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i was a kid asking questions like "when you say to rate my pain on a scale of 1 to 10 do you mean relative to what i have experienced before or what i could theoretically experience in the future because what if i say 8 and then later i get twenty billion papercuts and i realise relative to that this pain is a 1" and they would reply "just focus on what you know, you literally had your foot ran over by a ford focus" and id say "well exactly but it could have been both feet which i know would surely be worse" and it still took years to diagnose me as autistic

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"The US could stop the genocide in Gaza tomorrow!" Yes. As the biggest weapons supplier, the US could stop the genocide. But so could the EU, and that's not getting enough attention.

Israel's economy couldn't survive without the EU, not even for a short time. The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner and the biggest investor in Israel (nearly twice as big as the United States) and the EU is the main destination for Israeli investment.

Firm economic sanctions by the EU would not be some long term pressure builder, they would have immediate effect. The EU could stop the genocide in Gaza tomorrow. They choose not to.

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therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell are desolate.

therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

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and in the next fifty years, you will ache and you will glow. you will fall in love with people who don’t stay and still carry their names like pressed flowers in the folds of your memory. you will eat meals alone and meals with people who make you laugh so hard you forget the sting of silence. there will be mornings you can’t get out of bed and nights where you walk home humming under a sky so wide it forgives you. you’ll cry in public and smile at strangers and sometimes it’ll be the same thing. you’ll hear a song that reminds you of someone you promised you’d never forget and you’ll realize you already have, a little. you’ll outgrow versions of yourself you once thought permanent and mourn them like old friends and still you will keep going. you’ll see sunsets that make your chest tighten. you’ll be held when you least expect it. you’ll feel the cold on your face and remember what it means to be alive. and it won’t always be gentle but it will be yours.

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Embrace your divine feminine energy by taking part in traditional women's hobbies & interests like experimenting with radioactive materials, developing mathematics, programming computers, piloting aircraft and practicing marksmanship.

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the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

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btw now is the best time to keep boycotting. the israeli economy has never been weaker. don't stop the protests or the demands for divestment. keep supporting organisations like the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Accountability Archive. ofc don't stop boosting and donating to Palestinians as Gaza is still uninhabitable.

enjoy this moment but the work has not ended

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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

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"It's so fucked up women have to do sex work to survive" so trueee it's so fucked up we live in a capitalist society where you need to do work you don't want to do just to be alive. I'm so glad we're talking about ALL the jobs that are forced onto people, especially women, that are full of harassment. Thank God we're not just focusing on jobs that are already heavily stigmatized and shaming women for doing what's necessary to survive, even though every single person has to do that but for some reason it's immoral when it's a stripper instead of a fast food employee

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this, american discourse love being distracted by fleeting images.

sabrina carpenter showcasing a sexually submissive image is not polarizing it’s not moral praxis it’s not a commentary it’s not even a relevant topic in a serious space because it’s NOT serious like damn can a white girl just get freaky on a tuesday

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controversial thought of the day is i think a good amount of people would benefit from being told they don't have "a touch of the tism" they're just socially awkward and or emotionally stunted

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It's okay to have blatant double standards that favor women

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I'm so sorry it's genuinely nuts to me that "your spouse is not your responsibility" mindset endures to this day. Like what are you talking about. Yes it is?? That is your spouse. You married them. I have watched my father destroy his beloved vegetable garden so he could build handrails for my mom to practice walking on every day after nerve damage from sepsis. He changed her diapers even after he had surgery on his kidneys and he was recovering. People who say this shit clearly have no idea what it is to be disabled. If the person who supposedly loves you most in the world can't even be inconvenienced to take care of you, why even bother marrying. What the fuck are we doing

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i cld never shave bush not just bc im morally opposed to it but also bc what would i play with when im lying in bed thinking…a bush is the beard of the modern day philosopher

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i’m sure it works for some people but the thought of marrying your high school sweetheart from your little hometown without ever experiencing anything without them sounds like a punishment for some unforgivable and inhumane act you carried out in a previous life

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Whoever engages in genocide denial in the West always does so under this humanist guise. The catch lies in how "human" is defined, and which crimes against "humans" incite such grand displays of moral concern. Because it’s definitely not the bloodied remains of children in Gaza. You’d think even the most bleeding-heart, "both-sides" humanist, the "everybody please stop fighting" type, would start with the dead children. But no; the inciting incident is always an act of terror against our "human" in-group.

