Barabas

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There was recently a national security advisor that had to leave because of posting nudes on grindr. His lips are atrocious however.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, they embody the condescending, self-satisfied and annoying stereotype. It is a real phenomenon. Carl Bildt may be the apotheosis of that specific kind of guy (though he also genuinely sucks 99% of the time). The people filling that stereotype in Swedish media are preppy Finnish people.

The reverse is kind of true for Danish and Norwegian politicians or police in Sweden where they are invited to tell us why we gotta get more racist and get hailed as truth tellers for saying it.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is how Swedish people are used abroad. Someone who will be for something that is good but does it in a condescending, self-satisfied and annoying way so that the people hearing it double down on not doing that. One of the reasons that hearing the Swedish accent in English (in Swidin wi donnt do dat) makes my skin crawl. Even if they are not actually being condescending, self-satisfied or annoying they will be framed as if they are (such as Greta Thunberg).

It is either that or the classic bikini babe.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Why is this in badposting, you are completely correct.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They are the smelliest part of me that isn't an orifice.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

When you do something in your nth attempt the last one is still included in the number of attempts. The reason for the different rubrics is to differentiate between failed and successful attempts (difference in scale between actually murdering someone or trying and failing to do so).

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Retvrn to subsistence farming I guess.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

The main message of the new testament was to be forgiving of pedophiles who sexually assault your children, but sentecing foreigners to death for the crime of crossing a border.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope that someday American policy will shift in their favor

This is emblematic of the liberal shitstains I see supporting Contrapoints in this. Went on the socials to check and it is the same top down arguments that lead some to think that civil rights were won because politicians decided to vote for it out of the kindness of their hearts or that the 40 hour work week happened because capitalists cared about their workers. HOW THE FUCK WILL THE POLICY CHANGE IF YOU CANNOT EVEN BE CRITICAL OF IT. If everyone in the USA has to be pro-Zionist why would the policy change?

It is such a myopic worldview, if things aren’t achieved on a 6 month timespan they are worthless and you did nothing but turn off the sensible white moderates. Contrapoints herself is arguing that the pro-Palestinian option was genocide under Kamala Harris as ‘harm reduction’. That is all her support amounts to, feeling a bit sad and not even trying to agitate for the rights of Palestinians.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

I really don’t think she has any real ideological consistency, islamophobic shit was the wealthy liberal consensus at the time too.

If the wealthy liberal consensus was that Zionism was bad, she would dislike Zionism too. She is just a mindless follower of mainstream consensus justifying her lack of ideological convictions with sophistry ad hoc while feeling smugly superior to the people that do have convictions.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Condemning the genocide and saying (and probably also giving) money to charity is just an emotional balm to couch that she doesn’t really want to do anything about it.

The thrust of it is that trying is useless and personally bothers her. She knows that her liberal allies in the Democratic Party don’t give a single fuck about Palestine and has thus decided to just be sad about it while chastising people for trying to do anything. She supports Zionism because it is supported by the wealthy, and because it doesn’t affect her directly. She only sticks her neck out even slightly beyond what the wealthy liberal consensus is when it comes to things that personally affect her like transphobia.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Tldr: I am self obsessed and will acknowledge that there is a brutal genocide going on. HOWEVER, I personally know some zionists who actually count as people and opposing a ethnostate would hurt their feelings whereas Palestinian lives are of negotiable. Also, my life got worse because the ‘online left’ single handedly got Trump elected by focusing too much on not wanting to support genocide without being able to stop it, so opposing it is bad.

Tldr of the tldr: I just wanna be at brunch and not have to think about this.

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