Sure, but the US starts and supports a lot more wars than any other country and wastes as many tax dollars on it as the next ten countries combined, so it’s fair to single them out.
KTLA journalist David Lazarus said: “The simple fact is that if we did away with the archaic Electoral College, a man like this would never again get within reach of the presidency.”
That’s true. In the short term, though, it’s looking more and more obvious that we also need to get rid of the archaic incumbent before November, lest his stubborn insistence on aiding and abetting dozens of ongoing crimes against humanity alienates enough voters that the Mango Mussolini wins and does away with democracy altogether.
Not really, no. Our sensory experiences are the brain reacting to objectively real things rather than creating them. We know that they are objectively real because too many people experience them, usually in similar if not identical ways that the chance of it being coincidental or a shared delusion is astronomically remote.
The scientific method + Occam’s Razor says the world objectively and verifiably exists outside of our brains, beeyotch! drops mic
what we perceive as the world can never be determined because we perceive things differently.
I’d actually argue that that is proof that the world CAN be determined: if several people with different perception and perspectives agree on how something looks, feels, tastes etc, that commonality in spite of differences is proof that the shared experience of something is objectively real.
many of us don’t even see the exact same colors for example
But most of us do, which can’t be a coincidence.
And this can be extended to quantum physics even when you consider that certain things are based on when they are observed.
Hey! No fair bringing physics to a philosophy discussion! How would you like it if I used football to prove that golf is boring? 😉
90% of people only perceive others as either men or women.
That sounds ridiculously high. Where’s that study from, Prager U? 😛
Even if they see a nonbinary person, their occipital lobe would still generate a man schema or a woman schema
That’s a learned bias though, not an inherent state of the occipital lobe or any other part of the brain.
Are you gonna use that as evidence that binary gender is objectively real, because billions of people wouldn’t hallucinate it
Nope. I’m gonna use that as an example of learned bias and other outside influences can affect how we experience the world in a very literal sense. In fact, I just did. Twice.
Cause that’s the same argument you’re making now.
Nope, not at all. Please stow away all strawmen before proceeding.
And it’s not an empirical argument.
It is and it isn’t: paradoxically, it’s impossibly to establish the existence of objective reality with 100% certainty.
That being said, what IS possible is logically deducing a conclusion so overwhelmingly likely that there’s no valid counterargument.
To give you an example: the only way to know without a doubt that the sun is hot is to touch it yourself. Given that it’s impossible to get to it and touch it, we rely on more indirect measuring which are still reliable to the point that no well-informed and rational person doubts that the sun is indeed very, very hot.
That’s how both logic and science works: in the absence of the possibility to positively prove or disprove something, you rely on what’s most likely.
Absolute nonsense. That’s like saying that you lose your voice in order to fill out a health insurance card as you wait for treatment. Don’t put des hoarse before des carte.
Yeah, someone arguing that there’s no objective reality WOULD claim that the best method to objectively prove reality depends on already believing in objective reality.
Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
I’ve had it with your ridiculous strawmen. I’ve told you what you need to know (that white people aren’t inherently racist and it’s therefore not racist to call out racism, including racism specific to white racists) and you keep trying to twist it into something it’s not.
I don’t know if you’re a racist yourself, if you’re just a pedant, or if you really believe that you have a valid and important point, but you don’t. Not even close.
Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys....
AKA forced relocation, which is another war crime. Think Trail of Tears. Besides, they even bomb “safe zones” that they told Palestinians to go to!
As an army, it’s outstandingly humane.
Your biggest lie yet.
Another point about the IDF, with regards to barbarism. You should really look at what Hamas did on oct.7, and try to compare it to how the IDF works.
I have. October 7th wad absolutely incredibly monstrous. The reply from the IDF and the rest of the Israeli apartheid regime has been even worse.
Comparing the two in terms of barbarism is really nuts.
Yes, but not in the way you think.
The difference is that Israel has a functioning court of law
Not when it comes to crimes of the occupation. Any Israeli person committing war crimes are either not reprimanded at all or get off with a slap on the wrist. That’s why the ICJ and the ICC find it necessary to interfere: because there’s no justice form Israeli courts and Palestinians are not even allowed to HAVE their own Justice system.
Oh and about the kidnapped vs palestinians arrests, don’t compare people who commit (or try to commit) terrorism to people who simply lived in a Kibutz/partied in the Nova.
Fun fact: not everyone who’s arrested is guilty of terrorism or attempted terrorism. Far from it. In fact, the vast majority of Palestinian prisoners are guilty of dissent or knowing someone who might know someone or ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Finally, Hamas is completely genocidal. Their lack of means of acting on that will, doesn’t make them less genocidal.
That’s not how genocide works. Genocide is a concerted pattern of actions, not a wish.
Their “exterminate all jews” rhetoric is definitely a literal goal, considering the act of oct.7, which the main plan was sieging cities/Kibbutzim and killing/kidnapping their residence
That doesn’t follow at all. Especially since many of the victims weren’t even Jewish.
Besides, a terrorist attack, monstrous as it is, is not the same thing as a genocide. It’s not even in the same category.
Basically your whole pov is based on the fact that you think the IDF are targeting civilians
Fixed it for you. It’s not something I think. It’s not in question. It’s established fact.
Since you’re clearly set in that opinion
Again, not an opinion. They’ve said so themselves.
if they really do target civilians… Do you think the numbers would truly be 1:2 Hamas:civilian?
Nope, but that ratio is the low end of the IDF PR division estimate. The real ratio is closer to 1:4
…you know what? As I read on, you’re not giving me anything except more lies and distortions regurgitated from AIPAC and other PR outlets for the Israeli apartheid regime. That and signs of you simply not understanding or not wanting to.
So since I won’t be able to help you undrink the kool-aid, I’m gonna atop wasting time and effort on you. Have the day you deserve.
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Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
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Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys....