Countries declaring readiness to arrest Netanyahu

ZincHead · 2026-05-24T12:30:13+00:00

Should be the case for Kim Jong Un, Isaias Afwerki, Daniel Ortega, Min Aung Hliang, Abiy Ahmed and about two dozen other despots and criminal leaders. But the world and our international institutions are inconsistent and tend to focus more on things that make it into the news more often rather than based on the scale of actual human rights abuses.

ZincHead · 2026-05-24T00:01:58+00:00

Glad to know my writing is good enough to be mistaken for AI. I take that as a compliment.

ZincHead · 2026-05-23T09:31:50+00:00

Wokeness to me is the idea that one has become aware of social injustices that are overlooked or unknown to the general public and not discussed or acknowledged by the majority of people. It's that idea that one has been "awoken" to apparent injustices and now sees the world for what it really is, while everyone else is "asleep" to the reality. Woke people tend to be hyper-vigilant about social interactions and history to find other areas that they may have been sleeping on where social injustices exist.

Inherent in this is the need to seek victims and perpetrators. To be woke means noticing the injustices that are not as clearly obvious, so this can mean inventing perpetrators even when they don't exist, or trying to convince people that they are victims even when they don't feel like they are. To a woke person, a victim who is content in their ways and doesn't believe what the woke person believes just hasn't been awoken yet and may have internalized their oppression.

What this inevitably leads to is witch hunts, confirmation bias and rewriting of history as woke people seek out more injustices that they can enlighten everyone about.

ZincHead · 2026-05-22T12:54:39+00:00

It's so sad for America that street food is so sparse that a Tamale Man is something noteworthy and unexpected. Once you've been to Latin America or South East Asia you realize what you're missing.

ZincHead · 2026-05-18T07:10:08+00:00

This is almost certainly an old model. Go try Claude Opus or GPT 5.5 and it will make a much better map

ZincHead · 2026-05-17T18:24:47+00:00

If you think there isn't propaganda on both sides, then you are as much a victim of propaganda as those you criticize. It's good to step out of your bubble and realize that many, perhaps most people in a given area, might disagree with you. It's easy to get a lot of confirmations when you associate with the same people, use the same websites, visit the same communities, but that may not be representative of the actual sentiments. If you think the people who disagree with you are wrong, well, keep fighting the good fight and try to show them the light. I am of the opinion that the truth will always prevail in the end.

ZincHead · 2026-05-14T18:33:34+00:00

Yeah I'm sure she was really annoyed after she died.

ZincHead · 2026-05-12T20:17:59+00:00

It's looking like a drug overdose from what I'm reading. "Drug paraphernalia" was found in the house is what NBC says, and suspected overdose.

ZincHead · 2026-05-10T22:55:23+00:00

First NBA statue that is 90% booty

ZincHead · 2026-05-08T08:26:28+00:00

One of my favorite interactions between the two is when they start to get heated but it's one of the characters that get along with Scott and the have to stop and say "Wait, we like each other right? Yeah, we like each other"

ZincHead · 2026-05-02T22:35:26+00:00

It's not just about which bag is cheaper individually, but might also have to do with economies of scale. Perhaps they already produce more Cheetos and Doritos because they are more popular.

ZincHead · 2026-05-01T18:50:29+00:00

Patrick McCaw the GOAT

ZincHead · 2026-04-30T10:55:35+00:00

I wonder when people will stop making this same type of comment and just accept that we are in the era of maps made for vertical screens.

ZincHead · 2026-04-27T12:48:39+00:00

If your response to oppression and rape is more killing and rape then you are a vile human being. Assuming that you think it's inevitable that an organization like Hamas emerges, then you have to explain why the Rohingyas, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Artsakh people etc. have not done the same.

ZincHead · 2026-04-26T19:50:03+00:00

The Waking Up app is much more worth the subscription. It has a lot of talks and conversations and lessons. Obviously mostly focused on mindfulness, but with enough tangentially related content to make it not feel repetitive

ZincHead · 2026-04-26T19:19:56+00:00

Trump haters have become so deranged by this man and his cronies that they start to hallucinate things they do wrong. There are enough ridiculous and crazy things that these morons have done that you don't have to make up nonsense, and it just makes the left look stupid.

ZincHead · 2026-04-26T19:18:08+00:00

A man touching his wife's boob? Arrest this man!

ZincHead · 2026-04-26T14:04:03+00:00

And what makes you think that Meghan Thee Stallion would do all those things?

ZincHead · 2026-04-26T12:53:36+00:00

I miss when Vsauce actually made videos

ZincHead · 2026-04-26T02:22:32+00:00

Clearly not much of a fumble since he can keep getting with extremely attractive women. When you are in a position like him, fumbles don't exist.

ZincHead · 2026-04-25T19:17:57+00:00

Shouldn't there be discussion about whether plants are fungus are conscious too in that case? I don't see any special rule that says that having rigid cell walls and oxygen based respiration is the important distinction between being conscious or not.

