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SlowUpTake said:
This is a think with right wing media, if you're getting all your new from news nation or foxx you are being fed the lie that trans people are responsible for mass shooting.
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What data shows about trans people and mass shootings

After a transgender person opened fire on a Minneapolis school Mass, some Republicans connected the violence to the perpetrator’s gender identity. But no data shows a trend of violence or mass shootings among trans people.
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Yeah, that checks out. The people who make the biggest deal out of trans people being trans are non-trans folks. People don't stop and consider that the trans community would be calmly and happily living their lives if they didn't have to fight for equality because of beliefs like this, because of people spreading garbage like what I just read in that screenshot

I don't understand the capacity to blanket large swaths of people with such loathing and discrimination. There is so much hatred in the hearts of people. It makes me feel nauseous. What a shame that there isn't more love and unity
 
SlowUpTake said:
twisting cis discomfort at the "different" into politically exploitable hatred, rage and grievance... not even radical anymore
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No, it isn't radical anymore. It's the reality we're living in, and people don't realize how brainwashed they are. I have noticed a staggering increase in the prevalence of this ever since Trump first took office. It's somehow even worse during his second term though. It's like an infection that has taken root in the hearts of the masses, poisoning them

They are trying their hardest to worsen the division between people, and these efforts have been successful. I fear things devolving further as time continues on
 
SlowUpTake said:
This is a think with right wing media, if you're getting all your new from news nation or foxx you are being fed the lie that trans people are responsible for mass shooting.
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www.politifact.com

What data shows about trans people and mass shootings

After a transgender person opened fire on a Minneapolis school Mass, some Republicans connected the violence to the perpetrator’s gender identity. But no data shows a trend of violence or mass shootings among trans people.
www.politifact.com www.politifact.com
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I hate to be the rational realist here, but both left and right news sources are about 20% news and 80% spin.
 
QuickTwist said:
By Hamas' own numbers, the ratio of civilian to soldier death rate is about 1:1, which is unprecedented for the kind of urban warfare Israel faced.
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In my opinion, we are witnessing a historical paradox.
Imagine seeing your family killed by an Israeli missile: what would your reaction be? Now, reverse the roles: if you were an Israeli seeing a relative paraded through Gaza, and you had the military power to annihilate the threat, what would you do?

This hatred seems destined to be perpetual, passing from generation to generation, as long as radicals on both sides continue to see mutual destruction as the only solution. Personally, I don't see a way out.

-Giammarco
 
AkarItaly said:
In my opinion, we are witnessing a historical paradox.
Imagine seeing your family killed by an Israeli missile: what would your reaction be? Now, reverse the roles: if you were an Israeli seeing a relative paraded through Gaza, and you had the military power to annihilate the threat, what would you do?

This hatred seems destined to be perpetual, passing from generation to generation, as long as radicals on both sides continue to see mutual destruction as the only solution. Personally, I don't see a way out.

-Giammarco
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Hamas is a terrorist organization. Israel, despite what the UN says, is not.

If Israel wanted to commit genocide, it could have wiped out all of Gaza in a week. They have one of the strongest militaries in the world. If they wanted to kill all of the Gazans, they very well could have. But the population of Gaza in 2025 was virtually the SAME as it was before October 7, 2023, when Hamas killed man, woman, and child, to draw sympathies from the naive and lacking common sense because their version of Islam is synonymous with a death cult.
 
QuickTwist said:
Hamas is a terrorist organization. Israel, despite what the UN says, is not.

If Israel wanted to commit genocide, it could have wiped out all of Gaza in a week. They have one of the strongest militaries in the world. If they wanted to kill all of the Gazans, they very well could have. But the population of Gaza in 2025 was virtually the SAME as it was before October 7, 2023, when Hamas killed man, woman, and child, to draw sympathies from the naive and lacking common sense because their version of Islam is synonymous with a death cult.
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Forgive me, but I can't quite grasp what you're trying to say. Are you suggesting that this is not a genocide?
I find it hard to believe that a nation like Israel is incapable of carrying out surgical operations without 'making mistakes',such as mistaking a tent camp for a Hamas command center.


Just my opinion.


-Giammarco
 
AkarItaly said:
Forgive me, but I can't quite grasp what you're trying to say. Are you suggesting that this is not a genocide?
I find it hard to believe that a nation like Israel is incapable of carrying out surgical operations without 'making mistakes',such as mistaking a tent camp for a Hamas command center.


Just my opinion.


