Hyperreality
I'm not trans. Occasionally posts from blahaj pop up in my feed, which is why I saw this one. I know this is blahaj, you're probably all (justifiably) sick of what straight cis men think, so please take this comment with a huge pinch of salt.
Out of curiosity I read the gender dysphoria bible, it didn't resonate at all. As a young child, my grandparents once had me wear a dress as a joke, it felt wrong and I couldn't wait to take it off.
What I'm driving at is this: If what you and others read in the gender dysphoria bible resonates and if stuff like wearing a dress makes you feel 'right', please don't doubt yourself. I'm pretty open about my sexuality, yet it doesn't resonate. If it resonates with you, that means something.
These feelings are real. You deserve to be happy. Be kind to yourself and love yourself like you do your loved ones. I mean that literally, imagine if your best friend discovered they were trans. You'd want to be supportive, right? Be that for yourself.
- I like that you included an archive link and media bias fact check link OP. Obviously, the latter isn't without controversy, but it's better than nothing.
- It's important that criticism is coming from a former Israeli PM and Biden. I know there are a lot of the people who are very critical of both or likely don't think they're going far enough, but because the former is Israeli and the latter has been vocal in his support of Israel, it's far harder for Israel's far right government and their supporters to discount that criticism. This is far more damaging than any protest march could be, especially if those participating in that martch have always been critical of Israel or can be painted as making excuses for Hamas or Iran.
Given America is likely to vote Trump as the next president, and his extensive ties to China, you'll probably end up selling out the Taiwanese for a lucrative real estate deal for Dear Leader.
“we have lots of requests to interview Putin, he just doesn’t want to do it”
Because they're actual journalists who would ask serious questions.
Not really. It sounds random, but the author of the article probably translated it from Celsius to begin with.
-4 F = -20 Celsius.
Potiomkin villages” (and subsequently Potiomkin anything eg. Potiomkin AI).
Potemkin village:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Apparently the original story is largely a myth:
... the tale of elaborate, fake settlements, with glowing fires designed to comfort the monarch and her entourage as they surveyed the barren territory at night, is largely fictional. ... "Based on the above said we must conclude that the myth of 'Potemkin villages' is exactly a myth, and not an established fact." ... The close relationship between Potemkin and the empress could have made it difficult for him to deceive her. Thus, if there were deception, it would have been mainly directed towards the foreign ambassadors accompanying the imperial party ... it is possible that the phrase cannot be applied accurately to its own original historical inspiration. According to some historians, some of the buildings were real, and others were constructed to show what the region would look like in the near future, and at least Catherine and possibly also her foreign visitors knew which were which.
Have you ever considered that if people were less naive about the true nature of war, and didn't lie to themselves about the reality for civilians, and that war inevitably devolves into rape, torture, and infanticide, the world would be a better place?
You be better.
Sorry. But you're naive.
War has always been like this. It's just been masked by newspeak. Collateral damage, precision or surgical strikes, insurgent, non-combatants, etc.
IRC the initial bombings of Iraq in 2003, labeled 'Shock and Awe' and portrayed as surgical and precise by plenty of media, likely cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians. The US bombed hospitals, they killed journalists, there were literal concentration camps, systematic torture, summary executions, etc. etc. People have simply watched too many American war movies (not a good war movie like Come and See, link to the full movie with subs on an official channel), don't know much about international law, and seem to think a bomb blast stops at the window of a building. The sad reality is that you can bomb a building with one terrorist in it, and if it happens to be next to a children's hospital, that's invariably not considered a war crime.
IRC the UK Department of Defense even has absurdly low civilian casualty figures, because anyone in a combat zone is no longer considered a civilian. Here's a relevant article:
And let's not get started on countries like Russia where officers pimped out their own soldiers. If that's how they treat their own, you don't want to know how they treat the enemy. I mean, they decided to pardon child rapists and murders after setting them loose on the Ukrainian front. And don't get me started on wars with child soldiers and rape camps. Hell, IRC in Syria the red cross/crescent gave Assad the location of hospitals, so they could avoid bombing them. They stopped doing that when they realised the regime was almost certainly using the locations they provided as targeting data and hit multiple hospitals in a day.
Want to know the sad reality? Israel will likely get away with all this, because what they're doing isn't that especially out of the ordinary when it comes to war. It's no coincidence that the ICJ stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Housing which is shit and often unsuitable for habitation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
And to be clear, they've built a lot of infrastructure, but it's often underbuilt. Eg. they'll build huge projects or even residential districts, but save money by not ensuring there's sufficient drainage. Result: fancy stadium, looks better than many a western stadium, cost less to build, fancier, looks higher quality, what you see may even be better quality, built in record time, but when it rains everyone's walking in poo water.