@Vermillion-Rx I've been loudly condemning terrorism and use of human shields among other shitty and inhumane tactics for years, here and elsewhere.

People mostly ignored it, till the Israelis started getting their same tactics done back to them at large scale. Then most people took the Israelis side when they cried victim.

I don't condemn "terrorists" one bit for dishing back the treatment that has been unjustly heaped on them for years and years while the world had HD video of it available, but not only ignored this but lavished money, weapons, and cover on the abusers.

What I condemn are those who express outrage from places of comfort, wealth, and safety, while ignoring life made so terrible for so long that risking death to push back against the oppressors becomes one of the best options.

Reread the definition of DARVO, please.

@Vermillion-Rx It's very analogous to the way mainstream culture defaults to gynocentric assumptions and conclusions in SMP matters, and how easy it is to follow that well trodden pathway oneself. To do otherwise is so shocking and antithetical to mainstream norms, that doing so requires a transformative mental journey we call taking the red pill.

The same is true for automatic and unquestioning support for Israel. I see you not "hardlining or shilling " for Israel, but stuck in a mainstream perspective rut from inside of which you can't see the bias your perspective gets influenced by.

Concrete outcomes of this bias, accepting the position that actions taken by Arabs that strike at Israel make terrorism, while the exact same acts committed by Israel against Arabs and Persians are righteous self defense. Justice and accurate understanding of events requires digging into motivations and root causes. This requires personal effort and more significantly, personal moral judgment. Most people aren't willing or able to do this work, yet that doesn't stop them from accepting the mainstream perspective with all the righteous fury that could get justified by full understanding of the issues they posture about.

Artificial intelligence is now going out of its way to reinforce REAL STUPIDITY.

Unskippable Google AI ad. Woman dressed in too-nice clothes looking down at toilet tank hardware laid out on a tile floor. "Hey, Google, how do all these parts work together?" This is obviously the wrong question; the right one being, "How to install these parts" or even better, unfolding the damn paper that comes in the box with pictures and step by step instructions how to install them. Only by virtue of being inside the same toilet tank do the fill valve and flapper "work together" and this dumb bitch won't understand any of the hows and whys even after muddling through the job. Still, the ad ends with her dancing out of her $50,000 dollar bathroom like a TikTok short.

Next ad in this campaign, a guy brushing up on his rambling stream of consciousness woman emulation game. "Hey, Google- what's the best time this weekend to host a barbecue, and what's a dish I won't have to stand next to the grill the whole time?" Fuck it, I just closed the browser rather than endure another 2s of this retardation-amplification.