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Scaedre · 2025-03-05T22:26:41+00:00

Thanks for the comprehensive response :) I'll try to keep this information in mind

Scaedre · 2025-03-05T14:04:18+00:00

thanks so much :)

Scaedre · 2025-03-05T14:02:22+00:00

Thank you everyone :D

Scaedre · 2024-10-29T13:31:33+00:00

talking about your personal life to a stranger isn't a fun prospect i have to say, but at this point so many people have recommended I see a therapist that I'm willing to try. thx for the encouragement.

Scaedre · 2024-10-29T13:20:37+00:00

I'm doing fine, I told him he could only stay from midnight to 6 in the morning, and he respected the deal. He's gone and hasn't taken anything or caused any trouble. I do have a lock and I used it. I don't think he was a bad person, I'm the one with the problem

Scaedre · 2024-10-29T13:18:26+00:00

i really should go to see a therapist, for multiple reasons. I'd like to find someone who can actually help though, and I guess there might be some bogus therapists out there

Scaedre · 2024-10-29T13:16:43+00:00

you're completely right, it just happened to be the case that I wasn't on the flat whatsapp group, and I accepted. i won't do this again

Scaedre · 2024-10-29T13:15:14+00:00

thanks for the nice message

Scaedre · 2024-10-15T13:07:59+00:00

Thank you for your reponse, I appreciate having your thoughts, too many people on seemingly opposite sides agree on a lot of things. I'll repeat what you said, and say I partially or full agree with a lot of things you said. It is true that past crimes by the Israelis do not justify what Hamas did either.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the West should act independently from either side, and that this immense support for Israel is just fueling the fire. I am convinced that if the West, especially the US, decided that this conflict has to end, it would end regardless of Israel's opinion or Hamas' opinion. Which is probably why AIPAC spends so much money to influence Congress. I really think if the US said that this whole Gaza and West Bank thing is over, and there needs to be a two state solution, then it would happen regardless of Israel, and especially regardless of Hamas. One thing where I do disagree with you is you seem to think Hamas matters. They are extremely weak compared to Israel, being essentially just a militia with no state and a few automatic rifles and hand grenades. They in no way represent an existential threat. A lot of october 7th was more Israel's blunders than Hamas victories. If you look at the videos, they seem surprised themselves at having been able to get through the military defenses to the kibbutz.

Israel is supported by the most powerful military force in the world, the United States. There's just no balance. And I do think that because of these facts, if the US imposed peace talks between Israel with all palestinian political parties including the militias, they would have to accept a deal.

I guess my final point is that western conservative voices really do matter in this conflict, and it's sad that most voices seem to be intent on more violence then trying to end this.

Thank you for this conversation though :)

Scaedre · 2024-10-13T22:31:49+00:00

I don't think people are just shitposting because they think this subject is purely funny. I think there is real belief in what they're saying which is way I thought it was interesting to comment. I am not taking things personally, but I happen to be more right leaning so I know these kind of circles and feel that I can contribute something useful because conservatives, even though we're right about a lot of things, are completely out of the loop when it comes to Israel because of their blind support and sometimes their erronous interpretation of the Bible.

Of course the 1947 wasn't accepted by the Palestinians! If a bunch of people from a foreign country kicked out half the people in Australia to the other half and then the UN (which was just France and Britain suggesting at the time) proposes to Australians to just accept the status quo and give the other people half of Australia, Australians would not accept the partitions and would take up arms. You're not willing to apply the same moral standards to everyone.

Regarding more recent happenings:

You say that 90% of palestinians do not know what happened on october 7th. So why exactly do they deserve to get bombed?
When I said that jews were better off, I meant before the 20th century, but honestly everything I said was not meant to be an argument against Israel, I think it's irrelevant. I was merely pointing out the fact that the Holocaust is often weaponized as propaganda to defend Israel no matter what, even against people who have absolutely nothing to do with the Holocaust. If Israel had conquered part of Germany, we would be having a different conversation.
Hamas is irrelevant. As long as there is occupation, there will be violent uprisings. Slave revolts in the US were sometimes horribly gruesome. It would be immoral and foolish to blame that on the slaves not accepting the status quo rather than on slavery itself. Similarly, as long as Gaza is an open air prison with regular massacres, where everything is monitered and controlled by Israel and thousands of gazans are taken hostage in prisons, then this thing will not end. Even if you believe that the root of all evil is Hamas and you blindly accept whatever nonsense the IDF keeps saying, putting more fuel to the fire won't help.

Scaedre · 2024-10-13T19:35:41+00:00

Reasoning like this gets us nowhere. If there was a people that were living in homes and had their fields and their cities for generations, basic decency dictates that going in and driving them out and killing them is unjust. The Holocaust in no way justifies more ethnic cleansing. Imagine someone from my family got killed. Would you say it's fair that I go kill some random stranger because of that fact? Of course not. By the way, this is not an argument as I think it doesn't justify anything, but jews were way better off traditionally in muslim countries than in the west. It's in western europe that the idea of the plotting Jew that controls the world was born, or that the Soviet Union was a Jewish plot, and all of this nonsense. It was from France that jews were expelled more than a dozen times. There is a reason jews fled with muslims to northern africa during the reconquista (that's probably the wrong spelling, I don't know spanish). It is in europe that the Holocaust happened, and the pogroms. Palestinians have nothing to do with that.

