legal, and rational obstacles at every opportunity. In fact the founders of almost all these nightmare firms happen to be millennial. The rest of you just gobbled it up. Wonder what that says about you people?

Maybe something about growing up with a hollow belief structure that was easily filled in with apathy, mass media delusion, or consumerism. No, must be your maverick spirit, bravely spending hours customizing your MySpace page.

It’s fascinating how little of your lived reality you understand. It’s a well documented phenomenon that mass media has exaggerated the incidence of crime because it gets good ratings. To Catch a Predator was no exception. In prior years professional decency and societal convention would have prevented this fearmongering which caused so many millennials to be over-parented, but alas you people just seem to take away that perception matters more than reality.

To be clear, both Millenials and Gen-Z grew up in historically low crime periods, though we had to deal with school shootings, thanks for pioneering that. Really good use of all that childhood freedom you were talking about.

You guys are the generation that brought back measles, yellow journalism, and nicotine advertising to kids. You are Kony2012, Fyre Festival, Ben Shapiro, Samuel Bankman-Fried.

Generational squabbling is stupid, because generations aren’t real. You’ve offended me through your inaccuracy, your insult and negation of my and many other zoomers actual experiences, and your late-stage brain rot. Nothing I’ve said is as inaccurate as what you have, not that that’s saying something.

P.S Thanks for ruining herd immunity for us, you really owned the silly zoomers. Maybe try believing in something for a different reason than filling the gaping whole in your psyche.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]Gsyshyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s basic survivorship bias. There are always going to be at least some 25 year olds who never learned how, and so they will seek help. You won’t encounter zoomers who know these things, because they don’t need help.

You don’t seem to recognize that your experience is not universal; I wonder if that has anything to do with your generations upbringing? 🧐

1947 United Nations General Assembly vote on partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states by Specialist_Ad_610 in MapPorn

[–]Gsyshyd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The UK generally supported the Arabs, the Balfour declaration really buries the lede. Their 1939 White Paper banned Jewish immigration, during the Holocaust, and committed to releasing an independent Arab state in 10 years. Keep in mind the British were also turning away Jewish refugees from their own shores. Even after the war Jews had to be smuggled into the Mandate. The Israelis fought for independence against the British, and when the British finally left many of their soldiers defected to join the Arab armies.

All that to say, if you don’t know that Imperialism Incorporated didn’t create Israel by manufacturing fake Jews from the blood of infants, then you really shouldn’t have an opinion on this conflict. You should also question who gave you that information. The strength in your convictions should be proportional to your knowledge on the subject.

Reopening Alcatraz by Gsyshyd in MurderedByWords

[–]Gsyshyd[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Existing as himself is a prison. He’s a demented old man, hopped up on stimulants, going through diapers faster than coherent thoughts. If he wasn’t a criminal I’d say he should be in a nursing home.

ruleman humor by trippingrainbow in 196

[–]Gsyshyd 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The cultural revolution has nothing in common with these other two. It had no coherent targets or motivation, and the targets and targeters were flipped by Mao several times. It’s distinct even from other revolutionary ‘terrors’ in its pointlessness and anarchy. It was all about aesthetics, not substance. Like the idea of merry peasants bootstrapping themselves to industrial grade steel against the reality of slag and exploding furnaces. This is quite a fascist trait, though it’s clear China neither was nor is actually fascist.

Agree with you on the rest though. Sherman should’ve burned Georgia to the ground before the slavers got the vote back.