Jaytreeman

You’ve got some good points. Keep up the good fight

As others have said, the analogy is wrong, but for different reasons than what I’ve seen.

A better analogy is an abusive relationship. There’s your partner who beats you regularly. You’re often left bruised. You talk about leaving and the response is ‘the other guy will break your arms, and unless you agree to stay with me, they’re moving in and they will break your arms. I’m still punching you, and there’s no chance I’ll stop, but I’m better than that person.’

There is a cycle of abuse. Look it up. There’s no way to make an abusive relationship better. There’s very little chance that a person will change while they have power over a victim. Power gives up nothing without a fight.

The abuser might change, but only after reflection and a loss of power.

I agree with you, but you might find the history of Zionism interesting. Before Israel, there was a sizable portion of Zionists that didn’t want Israel to exist in the middle east. There were also Zionists that didn’t want a ‘state’. They thought it was more important to have a safe place for a sizable Jewish population. There’s probably a lot of flavors of Zionism that you’d agree with. It’s the dominant Israeli Zionism that’s horrible.

It’s a lot easier to say ‘Zionist’ though. Just thought I’d share in case you weren’t aware.

I’ve heard, so take with a grain of salt, that China likes Chiang’s ideology that China should be reunified.
The disagreement was who should be in power after.
The removal of the statues somehow indicates they don’t want reunion.

Most reddit users are bots.
Most human reddit users are lurkers.

What’s the ratio of active to lurker user on fediverse users?

There’s lots of ways to do that safely.
Catios are a thing.
My partner has fostered multiple cats and now has two. The older one has seen some shit and appreciates being a housecat. She has zero interest in going outside, but she feels safe basking in the small catio while we have a hot drink on the patio.
Maybe in your very specific case it’s OK for the cats to be outside because you have some type of electric fence to keep the coyotes or foxes out. This is very similar to dogs on a leash. The general rule is keep them on a leash. But one in a thousand dog owners has trained their remarkable pup to not need the leash. I’ve seen it, but the rule is dog on a leash for the 999 of us.

Maybe I should do that. It’s cheaper than a ring.

Pearl was adopted by my partner 3 years ago. At that time we couldn’t pet her. She now jumps onto my lap (1 year ago) and sits on my partners chest with her ass in my partners face (3 months ago).
It’s really neat seeing them get more comfortable and how long it takes.

Israel has attacked 4 different countries in it’s ‘war against hamas.’ It’s attacked, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Palestine. They’re aggressively trying to escalate.

Every good anarchist understands the power analysis rarely fails, but I’m trying to be a little more optimistic lately

I see this as very positive. If people want to band together and have a state. Why is anyone standing in their way? Same thing with seceding.
It’s nice that countries are starting to do that for Palestine. It’s kind of wild that it’s taken this long

Taiwan has always been a bit fascy.

When Kai Cheks party split from the CCP, he ordered the killing of any communists still inside his own party effectively starting a civil war. Kai chek eventually lost and fled to Taiwan where he ruled until his death.

That bit of history is crazy interesting and also illuminating regarding current Chinese policy. I’d really encourage anyone to read up on it

Bidens done so many speeches that have been interrupted by anti genocide protesters, one 17 times.
All he has to do to secure this vote is be anti genocide. And we still get people saying ‘he’s better than the other guy’

4 years ago it was vote Biden because he could be pushed left. Turns out that was a lie.

This whole discourse is designed to prop up a system that’s fundamentally broken. Americans should be having some very uncomfortable discussions with each other.

‘Killing nearly 32 000 already’

32 000 confirmed already. The real number is much higher

Because you’ve got some naive beliefs about the state of the world …
We should just agree to block each other. Cheers

Dudes drunk the koolaid. Probably not worth the effort to get him to think critically

She’s almost an elder in gaza

Voting is the minimum. The reason there’s no decent alternative is because people vote and think they did their part.

If you’re voting for the lesser of two evils and that lesser is actively supporting genocide, but you’re complaining about people that are saying ‘both sides bad’…

‘If you’re curious what you would do to stand up against genocide, you’re doing it now’ - a braver man than me

Macaulay culkin had a long friendship with mj from around the time he was in home alone. He’s consistently said throughout his life that nothing bad happened to him.

MJ is a weird case. It’s super suspicious, but the fact that parents let kids sleep over is even more suspicious. As a parent, I’d never let my kids sleep over at mjs place. Especially with the rumors.
So why would a parent do that? Extortion seems reasonable.
Worst case, parents were feeding their kids to a child predator so they could extort a filthy rich guy.
This also explains caulkin. He was rich. There was no point in extorting mj.