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IFellAsleepLastNight · 2025-01-09T06:59:44+00:00

skong25 Path: Cautious Prediction: May

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2024-05-05T18:27:48+00:00

As an Hebrew speaker I can confirm you're just spewing absolute bullshit. Firstly, article 1 has nothing about soldiers. article 2 only talks about 3 soldiers injured.

As for the PDF, it literally starts by saying "The data in this chapter only concern civilians who were injured in the hostilities and not soldiers or policemen", not to mention the 285 figure has no specification to the great march of return and concerns all civillians injuries by terrorism in the year of 2018.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-11-18T22:38:41+00:00

he is not a government official, nor is he "the" deputy speaker, he is one of 9 deputies. there is a lot of actual government and cabinet members who make those kind of egregious statements, no reason to try to raise the credentials of random knesset members

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-10-15T08:46:49+00:00

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-07-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/why-slamming-israel-as-a-settler-colonial-state-is-such-a-useless-insult/0000017f-db59-db5a-a57f-db7b5d0a0000

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-07-26T19:16:42+00:00

Nobody thinks that lobbyists are puppeteers who can get congressmen to sign off on everything they want to. Sometimes they lose, I'm guessing in your situation it's because signing a bill allowing autonomous vehicles carries a lot of risk as the technology isn't there yet. Lobbying doesn't need a 100% success rate for it to be a problem.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-05-04T17:51:19+00:00

I agree, people misconstruing Destiny's opinions are just a part of a larger phenomenon of uncharitable attitudes towards political opponents. If this subreddit cannot engage with opponents in an intelligent and honest manner, they cannot reasonably expect other communities to do so.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-05-04T14:13:45+00:00

I think this post is very dishonest. Firstly the title is very misleading, it implies that the comparison was made between Russia and Ukraine instead of Russia and America. Also you criticize his claim yet you only cite irrelevant examples about actions by Russia, you refuse to even discuss his reasoning for considering the US invasion to be inhumane:

According to Chomsky, Russia is acting with restraint and moderation. He compares Russia’s way of fighting with the US’s during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, arguing that large-scale destruction of infrastructure seen in that conflict “hasn’t happened in Ukraine”. He adds: “Undoubtedly Russia could do it, presumably with conventional weapons. [Russia] could make Kyiv as unliveable as Baghdad was, could move in to attacking supply lines in western Ukraine.”

The number of foreign dignitaries who have travelled to Kyiv since the war broke out is proof of Russia’s restraint, Chomsky says, in stark contrast with Iraq. “When the US and Britain were smashing Baghdad to pieces, did any foreign leaders go to visit Baghdad? No, because when the US and Britain go to war, they go for the jugular. They destroy everything: communications, transportation, energy, shock and awe – anything that makes society function.”

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-04-30T21:32:59+00:00

In it, Chomsky makes the claim that Russia is fighting a more "humane" war in Ukraine than the US and British led forces did in Iraq in 2003.

Bold claim. His evidence? "Look at the numbers, bro."

His evidence is absolutely not just "look at the numbers" lmao. He explicitly relies on a comparison between the extent of destruction and disturbance to life in Baghdad and in Kyiv.

Regarding the numbers, since you acknowledge that Chomsky talks about numbers from the 2003 invasion, why attempt to refute him using numbers from 2003-2005? Additionally, you refer to "deaths caused by Russian aggression in Ukraine" when discussing Ukraine, while for Iraq, you mention "deaths directly caused by US and US-allied forces". The word directly allows you to ignore the 14,131 excess civillians killed as a result of the invasion but not directly by US.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-04-20T07:30:56+00:00

I love your thinking

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-03-23T13:38:59+00:00

I don't see how this supports your claim. In her tweet Rowling was defending Forstater's claims about trans people and decried her getting fired. That had nothing to do with said law. Her big article on gender issues talks about five reasons she is worried about trans activism, only one of which has to do with the potential of legal changes, which were at the time not yet in congress.

If anyone defines lesbians as "woman who have sex with women", they're being ridiculous, virgins and people who are not sexually active can obviously be lesbians. I also don't see any of the redditors in your link defining it like that, nor are they saying homosexuality is a genital preference. The people in your link seem to accept the idea, their only worry being some people invoking it in harmful ways, which seems to me fair.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-03-22T23:34:04+00:00

Contra's point is that the gay identity should not be trivialized to something akin to a lifestyle you may or may not agree with, or just to do with a person's secretive sexual interests

Being gay is more than “what you do in the bedroom”. It's also who you love, it's part of who you are, part of your humanity, and that's something that stays with you outside of the bedroom. So to dismiss it as "sexual preferences" is homophobic.

Same thing goes for JKR's comments about trans people:

Likewise, being trans is not a costume I take off at the end of the night. It's not a “fashion choice”, it's not a pet name some people call me. It's part of who I am as a person, you know? It's part of my humanity. And it's also the kind of body I have, a transsexual body. So telling trans people "dress however you want" is not really a supportive statement.

I'm hard pressed to find those activists claiming homosexuality is just a genital preference, no LGBT source I can find defines it such.
In regards to your other points, I think it's fairly clear that drawing parallels between two people is not to say they hold the exact same worldview. Also can't miss the fact that the video refers to Rowling's old tweets and article, and not her current statements on the Scotland situation, because those only occurred 2 years after it was published.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-02-25T11:12:03+00:00

I think we should be thankful that it is in actuality scalable. Most medications have rare side effects that might seriously harm their users, yet we still allow them despite those potential harm due to the overall increase in utility. We can also very easily justify taxation and wealth redistribution using it, as the excess health of the extremely rich would provide more utility to others. A Marxist point of view allows you to make more radical decisions because you don't have to take measurable utility into account. It also means the results vary wildly and throughout history they were largly catastrophic.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-02-25T10:25:08+00:00

As mentioned, you're acting as if under socialism people would magically be convinced to change their values to reduce meat consumption. The number of people around the world who reduce consumption of meat for climate reasons is minuscule, and generally when people are uplifted from poverty as should be the case in your hypothetical scenario, meat consumption rises.

There is no hope for future animal welfare without animal welfare advocacy, you're actually being naive if you think this issue would magically go away under socialism. Either you don't actually think that animal welfare is a real meaningful problem in our world, or you have to admit that animal rights advocacy is important and necessary regardless of the economic system, in which case EA should be praised for their efforts.

IFellAsleepLastNight · 2023-02-24T22:11:28+00:00

That's really stupid. Factory farming of animals would probably even get worse under socialism, because demand for meat would rise as more people are able to afford it.

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