[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

I would go a step further and say that the implication that all Jews are complicit in the crimes of a genocidal settler colony is one of the most antiemetic things you could argue.

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

What else would learning R mean? The programming language?

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

You've fallen prey to one of the oldest laws of the internet, which states that the quickest way to get an answer to something is to post the wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you.

It's called Murphy's Law.

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Edgeworth is properly placed, but I would argue Phoenix should be in the top left corner.

He has regular encounters with the supernatural, and his specialty is bullshitting his way to what must be true regardless of how outlandish it sounds.

Though, I guess it depends on what qualifies as "intuiting the mechanics of the death note." Phoenix will definitely stumble his way into something close to the truth even if by accident, but whether he actually believes what he's saying is true because he arrived at the conclusion logically or if he believes it's true because he believes so deeply in the innocence of his client that the supernatural explanation must be true is up in the air.

If "using the wrong equation to get the right answer" doesn't count as intuiting the mechanics of the death note, then I could see the argument for putting Phoenix in the bottom left. But he would absolutely stumble into accidentally describing how the Death Note works, and confidently use it in his defense because you can't prove that it's not true, even if he doesn't fully understand why what he's saying is true.

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

mismanagement

When talking about the US, it's more often correct to assume malice rather than incompetence

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[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I guess I just don't understand what end you hope to achieve by policing people having a positive response to resistance against genocide and colonization.

Are you just hoping to extol the virtues of stoicism?

Because the point you keep trying to make over and over again is "you shouldn't be happy, do you know that resisting oppression will actually incite even more oppression?"

Which is barely half a step away from a general defeatist attitude. Your position is basically "You're allowed to show support, but remember to couch it in extreme pessimism about the hopelessness of ever changing the world for the better." With friends like that, who needs enemies?

I just don't understand why that's the hill you're choosing to die on. The most charitable interpretation I have is that you just picked a bad position to defend, and you need to stop trying to post through it

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess what! Palestinian Jews are also treated as second class citizens under Zionism!

Pretending that Zionism is equivalent to being Jewish is antisemitism.

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I fail to see how getting it over with in one mass slaughter is an improvement.

I'm failing to see how your concern trolling is particularly relevant to the question of whether or not we should be expressing support for Palestinian resistance.

Your protestations can basically be summed up as "I know what's best for the Palestinians and their resistance better than they know themselves. Our job as distant observers should not be to support the decisions that those resisting oppression have made, we should instead concern ourselves with armchair quarterbacking and second guessing them out of an abundance of caution that we might end up backing the wrong horse and get egg on our faces."

You don't seem to be in possession of any specialized knowledge that would make you a higher authority on matters of strategy and tactics than the people actually organizing a resistance movement who have access to all the same information that you do plus an entire life of living in those conditions and an intimate familiarity with the on the ground reality. This isn't a rogue group doing some adventurism, this is an effort organized across several different Palestinian resistance groups who will have already discussed the exact concerns you're bringing up before committing to a joint plan of action.

I'll listen to your concerns about whether there is a more effective strategy for resistance once you are the one putting your life on the line. In the mean time, I'm going to assume that the people who are actually living through that struggle have a better grasp on their situation than I do, and I'm not going to treat it like it's my job to second guess them.

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

You seem to be incredibly hung up on this idea of celebration, but most of what you're attacking are messages of support.

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

The tips of his shoe look so empty because there's a hidden heel inside of the boot to give him some extra height so Trump doesn't make fun of him for being short.

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Damn, and they're blaming the Estrogen? If the Estrogen was at fault, wouldn't cis women display the same outcomes?

Couldn't possibly be that there is a confounding variable that they are forgetting to control for. Such as transmisogyny and social discrimination causing trans people to have fewer economic opportunities resulting in lower economic status and less access to social resources such as healthcare, and higher rates of discrimination and inadequate treatment as a result when healthcare services are accessible.

Socio-economic status and discrimination has an impact on all measures of health, some of the most impactful being access to proper nutrition, the amount of stress a person has to manage, and the quality of care and social support a person has access to.

But of course, we're scientists here! Health could never be a social issue with social causes! Being trans must be bad for innate biological reasons, which is a scientifically objective conclusion untainted by the bias of society. /s

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

The old quote "If I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter" comes to mind.

Making something long is easy, just cover every point you might conceivably want to talk about, and read off your first draft.

Making something concise, coherent, engaging, focused, informative, and clear, on the other hand, often takes many revisions.

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