And meanwhile, Israel has instituted a policy of the deliberate mass execution of journalists on an industrial scale.

On what criteria are they worse than Israel? Neither are good. They’re both authoritarian theocratic hellholes. One is a rogue state with a nuclear arsenal, the other is a rogue state seeking a nuclear arsenal. But Iran hasn’t invaded any nation in its modern history, while Israel invades people on the regular.

You need to open your eyes. You don’t even know why Iran is bad. You’ve just had a lifetime of propaganda calling them evil while our own allies over there, Israel and Saudi, are just as bad if not worse.

Terrorism (n): violence committed by low income people with dark skin complexion.

You need to get past the idea that everything on social media is a formal debate.

Oh, it’s so much worse than that. They are rational actors. Terrifyingly rational actors.

Once you get past a certain amount of wealth, the only purpose of money is status, prestige, and power. Imagine you gave Elon Musk two choices, two different worlds he could live in:

1. A world where he had 200 billion and everyone else had 10 million.

2. A world where had 100 billion and everyone else had 100,000.

He would choose the first option. Why? Because status. In a world where everyone was independently wealthy, he wouldn’t have people fawning over him all the time. Few people would willingly work for him, as they already had all of their their needs met. In order to really enjoy his billions, he needs millions of poor desperate people he can exploit for labor and adoration.

Milton figured this out in Paradise Lost way back in the 17th century.

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

I don’t really see why Iran is any worse than Israel, other than Iran has brown people living in it. Once you cut past all the crap and bad faith, ultimately we judge Iran worse than Israel because of skin color.

Both are nominal but deeply flawed democracies. Both hold large numbers of political dissidents on bogus charges as a matter of course. Both are theocracies that make their religion a core component of their governmental structure. Both engage in large scale acts of mass state-sponsored terrorism. Both have or seek to have a nuclear arsenal.

The only real difference I can see is that Iran hasn’t invaded anyone in the whole modern history of the country. The Iranian government is a bunch of peace-and-love hippies compared to the Israelis.

Exactly. That’s how sacrifice worked. You burned shit to give it to the gods. These guys just gave Baal a really nice statue of Satan to put in his living room.

You dumbass, this is happening in every country on Earth.

The birth rate will recover when children can play games and run free among the ancient grass-covered ruins of abandoned suburbia.

Sorry. Open source offends corporate interests and is therefore pornographic. You’re a pornographer.

Are you one of those pornographic people? Large swathes of the population are considered intrinsically pornographic by the authors of these laws. Queer people are walking talking pornography simply for existing. Also most politics and any news dealing with violent events is pornographic.

Have you ever shared a story about police brutality? You are a pornographer.

Queer people are pornographic according to the authors of these laws

You’re blatantly ignoring how these laws are actually implemented and assessing them instead by taking the lies of their authors at face value.

We’ll just lock everyone in education pods from ages 12-20!

Let the world know that in my great humility, I’m also agreeing to decline any nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The other kind of divorce is no-fault divorce. You don’t have to give a reason there, you silly goose!

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“Universally accessible” is not a synonym for “accessible.”

There’s always a compromise between security and accessibility. Signal is nice in that it’s pretty secure while also being acceptable. More secure options aren’t very accessible to the average person.