The second kind of humanist is one who feels deep shame about Gaza but is too terrified of any real solution, except for divine intervention, which they’ll eagerly tell you they’re praying for daily.

This is the "violence is evil" attitude that had people in the dark 2010s holding philosophical debates over whether Nazis should be punched, and the fact these discussions were taken seriously is both concerning and darkly hilarious.

Humanism is an absurd position that bars entry to actual political thought. To say "I’m for all humans" is to say you stand for no one. It’s a refusal of the dilemma imposed by the external world, a cop-out for those too afraid to confront the reality of human violence in any meaningful way. And this makes them easy to placate, complacent in the endless barbarity the West inflicts on the world.

Palestine should be the perfect issue for a moralizing "humanist": Israel has wives eulogizing their husbands by wishing them luck in conquest, while Palestinians, an insanely educated populace, carry their children’s remains in shopping bags. I mention this because these are the very optics a so-called "humanist" claims to value.

A "humanist" position that seeks any compromise on an issue this clear-cut reveals "humanism" for what it is: a soothing philosophy, not a genuine belief, and certainly not a basis for meaningful politics.

Edit: Since this coward blocked me, I'm attaching my reply here:

Thanks for proofreading, lol. But this is a good opportunity to actually elucidate my thoughts:

Nowhere do I claim that seeing Palestinians as people requires seeing Israelis as non-people. And since the terminology of actual political thought seems indigestible to either of us, I’ll put it plainly (though I’ve already said this in the original post): "All violence is bad, I condemn ALL violence, let’s all just talk" is a childish sentiment that only appeals to people who can’t reconcile themselves with the fact that violence exists in the world and that it is not entirely irrational.

For six years now, I’ve worked with a humanitarian initiative aiding Palestinians whose houses have been occupied by Israeli settlers—people who have literally been dragged out of their homes. I’ve seen the Israeli apartheid mechanism up close, befriended people living in occupied Palestine (some less radical than me, some more, regarding solutions to the Israeli colonial project), and heard Israelis say far worse things than what they post online. I’ve also heard them give far better fucking takes than you, despite being infinitely more justified in having idiotic takes than you are. (Here’s your nuance, since that’s all you require to soothe your soul in such a terrible, ongoing situation.)

To understand October 7th purely as a terrorist attack—as mere bloodlust or revenge—and, in turn, to see the Israeli bombings as merely a counterattack, is idiotic. It betrays a complete lack of political understanding, because politics involves fucking bloodshed, murder, and heinous acts. Palestinians, like all oppressed peoples everywhere, have resisted using violence. Between the two sides of this conflict, one has a death toll of ~1,500 and the other ~50,000, yet you’re mincing words about how "dehumanizing" we’re being to the aggressors and how "cartoonishly" we’re portraying the immense disparity in their cruelty. Go to the Balkans and try saying the same about the Serbs (whose genocide pales in comparison to Israel’s, and whose civilian population is far more innocent than Israel’s), and you’ll be laughed at. But more importantly than you seeming like an idiot, you’re wasting everyone’s time stating the obvious: that there are humans on both sides. And that’s all you’re saying—that’s the extent of your political thought. Which is to say, none at all, lol. What, must we immediately mobilize to soothe the Israelis rather than support the victims in Gaza? Or are you proposing we do both? "We can do both!!!!!!" How brave. How groundbreaking. No wonder Marxism and decolonial theory scare you.

Your take on diplomacy is even more naïve and laughable. "Talking things out is the only way things work?" Where the fuck have you seen that? Surely not in Srebrenica, nor in Ukraine, nor in Germany. Were the Nazis sitting down to argue terms? Terms are only argued when the fucking dust has settled. And any other form of diplomacy is only possible through intervention by global superpowers. Diplomacy is what my group was hired to attempt, and all I’ve achieved is adding friction to the apartheid project.

My point was that "humanism*" is a politically and historically illiterate philosophy, and you’ve perfectly proven my point—so I guess thank you. And thank you for catching the typos and mistakes I’ve made; it’s the only useful contribution you could muster.

*as in the "humanism" of the original poster, because I have never heard somebody say they're a "humanist" lol.

“How can you call yourself a humanist and support Israelis?”

Well, you see, it’s really absurdly simple - Israelis are human beings and I’m against demonisation and dehumanisation and murder and rape and kidnapping being justified on the basis of where any human being happened to be born or calls home. That’s a pretty fucking baseline humanist position.