Dragonstaff

The Gadsden flag is based on the earlier Join or Die political cartoon. It is a symbol of the American Revolution, and it is generally understood to mean an opposition to state coercion.

Which makes it a direct contradiction to the "Blue Lives Matter" flag. The popularity of the combination of these two directly contradicting statements shows that conservatives are idiots who don't stand for anything. I call it the "Tread on them" combo.

I'm not incredibly interested in pondering hypothetical questions. Rape is a complicated topic and the existence of a grey area doesn't mean that everything is a grey area.

If someone lies to their victim about every single part of their personal life and history, while they ostensibly think their victim is a criminal and are acting as an agent of state to arrest them, their friends, and stop a cause they believe strongly in, convincing them to participate in sex is immoral. If someone wants to "devil's advocate" they can do so with their therapist.

Maybe, when you start arguing that an immoral act is not technically rape, you should simply not do that.

Rape by deception is rape, plain and clear. Why did you pick a scenario where you didn't lie, and try to compare it to someone who spun up an entirely new person out of thin air?

Of course he didn't regret anything. ACAB

Jamie Loftus crying and screaming right now.

No reason to think the Mossad doesn't devote some time here. They're incredibly active on Reddit, and I'm sure they have some people arguing in bad faith on Lemmy as well.

Do you call this criticism? I suppose it will do if you don't have anything more original to say. (😉)

"Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields" is one of the weirdest arguments in existence.

1. Gaza City is home to nearly 2 million people living in an 88-square-mile expanse, which is about 21,000 people per square mile. Is it "using people as human shields" if your fighters have no unpopulated place to strike from?

2. Even if we grant that the accusation is true, that doesn't make it okay to retaliate against innocent civilians. If we all agree that October 7th was bad, I've got terrible news for you about the last 70 years of Israeli occupation.

3. Israel has killed 40,000 innocent civilians. I haven't checked in a while, this number is surely low. It's obvious to everyone that "human shields" aren't effective, so why would Hamas think it was? Almost like this is just a talking point to use as Israel blows up another hospital.

4. Israel has fired at UN delegations, clearly marked Red Cross/Red Crescent vehicles, Aid NGOs, and Israeli hostages trying to escape under a white flag. Are we really supposed to trust them about "Hamas using human shields" when they shoot everything that moves and claim they were Hamas afterwards?

This point has general merit, but I cannot stress strongly enough Fuck the NYT.

No, the ancients never said anything about working a certain amount of time each week at all. Dude just made up some numbers and said God said it.

I don't want to be a stick in the mud, but do we really need to have a medical malpractice competition? How about a nice game of chess?

Thanks, Opabinia