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  • All of this “evidence” boils down to “this is very inconvenient for my side, and very convenient for the other side, therefore it’s obviously a false flag.” It’s the same logic that led Alex Jones to say Sandy Hook was faked by crisis actors: 1. the shooting would justify gun control, 2. the US government wanted gun control, so 3. the government faked Sandy Hook to justify gun control. in this case it’s 1. the shooting would justify claims that pro-Palestinian activists are violent, 2. the Israeli government wants to portray activists as violent, so 3. the IDF shot their own diplomat.

    Rational skeptics start with the facts and follow them to a belief. Conspiracy theorists start with their belief and find facts to support it. Do better.





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    10 days ago

    eh, he’s okay. he puts out a lot of slop content like “REAL LAWYER reacts to $MOVIE” and “r/LegalAdvice DISASTERS!” with those annoyingly exaggerated YouTuber faces. I guess you have to play to the Algorithm, but slop is slop.

    I like Liz Dye’s legal analysis when she appears on his channel to discuss current events, but I wish I could just watch her directly, rather than suffering through LegalEagle’s bombastic and superficial framing to pump up viewer engagement.





  • my unpopular opinion: homeless encampments in the US are a result of housing becoming unaffordable.

    I’m not saying most people ended up in tent cities because they couldn’t afford rent. usually people will sleep in their cars, find a spot in a shelter if one’s available, crash with relatives etc. at least here (Seattle) most of those who live in big tent cities are homeless because of mental illness: drug addiction and/or psychosis.

    but serious addiction isn’t new. where did addicts live in the '80s? crack houses! before real estate turned into gold, there was plenty of mold-infested, aabestos-ridden, lead-painted substandard housing left abandoned or rented cheaply by slumlords. junkies could sleep there.

    now, most of those buildings have been torn down and luxury condos rebuilt in their place, at least in the big cities.

    I’m not pro-crack den. the old buildings were health hazards. but junkies can’t afford the upscale housing that replaced them. they can barely afford tents.