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  • i’m neither for or against it, personally i’m ambivalent, because i’m not middle eastern, jewish, nor do i live in the middle east, nor anywhere near it. It’s literally a waste of brain power to think about it.

    Of course, arguing that i think killing people is good, is fucking stupid, obviously that’s bad. But there are reasons people are being killed, and i’m not delegating that problem to myself, considering i have literally no relation. You would have to find a genuinely insane person to agree with that fact, so there’s no point in even entertaining it on a factual basis.

    Would it be nice if israel stopped bombing palestine? Yeah, would it be nice if the US stopped arming them? Yeah, does that ultimately make a difference in regards to the conflict? No. I don’t think anything you did today, even if you managed a complete ceasefire on good terms, would make a good faith effort to stop this conflict. It’s a brutal conflict, there is no easy to solve it.

    Reverse ethnic cleansing of israel is not really a good solution either, for several reasons. Notably morals. Likewise yeeting palestine off the map isn’t productive either.

    Ultimately though, both of the parties are willing to fight, and one of them just keeps losing, over and over. At some point they did this to themselves, and i’m not sure where that point is. (granted, israel has committed numerous war crimes throughout this conflict, i’m not absolving them of that one either, don’t worry) neither party is particularly intelligent here.


  • that’s actually a better argument for me ironically.

    Europe is more densely populated, among a smaller landmass (if we explicitly refer to western europe) making it MORE likely that any mass violence events hurt more random people.

    Where as the US has LESS people, across MORE space, making it even more unlikely for you to be involved in these attacks, because people are simply less likely to be in those places, at the time of the attack.

    Of course the US has disproportionately more acts of violence against other people, than somewhere like europe, but there are a variety of reasons this could be the case, but it’s questionable whether this makes you “significantly” more likely to experience an attack, considering you also spend “considerably less” time around other people in general.

    Also to be clear, it’s literally just true, america is a huge fucking country. If you include eastern europe, which i don’t think is a fair comparison given that eastern europe is historically and demographically different from western europe (the usual examples provided) The entire continent is slightly bigger than the continental US including alaska. If you remove all of eastern europe, it shrinks considerably. (and this may include part of russia? I can’t find solid numbers)

    And looking at wikipedia, seems to imply that a portion of russia is included, so if that calculates into the landmass, that’s substantially throwing it off. I mean to be clear, you would comparing the population and landmass of the european continent against the US, which is not the entire north american continent, that is SIGNIFICANTLY larger than the US is alone.

    Classic American exceptionalism.

    maybe research your point better before yapping.

















  • it really is so true.

    you install linux on one machine, and then suddenly every other machine you own has linux on it, ssh, and you use shit like rsync to manage shit over the network. Before you know it you’re running a snapcast server to manage multiroom audio automatically configured into your smart home network. (i haven’t gotten this far yet, but it’s eventually going to happen lol)

    The pipeline is real.