Ukraine can’t opt to stop the war… They were invaded. Giving them weapons is a defense against conquest. Reducing Russian sanctions prolongs the war by refilling their coffers so they can keep invading.

I went from a .4mm nozzle to a .2mm nozzle. When I went back the other way, I forgot to update the nozzle profile and despite cura knowing the line width was .4mm, it extruded as if it was .2mm forcing severe underextrusion until I figured it out…weeks of failed prints later. I rebuilt the printer like 3 times assuming it was physical.

As an American in California that hates everything our current fascist regime is doing, it’s hard not to get defensive when people paint an entire nation and all it’s people with a brush based on the actions of a majority elected government; I want to give people the grace I hope they afford to me.

100%, and I think the adult west bank settlers are valid military targets.

I also think it’s difficult to hold 18 year old kids culpable for mandatory military service; I think mandatory military service should be abolished. I think the people of Gaza should be able to live safe comfortable lives against the oppression of the Israeli government, and I think Israeli citizens should be able to live comfortable safe lives against rocket attacks. I think every country in the region could justifiably go to war with each other with a child-like “but he started it” argument and the only way to get adults in the room is to be truthful about the fact that EVERYONE with any agency is at fault, and pointing at who is the biggest bad guy historically just leads to a perpetuation of the violence.

Your language just did it. You said “Israel” without any nuance for “the government of Israel”, “people who support the government of Israel”, or “Israeli citizens that oppose and protest the government.”

It’s like saying “Americans hate black people and minorities.” Yea, the current government’s actions support that. The current government was elected by a majority. Even those in the minority pay sales/income taxes, in effect supporting the fascist Trump regime. That being said, all Americans do NOT hate black people and minorities, and I would be offended by that classification.

I have personally watched this same mechanism cause people who have agency to oppose the Israeli regime recoil from leftist spaces and embrace apathy, making the situation worse and actually harming Gazans. Language and nuance is critical in preserving allies with agency, even if it doesn’t earn internet points.

Under that logic every single American is fully culpable for Trump’s actions. Everyone who voted against Trump but still pays taxes is responsible. Anyone who protested against Trump and Ice and donated to progressive causes has the blood of Renee Good on their hands.

That view removes the possibility of nuance, and you just conflated all Israelis with their government. This was the election results in 2022:

You said Israelis did this to themselves. That statement is asinine, and is exactly what I was referring to.

Maybe it’s the spaces I’m in, but I’ve seen it extensively. The terms zionist and jew are interchangeable to a lot of people. Gaza and Israel are huge issues, but separating the Israeli government from Israeli people from all Jews has become a quagmire that the average person I think doesn’t have the capacity to separate.

But people also need to acknowledge that antisemitism can still exist despite the genocide that Israel’s government is doing. This whole movement of recoiling any time anyone mentions antisemitism has big “all lives matter” energy, as if it’s impossible for a group to be marginalized when a symbolic avatar of that group has become a justifiable bad guy.

I don’t think that github has to know that. You could be using a password manager and choose to make it a minimum character boring password or meet minimum complexity requirements or use the same password on a million sites. You have to secure your credentials; complying with the minimums of a service isn’t security.

Unless your bitwarden has MFA and locks after an amount of time commensurate with your security needs

That’s a poor assumption about what I meant; I believe the original framework was a charter that we should be educating our population; the baseline should be an assumption that every citizen has access to education, particularly after civil rights. I think you read my statement to mean “only the educated should vote”, but what I intended was “It’s a travesty that our society allowed education to lapse as a priority, due to conservative attacks, and the result is that snappy headlines and memes carry more weight than policy goals.”

Elections were supposed to be an education population making an educated decision on who should lead…it’s not that. It’s now a popularity contest, and it’s treated like a slightly more serious American Idol. Shit like this is farming popularity contest bullshit, not leadership ideas.

You’re putting words in my mouth, and you’re ignoring that a lot of people simply decided not to vote for president. Stating “if everyone who previously voted for Biden all voted for Kamala” ignores the poison of the growing online leftist movement to get people to vote progressive or stay home. Again, statement voters have Gazan blood on their hands.

What appeal to emotion… Trump won, Kamala lost, Gazans are getting gleefully slaughtered with US support, and we are still out here litigating that more people should have voted against Kamala??? What an absurd display of privilege that proves you actually suffer no consequences of this fascist regime. You can’t “um akshually according to a study” your way out of the real harm that came from the online left running a scorched earth campaign against the lesser evil.

What do your statistics say about this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trump_Gaza.webm

Your brinkmanship and uncompromising have cost my daughter rights, and I have no respect for you. I want progressive policies. In my hierarchy of preferences, I want a progressive, then a centrist democrat, then a Republican. This whole mentality of “progressive or stay home” is a cancer on the rights of the marginalized. Under Kamala, things wouldn’t be fixed, but they would sure as shit be better than trump. Your attitude has no different of a result than being “pro trump.” When the chips are down, you are handed options, but you vote for the better option. Statement votes killed Gazans.

Of course “if”… But they are literally replying to a post where the user says they will never vote for Newsom. That is the sentiment I see persisting too across left leaning spaces… Even if trump tears up the constitution and runs for a third term, the purity testers on the left would rather not vote and give the right a lower bar to maintain power. This sentiment is dangerous and in my opinion contributed to why Kamala lost, and poses a direct risk to the lives and rights of my kids. It needs to be called out.

He’s said he thinks what Israel is doing is a genocide, and he thinks west bank settlers are valid military targets. He has actually voted against Bibi as a dual Israeli citizen.

That being said, he’s Jewish, his wife grew up in Israel including mandatory IDF service, and he was upset at Hamas after the October 7 attacks which directly impacted his family, so to the “leftist” community he’s a zionist, pedophile, baby killer, yadda yadda. It’s proof that the internet has lost the ability to appreciate complex nuanced takes, especially around Jewish people.

Velma didn’t do it; I get a lot of drive-by hate just for liking the H3 podcast, but the post here linking to my account caused someone else to send it. I get like 4-5 of them a week, usually “I’m a baby killer” or “I murder Palestenian babies” or whatever. The one today just linked here.

I’m blocking you because this is absurd, and thanks for linking my account so I could get a “KYS Power tripper” message in my inbox which I reported. This is the mentality that gets CPS called to harass kids, and has skulls sent to houses.