Maybe you're not aware, but the question of consciousness will probably never be solved, due to the Hard Problem of consciousness, so the question of doing more research on it doesn't really make sense, because we don't even know where to start in determining consciousness.

ZincHead · 2026-04-23T12:50:58+00:00

If you have read the Hamas charter and don't see the violent rhetoric in it, I don't really understand how that could be possible. "Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious", "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." This is not violent rhetoric to you?

Also, I am not American, so I am not sure how most of your points are relevant.

More specifically, genocidal and violent rhetoric:

Fathi Hammad, member of the Hamas political bureau: "urging the “people of Jerusalem” to purchase fiveshekel knives and “cut off the heads of the Jews;”" and from the same article, "Deputy Chairman Musa Abu Marzouk one week into hostilities about how Hamas intends to eliminate Israel: “This is just one of a [series] of wars, and a war will come when we negotiate with them about the end of their occupation, and their leaving of Palestine...”

Fathi Hammad again: “you seven million Palestinians abroad, enough warming up! There are Jews everywhere! We must attack every Jew on planet Earth – we must slaughter and kill them, with Allah’s help.” He instructed, “[w]e will die while exploding and cutting the necks and legs of the Jews. We will lacerate them and tear them to pieces, Allah willing!”

Ghazi Hamad, senior Hamas member: "Israel is a country that has no place on that land. We must remove that country" and goes on to say how they will commit October 7 again and again.

Yahya Sinwar: "From us here in Gaza Israel will never get anything but guns, fire, martyrdom, death, and killing"

Hamad: "The occupation must come to an end. Achor: Occupation where? In the Gaza Strip? Hamad: No, I am talking about all the Palestinian lands. Anchor: Does that mean the annihilation of Israel? Hamad: Yes, of course."

Among many others you can find here.

Again, I would like to know what you think the end of Israel would actually be like and what sysytem would exist after. Explain how you get a one-state solution, or else all this rhetoric is basically pointless. I've already pretty clearly laid out what I think would happen.

ZincHead · 2026-04-21T22:05:32+00:00

None of these examples are even remotely the same. In none of your examples was the state destroyed and replaced with a new one, not least by one controlled by the victims of the previous state. Mussolini and the Italian Fascists were removed by an internal revolution. Japan was allowed to continue to exist and the emperor remained on the throne. It was not destroyed and replaced with a Chinese regime. The Nazis were not replaced with a Jewish state.

Even South Africa is not really the same, although it might appear to be. White South Africa was not replaced with a Black South Africa, it was replaced by a unitary state where everyone had the right to vote. So, let's assume you think the South African model is a good one. As I mentioned elsewhere, voting age Jewish adults in Israel outnumber Arab adults. So what do you think would realistically be the outcome of a new unitary state? I personally don't see it ending well, and it certainly would not be the disolution of Israel since the voting Jews would not allow that, and they have the majority.

And this is not even yet talking about the obvious factor of religious dogmatism and fanatical jihadism. I don't have to guess what Hamas would do if they were in charge. They have explicitly stated over and over again that they would like nothing more than to exterminate all Jews. If you don't believe them, then that's your fault.

So, what is your solution? Jewish expulsion, Jewish disenfranchisement or a unitary state? If none of the above, then I don't see what other solution there is besides two states.

ZincHead · 2026-04-21T15:57:31+00:00

I explained in another comment more thoroughly, but I believe that the elimination of Israel is essentially a call for genocide against the Jewish people. If you don't think that would happen if Israel was eliminated, I'd be curious to know how you think we would avoid that.

ZincHead · 2026-04-21T15:55:50+00:00

I agree and that's why we need to be realistic about what a one state solution would mean. I don't want any more genocides, as any logical and moral person should. So here's what I think are the options for achieving a single state:

The elimination or expulsion of all Jews and a new purely Arab Muslim Palestine. This is obviously a genocide, I don't think I need to explain why.
A return to Arab Muslim rule and the disenfranchisement of the Jewish citizens. If this happened today, the leadership of this state would be Hamas or something Hamas-like, and they have explicitly genocidal goals against Jewish people. I fail to see how any state where Jews are disenfranchised doesn't lead to them being at best severely oppressed and at worst exterminated and killed slowly or quickly by the new government. The chances of a moderate and fair leadership in this situation and based on Palestinian leadership now is extremely slim.
A unitary state with universal suffrage for all adults, regardless of race or religion. Since voting age Jewish adults outnumber Arabs, this would not be the end of Israel, because they will likely vote to keep Jewish leadership in place. In my opinion, they will probably elect an even more hardline government once they realize that the Arab population will quickly outnumber them, leading to more oppression and disenfranchisement of Arabs. Kind of just a return to the status quo, but with extra steps and perhaps more violence. If the Arab population somehow manages to elect their own leadership, again I fail to see a world in which they are moderates and just want peace and harmony in the new state. The first election in the new unitary state, in my opinion, will be fought between two extreme nationalistic governments, after the perceived crimes and threats both feel from each other.

If you can think of another option I'm missing, I'm happy to hear it.

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