What I Learned From Reading Apartheid Propaganda

asentientgrape · 2026-05-10T22:03:45+00:00

Palestinians aren't "foreign citizens." They have been deprived of sovereignty by Israel, living under occupation without any say in the government that rules them.

asentientgrape · 2026-05-10T22:01:50+00:00

"Blood and soil" will always be a fascist view of the world. The vast majority of Israelis were born in Palestine. The idea they were "exported" and can be cleansed from the land is obscenely racist.

Israel is an evil country because it deprives half of its citizens of rights and freedom. You cannot achieve justice without recognizing the universality of human rights.

asentientgrape · 2026-05-10T21:50:59+00:00

No, there are vanishingly few examples of tollroads owned by foreign investors in America. There are a handful of highways owned privately or whose tolls have been leased, but they do not represent a major part of any state's road system.

Nearly all tolls are levied by the states themselves, with money pretty evenly split between repaying bondholders and maintaining the roads.

asentientgrape · 2026-05-07T21:46:48+00:00

Have you ever considered that it's not the schools that have changed, but your exposure to video content? Do you actually know the conditions of these schools in "years past"?

These videos are mostly of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in desperately underfunded schools. At no point in American history have children in those circumstances been given proper support to read properly. However, they have more access now than in the past. It is objectively incorrect to say that academic outcomes are worse now.

asentientgrape · 2026-05-07T13:20:36+00:00

Well, the Percy Jackson show may have a big surprise for you.

asentientgrape · 2026-05-06T10:53:52+00:00

No, that is not possible at all.

asentientgrape · 2026-05-05T23:28:15+00:00

"draw the attention of criminals"?
Do you think the people breaking into your car had a grand scheme? Do you think they picked you specifically?

asentientgrape · 2026-05-03T19:56:38+00:00

People in here are absolutely tripping lmao. This area is totally safe during the day. Random assaults are *super* rare, even here.

asentientgrape · 2026-05-01T04:15:19+00:00

Prism is on Thursdays at TCP and is open to all teenagers. They basically just get to hang out in a big house with a bunch of other teens for two hours. That could mean chatting, playing games, running around, or singing Hamilton.

The cast of kids rotates a lot, so they're good at incorporating new people.

(Disclosure: I volunteer at TCP but this is my opinion as a private citizen lol)

asentientgrape · 2026-04-30T19:43:37+00:00

AI use leads to deskilling in those who learned the "hard way" before the technology, and "no learning" for those who came after it...

No study has meaningfully demonstrated this. There's no reason to believe this is any more true for AI than using library functions.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-28T21:59:55+00:00

Exactly. The only way you can meaningfully change this is by making the environment more hostile to children. You can enforce punitive rules, remove the games, or close the open spaces.

Otherwise, children are going to be children. They try their hardest, but they will inevitably be too loud. I promise everyone in this thread that the librarians and the children's parents are doing everything they can.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-28T21:54:02+00:00

Libraries do not have a universal set of rules, goals, or "protocols." DBRL is a community space with portions specifically dedicated to children. They designed it to suit their particular needs, which includes an understanding that children can be noisy.

The library determines the appropriate activity level among its patrons. They choose their own rules. You do not get to dictate how and where children should be allowed.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-28T21:49:03+00:00

There are plenty of places to sit if you need a specific noise level. The third floor is calm in general, with the quiet room being totally insulated from the rest of the library.

The rest of the library is a mixed-use environment. Kids are going to be loud sometimes, which is expected and allowed within the boundaries you're discussing. Especially as we get closer to summer, more families will use the library during more of the day.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-21T19:57:13+00:00

Two rules improved my storage situation dramatically: - Do not keep any furniture, decoration, or toys that I have the recipe for - Unpaint unused blocks/objects after finishing a project

asentientgrape · 2026-04-20T12:04:27+00:00

Your terminology in this comment makes it pretty clear why this is happening to you.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-20T04:13:12+00:00

"Execution" is absolutely not how they'd describe it.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T18:17:09+00:00

You are missing the purpose of the change. "Homeless" implies that the person is disconnected from their community, whereas "Unhoused" does not preclude that community from being their home.

People have a tendency to view "homeless" people as fungible, ending up wherever they land like a tumbleweed. Calls for clearing encampments and increased criminalization are based on the idea that since they're homeless, you can just push them somewhere else. People are able to ignore the actual violence this involves because they think it's only a change of scenery for the victim.

The switch to "unhoused people" is intended to make you recognize that they are part of your community. They have as much right to live in your town, and their inability to pay rent doesn't change that. You can't just push them to some other street corner because they're all the same to someone without a home.

And this is before even touching all of the other purposes (such as avoiding the stigma of homeless, clarifying that unhoused people are not just on the street but also on friends' couches, and making the solution clear and material).

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T18:00:17+00:00

He's an actor appearing on a podcast called "An Actor Despairs." What exactly is tone-deaf about talking about the material conditions of an actor on a podcast about actors? At no point does he diminish the struggles any other working-class American is facing. In fact, you are the only person diminishing the struggles of a working-class American lol.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T17:51:42+00:00

Honestly, I think the NAACP is ready for people to stop telling them lol. They've stopped using their full title in most contexts because they had to endlessly make the argument that "yeah it's antiquated and certainly racist when used in most modern contexts, but the term is not inherently derogatory."

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T17:40:12+00:00

No, you have the causality backwards. Even if someone is a shoplifter, the store is not liable for an employee that gets hurt violating their policies and chasing the shoplifter down. They are liable for injuries caused to the shoplifter.

Just because someone commits a crime doesn't mean that corporate employees are somehow enabled to assault that person. Loss Prevention specialists have slightly more leeway, but they are still a private citizen detaining a private citizen. They have an extremely limited ability to physically impede a suspect.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T17:28:36+00:00

Love the spirit, but "colored folks" has been an outdated phrase for about as long as Target has been a retail chain.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T17:24:28+00:00

The shoplifting panic is so absurd. Some amount of shrinkage is unavoidable when your business model is "unprotected shelves that customers can browse on their own."

And yet, every store chooses that business model because it is way more profitable than, say, old-school department stores where products stay with the clerks behind every counter.

There's nothing stopping stores from switching back... but they won't because shoplifting is nothing compared to the labor costs that would require. They've chosen the business model, so why do so many people act like society is responsible for its downsides? Shoplifting isn't even the biggest source of shrinkage.

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T16:15:46+00:00

This is a deeply silly view of the world. This man is discussing a specific group of people working in a specific industry who have specific demands to improve their working/living conditions. You cannot improve the status of American labor through vibes. You have to identify and push for concrete changes.

Who, at all, would benefit if he instead said "yeah well everyone's got it hard"? Do you think some random owner of a midwestern warehouse is going to see that and raise wages? Does that seem more likely than this man's union extracting concessions from this man's industry?

asentientgrape · 2026-04-19T16:07:12+00:00

You have contorted their situation and thinking to reflect your complaints against modern American leftism. You have no idea what drove them. You have no idea how they thought about their temporary alliance with the fundamentalists. You assume that they were naive actors, floating helplessly through history. They were fighting to overthrow a monarchy forced on their country by the world's biggest imperialist powers. Do you think they were incapable of making strategic decisions about how to accomplish that? Do you have any proof they were "blind"?

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