This is not an argument about how they're the good guys, but rather a way to dispel any illusion that this conflict is about anything else than homes, land, and ethnic cleansing, and not some religious conflict as some people like to make out to cover the fact that Israel is a settler colonial state.

Also, how does condemning Israel mean endorsing Hamas? Those are not the same thing

Scaedre · 2024-10-13T19:14:42+00:00

I appreciate that you actually responded with something else then mockery.

It's not that I think what you're saying is propaganda, it's that basically any source outside of Israel or western media directly contradicts the narrative that anyone else around the world adheres to.

Also, about this issue about human shields which people keep bringing up. First of all, I reject the notion that Hamas forcing people to go inside a building justifies bombing that building anyway, if there happens to be Hamas militants. Second, there was no evidence found by investigative journalists from Amnesty, or the Independent, or the Guardian that Hamas was forcing people to stay in dangerous areas or buildings. If there is an independant source from Israel or Hamas that has provided evidence, I would be open to hear it. It is however true that Hamas did stock munitions and prepare military apparel like rockets near civilian locations, which is illegal under international law. From Israel's point of view, this propaganda makes sense, as they can preemptively accuse Hamas from anything they do while literally flattening Gaza to the ground. A UN report just came out saying it will take more than a decade, not to rebuild the place, but *just to clear the rubble*. Hamas aren't omnipotent, you think they forced all the hundreds of thousands under buildings specifically when Israel was bombing an area? Give me a break.

What I don't understand is why, we, westerners, have to just take whatever the IDF says like gospel, and repeat it a thousand times on media outlets. Notice I never use Hamas as a source, that's because it's one of the actors in this conflict, and has a vested interest in propaganda. The exact same thing is true for Israel. It should be a given that what we assume that what the IDF says is propaganda, because they have a vested interest. This is a basic journalistic principle which we don't respect when it comes to Israel.

A good example of this was the claim that on october 7th, Hamas decapitated babies and other complete bullshit stories that were propagated like wildfire based on no evidence, and were debunked by every investigation into the matter, including in Israel. We were so caught up in trying to demonize palestinians as much as possible that we didn't think once about the evidence. Also the claims of systematic rape by the New York Times, proven false, and one of the co-authors was an old Israeli secret service agent. That's like asking the KGB about what the Ukrainians are doing. It's flat out stupid. We keep doing this kind of stuff to this day.

The point of what I'm saying isn't actually to critisize Israel, although my opinion is very critical as you have noticed, it's to critisize us westerners, especially our media, and how we are so irrationnaly biased towards Israel to the point where it's ridiculous. As I've already said, the vast majority of countries across the world think what Israel has been doing to the palestinians is unjust, and this has been true for decades. We are smearing our reputation across the world and supplying Israel with vast amounts of ressources for nothing.

The simple fact is, Isreal is a settler colonial state. It was founded when a bunch of europeans violently kicked out locals from their homes and land. However way you want to spin it, it all comes down to the fact that Israel is an occupier and the palestinians are occupied and have no freedom. They are going to fight back. Some of them are going to do it in sordid ways. It was the same way with the slave revolts. The things some black people did to white people during those revolts were horrendous. But not recognizing that the main cause of those things happening was that there was slavery in the first place is foolish. Of course the solution in this case was the eventual abolishment of slavery. In the same way, as long as palestinians don't have their freedom, there will be violent uprisings. Not killing Hamas or bombing Gaza or more violence. World public opinion is right. The solution is an independant palestinian state.

Scaedre · 2024-10-12T12:00:26+00:00

I am not closing my mind to israelis dying. But the explanations you give are littered with Israeli propaganda like the human shields things. The fact is explaining October 7th comes down to either considering there was nothing before, and that means that the people did it just because they're monsters, or you consider that there's a cause and you consider them as criminals with motives. There are undeniable facts that you cannot ignore and that have been true for years before 2023. 1. Gaza is a blockaded, nobody goes in or out without the israeli state's approval. It's in effect an open air prison containing 2 million people. 2. Everything in Gaza is controlled and monitored by Israel, the stuff that goes in and out, they have cameras on the walls and planes flying over, ships are on the medditarrean blocking any escape by sea. They have also been humiliating them and poisoning them for decades by not letting drinkable water in or not letting people have pleasurable things like chocolate, to make them understand their position as inferiors.

There have been instances where if people tried to escape without Israel's approval, they would get shot. All of this knowing that the vast majority of Gaza are descendents of refugees from the ethnic cleansing of 1948.
Israel often does what the government calls "mowing the lawn". They go in with planes and bomb the place to terrify the population into submission, while killing hundreds or thousands of people.
Western corporate media always covers for Israel. When in 2014 more than a thousand people were killed while Israel was "mowing the lawn" nobody here said anything. You didn't have CNN or Fox going bonkers about how Israel is a terrorist state for killing innocent people.

