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As far as I'm concerned he could be a single incel who cheered on October 7 and he still wouldn't deserve deportation.
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Anyway. I get why people want to appeal to the humanity of others by talking about how Khalil has a pregnant wife and is a good person and all of that. But literally. It doesn't matter. He has done nothing worthy of deportation, full stop.
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Like it literally doesn't matter if he's a raging antisemitic Hamas fan. NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE DEPORTATION WORTHY OFFENSES.
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I'm not saying displacement wasn't the logical outcome of Zionism, but like, the current situation wasn't inevitable.
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Because it isn't? Zionism encompasses a pretty broad variety of ideologies. Many of the first critics of the nascent Israeli state were Zionists- they just wouldn't be considered that today because anything that isn't Likudism or borderline Kahanism gets you accused of antisemitism.
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The women's content migration wasn't just a natural process. It was the result of active moderation and public awareness campaigns to deal with women and girl's body image issues and crack down on ED and other unhealthy fora.
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The worst "women's content" realm has migrated to parenting forums (the infamous mumsnet).
While the worst men's content is mainstream and targeted at insecure adolescents.
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Intriguing. Postmodernism hits different if you're "default gaze haver." Allowing a delay of a half century before men have to really do self work to navigate this insanity. I think there's definitely something here. Hard to quantity
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Society's men undergoing mass Mishima-fication
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There is no doubt that the amount of testosterone-adjacent hormones that our billionaire betters are currently using are very much breaking their brains in bad and predictable ways.
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*treading very carefully* the, ahem, visible body changes of some very prominent business people in tech comes to mind here, and while it's not not covered (it's a constant source of jokes here for example), the dots haven't been fully connected wrt overall behaviour impact
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its like the dodo, it grew up in an environment without predators
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manosphere influencers encountered body dysmorphia for the first time and got one-shotted by it
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The thing is I don't think mental illness is what actually need destigmatizing. Mental illness is a pretty shitty thing. What needed destigmatizing was people suffering from mental illness.
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People like to destigmatize mental illness in the sense of making themselves feel magnanimous and and open-minded and not in the sense of actually making space for the experiences of mentally ill people
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It's all "destigmatize mental illness" until you're puncturing the aura of universal enlightenment through shrooms, then it's "well you're an outlier who should have known better"
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And you end up with only the most reactionary shitheads unwilling to censor themselves.
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Like this isn't even a left or right thing, the fact that you can just randomly call out someone for a single line or passage in a book and it will generate discourse and sometimes even get your book pulled has a pretty nasty chilling effect.
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People are terrified of getting canceled because some random internet bully deliberately interpreted something ambiguous in the worst way possible.
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I know this is one of TLCs least watched shows of all time but do not sleep on The Baldwins. Absolutely worth watching. Insane shit.
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he tells a lengthy story about how he nearly died of anaphylactic shock as a young man due to a bad reaction to cat hair. this precedes the reveal that Hilaria, who talks at length about the shitty prenup she signed, has purchased four cats for "the family". She's definitely trying to kill him.
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miles dyson is a great character, played painfully well, but also the one real failure of predictive imagination in Cameron's first two Terminator movies
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positive there are many other vegan activist groups but I've never heard of a single one, which suggests that PETA's strategy is working at getting exposure? of course, everyone hates them, so probably that's not a net positive even if you literally only care about animal welfare.
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I saw someone say the purpose of aggressive proselytizing by some religious groups is less to get converts and more to convince people on the inside they are hated and persecuted by outsiders, thus increasing loyalty to the church.
I think PETA's tactics have similar aims.
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And while we’re at it: Aubrey Plaza as Wow Platinum for best supporting actress, this awards season would be so much more worthwhile
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"A significant amount of the plot hinges on him discussing Rashomon with a nine-year-old girl."