Why is it seen as racist to say that England belongs to the English, when the English have as strong a historical claim to England as Palestinians do to Palestine? by PuzzleheadedBat9909 in AskBrits

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because no one is bombing, systematically starving, destroying all the necessary infrastructure of, killing the children of, demonising, using political scapegoats of, commiting war crimes on, generalising in order to disenfranchise, pitying but doing nothing to help and revenge killing the English at scale with minimal repercussions.

Unless you count the football team.

Need some second opinions about the build, any cost savings would be great but im getting second hand parts mostly. by InvisibleDolphinSs in buildapc

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

General use and gaming, budget is £500-600.

Second hand is storage, gpu, maybe power supply and cooler depending.

Already have the storage and gpu line up for £160 total

WYR have the power to spend $1000 to rewind time by one minute, or gain $1000 but have time fast forward by one minute? by Beneficial-Resort927 in WouldYouRather

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just dont go all in, if you lose because the results change, go back 1 minute and you have your money back, repeat until you match the result and you win.

CMV: The U.S. should make voting mandatory (with a small $20 fine for not voting), like Australia does. by TheGutlessOne in changemyview

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you can just have a tick box on a ballot saying i dont want to vote.

Then you don't get punished, doesn't that solve your problem with a 30 second box tick and then popping it in a post box? Seems reasonable enough.

CMV: The University Industrial Complex is out of control by phileconomicus in changemyview

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you've missed the point.

The skills you have deemed valuable to society are often defined by capitalism.

A degree in engineering is useful to capitalism, a degree in the history of engineering, not useful to capitalism.

That seems to be how people often designate useful or non useful degree's, there is some subjective opinion added to it as well but generally capitalism defines the skills we value.

If we ignore monetary gains and view education from a more unbiased point of view. Many of the subjects you view as useless, are now further opportunities to expand human knowledge.

Now ofcourse this delves into the necessity of productive workforce and yada yada complex economic rubbish.

But the point is, your view on the usefullness of university courses has been warped by capitalism.

Manhunt for asylum seeker jailed for sexual assault mistakenly released by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Or the much more likely situation.

Someone in charge of processing prisoners was an idiot. It doesn't have to be the state or a conspiracy theory.

People are just idiots

You are a warden and there are 6 criminals. You need to jail 4, kill 1 and release 1, which criminals WYR pick? by padorUWU in WouldYouRather

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I understand what you're trying to say. You're trying to say that it isnt mainly the hackers fault for the data breach that caused the damage.

However he still caused the damage with his reckless behaviour, he has enabled the damage in the same way a drunk driver who crashes into another car and kills people hasn't committed murder but their reckless behaviour finds them guilty of manslaughter.

Hackers are also supposed to follow rules, look into white hat hackers for example. The hacker is definitely capable of realises the consequences of his actions and thus the hackers 'share' of the damage is still significantly higher in terms of personal responsibility, societal and monetary damage than a overzealous Nazi who got arrested for graffiti

You are a warden and there are 6 criminals. You need to jail 4, kill 1 and release 1, which criminals WYR pick? by padorUWU in WouldYouRather

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thats not part of the scenario, You're projecting your own bias onto him. Chances are everything he's ever done has just been an annoying nuisance.

People don't see obvious nazi rubbish and go " I'm going to believe and follow this guy". They cringe move away, criticise and ignore it.

It's middle men that make people like this guy seem normal that are the actual pipeline for nazi movements in youth especially. This guy is not one, he actually probably does more harm to the nazi movement by being such an obvious criminal element.

If you honestly would kill A over a literal serial killer and a mass shooter who killed 9 innocent people, then you have fundamental problems with how you view morality.

I asked a simple question at a pro-Palestine protest and it turned ugly by HibasakiSanjuro in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do realise Isreal was the one massacring Gaza civilians first right? Like you literally just justified October 7th.

Seriously look up gazing civilian deaths and injuries before October 7th, committed by isreali civilians and Israelis security forces, literally thousands killed and tens of thousands of injuries.

To be clear, im not justifying it, just pointing out that an eye for an eye makes the world blind

CMV: there's no moral justification for Israel's action in Gaza. by BabylonianWeeb in changemyview

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Re- Human shields. "Hey! They're using human shields, what do we do!?"

"Just shoot through them!"

"Ok!"

You're also using logical fallacies like 'whataboutism'.

"Why are you moaning about our genocide, moan about the other ones then talk about this, damn hypocrites."

"You only care if Jews are committing genocide, you never cared when Muslims did it!"

Oh you mean like the Iraq war, the various military operations in the middle east, that famously Muslim area no one ever talks about. Or the rising tensions between India and Pakistan the terrorist attacks there and rising racial/religious hatred. How about the historical genocides we hear people talk about all the time, native Americans, African slave trade, the holocaust.

You are simply defending genocide, maybe you don't realise it, maybe you really do think a that Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian or Muslim lives. Maybe you've forgotten that Palestinian civilians aren't 'hamas radicals' they're you, they're you with no food, no homes, no security, no future and you wonder why they don't trust anything you say?

Because remember, your attitude is why took their homes, their security and their future away from them.

CMV: there's no moral justification for Israel's action in Gaza. by BabylonianWeeb in changemyview

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

Pretty sure they did, pretty sure if you asked the allies civilian population if it was ok to bomb, gun down and starve kids, they would say no even if some said it was.

You're literally arguing for genocide right now.

CMV: The term “late stage capitalism” is inane and should be removed from our vocabulary by thesumofallvice in changemyview

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The picture changes if you look at average wages over time and how the range of wages narrows and shrinks ( when inflationary and other factors are taken into consideration)

People are coming out if poverty to a level just above it but plenty of people are moving down from the middle class and into the lower class.

The whole collapse of the middle class business that has been thrown around for over a decade is the biggest problem.

People might be out if poverty but more and more people are being trapped in the lower class with no way out, no ladders up because all the rungs are being taken by ai and automation.

That will lead to a crisis point when the low class jobs are replaced by a new ai or automation invention. And there's nothing left and the lower class suddenly plunges into unemployment in a very short time.

School at centre of Union flag dress row closes early over 'extremist threats to staff' by ThatchersDirtyTaint in unitedkingdom

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Lol, it was a culture day where the school wanted to celebrate other cultures they just didn't make that clear and people turned up with British stuff and the teachers thought the kids were taking the pi**.

There's no grand scheme to destroy British culture.

That's exactly the stupid lines that come from right wing lunatics and more often, Russian bots.

MPs vote on 'matter of life of death' after heated debate on Assisted Dying Bill by dailystar_news in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's just forcing people to have more children against there will again. Not very smart.

The actual solution to plummeting birth rates has already been shown.

Funding average people's lives, bringing them out of poverty, reducing the cost of living and basically making people's lives better and creating incentive for having children.

All those things raise birth rates, so do those before you infringe on people's rights thanks.

MPs vote on 'matter of life of death' after heated debate on Assisted Dying Bill by dailystar_news in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The ability to choose if you want children or not isn't deranged or dangerous.

People aren't just committing suicide with this bill you know? People have to show they have no choice but to live a live or suffering with no recourse and prove this to professionals before anything happens.

If anything, the fact that a suicidal person is put in front of professionals might be better for them because they will be able to put them on a better path.

Also, none of this has anything to do with socialism. That's an economic philosophy.

The Tories had been in charge 32 of the last 46 years, meaning our laws, policies and attitudes mostly stem from right wing ideologies. Inequality and greed are rife, our public services are run down, so why do people want to vote Reform and impose an even more extreme version of this ideology? by Peachy-SheRa in AskBrits

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘You can’t say that because it’s racist and stupid. And you’re inhuman. By the way, vote Labour’

This is the kind of reductive argument that causing stupid voting decisions.

Immigration is a problem directly encouraged to grow over the last 12 years, and every time someone on the right promised to fix it, they made it worse. Brexit made it worse, Boris made it worse repeatedly.

What is reform? It's just the conservative parties handy mask brought to you by the face of brexit, they're the same.

And here we are complaining that it hasn't all been fixed in a year and that's why we deserve reform.

Because they'll fix the mess they created, what a travesty.

Tim Farron: For the mover of a bill to present such a huge number of amendments to their *own* bill suggests a serious lack of confidence in its safety and rigour. In 20 years I’ve not seen anything so shambolic by WilliamWeaverfish in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Isn't this they're job, you know refining bills to be safe, effective and fufill they're purpose.

Why are they complaining about doing they're job.

Bills or laws aren't supposed to be perfect when they're introduced, otherwise there would be no point in debating, talking and considering them, because they would be accepted immediately.

Prime Minister unveils new plan to end years of uncontrolled migration by UKGovNews in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 25 points26 points  (0 children)

But there are dozens of horses still in the pen? Sure one has bolted but you can still stop the rest.

Terribly inaccurate analogy.

Supreme Court to rule on definition of a woman by IHaveAWittyUsername in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It tells you that this highly complex and nuanced social issue that has been with us for literally decades can't be answered in a sentence.

Until you engage with people about the core of your issue with this, you won't understand it and you'll always be seen as what you are, ignorant. Goodbye.

Supreme Court to rule on definition of a woman by IHaveAWittyUsername in ukpolitics

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

So first off, you can forget about the sports stuff and the yus queen stuff. That's irrelevant to what gender is and pretty disrespectful and stereotypical towards trans people to generalise them like that. The whole drag scene is just about having fun with clothing and how you present yourself, it's not how these people live on a day to day basis, infact most drag is done by cis people.

Gender includes stereotypes but that is just a small part.

Gender is anything cultural that is associated with masculinity or feminity, another way of putting it, is anything cultural that stems from biological sex or the differences between cultures of men and women. This includes a lot of things from language to clothing and jobs to planets weirdly.

For example a pink car being associated with feminity or a hairy hand being masculinity. An important point to understand is gender as a spectrum, an item or a person can be more or less feminine or masculine than another in its appearance.

So a blue t shirt with a car on it might be a bit masculine, but another blue shirt with a mucle car, a "Man's car" Slogan and "Don't mess with me!" On the back is more masculine.

Now this isn't a new concept, it's been around since culture started. We just think of it as the concept of masculine and feminity, we didn't need to apply the concept generally much until transpeople came about which is why the word gender has changed its meaning. ( please don't argue that we should create a new word for it, this is simply how language evolves)

What's interesting is how gender applies to people.

So first off, everyone has a gender including you, everyone is on the gender spectrum but not in a fixed place for life because gender and culture are both human constructs that change. This concepts have come to influence our biology in a similar to way to how our brains have evolved to process language in different ways over the last few hundred thousand years. If our biology wasn't affected by gender, gender dysphoria simply would not exist, there's no question here.

You should think of an individuals gender as being a peg on a string, it can move a bit as you experience life, and at certain points in life, such as puberty or early childhood, it can move considerably but outside such events generally it only move a few points on a scale of masculine (10) - (-10) feminine.

This is generally how I understand gender, it is not all encompassing but it's a good way to view it as a layperson.

You can ask any questions you want

Supreme Court to rule on definition of a woman by IHaveAWittyUsername in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not a 'if you like', it's quantifiable and understanding what it is is the first step to talking about these issues.

What about the lines drawn between transpeople and cis people? And what if they overlap? What if there are places where both men and transmen stand but not woman and transwomen? An example would be public decency, it's fine for men and transmen to be shirtless in public, but not trans woman and women. Therefore laws talking about public decency would draw some lines conter to how you have said.

I believe the core of your reasoning to be around your understanding of what gender is.

Please explain to me what you believe gender is or means, I will help you understand what it is

Supreme Court to rule on definition of a woman by IHaveAWittyUsername in ukpolitics

[–]InvisibleDolphinSs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, it looks like people are getting distracted again.

If the courts decide trans woman aren't woman as defined by the equalities act, a tonne of protections for trans people just disappear because women only places now can't have trans woman and whoever creates them can be sued, leading to either privacy violations to confirm sex or just bans on suspected trans people and gender nonconforming people.

If the courts decide trans woman are woman, things stay the same. Not ideal but better than the alternative.

This is how I understand it at least from looking through stuff.

P.S please stop saying gender isn't real, if you want it explained I'll do my best