I’ve never encountered an Iranian refugee before, just normal expats.

Crazy. Iran has some really good researchers, at least, I’ve been consistently impressed by Iranian academics abroad.

That would mean every driver on the highway is driving recklessly.

“yes! Now you see how carbrained society is”

counterpoint: society is to blame, not individual drivers.

right, but you can only tell what’s used as a verb after you’ve parsed it.

ok, just so long as the articles themselves aren’t AI generated.

They accidentally included 8 verbs. (tax, filing, is, trying, kill, got, open, sourced)

Even though the officer who issued the countercommand reiterated that the men were carrying a white flag, the deputy commander again requested that they be targeted with a drone. The order was, however, not carried out, the report noted.

The officer who issued the countercommand was deemed “a coward” by his commanding officers.

fucked up.

Right, they’re asking to cut taxes because the purpose of taxes is to redistribute wealth.

I’m saying WoD failed to stop drugs. Failed, as in, was supposed to and didn’t. Was there a secondary purpose of incarcerating black people? Sure, could be. Is it racist to want to get rid of drugs? Nah.

Redistributing wealth by printing money is pretty stupid. The wealthy don’t have money, because there are better investments. This is all based on the myth that inflation is necessary for society to function; that you need to push people to get rid of their money. Japan went like 20 years without inflation – not saying they don’t have problems, but to my eyes none of those problems are caused by a lack of inflation, and the typical person did not complain that inflation was too low. Redistributing wealth by taxing the rich is based.

They wouldn’t be able to type fast enough if they weren’t using the same keyboard.

That’s just how war is though. War is always justified by the enemy. I’m not saying it’s sad that they choose to defend themselves – it’s sad that they’re in a situation where they must.

It’s sad to see something made out of love for humanity used for war.

Bad headline. They are advocating for killing her. They are not threatening to kill her because most of the people mentioned do not have the power to do so. I could threaten to arrest Netenyahu but it would not be a credible threat because that’s not within my power at all. But I can post online in favour of the idea.

Friendly reminder that even being Jewish doesn’t preclude being racist against Jews.

Right, but “most” is not “monolith.” There’s around 16 million jews worldwide, so even if 90% of jews are pro-zionist that’s still over a million non-zionist jews. List of Jewish anti-Zionist organizations. Generalizations about groups of people are harmful even if they’re true, because it’s unfair to the those who don’t fit the generalization.

To be clear, you’re saying that you would say that 100% of Jews should be “taken out,” except that this would get you banned?

Next I’m going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.

You’re talking about people having knee-jerk reactions to slogans like “destroy Israel” due to established powers. In this case, I don’t think the established powers need to do anything to cause this knee-jerk reaction. It’s quite automatic when somebody says something like “destroy <somebody’s home>.” The problem is that the slogan itself is not that it’s incendiary, but misleadingly incendiary.

I even think it might be a Motte-and-Bailey – it sounds obviously physically destructive, but when interrogated, proponents of the slogan retreat to “no, we just mean societal restructuring, in the abstract sense.” I’ll admit, I don’t know if there’s any way that one can defend against being accused of a Motte-and-Bailey, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

My tinfoil hat theory is that the established powers seeded the phrase “destroy Israel.” I think it’s that self-defeating of a slogan.

Ah, I didn’t know about this rule when pronouncing dates. Thanks!