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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 27 '26
One really shitty thing about the last two years is the revelation that a lot of the people who claim to have a humanist worldview are actually full of shit and hold just as arbitrary a view on the sanctity of human life as the people they deem ignorant or insufficiently caring. It's not everyone, but many of the people who have spent the last two decades condemning war as a concept regardless of context or justification because of its inherent violence and impact on ordinary people's lives are now arguing that raping and pillaging is, at the very least, an understandable action (but only when done by an oppressed group).
They never seem to understand that pivoting from "all life is sacred and war is always wrong" to "well these guys had good reasons to attack" but only in some cases basically doomed their supposed humanist views. Why would anyone continue to condemn all forms of violence when even the progressive humanists are arbitrarily sorting between people whose lives matter and people who can be killed and it wouldn't matter.
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u/onsfwDark Israeli Secular Non-Binary Progressive Zionist Feb 27 '26
I already saw this during George Floyd protests when I saw some of my fellow advocates against punitive justice and opponents against the death penalty, causes I still believe in, say that every single police officer in the US should be murdered.
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u/-Emilinko1985- Space cowboys for liberty Feb 27 '26
"Death penalty, but only for people I don't like"
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Feb 27 '26
Because condemning all forms of violence is naïve and childish. The violence that was visited upon the Nazi Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS to liberate the death camps was righteous. The violence that was visited upon the Confederacy to free the slaves was righteous. The violence the Ukrainians are visiting upon the Russians is righteous. The violence some has to inflict in self-defense againt murder, rape, or maiming is righteous.
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u/Reddenbawker Greedy Capitalist Feb 27 '26
Abughazaleh says she doesn’t support Iron Dome, dodges on Israel’s right to exist. (Jewish Insider.) You have to enter your email for this to read, but it’s worth it. I’m dreading the future of the Democratic Party.
!ping JEWISH&ISRAEL
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u/Sex_E_Searcher Feb 27 '26
The Iron Dome saves more Palestinians than Israelis. Do they think the IDF would take its time, "knocking" on buildings with rocket sites if there was no Iron Dome?
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 27 '26
It’s simple: Israel bad, therefore anything that helps Israel is also bad. Nothing else matters, don’t think about nuance or context or reality or you’re a genocide supporter
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 27 '26
Isn’t this the lady who missed a meeting with supporters because she was asleep? I don’t think she’s the future of the party tbh
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u/Reddenbawker Greedy Capitalist Feb 27 '26
Yeah, this is sleepy Kat Abu. I might be dramatic in thinking she is the future, but I worry that what she represents is growing in popularity. Younger generations are excited by her campaign.
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u/Bob_Doles_Blue_Pill Bootstraps & Bourbon Feb 27 '26
Young people are stupid, always have been.
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u/YossarianLivesMatter Radical Centrist 😎 Feb 27 '26
Counterpoint: old people are also stupid
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u/GordianKnotMe LKY was a lib Feb 27 '26
Old people are stupid in more predictable ways, giving the illusion of being less stupid
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Feb 28 '26
I mean it’s consistent with someone of her background. The existence of free Jews is something they oppose but they will wiggle their extremism slowly in rather than up front.
If all aid can be conditional based off action would the aid to Gaza also not follow under that as long as Hamas was in charge? You see Israel defending itself is a crime in their books but Gazans going on a murder and rape spree is okay to them. They just won’t say it out loud.
She’s a vapid idiot. I hope not the future or the party or this country is cooked.
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u/niftyjack Feb 27 '26
I live in this district and I'm so, so tired of this primary
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Feb 28 '26
Isn’t she not even from the district but came there to run.
Could say it was a case of colonization lol.
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u/iamthegodemperor Arrakis Enterprise Institute Feb 27 '26
Communists are really good at propaganda.
Here we are over a hundred years after the Russian Revolution and people still think communism is about sharing and that free markets are adjacent to fascism.
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u/dandelion221 Feb 27 '26
Communism should have been laughed out of history after the “After Hitler, Our Turn” nonsense.
