Hit the fucking nail on the head. Some actual intelligence in this comment thread.

And against the US too honestly. I say this as a US citizen. Sanction us until we stop bombing Yemen and supplying arms.

I pointed out to my wife when we were watching YouTube on our TV something like this. She said it didn’t bother her until I pointed it out and now she hates it too.

We were watching a video that had originally been shot horizontal. But it had been edited to be displayed in YouTube short TikTok vertical form. So it was cut off on the sides and had that blurry copy of the video added to the top and bottom of it.

So, we’re sitting on the couch watching a video on a 55" tv and maybe 10" of that is the actual video.

This comment section seems like the wrong place to complain about this but I do feel your frustration. Sometimes I feel like technology is going backwards in a lot of areas. AI slop in search engines being the worst one right now.

Yeah if I didn’t buy lifetime pass for like $50 years and years ago I’d be done with Plex probably.

I also believe different countries count differently.

Some countries only count a victim once if it occurs in the same relationship. Some count by actual individual act of abuse.

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You are dealing with fascist and saying exactly what fascist would say to deny their symbols of white supremacy.

It’s like pointing out that the swastika is a Hindu symbol when you see one tattooed on a fucking skin head Nazi punk. What point are you trying to make in that context?

Do you get how it’s fucking useless to do this? And only plays into the fascist narrative of doubt? You’re being helpful only to fascist.

You can be “technically correct” and still a fucking idiot for not understand what you’re doing.

You are the one not understanding the history. You are adding doubt to symbols of white supremacy. You are pointing to the Christian equivalent of an ISIS flag and telling us it’s not “neo Nazi”.

I’ve been this way for awhile. Except for food. I spend too much on food.

There is nothing wrong with categorizing symbols that are used for white supremacy and ethnic cleansing crusades as being “Nazi”.

You don’t need to be a German soldier in the 1930s to be a Nazi. These types of “technically” corrections are not helpful and just play into doubt for people that don’t understand history. Like yourself apparently.

Modern day Nazis aren’t tattooing swastikas. They’re running our businesses and our country.

Antisemitism has always been a tool of Israel. The first prime minister was quoted as saying

If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

Literally pro Holocaust to ensure the success of the Zionist project

Being accused of being a “radical anti Israel organization” is definitely something I would want on my resume.

Agreed. Those “values” they pretend to uphold are not the core of the beliefs though. The core of it is white supremacy and patriarchy. Capitalism and Liberal democracy do a good job of maintaining and masking these ideologies. The gial is maintaining those hierarchies. Literally supporting the machine.

From my understanding there is debate among even biblical (religious or otherwise) scholars on the level of ceremonial human sacrifice that the stories of Moses and Joshua’s time partook in. There are laws against human sacrifice in the old testament. But there are also laws against most of what god commanded be done to non Hebrews. Most agree that the laws of the old testament primarily applied to the Hebrews only.

You can definitely read the early bible as “oh it was just war”. But you can’t really when there are specific stipulations on which women to kill or to “save for yourself”

They specifically are told to kill women that have “known men by lying with them”. How they determined this is not clear. Likely through rape.

Numbers 31 is basically explaining a lot of the after battle events. “Cleansing themselves” etc. It definitely seems to be an organized part of handling the spoils of war.

I’d say finding a women after the war, raping her, and then killing her if she doesn’t bleed sufficiently enough (likely how they determined this ‘known a man’) and doing this because it was commanded by your god is not necessarily “human sacrifice” in the ritualistic sense. But, I’d say it’s not something I’d care to distinguish if we’re talking about dehumanizing other people and killing them.

Which was my point to begin with. The bible is filled with these absolutely awful things being normalized to out groups. Whether they played drums and slit someone’s throat at an alter like a movie scene is not really the requirement for “human sacrifice” that I’d require.

Human sacrifice can just be killing innocents in the name of your god. Which the bible is absolutely filled with. Ceremonial or not is not really important to me. The ritualistic part of it can absolutely be the aftermath of a battle. Which is when this slaughter of innocents primarily took place.

Well, I would say that all of the stories in which god tells the Israelites to slaughter the inhabitants of a land is a form of blood sacrifice.

Especially the ones where God is really angry apparently and instead of telling them to rape the women and children; he instead commands that they all be killed as well.

Again. Obviously god doesn’t do this. It’s just humans killing other humans and using their god to justify it. Not unique to the bible and no reason to call out a specific religion (though the three Abrahamic ones all believe the old testament in some way or another).

If you think gun culture was ever about “fighting to uphold your rights” you’re as dumb as the average American that buys a gun and says that same thing.

It’s about profiting off of peoples fear. Fear that grows with every new school shooting or “dangerous immigrant” story. It’s always been about fear of the “other”. All the way from freed slaves to Venezuelan immigrants.

Are you really shocked the average American gun owner isn’t storming the capital to “save democracy” from the guy that most of them voted for?

The few of us gun owners in the US that are actually leftist are organizing locally to resist ICE in our neighborhoods. With the full knowledge right now that use of a weapon in self defense is just going to get you killed. (Which may be your best option).

We’re focusing on having quick communication to resist ICE. Early warning of their presence so their target can avoid that altercation altogether.

So, I’m sorry. But you’re just disconnected if you think the average American ever gave a shit about “rights”. They give a shit about white supremacy and there is absolutely no threat to that right now that would make them take up arms.

He’s referring to Nikola Tesla in the standup. Someone that actually contributed to science with very little reward. The opposite of the founder of that car company that has tainted his name.

https://youtu.be/E3s-qZsjK8I

That would basically require ending capitalism at this point. Maybe at the birth of the digital era we could have had a balance between them. But capitalist fought tooth and nail to ensure that existing systems based on scarcity and demand would be artificially enforced in digital form.

Instead of restructuring our economic systems by benefiting society as a whole we sadly forced the existing economic systems onto a digital world that it didn’t work on.

Those contradictions are still coming full circle though. I do not think these current systems can be maintained. It may take another generation or ten to see this digital oligarchy collapse.

Copyright is not there to protect the “mom and pop developer” like some might try to argue. It is there to ensure capitalist structures are enforced in the digital world. A world that is in complete contradiction to them. (Not unlike the material world but just more extreme)

I’m not very hyperactive. On rare occasions yes. I feel my hyperactivity is restricted to my mind. Like, it’s different than a hyper focus. Like, where other ADHD people might show outward hyperactivity I feel like mine just becomes an overwhelming amount of thoughts I can’t even focus on. Its almost disabling.

If I was going to play doctor I’d say it’s because of my childhood. I’m a male, but grew up in an isolated and abusive family.

I find this lack of hyperactivity is much more common in the women with ADHD that I have talked to. Again, just sharing thoughts, but I feel like this similar type of abuse that I experienced is very similar to how our society expects women to act. To be quiet and submissive. Which maybe leads to a coping mechanism to hide outward hyperactivity? I don’t know, but it feels like that for me.

Come to think of it. My most outwardly visible hyperactivity happens when I hang out with women that have ADHD. It’s like being comfortable enough to not keep it in your head.