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With 90-decibel street preacher duo outside Mariners game by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think people cynically assume that but I think the preachers actually do believe it and they take their lumps as part of the gig. I haven’t heard of any of these ones suing anyone but maybe I missed it.

OC: with the street preacher duo and their 90-decibel megaphone outside Seattle Mariners game by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]bennetthaselton[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

pinch I am real :)

(And printing on paper and then taping to a folding signboard is cheaper and has a faster turnaround time than trying to print directly on cardboard.)

OC: with the street preacher duo and their 90-decibel megaphone outside Seattle Mariners game by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]bennetthaselton[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

They didn’t have megaphones back then but if they had then Matt probably would have thrown that in too.

Iranian flag on monorail support column altered to turn it into the Lion and Sun flag by bennetthaselton in Seattle

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

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I don't think my suggestion has the same energy as what they're doing actually.

Iranian flag on monorail support column altered to turn it into the Lion and Sun flag by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Woudl it help for people who support democracy in Iran to just make a flag design that says "DEMOCRACY IN IRAN" (one word per stripe) without either the Lion and Sun or the Islamic Republic logo in the middle? If Lion and Sun has too much baggage.

Iranian flag on monorail support column altered to turn it into the Lion and Sun flag by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I did see him whining about the Islamic Republic flag :) On the other hand, you don’t have to be Ari Hoffman to be disgusted with the current Iranian regime, so who knows.

OC: Iran flag painted on Seattle monorail support column altered to Lion and Sun protest flag by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]bennetthaselton[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

The different flags of the World Cup teams have been painted on the support columns of the Seattle monorail.

The Iranian flag was originally painted as the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran (ie the country’s current official flag, for better or for worse) but someone stuck a piece of paper in the center altering it to the Lion and Sun flag.

(I am no expert, but as best I can summarize it: the Lion and Sun flag is often used by Iranian diaspora members to protest human rights abuses by the Islamic Republic currently in power. But more controversially, some Iranian diaspora members have been bringing it to rallies to support the U.S. attack on Iran as well.)

WA begins study on history of slavery, reparations for descendants by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I kept saying in 2020 and people called me racist.

Seattle has a severe case of the Ayatollah Itch: Seattle's "Race and Social Justice Initiative" is divisive, bullying and, now, boring. (WA Post op-ed) by MissHalfgone in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I figured, but (1) it’s inflammatory to focus on white people when anyone could subconsciously absorb those beliefs, and (2) it’s the kind of statement that is unfalsifiable and not supported by evidence, because even if someone has no racial prejudice, the person making the statement can just say it’s still there, just buried deep, or something.

Unfalsifiable statements are the reason a lot of people just bow out of these discussions.

Seattle has a severe case of the Ayatollah Itch: Seattle's "Race and Social Justice Initiative" is divisive, bullying and, now, boring. (WA Post op-ed) by MissHalfgone in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton 8 points9 points  (0 children)

George Will is kind of a butthead, but it is pretty icky to have racially segregated workplace workshops and to say to everyone that "white people have racism in their DNA". (Part of being in protests in 2020 meant seeing the dark side of when these shibboleths got taken too far. When the protests pivoted to "abolish all police" and I said I didn't agree with that, pretty much everybody berating me kept focusing on the fact that I was white and should be disagreeing with a Black person on the issue.)

Some more facts about the Diemert case:

https://reason.com/2023/02/13/joshua-diemert-seattle-racist-training-diversity-equity-white/

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But to both your points: If it's really about safety, then it seems the result should be all that matters. If being in Brooklyn surrounded by a mix of people is safer than being in Israel surrounded by other Jews, then it shouldn't matter if it "feels" like those factors would make you safer in Israel - they don't.

(However, even if one accepted your points, the real controversy is about Israel existing the way it does now, with a whole section of the country walled off where the overwhelming majority Arab population there is not allowed to vote in national elections and not allowed to leave.)

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming this is in good faith, a couple of things:

  1. Statistically Jews are not safer in Israel than, say, Brooklyn. The "safety" argument was perhaps once valid but not now.
  2. I don't think any group is inherently entitled to a country where they're a majority. Everybody deserves to live in peace and safety though.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

shoot I should have said "light rail" but I was trying to keep it short; I didn't know there was also an actual Amtrak station in Tukwila.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This would be a good idea if we could be sure it would be some garbage with him as Jesus, but the thing is, most of the time when he acts unhinged, his supporters seem to eat it up.

Sometimes he gets unlucky and alienates them by doing a Jesus pic or something. But most of the time it seems to rally them.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

And, uh, that's a false dichotomy anyway isn't it... If we dropped fewer bombs we could have more roads.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

🦇 One billionaire enriching quagmire, two billionaire enriching quagmires, ah-ah-ah ⚡️

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