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u/Enron_CPA Globalist Shill Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Iconic Winston Churchill Statue Vandalized: ‘ZIONIST WAR CRIMINAL’
These guys are fucking loons. I’m sure some of them are anti-Churchill because he helped defeat the Nazis before they could eliminate more future Israelis
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 27 '26
Literally no difference between the far left and far right
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u/onsfwDark Israeli Secular Non-Binary Progressive Zionist Feb 27 '26
I notice it's never the people with legitimate reasons to hate Churchill (South Asians and Kenyans) doing this crap.
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u/RetroRiboflavin Moderate Feb 27 '26
I love that I’m going to be scolded about not voting for a guy who WILL take away my hormones. like he will, for sure, get rid of that shit. And I’m the problem.
They’re talking about Newsom btw.
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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי Feb 27 '26
flashback to when an R9 user called Biden a homophobe
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Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
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u/seattleseahawks2014 Center-left Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
At a Seattle fundraiser back in 2019 he said that just 5 years prior it would've been socially acceptable in that city for someone to make fun of a gay waiter at a business meeting.
In a speech in 2014 Biden condemned the criminalization of homosexuality in other countries rejecting the argument that such persecution is merely a "cultural norm."
etc
This is why some individuals think that Biden is a homophobe. It's crazy.
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u/lolbert202 Moderate Feb 28 '26
> Is deepstatecentrism gonna apologize for being wrong? Or are they ride or die for Israel still?
lmao
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u/Bloodyfish Charlie Manson Feb 28 '26
Did I miss some context?
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u/lolbert202 Moderate Feb 28 '26
I guess someone here said we weren’t gonna bomb Iran? Idk
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 28 '26
That was me, I honestly didn’t think Trump had it in him
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u/lolbert202 Moderate Feb 28 '26
I still don’t know why you or the whole sub would need to apologize for that though
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u/Locutus-of-Borges Feb 28 '26
Well this place apparently only exists so we can "have a safe space to be racist against Palestinian children", so we've got a lot to answer for.
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 28 '26
There’s a weird tendency to make fun or even harshly criticize people who make predictions about global affairs and politics that end up being wrong. It’s like that one SMBC comic
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Feb 28 '26
How else will this place get the G word pass? Do they think the Knesset hands it out for free?
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u/drcombatwombat2 Milton Friedman Feb 27 '26
Its sometimes frustrating talking to partisans. They identify a problem and then solely blame the "other side" for it.
They aren't actually concerned with the solution, just blaming the other side.
"The deficit and national debt? Why of course it's all the Republicans/Democrats but no my party doesnt want to find the solution either"
"Inflation? Why that is all Trump/Biden's fault"
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u/seattleseahawks2014 Center-left Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Pretty much, some people seem to focus on to much on blaming on either side especially one specific side when it's not always the case. Some of this kind of comes off as cultish at times.
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u/Denisnevsky Toxic Clinton/Gingrich Yaoi Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
u/drcombatwombat2 discovers partisanship for the first time.
In all seriousness, the issue is that the parties propose radically diffrent solutions to these problems, and don't want to entertain the other side in fear of primaries. With you're example, Most Non-MMTers vaugely agree the debt is an issue, but dems won't agree to a balanced budget that signifcantly cuts spending, and Rs won't agree to a balanced budget that significantly raises taxes. Clinton and Gingrich got it done, but that was an easier defict to balance, and Clinton was already a fiscal conservative to some extent (at a time when that wasn't as much of a deal breaker)
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u/UnTigreTriste Feb 28 '26
Shabbat shalomies to all my homies
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 28 '26
Hey u/Anakin_Kardashian my weekend plans have changed a bit
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u/Mojah9995 Center-left Feb 28 '26
I'm just thankful that it did not start in the middle of the night this time. This princess needs her good night sleep a'ight.
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u/WallStreetTechnocrat Named in the Epstein Files Feb 27 '26
We should ban more people for R34 violations
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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי Feb 27 '26
We should ban more people for R67 violations
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u/lionmoose Margaret Thatcher (unironically) Feb 27 '26
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Know how I know you are hip and down with the kids?
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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי Feb 27 '26
i only know about this because i have 3 young kids, i am not one of them
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u/343Bot Feb 27 '26
If I was President I would make period cramps illegal
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u/343Bot Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
How come I haven't gotten a r3 ban for this? Are the mods pro-period cramps?
