And yet it doesn't bother you when the broader left does the exact said bullshit?

See, this is why I refuse to associate with any group or ideology. They're all a bunch of hypocritical liars who want to indoctrinate you into their cult of choice.

I mean, that DOES make me socially isolated and lonely, but at least I'm staying true to MY beliefs.

See, I think the effect actually goes the other way-if you start believing in "harmless nonsense" you'll be more likely to accept and start doing more nonsense, and it's easy to pick up more and more until you're accepting antivax arguments "just in case" and then you're well on your way to the granola-hippie-to-fash pipeline. This all happens through essentially the same methods as that one "girl dinner to fash" TikTok: you uncritically accept some seemingly harmless but false shit, and then you're weakening your defenses against more harmful false shit because you're not in the habit of rejecting things that aren't true.

It's a complicated fuck-ass topic, which is why I'm largely trying to avoid it. Most people try to paint a black-and-white picture with one side as the good guys and the other as bad guys. And there's no real good guys anywhere to be found there and also a lot more than two sides. Fatah, Hamas and Israel are not even the only players in this mess.

I just hope this shit blows over and we see a peaceful two-state resolution within our lifetimes.

Been seeing a lot of pushback about the arrests at pro-Palestine protests. And I'd get it if they were actually peaceful and had a track record that didn't involve violence.

I feel like a lot more people would be accepting of these protests if the protesters were supporting Fatah (a secular democratic faction) rather than Hamas (a fundamentalist theocrat faction). Now, obviously Fatah has problems, and I don't personally support them outright, largely due to a lack of information on them, but I'd at least get supporting them.

Maybe with that in mind, some pro-pals might like to look into them.

Oh no, I understand, it's just that this is My Topic and I will always add my unsolicited opinions about it, unless someone is gonna be an asshole to me about it. And as far as I know you, you're a pretty reasonable dude, despite our disagreements.

Well fuck.

What are the odds it's a show of force?

I wouldn't go as far as calling drug usage "self-care", but

A) If you want less drug addicts and less drug overdoses, then treating drug addicts like human beings is step 0, not even step 1. Coercive methods do not work and just harm everyone. It's a giant rabbithole of unintended consequences.

B) It's your body. One thing that belongs to you without any question or caveat. You should have the right to always do with it whatever the fuck you want, no matter how harmful.

drugs are a form of self care fuck anyone who tells you otherwise

He can't, but by this point, he should've accepted that Fatah only holds power in the West Bank. They ARE marginally better than Hamas and are probably the only Palestinian political force capable of ensuring peace and prosperity for their people. Abbas is an asshole, but he IS okay with a two-state solution.

Been seeing a lot of pushback about the arrests at pro-Palestine protests. And I'd get it if they were actually peaceful and had a track record that didn't involve violence.

I feel like a lot more people would be accepting of these protests if the protesters were supporting Fatah (a secular democratic faction) rather than Hamas (a fundamentalist theocrat faction). Now, obviously Fatah has problems, and I don't personally support them outright, largely due to a lack of information on them, but I'd at least get supporting them.

Maybe with that in mind, some pro-pals might like to look into them.

Right now Lukashenko is not a political actor. He kind of oscillates between being one and not being one, he got a little more freedom to act after the Prigozhin revolt, but he's still very constrained by Moscow.

Most likely this is just a show of force in an attempt to weaken the support for Ukraine. Russia and Belarus have been doing a lot of saber rattling with very little to show for it.

Belarussian army is also TINY. They may have nukes, but only because the Kremlin decided to relocate some of theirs in Belarus. Grigoryich doesn't have any control over them, most likely doesn't even have the launch codes. And Russian propaganda has been pretty silent about the nuke use lately.

Well fuck.

What are the odds it's a show of force?

Fatah is lead by Mahmoud Abbas who hasn't held elections since Hamas came into power in Gasa and started out as a terrorist.

Been seeing a lot of pushback about the arrests at pro-Palestine protests. And I'd get it if they were actually peaceful and had a track record that didn't involve violence.

I feel like a lot more people would be accepting of these protests if the protesters were supporting Fatah (a secular democratic faction) rather than Hamas (a fundamentalist theocrat faction). Now, obviously Fatah has problems, and I don't personally support them outright, largely due to a lack of information on them, but I'd at least get supporting them.

Maybe with that in mind, some pro-pals might like to look into them.

Mushroom, Star, Fire Flower, Frog Suit, Raccoon Suit, Tanuki Suit, Feather, Super Ball, Metal Mario, Cape, Balloon Mario.

its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

Boy, don't we all

Happy Friday in California, everyone!

Eh, grunge in its aesthetic and principles was very antagonistic to the kind of cheesy Hair Metal that I consume an unreasonable amount of, so I tend to avoid it.

its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

I don't really listen to Nirvana, grunge has been ruined for me by the next 1.5 decade of grung-y pop rock.

its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

OP couldn't name at least three Nirvana songs once and decided it's their time for revenge.

its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

That must be some kind of a translation issue somewhere down the pipeline, because the Orthodox Church split from the Catholic Church in 1054 AD.

Okay, no, I looked it up, it's that very specifically the Greek Orthodox Church calls itself the Orthodox Catholic Church, because "Catholicism" as @vdemon-weeb also mentioned means "Universiality", so it's a Universal Orthodox Church. It's just going by our modern lens with calling Western Christianity "Catholic" and Eastern Christianity "Orthodox" that we find it weird.

My head hurts.

Anyway, while some Ukrainians do practice Greek Orthodoxy, very few Russians do, but Ukraine was also part of USSR, but none of this matters anyway, because we've gotten onto deep weird-ass religious tangents, when my original point was that THE AUTHOR FUCKED UP. SOVIETS WOULD NOT PUT CHURCHES ON THE MOON. Orthodox Catholic or Russian Orthodox.

Look, there's a lot of negative things I've said and will probably still say about Fat Acceptance.

But eating alone, because you don't want to be judged for your food choices?

Yeah, that, I feel that, that shit sucks.