That’s disgusting.

Humans are rationalizing creatures, much more than rational ones. Our first gut reaction is trying to make sense of why we think what we think and why we behave how we behave, rather than trying to figure out if it does actually make sense. If this natural tendency could be changed, the world would be far less of a shithole.

Papal infallibility only applies when he speaks ex cathedra, this is, explicitely defining doctrine, which wasn’t the case here. Read more.

Regardless, if you want an actual unfallible argument as for why homosexual unions should not be denied blessings on the basis of them being gay, is that it takes a bigoted moron to oppose gay marriage. No need to cater to delusions that are only given value when they reaffirm preexisting bigotry.

They’re people who can’t find any merit on themselves, so they resort to a mythological collective merit they can claim as their own. Personally, I think it would be more productive to get a shower and go to the gym or care for a pet, but what do I know.

Sounds pretty antisemitic of them

For whatever it’s worth, I like to see you posting.

Nice.

Rare China W. We better get our politicians to take notes of this one.

Evolution of Bolivia’s GDP per capita. Evo Morales became president in 2006.

Evolution of Brazil’s GDP per capita. Lula was president from 2003 to 2011.

Evolution of Chile, Argentina and Venezuela’s GDP per capita. Chavez was president from 1999 to 2013, Bachelet (Chile) was president from 2006 to 2010 (as well as later, after this graph), the Kirchner ruled in Argentina from 2003 to late 2015.

I don’t think anyone is going to argue that the left is perfect, but most leftist governments in South America in the last two decades have been positive, with Maduro’s being a pretty blatant exception.

So, in the mind of this one anarcho-capitalist, you should only have the right to protest if you have enough money. My surprise is limitless and my jaw has broken the whole floor.

Not the best moment to speak the quiet part (the robbery of land) out loud. Israeli society is falling into such a spiral of collective madness that many of them don’t even realize how psychotic all of this is to the rest of the world.

Those composers are famous because they were pioneers in the development of music and their work has been used to educate musicians in virtually all countries during the last century. There are composers creating similarly valuable music today, sometimes working in cinema or video games, and composers doing pioneering work, usually in experimental music. They aren’t as famous because their work isn’t being used worldwide to educate musicians, but they might be by 2123, provided society hasn’t collapsed.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops”

• Stephen Jay Gould

There are Jewish scholars and activists comparing contemporary treatment of Palestinians by Israel with nazism. Are they allowed to make comparisons that trigger Jewish sensibilities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein

Finkelstein was born to parents who are both Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York City in 1953 (…) Finkelstein has called Israel the “Jewish supremacist state”, and views it as committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people.[5] Through personal accounts in one of his books, he compares the plight of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation with the horrors of the Nazis.[6]

Most people aren’t critical of the majority of the media they consume. If you live in a Western country, chances are that the media you get your news from frames Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as illegal and immoral, and Israel’s invasion of Gaza as legitimate self-defense.

They didn’t, sure, but “opposing that country because they’re treating some other Muslims badly” is pretty different from “opposing that country after I’ve seen images of brutal attacks against other Muslims week after week in recent memory”.

Hostages in Gaza killed by Israeli military while carrying white flag

Two Christian women killed by IDF sniper fire, says Latin Patriarchate

UN calls for probe as Israeli army accused of killing unarmed Palestinians

All of these are from the LAST WEEK. Putting so much effort to put into question trust towards doctors because they’re denouncing crimes against civilians, just everyone else is denouncing from Gaza right now only serves to muddy the waters in the middle of a genocide.

The subtext of your message under the context of this thread: “Shooting at civilians is ok, actually”. Thank you for further pushing the world into barbarism with this disgusting shit.

When 96% of the population is vehemently for or against something, not even a totalitarian government can ignore it without consequences. Saudi Arabia was on its tracks to normalize diplomatic relationships with Israel before October, where have those intentions gone now?

Isn’t that the guy who got tortured? With enough torture, you can get a lot of people to confess whatever you want them to, regardless of its veracity. But even if Hamas was using hospitals as military bases, that doesn’t give the Israeli army the right to bomb them. Just go in and take the building.