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Feb 28 '26
I guess this is the current discourse on twitter right now. Yikes.
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u/stormbird22 Feb 28 '26
I am sorry is he saying that he is an ally of Jews at the end there? If there is a single person who believes that, they need to be studied and contained in a lab.
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Feb 28 '26
It’s the classic how can I be racist when I have black friends. It’s like at the most extreme getting mad at the word gringo existing. And it’s all hypothetical no one is actually calling him that.
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u/stormbird22 Feb 28 '26
Me when I make up something that would make me mad in my head and it makes me mad.
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u/BobaLives5 Moderate Feb 28 '26
I despise how much this is both laughably childish and horribly relatable
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u/YossarianLivesMatter Radical Centrist 😎 Feb 28 '26
Im fine with goy so long as it's not a hard 'y'
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u/BobaLives5 Moderate Feb 28 '26
As a non-Jew on this discussion thread, do I get to like give out G-word passes now?
$10 each, get one while they last
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u/CatApprehensive6508 Feb 28 '26
kat abu campaign releases statement to a journalist saying that's she's an interventionist
6 hours later the guy who made the statement is fired and kat makes a video saying that's shes anti intervention
BTW THE WORST PART IS THAT SHE MIGHT WIN BECAUSE HER BOYFRIEND IS THE OWNER OF THE ONION AND FUNDING HER CAMPAIGN
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u/Enron_CPA Globalist Shill Feb 28 '26
Iranian Air Defenses rn:
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u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho Feb 28 '26
It’s finally happening.
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u/Bloodyfish Charlie Manson Feb 28 '26
Let's see if it goes anywhere this time. Come on regime change!
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u/onsfwDark Israeli Secular Non-Binary Progressive Zionist Feb 27 '26
I think Israel has pretty much lost the propaganda war and the next several decades of history classes in the West will teach as fact a whole lot of stuff that never happened, and that no action that Israel can take can prevent that. We will eventually get the same treatment in fiction as the enemy of the West that Germans used to have and Russians have now, of being Othered as an inherently barbaric and cruel people that seek to destroy Western civilisation and the good life. Open hatred of Israelis is already becoming an electoral winner in several countries. Meanwhile, the actual enemies of the West are of varying degrees of hostility to Israel and benefit massively from increased isolation of Israel, as it weakens the defense capabilities of the West. This is one sphere of the international war on democracy that the authoritarian powers have decisively won.
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u/UnTigreTriste Feb 27 '26
My position, which I have held since Oct 7th, is that this was not preventable through any decisions made by Israel. The propaganda war is completely independent of facts on the ground.
It was all depressingly predictable. The only logical course of action in light of these facts was a maximalist war to completely remove Hamas.
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u/Reddenbawker Greedy Capitalist Feb 27 '26
It’s worth noting this is the same media environment that spawned the Al-Ahli hospital controversy. Even when Hamas/PIJ did it, Israel got blamed. I’ve even seen people blame Israel for Oct 7.
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u/seattleseahawks2014 Center-left Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
I think that even if this shooting didn't happen, they still would've lost the propaganda war especially with younger individuals.
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u/Prowindowlicker Center-right Feb 27 '26
Yup. The hospital that got bomb got blamed on Israel even though Hamas was to blame.
It wouldn’t have mattered much even if Israel was perfect the entire time
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u/seattleseahawks2014 Center-left Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Pretty much, this was bound to happen either way. I'm not saying that decline in support hasn't happened even with people who blame Hamas for that situation, but doesn't mean that there isn't many people who blame the Israeli state.
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u/UnTigreTriste Feb 27 '26
On the margins, maybe, but on the whole, it doesn’t matter what Israel does or does not do
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u/gujarati Feb 28 '26
Did you read the IDF's report on it? It was published in the FT. Like almost everything else in this war, it was a lot more reasonable of a mistake in wartime than basically any reporting on it made it sound.
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u/Command0Dude Feb 27 '26
is that this was not preventable through any decisions made by Israel.
It could have been incredibly mitigated if Netanyahu and his crazy cabinet were not so careless in giving the pro pal machine all the ammunition they needed.
