KillingTimeItself

Try making any post that focuses on situations uniquely or disproportionally experienced by women and you get mostly “what about men” or “men have it worst” responses.

that's kind of just how controversial things are on the internet though.

Evens shitposting from men will get similar responses from women, it's just how it is now. Sort of always has been.

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.

and it regularly involves a specific group of people, often times doesn't really even involve every day normal people, as opposed to a mass shooting, where the literal point is killing normal people.

i mean, the US is also fucking huge compared to somewhere like europe, so that "wrong place" is the entire continental US.

i think that institutions should be respected.

It's the number one problem in american politics right now, everything we are currently experiencing, is from people treating politics like a toy. Rather than an institution.

It's so incredibly hard to state how critically important it is for the functioning of society, that the structures running our society, are respected.

all business would fail.

ok?

So what if i just argued that "cocksucker" just meant that you would suck someones cock if you got you something. I.E. you're easily bribed/manipulated. As far as i know, that's how most people use it.

That's literally the implication like 99% of the time. If you wanted to insult someone for being gay, you would just call them a faggot or something lmao. No need to mince words at that point.

derek sounds like a dick.

What you do in private does not necessarily reflect who you are in public. And who you are in public, does not necessarily reflect who you are in private either.

what about it?

why do you keep saying lower cost of living?

If you go homeless you can also have a lower cost of living.

Contrary to popular belief, if you're dead, the cost of living is zero.

yknow, i'm starting to realize that i think i respect the people of russia, and china, specifically those in the military, and government more than pro palestine people support/respect israelis, and im not sure how i feel about that one.