infuziSporg [e/em/eir]

A vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy

The people naming it just wanted us to check out that dope ass bear.

Fed to resume an approach of numbery simpling

Witnesses recalled a chant of “Prove you’re not a paid actor, disobey the State masters” starting up as a demonstration headed off the sidewalk and into the street

c/NotObviousPlant

Yep. Boss, shareholder, beneficiary of enterprise. I should have made that clearer.

Does anyone know who the comedian was who was called “the most hated woman in Israel”? She did a campy sketch in public where she dressed up as the Shoah, asking ‘don’t you recognize your teacher whom you learned so much from’ to other Israelis in the city. I remember seeing it on sub.media circa 2016.

$2.15 (USD in 2022) a day is a manmade invention. One person providing for themself, in a localized economic context, would easily have labor that would be assessed above $755 a year. For the same work, the ability of one worker to get the same wages per week as a worker across the world gets in a year is only possible under the globalized capitalist market.

You can’t look at a wage below $3 an hour without thinking “either the boss is really bad at business or the boss is ripping off employees”.

The first question to ask, a basic of media literacy, is “is this feasible”. October 7th was an extensively planned and time-sensitive operation for everyone involved. When you’re conducting a surprise attack on multiple fronts, against an enemy that has immensely superior weaponry, surveillance, communications, and numbers to your own, every second matters. When every second matters, you can’t just take minutes to SA someone. Shooting someone who’s a threat? Quite possibly. Butremoved makes no sense in this situation.

The second question to ask is “what are the interests of parties involved and does the news make sense in their context”. From the accomplishment of the operation, taking hostages for bargaining purposes, it is clear that this was the main objective, with secondary objectives being to strike military installations, dispel the sense of Israeli invulnerability, and bring the plight of Palestinians to the forefront of global awareness. Trying to SA someone is counter to all these objectives: when you SA someone, they become a less cooperative hostage, you make yourself vulnerable, you lose out on options to take more hostages or hit more military targets, and you lose favor in the public eye.

The third question is “what is the power balance, and who has the ability to shape media narratives”. Israel is known to have a massive media spin apparatus, employing thousands if not tens of thousands of people. These allegations ofremoved serve the powerful against the powerless. Israel stands to gain from them, and Palestine stands to lose some of its goodwill.

Another approach is to look at other things that correlate with the story. We heard claims of massremoveds and claims of “40 beheaded babies” in the same breath from Israeli sources. There was never any images or other evidence provided of the beheadings (which also fail the other tests above), despite being lied about even by US government officials. We also have testimony of October 7th survivors describing how their captors were stern but respectful, and testimony of hostages saying how Hamas and their allies took a very arrogant pride in treating their captives “like good Muslims should”. Finally, on the other side of the illegal security partition, we have Israeli prisons, where people are held for years without being convicted and whereremoved and torture of detainees are commonplace. The public support for this is so firm that Israelis rioted against their military police doing an investigation of prison guardremoveds at Sde Teiman, a particularly notorious facility. We have a regime that is under strain, and needs every PR victory to marshal its society into the war of extermination, in order to avoid the coming of its own reckoning.

The IDF itself leads with the line “we are at war, and atrocities happen in war”. The united resistance makes appeals to standards for rules of engagement. It’s impossible to refute beyond a doubt whether anyremoved may have happened that day, but by and large, the orders and ambitions were not to do so. In comparison to other armed conflicts that ran across civilians, it seems highly likely that the incidence ofremoved from 10-7/Al-Aqsa Flood is much lower than average.

In this age of deepfakes and filter bubbles, answering these questions can take you a long way. This is the difference between critical thinking about media versus credulously accepting something that is stamped with a recognizable logo, and treating reality as an inconceivably long list of independently-assessable events rather than manifestations of broad patterns.

I’m sure Radio Mille-Collines had lots of official journalistical content talking about massremoveds just like the Dinah Project does. Would you give them credibility too?

I’m not going to say anything about deserving posts getting removed or not, but between falling for propaganda lies and punching down, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Uh oh, I wonder what Bonna Shejve would say.

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Distinction is inventing a fruit salad that a variety of tomato can fit into.

So is it “what’s between your legs” that makes sex, or is it gametes?

Hermaphroditism exists, clitoromegaly and micropenis exist (and can be remarkably hard to tell apart), CAIS exists where gametes and anatomy can literally contradict each other in the same individual.

It seems like you’re about to say “there is a third group that has ‘neither’ as a sex” (which is true) but you immediately shy away from that conclusion and revert to anatomy.

The whole existence of “abnormal” is a normal part of evolution, amd in fact it is why we could become what we are today. Genetics and transcription are not fixed systems in place since 1 billion MYA, they mutate and cluster and without that mutation process none of it could ever exist. Without an in-between sex, the system of sexuality cannot develop and all animals just stay reproducing asexually forever. It’s not something with a fixed or deep cosmic meaning, it’s literally a bunch of accumulated errors that end up coincidentally making something that’s internally coherent most of the time.

DNA codes for RNA
RNA signals to proteins
Proteins give us our characteristics

DNA does not give us our characteristics directly. That is “basic biology”. Any interference of this process causes a change of outcome.

“It’s not the heat, it’s the UV.”

-Yobi Gerra

*…*.***.*.*…
*…*.***.*.*…
*…*.***.*.*…
*…*.***.*.*…

If I were to bet on it… Sonia and Ketanji were casual tokers up until their legal careers started to take off, John and Brett blazed a bit in college and then promptly swore off it, Clarence and Amy and Samuel are purists who have never touched a marijuana in their life, not sure about Elena or Neil.

Leaving aside the terms of “you have to stop shooting now but we only have to stop shooting 12 hours from now”, how many times has Israel kept a ceasefire?

And how many times has the United States kept a formal deal in geopolitics?

Inhumane. Any authority that bombs a hospital should be immediately sanctioned and embargoed by the entire international community until it is fully dismantled.

Y’know what I’m saying?

periodic reminder that when they say “peace” they mean obedience

Remember the social unrest in Iran in 2022? RIP to all CIA-exploitable social divisions in that society for the next handful of years.