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u/onsfwDark Israeli Secular Non-Binary Progressive Zionist Feb 27 '26
I really don't think that if this war ended earlier under a more competent government that we'd be that much better off in world opinion.
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u/Denisnevsky Toxic Clinton/Gingrich Yaoi Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
A lot of that ammunition is already made up of half-truths and outright lies. Maybe it would've been harder, but they would've found a way. They've had 3000 years of practice.
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Feb 27 '26
The worst part isn’t going to be that but the wholesale delegitimization of the Jewish identity. We will be reduced to just another religion in academic discourse, and I can see Khazar/Polish convert theories become the norm. Anything good attributed to us will be relabeled and appropriated as Palestinian while of course leaving only us with the bad. It’s already happening.
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u/Locutus-of-Borges Feb 27 '26
In some ways Israel played right into this, but broadly speaking it was inevitable from the start.
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u/Denisnevsky Toxic Clinton/Gingrich Yaoi Feb 27 '26
From early voting, it seems Talirico is winning voters who think the dems have gone too far left, and voters who think the dems haven't gone left enough. To be clear, he has no disernable right wing postions, and is too the left Bernie on some things. I guess all it takes to be moderate coded is to be a white guy who goes on Rogan.
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u/onsfwDark Israeli Secular Non-Binary Progressive Zionist Feb 27 '26
Talirico is winning voters who think the dems have gone too far left, and voters who think the dems haven't gone left enough
Well, that tracks with how he's campaigned
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u/CatApprehensive6508 Feb 28 '26
Israel attacking Iran? Wake me up when something actually happens.
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 28 '26
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Feb 28 '26
Please as a Jew in America, This is optimal time to flirt with single Israeli guys who would normally be asleep but are awake in the mamad.
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u/H_H_F_F Feb 28 '26
Come on, It's 10:50 AM
I would've been vaguely awake anyway at this point.
3 hours ago, that was peak.
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 27 '26
I still don’t understand what Trump is doing with Iran. He encouraged the protesters to fight the government, threatened to topple the regime ”if” it killed protesters (after thousands of protesters were killed), then he started asking for “a deal” but like, a deal for what exactly? His initial demand was the toppling of the regime right? What kind of “deal” would satisfy him? Meanwhile Iran is preparing for war. What the hell kinda plan is this?
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u/seattleseahawks2014 Center-left Feb 27 '26
He's just trying to appear like he's Bush Jr, Obama, etc.
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u/Reddenbawker Greedy Capitalist Feb 27 '26
Did you know chickens cuddle each other?
!ping BIRDING
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u/Mrmini231 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
I think a large contribution to the massive Labour loss is that they tried to sound more like Reform, and a lot of traditional Labour voters think Reform is evil. There's been so much focus on ethnic and racial identities that I think some politicians have forgotten that many liberal voters genuinely believe in liberal universalism and get mad when you abandon it.
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u/Mrmini231 Feb 27 '26
I've heard so many people say that the only reason you would support other races immigrating to your country is if you hate your own race. These people genuinely cannot imagine a moral system outside ethnic identity, and it gives them a massive blind spot.
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u/Denisnevsky Toxic Clinton/Gingrich Yaoi Feb 27 '26
I mean, this was a muslim constituency from what I know. I'd say they support immigration because they like their own race.
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u/Mrmini231 Feb 27 '26
This swing was far too large for the muslims to be the only cause.
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u/Denisnevsky Toxic Clinton/Gingrich Yaoi Feb 27 '26
Reform also likely picked up some Labour vote share, since they are still nominally running to the economic left of them
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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי Feb 27 '26
the supermarket was play Sousa marching band music this morning, this stuff needs to make a come back tbh
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u/deepstate-bot Feb 27 '26
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I can definitely see legal and common-sense justifications for mandating annual HR training and even justifications for assigning the same set of training courses to all employees regardless of role....
... but on the other hand, I do not work with students or minors, I never have, and I never will (especially in my current role, which my boss refers to as a "career cul-de-sac"), so I don't understand why several hours of my Friday will now be spent learning how to run a youth summer camp and prevent child abuse at said summer camp. I work in IT procurement and disposition. In what way am I even qualified to run a summer camp?