-Giammarco
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It's a war, and demanding perfection from any military is idiotic. There are always going to be casualties because it is war, and war is exceptionally messy and almost nothing ever goes according to plan. It is because of precision that the war lasted as long as it did. Because Israel could very well have just leveled all of Gaza in a day with bomb strikes. The media literally tried to make the argument that Israel was the bad guys because they rained leaflets down from the freaking sky telling exactly which buildings they were going to bomb and when. No other military in the world would dream of doing that, but Israel actually got blamed for this.
 
I am sensing some bias against Palestine and perhaps also against those of the Islamic faith, QuickTwist.
 
SlowUpTake said:

"Since 2017​


The day after Khaled Mashal, Chairman of Hamas' Political Bureau, on 1 May 2017 had presented a new “political document” (often referred to as ‘new charter’), he was asked: "Will it replace Hamas’ old charter?" Mashal answered: This "new document has been in the making for four years (...) This document reflects our position for now (...) The old charter was a product of its era, 30 years ago. We live in a different world today" Other Hamas leaders since then have repeated Mashal's message: the old Charter should be viewed as "a historical document and part of an earlier stage in [Hamas's] evolution".
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"It remains true after Hamas released a new charter in 2017, which essentially simply swapped the word “Jew” out and replaced it with “Zionist” while repeating antisemitic tropes."

www.adl.org

Hamas in Its Own Words

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In the West, Truth is the highest value because of its Judeo-Christian roots. This is not the case in Islam. In Islam, they simply do not have the same value for telling the truth that Westerners do. It is an entirely different way of thinking that is not compatible with the West.
 
Islamophobia, just what this forum needed.
 
QuickTwist said:
In the West, Truth is the highest value because of its Judeo-Christian roots. This is not the case in Islam. In Islam, they simply do not have the same value for telling the truth that Westerners do. It is an entirely different way of thinking that is not compatible with the West.
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"Truth" is a Greco-Roman construct. Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, is heavily influence by Greek philosophy which, it turn, was heavily influenced by Egyptian and Babylonian thought (not to mention heavy doses of Indian philosophy). In the Modern West most serious thinkers accept that "Truth" is highly dependent of context. This is what is meant by "post-modern". People, as a rule, like to base their truths on facts but facts themselves are held to definitions. For instance, it is a fact that there are more people working in the USA in 2026 than in any time before. That fact can be held as evidence of a booming economy unless one takes into account that there are also more people in the USA than ever before. Truth becomes squishy.
You could just say, look there are still millions of Palestinians alive in Gaza so clearly there has not been a genocide because if is one then they would all be dead. That's a truth
You could say that genocide is a legal term that means the attempt to wipe out a people by killing and scattering them and repressing their language, religion culture, etc. It is action and intention. That is a truth and many often point to the genocide of the North American Indians by the US as an example of such
 

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SlowUpTake said:
"Truth" is a Greco-Roman construct. Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, is heavily influence by Greek philosophy which, it turn, was heavily influenced by Egyptian and Babylonian thought (not to mention heavy doses of Indian philosophy). In the Modern West most serious thinkers accept that "Truth" is highly dependent of context. This is what is meant by "post-modern". People, as a rule, like to base their truths on facts but facts themselves are held to definitions. For instance, it is a fact that there are more people working in the USA in 2026 than in any time before. That fact can be held as evidence of a booming economy unless one takes into account that there are also more people in the USA than ever before. Truth becomes squishy.
You could just say, look there are still millions of Palestinians alive in Gaza so clearly there has not been a genocide because if is one then they would all be dead. That's a truth
You could say that genocide is a legal term that means the attempt to wipe out a people by killing and scattering them and repressing their language, religion culture, etc. It is action and intention. That is a truth and many often point to the genocide of the North American Indians by the US as an example of such
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Epistemology is founded on the principle of Justified True Belief. If we do not have knowledge, we have nothing. If we cannot "know" things, then morality goes out the window, and now it is possible in some world to torture a baby for fun. That is what you get with "post-modern relativism."

Exodus 34:6
"The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed:
The LORD—the LORD is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth,"

The word for "truth" here is actually truth. It comes from the Hebrew word אֱמֶת

Truth is not a nebulous term. It is a person. Why? If you start to ask "Why?" questions, then you inevitably end up with a "Who?" question because Truth is gounded in minds. And minds come from a person. So, which person, in all of human history, is the Truth? That would be Jesus Christ who said,

John 8:31-32
"“If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”"

All the world religions want a piece of Jesus. They all say He is part of the way, or you can get to the way through Him. But he does not share his glory. Rather, He says,

John 14:6
"“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”"

Everyone says Jesus is "a" way, but Jesus says he is THE way.

Jesus is the Truth.
 
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