Jollyllama

I used to call myself an atheist but switched to agnostic since I don't know for certain. My agnostic belief in a higher power is NOT the judgemental rule writing god of scripture. More of a default reason for enexplainable things in our universe. As science progresses there are less things where the higher power is needed.

But that's just me.

I always told my parents when they were disappointed in me for ditching the "Faith": I may be a bad Jew but I make every effort to be a good person.

My grandmother who has a Trump cutout unironically does not want him to run again. She says he's had a good run but is too old now let alone in 3 years.

These people have co-opted the work "skeptic".

I grew up Orthodox and became skeptical of god's role in my life, now I'm agnostic.

My parents became "skeptical" of vaccines. Once they found their first antivax substack they are no longer "skeptical" but rather certain vaccines cause autism and covid vax causes heart attacks.

I find it hilarious (sad) they stop being skeptical once they find "proof" of their suspicions and then claim to be skeptics.

They of course have seen all the research supporting vaccines and deemed it insubmissable because it was funded by big pharma or the WHO (CHINA).

The only science they believe is the shit pushed by their "independent" researchers (crunchy influencers).

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Oh, it's an i9 14900k with 64gb RAM and a 4070ti super.

Which flavor?

I bought a gaming PC that should be future proof to at least 4 years

$80USD for fiber at 2gbps up/down. It's a locally owned fiber company.

Go home Lemmy, you're horny

Okay. Let's play it out. Armed uprising, and then what? What is it? When does it end?

I don't know if posing with Trump in front of a crowd of blood thirsty Evangelicals and Zionist is spreading the message of a lasting peace and security for all.

I hate people that insist anyone who sees an alternative path to lasting peace and security is a Zionist, racist or naive. It is going to take massive political and social changes for a mutual security to persist.

What qualifies you to be able to tell something like that? I don't think you've lived in the West Bank, you know far too little for that and it shows.

The occupation/ethnic cleansing/genocide has gone on long enough. I hope people like you will support organizations like "Standing Together" instead of the same uprisings that have gotten us to this point.

There are obvious reasons for the October 7th attack. Anyone denying that the Zionist government's treatment of Palestinians for the better part of a century is either propagandized or choosing to not see.

Anybody justifying the murder of civilians on October 7th as a needed revolution but claims to be for peace and security for Palestinians needs to think long and hard about what peace and security is for Palestine. Anybody justifying Israel's genocide/ethnic cleansing by citing October 7th needs to ask the very hard question of where does it end and what is the human cost.

For decades the Israeli government has propped up the puppet of a governing body that oversees the Palestinians population. The Palestinians Authority has no authority and has every motivation to keep the status quo. The change needs to come from within both societies. Israelis need to elect someone who believes in equal rights and will work with Palestinians for a mutual lasting peace and security deal. October 7th and the following assault on Gaza has pushed that process back years of not decades.

Nobody wins here.