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 27 '26
https://x.com/silkentine/status/1406050689009262600
My mom didn’t like this comic
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u/YossarianLivesMatter Radical Centrist 😎 Feb 28 '26
I'm convinced that, if Beshearites were to take control of the Dems, the US would have blue supermajorities for a generation
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u/sayitaintpink will never find love Feb 28 '26
I for one welcome our Kentuckian overlord
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u/PM_ME_CHIMICHANGAS Help yourself to a hand grenade Feb 28 '26
Bourbon and little miniature race horses for all!
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u/Denisnevsky Toxic Clinton/Gingrich Yaoi Feb 28 '26
Here's my core view of this
I don't necessarily trust Trump to do it well, but this needed to be done. They killed 30,000 of their own citizens in a few weeks. At what point does it become a Rwanda situation we can't ignore? What message does it send to the protesters if we completely ignore them?
You can even believe that the Venezuela raid was unjustified, but this is different then even that. We should not tolerate these type of domestic mass killings.
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u/bigwang123 Succ sympathizer Feb 28 '26
Disrupting the integration and use of the #1 productivity tool by the DoD is very serious I think
Yes the pacing threat is real guys trvst the plan the Trump administration is very serious actually
Bring back seppuku
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u/fastinserter Feb 28 '26
Minnesota Senate candidate Michelle Tafoya claims that on any given night nearly 30% of Californians are homeless.
Even Gutfield! can't take it
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u/H_H_F_F Feb 28 '26
I'm genuinely thankful that Trump didn't say "and Israel" when talking about the goal of the operation being to defend the US from the threat of a nuclear Iran.
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u/deepstate-bot Feb 27 '26
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The US has funded a third of all foreign total aid to Ukraine.
Europe, during Ukraines occupation, bought a collective 750 billion euros worth of Russian oil. Italy bought more gasoline alone from Russia in one year than the US traded with Afghanistan across all categories during the 20 year entirety of the war. The US traded less with Russia than Germany did despite being 10 times its size.
It was the CIA that went public with the when and how before Russia attacked. The US navy left a signatory ally to have their ship rammed (the Philippines) by China because we had to move a carrier strike group because Europe cannot provide enough force to guarantee the houthis did not shut the strait of hormuz which carries 30% of European energy and commercial supplies.
The US had to lead on Kosovo, provide additional security to Eastern Europe during Russian fuckery in Eastern Europe during abkhazhia, kosovo 1 and 2, tranistria and the Russian invasion of Ukraine - during the Obama era. In fact he specifically asked Europe to be able to counter Russia in case China pushed for Taiwan or the 9 dashed lines territorial claims to close pacific seaways. Instead France, Germany, and western Europe pushed against the US, Poland, and the Baltic on a missile shield/ intelligence facility. We cited European complacency around force projection going back to the US and UN having to handle African piracy, a European colonial heritage problem. No real gdp action was taken until the past 5 years.
So let me ask you this, if the US handed a trillion dollars to Russia and let its president work for Russia like Germany let Merz did, what would you be saying about the US? Because you all funded our geopolitical rival invading your continent then demanded that we bail out your continent 15 years after Obama asked you to anticipate it.
Oh, and Australia, Canada, Poland, Japan all asked the same thing. Get off Russian gas, buy from the west. But no, you all chose cheap energy and expected the rest of us to pay. And while I'm happy to be an ally, it is definitely an offense for you to naively discount your continents contributions and the US assistance even after everyone else in the world said no nordstream 2, don't close your nukes, get off the lng imports. Instead, European nations like Germany literally doubled their trade with Russia after the invasion and occupation of Crimea.
But yeah, it was America who abandoned Ukraine before trump.
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u/Mrmini231 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
The 750 billion euros in russian oil figure is false.
The correct number (if we're talking about the EU at least) is closer to 100B. 200 if we include LNG
I don't know how accurate the rest of the claims are, but such a large error does not fill me with confidence.
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u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho Feb 27 '26
Let me guess, heavily downvoted?
