A war of aggression started in October by Hamas.

Yeah - history started 13 months ago, and the genocide being committed in Palestine is actually a Hamas war of aggression. Is it because it’s all Israeli territory and therefore that genocide is justified?

Once again LBGTQ+ individuals would be killed, jailed and persecuted even without the current conflict with Israel.

You don’t get to weaponise the LGBTQ+ community, who Israel is exterminating at a far quicker rate than everyone else in the region combined to justify the extermination of those LGBTQ+ people, their families, and everyone they care about.

Once again Lebanon is an active war zone.

Yes - Israel invaded them.

Simple Israel is fighting a war that was thrust on it by Hamas in October. Nazis fought a war of aggression. The fact that you can’t tell the difference is sad.

That’s probably less defensible than the argument that the Jews were sabotaging the German economy in defence of the Holocaust - it’s definitely less defensible than arguing Hitler had no choice but to start WWII because of the economic carve-up following WWI.

Congratulations - you’re just as genocidal as the Nazis and use even stupider arguments than they do. The tankies can go fuck themselves - but my prescription for you would defy TOS, Rudolph Jitler.

Yawn

History started 13 months ago (but only as it relates to the genocide Israel is committing) - but you’d better not pay attention to who has been killing the most LGBTQ+ people (and straight people, civilians, children…) in the region.

I’m the one brushing aside reality, eh?

You don’t ever look at the fact that you’re defending a genocide and question yourself? That you’re weaponising the Palestinian LGBTQ+ population whose extermination you’re actively supporting exterminating to justify that extermination?

…nah - better to just say I’m off my meds.

You wouldn’t have to tie yourself in bizarre knots to defend a genocide if you simply decided not to defend the indefensible. You don’t have a moral framework, you don’t have a logical framework - you have “Israel gud, so genocide gud.”

Your prescription seems to assume that either:

1. Everyone can be rehabilitated, which no society has ever achieved.

2. That it’s preferable to push a well understood risk to people’s lives back into the community than it is to keep that risk in the care of the state where they can’t kill more people.

…but you strike me as too sensible to prescribe that kind of thing, so what have I missed?

Hold it in Palestine, get murdered by Israel.

Hold it in Iran, get murdered by Israel.

Hold it in Lebanon, get murdered by Israel.

…but Israel is less homophobic than them, so Israel’s genocide is good, actually.

Are you able to explain why the Nazis were bad in a way that doesn’t implicate Israel?

It’s not complex - bigotry is bad, genocide, as the most extreme possible outcome of bigotry, is far worse. Some bigotry in a population isn’t justification for a genocide - that would be an apocalyptic prescription if applied consistently.

You do understand why people would look at your prescriptions and think that you’re either a world-ending lunatic or genocidal piece of shit, right? Why would we be wrong?

My bigotry and genocide is fine because other countries have bigotry, actually.

What do you think you stand for, exactly?

Ain’t capitalism grand.

Owning shit isn’t working. Why is this controversial?

With a look like that, you strike me as the last person to give up tbh.

Whatever the case, I appreciate people with the… whatever it is to express themselves like you - even if I’m a vanilla cishet black T and jeans everyday kinda guy - selfishly, the fact that you are who you are and do what you do gives me hope that we’re (painfully slowly) creeping forward toward better things as a society… the kind of nonsense you endure notwithstanding.

Don’t change for anyone - you seem rad as-is.

Hell yeah!

Well intentioned cis outsider here, so I hope this comes across in the spirit it’s intended.

For better or worse, I can imagine that this decision would ironically make many people more comfortable, as they wouldn’t experience the same level of perceived gender …dissonance(?). Whatever the case, you don’t need me to tell you that it’s certainly not your job to adjust your identity or presentation to please people, and it’s a rad look - I don’t think I could help but take a bit of an admiring look tbh.

The “oxy” is where you went wrong.

We genetically engineered mosquitoes to have gender dysmorphia - weird times.

Was the mistake that it gave him a crippling humiliation fetish?

There’s no doubt that he would.

The makeup would at least be competently applied, and I’ve got to assume less fluorescent with none of the screaming contrast against the sickly transparent, veiny white skin of an octogenarian fuelled by hamberders, covefe, and hate - particularly for kamabla.

The important follow-up is to rinse/repeat. This doesn’t stop until the wealth redistribution does, and we regress to corporate town serfdom.

The people that vote for this want their elected government to be so small they’ll be ruled by corporate overlords solely interested in extracting their wealth.

And shifting the balance of SCOTUS for the better compared to ending democracy to install an octogenarian fascist is practically the same thing. Both sides, amirite?

You have a flawed candidate, and one of the worst in history, people - understand what’s on the line, and stop drawing false equivalencies.

The US has by far the most expensive healthcare in the world, and for all that expense, achieves outcomes comparable with the third world.

Negotiating with providers as a single payer massively shifts the dynamic by putting the negotiating power in the hands of the people representing patients, and allows a huge amount of bloat to be removed from the system - like the entire insurance industry.

Single payer will deliver huge savings, better healthcare, and better access. The people that lose are the grifters draining the system for profit.

TIL Macguyver is a Ukrainian asset.

For the reasons I gestured at above, it’s clear Netanyahu is pretty indifferent about Jews being killed.

Is it an end he wants unto itself? No.

Is he perfectly happy to sacrifice thousands of Jewish lives to advance his own interests? Absolutely.

The point stands though - substitute “Juden” for Palestinian, and you’ll struggle to find much difference between Israel and Nazi Germany. You’ll remember that the Jews weren’t the only people the Nazis targeted - they weren’t even the first.

I mean, I personally can’t find much difference in the policy positions or rhetoric between today’s Israel and early Nazi Germany, and given the dozens of refused hostage exchanges and predictable outcomes of Israel funding Hamas’ rise to power, I’m not sure I’d exactly disagree with him on that one.

With any luck, conflict between Israel and Russia will damage both monstrous regimes.