Leo Gura

It's not like Al Jazeera is gonna be your only source of information on this issue. It's one arrow in your quiver.

@Buck Edwards Less is more.

You can get a hole-in-one on your first shot. That doesn't make you a good golfer. Only a fool would confuse one for the other.

In the context of this topic of politics, it's all relative truths.

I don't deny any of that. They bribed the World Cup. But it has nothing to do with the quality of their journalists.

Great quote. I'm stealing that one.

Al Jazeera has some of the best reporting and coverage of Gaza and Israel out of all new media channels. The reason Zionists hate it is because it is truthful and deconstructs their self-righteous fantasies. I don't need Al Jazeera to to criticize Qatar. Qatar is an irrelevant nation on the world stage. If I want criticism of them I can go elsewhere.

Because happiness is a narcotic your mind uses to keep you surviving.

1) They never look at the evidence. 2) Al Jazeera is automatically dismissed by Zionists as "biased" Hamas propaganda. It's a perfect example of an epistemic bubble or paradigm-lock.

@Nivsch It helps to clarify what it is you want out of using your mind. What is it you're working towards? You wanna feel good? You wanna bullshit yourself? You wanna defend an ethnicity? What?

Yup. You just need massive experience until it stops being a thing you worry about or second-guess. Are you insecure about how to wipe your ass? No. Cause you've done it 10,000 times. Anything you do 10,000 times becomes confident. And anything you do once or twice is insecure.

You can contemplate the masculine/feminine distinction for years and comprehend it deeper, and deeper, and deeper.

It's a construction. You can construct it one way or another way. I don't have a strong view on the matter.

Experience

All judgments of that sort are subjective. My view is just my view. It doesn't need to be true for you. If you think having sex with a goat is beautiful, that's your business. But I may regard it as degenerate.

This is degenerate porn. It's like if I told you food is beautiful and you said, Is eating dog shit beautiful?

"Let us not hurl blame at the murderers. Why should we complain of their hatred for us? Eight years they've sat in the refugee camps of Gaza and seen with their own eyes how we have made our homeland of the soil of the villages where they and their fore-bearers once dwelt. Not from the Arabs of Gaza must we demand the blood of [the dead] but from ourselves." -- Moshe Dayan, Israeli Chief of the IDF, 1956 What's amazing is that modern Israelis are so brainwashed with their own propaganda that they do not know the words of their own founders.

If you can't see the beauty in it that's a you problem.

Yup. I also eat animals. I also buy bombs for Israel to bomb Palestinian babies. You know that factory sweatshop labor goes into making your phone, yet you still buy and use phones. You also know that people are exploited to make art, film, music, yet you continue to consume and enjoy it. The hell that goes into making art is distinct from the enjoyment of the art. Most Hollywood film production is a nightmare to work on. The employees working at Disneyland are in hell, yet you still take your kids there and enjoy the show. That's how capitalism works. The process that goes into making porn is distinct from the beauty of the porn end-product, in the same way as a Disney cartoon. Your children don't care about the sweatshop labor that was needed to hand draw a cartoon. The cartoon is still great even if someone was killed to make it. In the same way that a basket of chicken wings is delicious.

2000 approaches is a bare minimum. You can do that in 1 year. You should be aiming for 10,000 approaches to reach mastery. It's like you guys have hit 100 golf balls and wondering why you're so bad at golf. And then you call me an extremist.

They ain't gonna get that without proper government. Which they will not get because they will not get a state and no control over their own security. Security is the foundation for everything else. And security is the one thing Israel categorically refuses to grant them. This whole conflict is about security. The US cannot force a state on them without Israeli concession or going to war with Israel, since Israel has its military occupying the area. The best the US can do is stop funding and arming Israel and impose sanctions. But we all know that's not gonna happen.

Look at the chaos of their situation. Liberal democracy cannot exist in such conditions. The only thing that can exist there is isane corruption and authoritarian rule. Iareali leadership will never agree to a Palestinian state. They never have. They say so themselves.

They created exactly what they wanted.

@royce Linky no worky.

It's fuckin crazy.