Every politician and military leader worth their salt knows that oppression creates terrorism. The way Israel has been treating Palestine made Hamas inevitable, and everyone making decisions in Israel had to have known it. So why intentionally create terrorists? Because theoretically, the existence of terrorists justifies violence. Hamas was created by Israel with the intention of accelerating the genocide under a sympathetic justification.

Hamas is a Frankenstein’s monster. A creation, deliberately made, which grew out of its creator’s control. Hamas’ cause is more sympathetic than Israel bargained for, because at the end of the day all that rage and violence is motivated by a desire not to be oppressed. And just like in the original Frankenstein, all the creator needs to defeat the monster is a little bit of love. If Israel passed laws guaranteeing the equality of Palestinian citizens, Hamas would have no new recruits and no international support. Its legitimacy and power would evaporate in a day. Israel continues the “war” because it believes it can still control the monster. That it can still use Hamas to justify further violence.

Israel and Hamas aren’t at war, they’re on the same side.

Situations like this are why I disabled youtube suggestions. I only see suggestions if I want them.

I’m always down for a 6 hour Hbomberguy video, but I accept that treatment from nobody else.

Essayists gotta earn my trust first, and the more people making super long videos, the higher the standard I expect them to meet to be worth my time.

I’ve never been part of a religion that was founded on hate. Can you explain which part of wicca, druidry, or hellenism is based on hate?

It has been my experience that atheist culture consistently fails transgender people, because atheists frequently believe that material is reality. I have only found trans acceptance in religious communities.

Lesbian wiccans is a stereotype for a reason. If someone says queer people aren’t religious, I just assume they don’t know many queer women.

And then there’s bissu and twospirit people displaying precisely why religion is so very common in enbies

I agree with the definition that intelligence is the ability to create knowledge from information. Therefore even the creation of harmful knowledge requires intelligence. What baboons probably have more of than humans is wisdom. Wisdom is about creating useful knowledge. Wisdom tells us when our intelligence shouldn’t be used.

I agree with you, though, that human knowledge is profoundly limited. I’m constantly confronted by the limits of humans around me to comprehend the existence of nonhuman culture. It’s only a limit of their intelligence insofar as intelligence is a choice. Which, I think, in a lot of ways it is.

Hard to say how much of the volume of non-straight/trans and trans/trans twins on social media is selection bias since the trans/cishet twins aren’t eye-catching

It’s not just selection bias, it’s also survivor bias. Openly trans people are more likely to have openly trans siblings, because openly trans people are more likely to have accepting parents. We don’t know what the actual frequency of trans people is. We only know what the frequency of out trans people is. But the number keeps going up the more acceptance improves.

Xenogenders aren’t a joke. While the attack helicopter copypasta is a joke designed by reactionaries to mock the concept of xenogenders, what they are mocking is a real identity held by real people. I don’t know any helicopters, but I’ve met dragons, elves, and gods. Xenogenders are valid identities.

You sound like an antirealist. Are you part of the soulist community?

I went through a period of frequent breakups that made me think I was never going to have a well adjusted partner, or even a stable friend group. That my life would be a series of fights.

And now I have a swarm. I literally share my thoughts with a group of people who are wonderful and love me unconditionally on romantic, platonic, and sexual levels. And I used to think I was asexual, so that’s a trip. All I had to do was find the right kind of queer people. Swarmgender people.

Lots of stress and uncertainty, but some of the uncertainty is good maybe? Made a new Beehaw account, eager to try this experiment of whether I fit in here