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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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Why is testosterone a controlled substance grow up like who cares

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For anyone who needs to translate the idea of 'don't appropriate Jewish holy days if you aren't Jewish' into an atheistic perspective, here's my best shot:

Appropriation is disrespectful on a cultural level. Being disrespectful is an asshole thing to do. Don't be an asshole.

There are times when people have used religion to claim ownership of practices and beliefs that they are not entitled to take, but that's not holy days. That's things like the right to bodily autonomy and right to life.

You're free to do whatever you want because nothing is true and everything is permitted, but that's a reminder to not be an asshole, not an entitlement to take whatever you want. Taking something someone else considers holy and using it for your own ends without participating in that culture or seeking any kind of solidarity with the people of that culture is disrespectful and insulting.

And so. As with many things, it comes back to that simple rule: Don't be an asshole.

If you are a Christian that wants to host a Passover seder this year:

1) Don’t. It’s appropriative and gross.

2) Still don’t.

3) Jesus never participated in the type of seder that Jews have today. He lived (if he existed as described in your Christian holy books) during the Second Temple Era of Judaism, when worship was Temple-focused and ritual sacrifice was a key facet of the holiday. The modern seder takes most of its traditions from rabbinic Judaism, which was not the Judaism of Jesus.

4) Don’t do it. Don’t. No, there is no good reason for you to do it.

5) Given the Christian antisemitic violence traditionally inflicted on the Jews during this time of year (the lead up to Easter), it is EXTRA awful for Christians to try and appropriate our traditions related to Passover.

6) Don’t. Pesach is our holiday, and our religion is a semi-closed practice. Don’t appropriate our stuff. Don’t make our stuff about Jesus.

7) There are no exceptions to the rule that Christians should not host Passover seders.

Hope this helps.

#Nothing is true. We arrive at conclusions through observation and reason not unquestionable truths. #Everything is permitted. You're an autonomous entity free to act as you will. And so it is your responsibility to act with wisdom.

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It's called homophobia because it's rooted in fear of the other. People who are disgusted by gay folks are expressing fear. People who can't agree with the concept are expressing fear. If they weren't afraid, they'd have no reason to care about who someone else has sex with or loves.

This goes the same for all kinds of bigotry. It's all based on fear.

Bigotry is always about fearful people who don't know how to control their own fear.

My most controversial opinion is that the term homophobia isn’t particularly applicable to people who are against homosexual relationships, because it implies that they’re afraid of the gays, while they might either be just disgusted or just can’t agree with the concept 🤷

Ohhh so you guys aren't homophobic, you're simply disgusted by their existence and way of living! And here I thought you were just bigots, silly me! Fucking moron.

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There's also overlap from a parallel term for globalism that emerged in the US in the 80s, largely due to new economic attitudes being espoused by strongly pro-corporate neoconservatives.

Globalism as an economic idea refers to the corporate control and hyperspecialization of national markets, in which companies push countries to specialize in exporting only a few goods (particularly food) and rely on imports from other specialized markets to make up any shortfalls in local supply.

The idea was sold on the basis that it would greatly improve productivity without telling people it would also give corporations an unprecedented ability to manipulate national economies.

If someone talks about globalism being about the economy and they need to mention Jewish people or immigration or basically anything but this specific criticism of corporate control of national markets, they're probably using it as a smokescreen for their antisemitism.

obviously no bigotry is logical (all of them just foil to whatever the bigot needs them to be) but of all the illogical things I just don't get how "globalist" is an insult

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Some of you don't have firm principles that transcend ideology, and it shows.

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"voting is useless and ineffectual" is one of the most insidious lies I see constantly getting plastered on this site and on twitter. please think critically about what groups of people want young people not to exercise political power and why. please think critically about what groups are trying to pass laws that make it harder to vote and what they have to gain by convincing people that voting does nothing. please think critically about who benefits from convincing overwhelmingly left-leaning young people not show up at polls.

please just fucking think about the things you parrot online and whether the ideas you're repeating are actually logical or sound. the far-right is known infiltrating communities and using psyop tactics and a lot of the big popular "leftists" online sow doomerism on purpose because they do not have your interests at heart.

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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

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This is similar to the function that jump scares provide in horror films.

When a jump scare hits, it serves as a quick scare that allows the audience to release the tension they've been holding, assuming that the film has been doing a good job of setting atmosphere and building that tension. It's a release and it helps manage the pacing of the film.

When jump scares are underused, a horror film tends to be an utter slog of unrelenting tension. A hard watch. When jump scares are overused, they make the whole experience feel cheap, all breadsticks and no entree.