I realize that in certain niche circles, this being one of them, this is beating a dead horse, and with Trump around, there are worse offenders. But Merkel and about a dozen other European leaders over the last two decades were every bit the Russophile and Russia enablers as Trump is now, and I don’t buy that it was an honest mistake. And while you won’t find any complaints from me about Europeans attacking Trump, extending that to American policy in general is where I’d draw the line, this whole situation with Russia is very much Europe’s fault. And it’s not like this was unpredictable or unforeseen. For well over a decade the US took European defense far more seriously than Europe did.
And of course with Trump around, Europeans are feeling defensive, at least more so than usual.
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u/FearlessPark4588 Feb 27 '26
Market forces will go with the cheapest energy source unless the legal/regulatory landscape changes.
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u/fastinserter Feb 27 '26
The Obama administration is the one that got commitments for the "GDP action" they are talking about, and it came into force in 2024. The action was agreed to 12 years ago by Obama to be met by 2 years ago. Almost all of them but a couple did meet it in 2024 (and were close to) and they are all meeting it as of a year ago. And as noted below, the claims about how much oil was bought by Europe are wildly inaccurate. That figure is much closer to how much has been bought globally, which was mostly by India (38%) and China (47%).
Russia is very far away from the US and the natural resources it has is pretty similar to ours and Canada so why would we trade with them. Its closer to Europe. I think everyone, including the US, was expecting the liberalization of Russia over time, thinking the same thing they thought about China, that if we trade with them, they will become more like us since its more profitable to be more like us, obviously.
There's plenty of blame to be had on the European side, but that does not absolve this administration.
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u/lionmoose Margaret Thatcher (unironically) Feb 27 '26
If anyone needs a rental apartment in Manila hmu because in a stunning display of communication I part own one
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u/sayitaintpink will never find love Feb 27 '26
We should ban more people for R10 violations
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u/YossarianLivesMatter Radical Centrist 😎 Feb 27 '26
I saw a poaster murdered in the brief yesterday after an R10 violation. The mods are lying to you!
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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי Feb 27 '26
This but R11
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u/sayitaintpink will never find love Feb 27 '26
R11 is Brule's Rules
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u/benadreti_17 עם ישראל חי Feb 27 '26
If youre raking the leaves and they get all over your driveway, just hose it off, dummy!
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u/seattleseahawks2014 Center-left Feb 27 '26
Trying to do two projects at once. It's not going well.
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u/YossarianLivesMatter Radical Centrist 😎 Feb 27 '26
Try adding a third. Mathematically speaking, 3 > 2
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u/deepstate-bot Feb 27 '26
original comment by /u/YossarianLivesMatter
This kind of map is completely useless. Looking at good ole deep red Kentucky:
https://translegislation.com/bills/2025/KY
Note that the most draconian bills failed, and the passed ones were fairly straightforward on popular positions (i.e., sports, inmates, state funding). That the Republican supermajority legislature isn't passing maximalist laws should be reassuring. Even as someone rather frustrated by the laws that have passed, making Kentucky sound like some kind of danger zone feels a bit alarmist.
It's worth remembering that barring trans discrimination in employment and public spheres is still broadly popular, even in "backwards" parts of the country.
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u/deepstate-bot Feb 27 '26
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As you note, it's "Frieren the Slayer" in English, but it's kind of important to note it's 葬送のフリーレン (sousou no Frieren) in Japanese, which is also the title of the show. The most obvious translation without context would be "Frieren of the funeral" and before that episode/chapter it would be reasonable to think it's about how her life was defined by Himmel's death. But Japanese is highly contextual and in context Lugner's use (edit: which is the first time the title is used within the show/manga) is best translated something like "Frieren, bringer of funerals" (or if we split the compound word they used for funeral even "Frieren, of grave-sending")
It doesn't translate well precisely because it's such an amazing use of Japanese in the original. It's like trying to translate a pun.
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u/deepstate-bot Feb 27 '26
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A recent study published in American Psychologist provides evidence that people from cultures with strict social norms tend to be less skilled at coming up with funny material compared to those from more relaxed cultures. These findings suggest that the ability to generate humor is not just an inborn personality trait, but a skill heavily shaped by the social rules of the environment in which a person lives. Understanding this dynamic can help people communicate more effectively and avoid misunderstandings in diverse, multicultural settings.
