@Historycourses This has always struck me as parallel to the Chinese having a hard time understanding universalist religions.
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This, and many other similar situations, is the result of Christians and Muslims having a hard time understanding a non-universalist religion (there are universalist principles to Judaism too, but the bulk is quite particularistic).
I have found Hindus to understand this better.
🦌 the fool@kilovh
it's funny because Jews see it as unremarkable but the whole concept of "oh there's nothing wrong with YOU eating a cheeseburger, gentile, enjoy it!" as a non-condescending distinction is so unusual that it's understandable how antisemites assume there must be dark secrets
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@St_Rev On the one hand, it is reasonable to criticize the US for targeting screwups like that girls school. On the other hand, maybe you could criticize the guys actively trying to kill civilians a little bit more.
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@St_Rev It's bizarre seeing highly targeted attacks criticized more than lobbing missiles at the damn Azeris for no reason at all.
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One assumes IEDs, suicide vests and polonium are still acceptable.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
NEW: Pope Leo XIV just called for the permanent abolition of aerial bombing — a first for any pope. “Airplanes should always be vehicles of peace, never war. No one should have to fear that threats of death and destruction might come from the sky.” The demand came as Trump’s war against Iran entered week four. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-xiv…
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@razibkhan What about “the false prophet Mohammed”?
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It’s Muhammad
I wish him the peace he gave his enemies
Fr Thomas Crean OP@crean_fr
There's a growing tendency in Britain, and no doubt elsewhere, for non-Muslims to refer to Mohammed as 'the prophet Mohammed': to be avoided.
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@St_Rev It’s the Middle East they believe they’re winning. In some ways they are
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This is the kind of stuff you demand when you overwhelmingly win. I think their structure is so demolished that 'negotiators' can't speak for anybody, and if they act like they do they'll be killed by their own guys. So you get this, it's pantomime.
Faytuks News@Faytuks
Iranian demands for an end to the war, according to the WSJ: - Closure of all US bases in the Gulf - Guarantees of no further attacks - End to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah - Lifting all sanctions on Iran. - War damage reparations - No restrictions on the missile program
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@JaneAusten4ever @ShadesOfRani @aelfred_D For example, it's mentioned that he didn't save any significant money for his family's support, because he assumed he'd have a son, even though his youngest is a teenager and he could have started saving once it was apparent he wouldn't.
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@JaneAusten4ever @ShadesOfRani @aelfred_D She's not a sensible or wise woman, but the thing she's afraid of is very real and Mr. Bennet is ignoring the problem, letting her deal with it very badly rather than deal with it properly himself.
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I’d argue that Mr Bennet isn’t so much controlling and mildly cruel as he is a huge fucking dick
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter
I believe in my heart that some men prefer being married to a narrow-thinking woman. It makes for an easier, more orderly life. This is a major theme of "Pride & Prejudice." The vain, neurotic, not-clever wife and her controlling, mildly cruel husband.
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@Rudefire @eigenrobot I mean sure, the pope complaining isn't going to change the Iranians minds so why bother, right? On the other hand, they're tossing missiles willy-nilly at random countries they're not even at war with, and we're targeting individual Iranian leaders, come on.
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@Rudefire @eigenrobot anti-war is fine, it just galls when the side with much higher standards for avoiding civilian casualties gets the bulk of the criticism for civilian casualties
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coastal and orbital bombardment tacitly endorsed by the vatican railgun battleships and rods from god are approved by servus servorum lfg
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
NEW: Pope Leo XIV just called for the permanent abolition of aerial bombing — a first for any pope. “Airplanes should always be vehicles of peace, never war. No one should have to fear that threats of death and destruction might come from the sky.” The demand came as Trump’s war against Iran entered week four. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-xiv…
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@eigenrobot I think you've forgotten the alternative of tiny pager bombs
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contemporary airstrikes with precision munitions are the cleanest mode of war in history, every alternative is much much uglier
i hate to say this but the pope really could stand to be 30% more consequentialist here, and should also read up on the second lateran council
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@eigenrobot @SilverVVulpes I vote for keeping the Aragonese at least
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may as well blow up iraq too i guess
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Tammuz Intel@Tammuz_Intel
The National Security Council in Iraq authorizes the Popular Mobilization Forces and other security agencies to act on the principle of the right to respond and defend themselves against military attacks targeting their headquarters.
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@Empty_America It's less academics that's the problem than general social maturity.
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This is probably a harmful arms race, but it's not just sports.
School is much more advanced today, Kindergarten is what 1st grade used to be, 4th grade math is like what used to be 6th grade, etc.
Many boys cope better with this if "red shirted."
Seth Largo@SethLargo
Half of my sons Kindergarten class turned six the first few weeks of class. No advantage when everyone is doing it. Some of these kids get held back again for 9th grade. So they will be almost 20 when they graduate. Just more adolescence extension is all this is.
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@atlanticesque "We will design a policy that ensures that literally nobody has any incentives to maintain the property"
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@atlanticesque Yeah, it's just giving (some) renters a partial, fucked up kind of ownership in their tenancy, in a way that screws up the incentives of both landlord and tenant.
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@travis4nh It's always fun when people ask questions that are meant to be difficult but have easy answers:
"His constituents voted for him."
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> I am a New Hampshire resident and someone who has spent years engaged in advocacy, public policy, and the work of protecting and amplifying the voices of marginalized communities.
Imagine saying that without any shame at all.
Extraordinary.
(((Timothy Horrigan)))@TimothyHorrigan
Good question: why is @Travis4NH still in office?
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@eigenrobot I do like reclaiming Antioch, though we'd want Alexandria as well to rebuild the Pentarchy.
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@eigenrobot Trying to figure out if we're keeping the UK but ditching the Irish or vice versa. My assumption is that the Irish are fine but we're ditching the Brits and the Parisians.
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@kendrictonn There's a bit on his webpage making fun of a reviewer who didn't read his novel with paper and pen to work out the math. I love him, but he's hilarious.
gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/…
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(me, trying to remember Greg Egan's name and failing)
Robert Rubsam@rob_rubsam
Driving me slightly insane that everyone has to pretend that Andy Weir is a real novelist and not a guy whose books are like 70% math equations
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@eurydicelives There are jobs - notoriously car sales - where saying you want the job for the money is a positive signal.
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