If jump scares are used with skill, they make the film more watchable (because you're not constantly tense the entire time) and let you sink into appreciating the atmosphere and fright of the story itself, along with the catharsis that comes when the fear is finally confronted.

Humorlessness is one of the reasons Denis Villeneuve isn't a great director. He makes very beautiful and well-crafted films, but his storytelling always leaves me wanting.

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I really think people have forgotten just how bad things were under the Trump Administration. Literally every day there was news about some service being cut or someone terrible appointed somewhere they shouldn't be or what have you. He constantly flirted with WW3 and military dictatorship. It was such a blur of badness that there aren't big standouts for people to point to to make him "the XYZ president." it was everything. all the time. Why do we not remember this.

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i know that a lot of people already know this, and that this may come across as condescending to those who do, but it has become increasingly clear to me that many people, particularly younger people, don't understand this but—

purity culture is more then just thinking sex is bad and evil and gross

purity culture is the belief that you can be corrupted, that there is an level of purity that can be tarnished by thinking or doing something deemed sinful or icky and that once you lose that purity, you are lesser then those who have not been "tainted". it's the belief that seeing, thinking, or doing something inherently nonharmful to others will fundamental change you in a negative way

purity culture is watching gory horror movies and being told that you are disgusting for finding it interesting to watch

purity culture is being told that violence in books, movies, games, etcetera will make you violent

purity culture is being told that wanting to hurt someone makes you bad, darkens your heart, whatever, even if they hurt you first, even if you have no plans to ever act on that desire

purity culture is being told to forgive your abuser, rapist, or even just people who have slighted and hurt you or else you will never fully heal, or that it makes you in someway bad too, or even just as bad as them

purity culture is being told that hating someone is equally to killing them, or wanting to kill them

purity culture is when people have intrusive thoughts that scare and harm them that make you uncomfortable, possibly even triggered, and telling them that they secretly want to do, have, etcetera, those things or else they wouldn't be thinking about it

purity culture is being told not to curse because it makes your mouth filthy, makes your heart filthy, makes you mean and bad and unpleasant

purity culture is being told that jealousy, anger, rage, disgust, and other stigmatized emotions are "bad" or "unhealthy" emotions

purity culture is refusing to let youths or even teenagers read or watch potential upsetting books, shows, movies, games, comics, etcetera out of fear they will act them out, become violent, possessed, unruly, etcetera

purity culture is being told that writing, drawing, or just in general making something dark and uncomfortable makes you gross and evil

purity culture is telling you that you have to portray bad things as bad or else people won't under that it's still bad, that it will normalize this bad thing, that people can be corrupted by it because they can't think for themselves whether this bad thing you portrayed as good is not actually good

purity culture is thinking bad things done for good reasons is just as bad as bad things done for bad reasons, like a mother stealing baby formula to keep her child alive versus someone stealing your pet because they wanted it are equally wrong

purity culture is being told that drinking, smoking, being addicted to drugs, unemployed, homeless, makes you lesser and filthy and corrupts you

purity culture is believing that someone wanting to do something bad, but choosing not to do it because they know it's bad, still makes them bad because they still want to do it

purity culture is thinking people getting tattoos, dying their hair, piercing, wearing make up, getting cosmetic surgeries secretly hate themselves and are disrespecting themselves

purity culture is so much more then just sex. it expands so much further then just christian/religious people and communities

purity culture is doing something bad, and when you try to seek atonement or correct the mistake, that it is unforgivable and will alway be a blight on you, even if others can "learn to look past it"

if you think that someone thinking or do something that does not cause any inherent harm makes them lesser, makes them bad, makes them gross, corrupts them or can lead them to corrupting others, you are pushing purity culture

this is coming from a women raised in an extremely sex negative christian household who spent years hating herself and her body due to sex based purity culture being pushed onto her from the age of six due to early puberty by the way, so don't try to gate keep purity culture on this post as only a religious and or sexual thing

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Oh gawd every time you think it's over it gers BETTER

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"Enough.

It may seem wrong that, after more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have perished, it took the deaths of just seven international aid workers to stir Western governments into a sense of outrage, but that is the reality.

Israel has promised an inquiry – but we need not wait for that to understand what happened. The known facts are not in dispute, and they speak for themselves. These were not Hamas militants. They were not illicitly transporting Hamas commanders. They were working for World Central Kitchen and the UN World Food Programme.

Their vehicles were appropriately marked. They were taking a route approved for humanitarian aid transport. They died as a result of an Israeli drone attack.

It is not a Hamas propaganda story. These 'seven beautiful souls', as their agency calls them, deserve to be named and memorialised: Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, 25, of Palestine; Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom, 43, of Australia; Damian Soból, 35, of Poland; Jacob Flickinger, 33, a dual citizen of the US and Canada; and John Chapman, 57, James Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, all British. They may be added to the toll of close to 200 aid workers who have been killed.