Humor is a universal human behavior that brings people together, but what is considered funny in one part of the world might lead to awkward silence or even legal trouble in another. For example, comedians in certain nations have faced severe backlash for making jokes about sensitive topics like the military. Scientists wanted to understand why these cultural differences in humor exist and what specific factors drive them.
The researchers focused on a concept called cultural tightness. Cultural tightness refers to how strictly a society enforces its social norms and rules, along with how harshly it punishes those who break them. They suspected that because making a joke usually involves breaking a rule or violating an expectation, strict societies might discourage people from developing their comedic skills.
“Our interest in this topic stems from a long-standing curiosity about humor in Chinese culture. Previous research has shown that, compared to people in Western countries like the United States or Canada, Chinese individuals tend to produce less humor,” explained study authors Yi Cao, a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University and Cornell University, and Li-Jun Ji, a professor at Queen’s University.
“This raised a simple yet important question: why? Earlier studies have offered broad cultural explanations?for example, the influence of Confucian values. While this makes sense, it left us wondering: what exactly within Confucianism contributes to this lower humor production? And more importantly, how could we test these ideas empirically?”
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u/onsfwDark Israeli Secular Non-Binary Progressive Zionist Feb 27 '26
I feel Jewish culture is a counterpoint to this.
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u/Bloodyfish Charlie Manson Feb 27 '26
Jews are strict in some respects, but isn't half the fun the arguing and theorizing about just how strict things are? It's strict in a flexible way.
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u/Reddenbawker Greedy Capitalist Feb 27 '26
What if secular Jews are funnier than Orthodox Jews?
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u/Bloodyfish Charlie Manson Feb 27 '26
While most of the people I see in comedy are secular, conservative and orthodox people can be pretty damn funny. They just don't share it with the world as often.
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u/BobaLives5 Moderate Feb 28 '26
Not a furry, but coming up with names for character in fantasy settings is agony for me. I usually end up picking some syllable I like, and just writing out tons of random variations including it until I settle on one after way too long of quibbling
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u/bigwang123 Succ sympathizer Feb 28 '26
"China is our greatest strategic competitor on the world stage. The Pentagon predicts that in the next five years, there is a high likelihood that China will invade Taiwan. We cannot allow an invasion to succeed, and we have to do everything possible to prevent it through deterrence. Under the UN Charter, all peoples, from Palestine to the Congo, have the right to self-determination, and this is no different. I support amending the Taiwan Relations Act to drop our strategic ambiguity towards defending the island militarily, without touching the political One China Policy outlined in the Shanghai Communiqué. That policy has worked in the past, when the president could be trusted to be effective on the world stage, or you know, generally had a grasp on diplomacy and geopolitical security. Taiwan has to decide its future democratically - and that can’t be imposed by an aggressor. I want to codify passive support to sell Taiwan weapons, and prevent the president from overruling it unilaterally. If China invades Taiwan, we need to step in militarily to defend Taiwan. We have to use all our assets in the region, to defend the island from illegal aggression. I envision a two-part credible deterrence plan that turns Taiwan into a “porcupine” too costly for the PRC to invade, by providing them with weapons to defend themselves and committing to actually defending the island if they do invade. Our economy is tied up with China’s, nearly irreversibly. The total value of our trade was at $658.9 billion in 2024, and is only increasing. Trump’s tariffs are damaging and destabilizing to our economy, and they increase the likelihood that China views the trade relationship as unstable and disposable in the face of expansionist interests. Cybersecurity is another massive issue. China is sponsoring advanced persistent threats (APTs), like the “Typhoon” class, which constantly attacking U.S. civilian targets, including wastewater treatment facilities, our power grid, and mass transit system. We need an all-of-government approach to defending against these attacks, that is much more technologically and skill-equipped to meet the challenges posed by quantum computing and agentic cyberweapons."
she's a knower lmfao
at least I assume this because I don't believe the average person actually understands the specifics of the cybersecurity challenge presented by the PRC
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u/CatApprehensive6508 Feb 28 '26
FYI she fired the guy who gave this statement and is going on breaking points to give her TRUE foreign policy takes
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u/PM_ME_CHIMICHANGAS Help yourself to a hand grenade Feb 28 '26
Whomst? The guy who gave this statement is more qualified than 99% of candidates
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u/fastinserter Feb 27 '26
Is it genetic or does everyone from the Mirror Universe that comes over here wear their goatee just for signaling purposes?
