assassin_aragorn @ assassin_aragorn @lemmy.world

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said it reaffirmed American support for the Tibetan right to self-determination

This is a subtle stab at China. The CCP loves talking about sovereignty and self determination as a defense for their actions, but it's also projection for their actions in Tibet and the South China Sea.

I don't understand his angle here. He clearly has some sort of agenda, but I haven't figured it out. Maybe he's betting that this will turn some Democrats and moderates against Biden? But that requires believing that Netanyahu is telling the truth, which I don't think a lot of Israel supporters necessarily do.

Either way, this is weird. Maybe he's talking about the bombs that weren't sent for Rafah? But getting pissed about one halted shipment out of everything they've been given is just fucking hilarious.

My guess -- he's aware his support is dwindling, and he's trying to salvage it by blaming everyone else. Or, he's daring the US to stop all shipments, but that would probably destroy his remaining support too.

Yeah he was absolutely tortured to death. Fucking disgusting.

I think they use passive headlines over concern about being sued for libel, but I agree. They really need to call the bluff, because if a party sues for libel, that party has to prove it's a willful lie. And that would be a very interesting discovery process.

Poor reading comprehension. Typical lib.

Once more, overcompensating way too hard and needlessly throwing around terms to try and make yourself look like an actual leftist. You know what the clearest sign of this is, liberal? Other than you basically going "no u"?

I never said a thing about the USSR lacking compassion to animals. Nor did I ever mention NASA nor make a judgment on which group was morally superior. That all came from you, because you felt the need to bolster your leftist "credentials". But I see through it.

It's not terribly surprising that both NASA and the USSR space program did awful things to animals. They were racing each other, moving quickly and breaking things. It would be too risky to test humans in incredibly novel technology like that, but they wanted data and results. So they tortured poor animals instead of taking the time to go more slowly and do safer tests. And let me be explicitly clear, both space programs are guilty of this and damnable for it.

What's your next reply going to be, I wonder? Ignoring basically everything I said, and talking about more of NASA's fuck ups, like "well we don't know it doesn't work" with Challenger? Sprinkling in some leftist terms to convince yourself you aren't a liberal? Or will you totally pivot to something else and call me Clyde again?

Please, mix it up a bit this time. The formula is getting rather dull. There's better ways to try and convince us you aren't a liberal.

I think there's something to be said for medium sized companies. I work for one that's trying to grow and become much larger, but it's decidedly not big. Our execs though actually seem like pretty cool people, and the CEO seems to be a legitimately good person. He's generally been open and honest, and he's told stories that make me think he does actually value employees as people.

He was talking about gay rights and the value of diversity during our weekly company forum the other day, and I asked him about our company's support for DEI given the political pressure from conservatives to abandon it. He said he didn't give a damn about them, and doing the right thing was more important. I don't agree with everything he's done -- we've had layoffs, and morale isn't great, and we're totally broke -- but I respect that he actually seems to mean what he says. And even when we had layoffs, executives and management weren't safe either.

I think a lot of what it comes down to is the genuineness of leadership and how closely tied they are to rank and file employees. That's easier at small and medium companies. Large companies also tend to attract greedy robber barons.

That's fair. The way I look at it is that executives curb what the employees actually believe and want to work on. I saw this at a petrochemical company that was part of a big oil company. Everyone was excited about sustainability projects and cutting emissions and renewable technology. The execs just didn't give a shit and continued to push for oil and drilling. If workplaces were democracies, we'd see so much more wonderful things.

It takes a strong and wise person to admit they were wrong and change their mind for the better. I applaud you for that. Given how prevalent calling things gay was when I was a teenager, I think a lot of people changed their minds for the better when they realized their friends and family were gay. And then some realized they were also gay, funny enough.

I agree that we need more time before we institute any sort of policy or mandating, but I do think we should eventually do that.

It's interesting, I think a lot of conservative beliefs come down to the idea that children cannot be autonomous people with their own beliefs. They don't believe that a child can have an independent thought, and that whatever they say is indoctrination from parents or school. It says a lot about their worldview.

If someone fully believes in the independence of children to form their own thoughts and beliefs and opinions, I don't see how they could support any sort of anti LGBT ban.

It's well known that horrible things happened to animals during the Russian space program.

You sound like a liberal trying way too hard to pretend they aren't one by coming up with absolutely shit takes which are demonstrably incorrect. I'm actually surprised I didn't realize this until now. You're so over the top that overcompensation is the most charitable explanation.

This isn’t a disease - many of the things you listed are psychological and the result of how family and friends treat that person.

The DSM entry on Gender Dysphoria disagrees.

That's what I can't fathom. This is such a big boost for children's mental health. It heavily reduces their depression and suicide risk. They're happier.

Maybe this is controversial, but if a parent isn't willing to do that for their kid, I believe it's neglect and endangerment. They aren't fit to be a parent, and the state should intervene. We don't let parents with batshit religious beliefs deny their children lifesaving treatment. We shouldn't let parents deny their children treatment that would vastly improve their mental health and reduce their suicide risk.

We have been using puberty blockers for a long time. They were around when I was prepubescent. They're established medicine, and doctors deem whatever the side effects are to be worth helping the children's mental and physical health.

All medicine is like this. Very little medication has no side effects at all. Yet we give children medicine all the time. Because it does more good than harm.

Who decides if it does more good than harm? Medical professionals. Not laymen on the Internet.

In an ideal world, yes. But most people aren't willing to lose their jobs and healthcare, potentially putting their family's financial situation in dire straits, over protesting this.

Don't blame the workers. Blame the executives.

Honestly one of the reasons I really respect him is that he can admit when he's wrong. That's a strong indicator that he's genuine about what he says.

In the lead up to the Ukraine war, he was on the "Russia isn't going to invade, this is just fear mongering by the US" side of things. But after Russia did invade, he said that he had been wrong, and he was going to take a break from social media (probably because it would not go well for him if he further elaborated his thoughts).

A lot of the people who were skeptics never admitted they were wrong. They just moved on and continued their bullshit. Snowden earned a lot of my respect for not being like them.

If there is a legitimate reason for a draft, a draft may not be necessary anyway. Unless the enemy is offering a peaceful arrangement to everyone they meet, or there's no way to get your family to safety, I think most people would willingly fight.

It would be disastrous for Republicans. Independents and moderates would be furious

The old saying goes that Russian history can be summarized as "And then it got worse." The Russians are victims of their own history, and they are the first group that Putin terrorized (quite literally with the known false flag operation).

They have such a rich culture and truly bright minds. There could be wonderful scientific collaboration and cultural exchange. I'd love to see a technological rivalry reminiscent of the cold war (without all the proxy fights and nuclear threats and animosity).

I hope that it'll be in my lifetime where we're able to sit down and drink beer and vodka together and be on friendly terms as countries.

This assumes that Biden voters want to compromise on genocide. We don't. We hate it. But life isn't a storybook. The guy going against the pure evil isn't a paragon of justice. But that doesn't mean you give up fighting against pure evil. You prioritize so that you can achieve what is currently achievable, and wait for more to become achievable.

Pretty bold to straight up say you're doing propaganda. And then say that it would be a relief to not have to do so anymore.

You do realize you can just stop, right? Everyone will be the happier for it.