The seven have become symbolic of the lawless and reckless manner in which Benjamin Netanyahu has prosecuted this war. It is a tipping point. Global public opinion is moving further away from Israel, and many are left disappointed and bewildered by the indiscriminate ferocity of the Israeli war machine.

Where once the world stood with Israel in its moment of anguish, it now stands more in opposition to it, and to the war. The Israeli government has abused the sympathy, support and military backing freely offered after Hamas committed, on 7 October last year, the worst antisemitic atrocities since the Holocaust, murdering 1,200 innocents.

Israel has an inalienable right to defend itself; it does not have the right to do whatever it likes, or to ignore international law. That has been done too often, and too many civilians have been killed; too many families have been uprooted time and again, too many children have been orphaned, and too many babies have starved to death. As the occupying power, and as a nation that sees itself as a civilised democracy, Israel has a duty of care to protect the innocent. It has failed to do so.

The goodwill offered to Israel has been squandered in a most arrogant fashion, and the result is that the world is turning on Israel. Already Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, an extraordinary state of affairs. America, the guarantor of Israeli security, lifted its veto at the United Nations Security Council and called for a ceasefire, much to Mr Netanyahu’s displeasure. The Israeli prime minister has shown a remarkable sense of entitlement; he seems to think the veto belongs to him, with the US ambassador acting as a mere proxy.

Now there has been a further change in tone, and a shift in policy. Joe Biden declares himself 'outraged and heartbroken', and has issued his toughest criticism of Israel yet: 'Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen. Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians. The US has repeatedly urged Israel to deconflict their military operations against Hamas with humanitarian operations, in order to avoid civilian casualties.'

Rishi Sunak has personally intervened with Mr Netanyahu, and pointedly told him that 'far too many aid workers and ordinary civilians have lost their lives in Gaza and the situation is increasingly intolerable'. Justin Trudeau’s Canada has started to restrict arms sales to Israel, and more countries may well follow. So they ought. Such sanctions on Israel have been applied in the past, and have succeeded.

A man as stubborn as Mr Netanyahu will not listen to a polite diplomatic request if it doesn’t suit him. He has lost this war, but cannot begin to accept that he has failed, and thus he has a perverse incentive to extend the war in the pretence that victory is just around the corner.

It is not. The hostages have not been freed. Hamas has not surrendered. Few of its commanders have been eliminated. Another generation of embittered, aggrieved Palestinians will be ready to make war on Israel, for Hamas or some other group. Israel has alienated those Arab governments that sought to establish or retain warmer diplomatic relations. Israel has lost the trust of Western friends.

Mr Netanyahu is deeply unpopular at home – blamed for the intelligence failures that resulted in the mass murder on 7 October, and for his subsequent mistakes. Israel is less secure than it was six months ago.

Despite all that, Mr Netanyahu presses on, as if turning Rafah – the last part of Gaza left standing – into charred rubble constitutes winning, and he can then declare peace with honour, bring the troops home, and Israel will be safe. Plainly, that is a grotesque fantasy. It’s time to stop.

Even this Israeli administration must understand that its security crucially depends on international partnerships. And if those partners now choose to make their support more conditional, that is their right. That does not mean that Israel is just left abandoned, but it does mean that sufficient pressure is applied to make Israel pay attention to what its friends are asking for in return for what has been a series of blank cheques.

It is not tolerable, for example, that British citizens should be at risk of being killed by British munitions. Nor, for that matter, is it tolerable that members of an innocent Palestinian family should become the victims of British arms sales to Israel.

Support for Israel will always be there, but it cannot be completely and automatically unconditional. The least that can be asked is that Israel, as a member of the United Nations, complies with the resolutions of the security council and the instructions of the International Court of Justice. That means no more massacres of innocent civilians or aid workers; a ceasefire now; no ground or aerial assault on Rafah; and full assistance afforded to the shipments of humanitarian aid.

Israel should also stop escalating its attacks on Iran, which are further destabilising the region, risking the lives of American service personnel in the Middle East, and nudging Tehran into an ever closer alliance with Russia, with all that implies for the fate of Ukraine and peace in Europe. The war in Gaza is not some internal Israeli affair – it affects the world.

The moment has come, therefore, to do whatever it takes to force the government of Israel to end its war of destruction and consider what the best, most secure, most internationally guaranteed future for the state of Israel actually looks like. Israel’s prime minister might usefully consider that the best way forward for his country is for someone else to give Israel fresh leadership, and the region new hope."

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