He’s adopted this weird myopic outlook where he’s convinced himself so thoroughly of the complexity of the situation that he views the West Bank struggle and the Gaza struggle as politically-separate conflicts. This nerd has convinced himself that Israel is bad regarding the West Bank but good regarding Gaza. Politically incoherent position. Go to the reeducation camp.
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Replaying my argument with my friend who watches D*stiny from a week ago over in my head and it’s really embarrassing how much psychotic shit I allowed to fly by me because I’m bad at rhetoric.
Bro really said “I bet you all of these people unironically cite that UN resolution that you can violently resist your oppressor” like my brother that is international law you are talking about, this is your rules-based order, do you hear yourself
“No one actually cares about the numbers, it’s just rhetorically useful” ???????????????? I did counter this one with the massive outpouring of citizens probably disagreeing with that but he was like “teens were already going to be pro-Palestine so saying the protests show that is naive”, that’s gibberish.
The whole time he kept trying to steer the conversation around my principles regarding “when is it ok to bomb a hospital” and every time I said “it’s not okay to bomb a hospital and if you do it and you feel you have to do it you deserve to live with the obvious consequences that should come with it (The Hague), there should be no exceptions to judging war criminality” he was like “no one would agree with you, that’s an insane ask, that’s unrealistic”
These motherfuckers are truly on the backfoot rhetorically. I’ve basically given up on convincing him in any way, shape, or form. Recently all I’ve been thinking about regarding that is “his opinion doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things when he’s very clearly outnumbered”
aspire to have the same level of unabashed passion about something materially meaningless as liberals have for susan sarandon
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no shame in liking fanfiction, it's the year of our lord 2023 
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AO3 and FFN, though AO3 is more active nowadays. SpaceBattles also has a thriving fanfiction space, though it's infinitely harder to search, since it's built to be a bulletin-board-style forum.
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also been thinking of pressing him on “hey, did you hear Destiny ghosted the Norman Finkelstein debate, what’s that about” but the other half of me is like “I genuinely do not give a shit about this for any other reason besides schadenfreude and I don’t want to act like I do”