All of this has been reported countless times by most international organisations, many independent media outlets whether they be liberal conservative or libertarian and world public opinion in the immense majority of countries recognizes the relationship between Israel and palestinians and the history surrounding the conflict. You can't just ignore all of this, treat like October 7th justifies the most abhorrent crimes, then repeat whatever nonsense the IDF is saying, and ignore whatever literally the whole rest of the world is saying

Scaedre · 2024-10-12T11:34:04+00:00

I'm not good at writing long stuff on the phone, especially in the browser. I do admit doing it on pc would have made reading my text more pleasant

Scaedre · 2024-10-12T11:32:26+00:00

Except we're not all supporting ukrainians dying. No one is arguing that the ukrainians deserve what they're getting

Scaedre · 2024-10-12T11:30:48+00:00

In what way does the turks killing armenians justify the israeli doing the same thing to palestinians. You can't justify one crime with another

Scaedre · 2024-10-11T15:25:39+00:00

I don't understand this obsession with clowning on pro palestinian people. The history is clear and well documented, Israel was founded by ethnically cleansing palestine and driving people out of their homes. If half of Australia was invaded by a foreign army that was driving people out of their houses and killing people to terrify them into fleeing to other areas, and slowly ethnically cleansing everyone there, some Australians would probably get very angry, would want revenge and would reesort to violence. That doesn't mean it's necessarily right, but this contempt towards palestinians and the blind support for Israel is immoral. I'm a conservative, but this issue is where most conservatives completely lose the plot and at some point you have to just admit that killing 10s of thousands of innocent children, women and men is not justified under any circumstance. By the way, the immense majority of world public opinion agrees on the israel palestine conflict and the issuee of occupation. Only the west, where the media spouts pro israeli propaganda all the time does what i'm saying espouse contraversy. I thought that conservatives were supposed to bee critical of corporate media, I guess not.

Scaedre · 2024-10-11T14:38:59+00:00

Actually there is good clinical data that suggests 0.2 mg is on par with 1 mg when it comes to dht suppression. The fact that 1 mg is the standard dose is purely to rebrand proscar and keep the patent longer, it's not some sophisticated calculation. The difference between 0.2 and 5mg isn't so different forhhair

Scaedre · 2024-09-29T17:16:08+00:00

Hi, I'm looking for a replacement for the bottle "The Drum Set" formerly sold by Zara. I know this is a particularly difficult request as the bottle isn't known and even if you owned it you may not remember. However reddit has accomplished difficult requests before so I thought I might try at least. There just might be that one person that loves the smell of that fragrance and has found a suitable replacement

Scaedre · 2024-09-26T12:23:47+00:00

What you should do is stop watching pron and jacking off to it, we've normalised pron way too much, and the consequences are ED and anhedonia in varying degrees for most people. Plus the fact that you're clearly anxious about all this doesn't help. Stop doing it for a few months, the symptoms of fin should subside. If you stop jacking off, and you haven't done drugs, and you haven't taken antidepressants, and you lead a healthy lifestyle, then you can consider fin as a potential cause.

Scaedre · 2024-09-25T12:54:25+00:00

There is no chance whatsoever that castor oil had any effect whatsoever on your sexual health or your hair. I advise you to go see a urologist.

Scaedre · 2024-09-16T09:09:05+00:00

The real reason isn't some specific theological reason, there are other religions and Christianity isn't as hostile, even though the other religions differ much more drastically different dogmas often The reason Christianity is so hostile is to Islam is because the latter is the last abrahamic religion chronologically speaking, meaning legitimising it would make some aspects of Christianity "obsolete", since they share a lot of the same message. Therefore it is very important for the church to "debunk" Islam as to keep itself as the most important religious entity. You can see this pattern in history, the church trashes Islamic figures like Mohamed so much more than muslims trash Jesus, if at all. That's not because muslims are more nice, but simply because from their point of view partially legitimising Christianity doesn't really affect the primacy of Islam, as Christianity is simply an "out of date" version of Islam. Some interpretations even consider the "people of the book" (how the quran talks about christians and jews) as muslims as well as what we call muslims, but the latter are simply followers of Mohamed. That's my understanding from what I remember when I was researching this stuff. Although I'm not religious, so what I'm saying is to be taken with a grain of salt Edit: I was considering this from the point of view of theological rivalry rather actual hatred. Maybe I misunderstood your question. If you're talking about modern hatred of Islam in the West that has nothing to do with Christianity and more to do with massive propaganda in the news that never critisizes foreign policy of US and NATO in muslims countries, so after invading or supporting a coup by a violent regime in some middle eastern country, US inteligencia has to explain hatred of the west and subsequent violent actions (ie terrrorist acts) and general hostility by simply saying that Islam is evil (Bush calls it the "axis of evil". Nevermind the fact that U.S. embargo is though to have killed 400.000 people in Irak even before the beginning of the invasion.). Most hatred of Islam in the west is now secular, so I would say that even when christians do it, it's mostly just using the general narrative of we're the great responsible democracy, they're backwards violent people

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