[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 22 points 6 months ago

You should actually watch the video because you might be surprised that he directly talks about Gaza and states his position (no more money for Israel if they can’t control their violent impulses). You know, instead of spouting off like a blind partisan.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 20 points 7 months ago

It’s not the person organizing the event and flying people out. It’s those poor peasants that dared attend. What an argument to make.

Someone else would fly the jet is also, not a coherent defense because someone else isn’t doing that. She’s flying her own private jet right now.

It’s a systemic problem, yes. So criticize all aspects of the system to show how inherently flawed it is. All private jet travel by all celebrities should be criticized. Suddenly when it’s not Elon tons of defenders need to tell us how we should look the other way and how there’s nothing important here in this identical situation.

If anyone is trying to prevent anything, it’s Taylor sycophants throwing themselves to defend her from valid criticism.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago

Gunning down journalists isn’t the “sad reality of war”. It’s an intentional war crime that also helps them control the narrative so people like you will get tricked into thinking the IDF isn’t a barbaric organization that kills indiscriminately.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

The irony is that all this fluff is you justifying why Israeli citizens are worth more. Just because terrorists kill civilians doesn’t give one the right to callously allow the death of yet more innocent civilians.

They both matter, which is what we’re saying when we speak out against Israel’s policy of collective punishment.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 33 points 11 months ago

The first 5 came from Jerry

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 28 points 11 months ago

There’s been a humanitarian crisis in Gaza for decades bud.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

A true classic

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually it’s a well established psychological phenomenon:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2466/09.02.10.CP.1.17

Got any actual response to my point or just more arrogant snark?

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

It’s no one’s job to do anything. But if you want to achieve real world results you have to work with the psychology of real world humans. This isn’t a game with an even playing field, it’s real life where people that pursue truth have to work way harder than those that peddle lies.

It’s a completely understandable sentiment because it’s an inherently unfair dynamic, no argument there. But if you want to change things you have to change people and that requires acknowledging that human minds are resistant to corrections and get even more obstinate in the face of hostility. Especially when there’s a whole political movement of reactionaries that will lie about you to get their way.

Not everyone is worth the effort of course, some are too dogmatically attached to their beliefs and others are just contrarian assholes that like hurting others. But the existence of close minded assholes doesn’t mean they are the only people that exist.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

It’s because when the current system is unsustainable people start to promote other ideas.

I get that you need to infantilize the position to stay so flippant but unfortunately for you it’s more childish to resort to insults when you can’t come up with any other response but still feel the need to say something.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

The end result of reactionary rhetoric. The GOP admitted it when they hung the banner “we are all domestic terrorists”

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

If you think they aren’t objectified that’s your own lack of perspective.

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