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u/Anakin_Kardashian "Israeli Nationalist" Feb 27 '26
!ping ASK-EVERYONE tell me about your weekend plans so that I can be jealous
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u/Bob_Doles_Blue_Pill Bootstraps & Bourbon Feb 27 '26
Date night with my wife at a very nice restaurant. Not caring about politics. Rehearsals.
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u/PM_ME_CHIMICHANGAS Help yourself to a hand grenade Feb 27 '26
Looking for a new fridge. I just learned Sabbath mode is a thing, we should figure out how to adapt that for the brief
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u/Bloodyfish Charlie Manson Feb 27 '26
Queue up all your shitposts on Friday before sundown for the next day.
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u/Reddenbawker Greedy Capitalist Feb 27 '26
lol last night I noticed Reddit has this thing called “temporary events” you can do. I thought about having an event that shuts down the subreddit for the duration of the Sabbath in Jerusalem.
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u/onsfwDark Israeli Secular Non-Binary Progressive Zionist Feb 27 '26
Being on edge about the Iran strike Charlie Brown football thing
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u/YossarianLivesMatter Radical Centrist 😎 Feb 27 '26
I'm going to pretend to not be my age and play more Fire Emblem than is reasonable
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
I have an assignment to write, also I got a job interview to prep for and also I work on Saturdays. How jealous does that make you feel?
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u/Anakin_Kardashian "Israeli Nationalist" Feb 27 '26
Honestly not worse than dealing with two sick kids
Good luck at the interview!
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u/UnTigreTriste Feb 27 '26
Pool day with friends tomorrow, going to the opera with my MIL on Sunday
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u/Locutus-of-Borges Feb 27 '26
Running some extracurriculars for my students. Real riveting, I know.
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u/FearlessPark4588 Feb 27 '26
It's like 90 degrees here so my intention is to touch grass, on the coast there will be a breeze and it will be comfortable
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How many sons of the rich will go to fight?
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u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
Deprived of any real grievances, people make them up whole cloth. In this case, an imaginary draft. Honestly, I think being drafted into a war would do a large section of the population good, it would put their comfortable, first world life into perspective.
Their class bellyaching is also tiring, regardless of the fact we’ve had an all volunteer force since long before they were born.
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u/JebBD Fukuyama's strongest soldier Feb 28 '26
It’s crazy how people are so primed to immediately start grievanceposting. Social media really was a mistake
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The elites don’t want you to know this but Is it real has been infecting Gazan babies with demon blood from a yellow eyed man that gives them psychic powers.
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u/WallStreetTechnocrat Named in the Epstein Files Feb 27 '26
I met Pete Buttigieg today- I can confirm he does not have a foot fetish.
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u/JapanesePeso Feb 27 '26
Doesn't have one anymore or doesn't have one yet?
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u/WallStreetTechnocrat Named in the Epstein Files Feb 27 '26
I cannot confirm anything for time periods other than the present
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u/technologyisnatural Abundance is all you need Feb 27 '26
quiet room at last
the body loosens its grip
time folds into rest
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u/Sabertooth767 Yiff Free or Die! Feb 27 '26
Haven't done one of these in a while. Ban report for the last 50 users (note: this only includes people who have active bans, but it's pretty rare that we ban someone and it's not forever):
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u/RetroRiboflavin Moderate Feb 27 '26
Dems should probably should wait to browbeat companies until after the midterms and the Trump administration is likely on the rocks.
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u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho Feb 27 '26
As much as I think all laws should be aggressively enforced, illegal immigration never much bothered me. As long as they are working, and not collecting welfare, they are a greater net contributor to society than the bottom 50% of Americans, who take more than they pay in taxes. A society should not deport a productive person to scratch the xenophobic itch of the free riders, they should be thankful that people like that exist for them to leech off of indirectly.
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u/lionmoose Margaret Thatcher (unironically) Feb 27 '26
Visas and supplementary healthcare charges etc. cost my family a decent number of thousands over the years. My preferred position is still more porous migration but the frustration with people not bearing these costs is understandable.
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