This is certainly a hot take, yes

I think the reason Will refuses to acknowledge that a lot of people are economically insecure enough that the 50K would be rational from their perspective is because it would validate that the Vibecession is actually just a genuine case of the economy being shitty for people.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also this isn’t about anyone in particular

This is somehow both entitled and idiotic. Yes. Winning 1M is better than winning 50K. Losing 1M is worse than winning 50K. An entire years income is actually very obviously significant for someone that normally has to spend 365 days accumulating the same amount of money.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

My financial advisor: "Well, you see, the extra $50k, while nice, really just represents about an extra year of lifetime earnings, while the potential $1,000,000 would dramatically trans-" Me (shouting): HOW DARE YOU SAY 50k WOULD NOT CHANGE MY LIFE?? HAVE YOU NEVER KNOWN A POOR PERSON?

Is it a genocide, Will?

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

People keep telling me that Israel/Palestine has been a core political issue of high salience for a decade or more, which makes the existence of this book quite confusing

Is it a genocide, Will?

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

It makes sense that progressives would care about it; I care about it. It makes less sense that it has become the sole measure by which a lot of people decide their political support.

Maybe she should have been against Israel if she wanted to win

Amiable@amiablequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ah yes, the Michigan Muslim population who refused to vote for Kamala Harris because *checks notes* she was too likely to support Netanyahu and Israel. So... How did that work out?

An arguement can be made that the only reason so many people are against Israel right now is because they're acting extremely aggressively to Palestinians, that they would still kill the same number in the long-term, but are acting so obvious that they're burning vast amounts of political capital.

Blizzard Passenger@blizzardpassenger.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is exactly right. Look at how 2024 turned out *for Palestinians,* for pity’s sake. Harris would support Israel, but she also wouldn’t have let Netanyahu get away with nearly as much — in Gaza, or in Lebanon for that matter — nor would she have attacked Iran. Stop cutting off our noses, dammit.

Hey no worries buddy, I'll help you be more clear! Answer with one word, "yes" or "no". Is it a genocide? If you really want you can include more words than just those two, but if you want to be ultra clear I've set you up for crystal clarity.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don't know how much clearer I can be that I believe Israel's actions in Gaza violate international law, are fundamentally indecent, merit war crime prosecutions for the perpetrators, and betray an attitude of shocking dehumanization towards Palestinians

...do you think that maybe not expressing an opinion on the genocide aside from saying "Stop the killing" (a very bland way to describe a genocide, by the way) after insistently highlighting Krios having a "radical position" on Israel, before picking out a few genuinely anti-semitic posts responses

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last mo.

made the mistake of engaging on israel/palestine stuff yesterday, literally did not even express a viewpoint on anything, never again

You could make a game of finding how quickly the pro-Israel people shift into abject Nazism.

Nova@novakal.bsky.social · last mo.

Fucking evil people lmao

Fucking evil people lmao

Part of why I find Liberals annoying is because they'll call you an Imperialist for saying the genocide in Palestine has to end, even if the answer is a military intervention. Like oooh noooooo, how dare I think genocide is that bad. How evil.

It's crazy how people can't process sentences outside of their face level.

>Keeps responding to me long after the conversation has devolved >Says I'm the obsessed one. >Feels the need to respond to me about them eating food Dawg, come on. Actually, no, I'll break you free and mute you lol

Actually, scholarship agrees that the Palestinians and Jews share a great deal of genetics. You refuse to accept that, of course, because you're actually deeply racist. Like you can say you're anything and everything, but if you're denying the reality of mixed race people,

I'm a narcissist for opposing your racism? Give me a break. If you don't want to be called out, don't do the thing that gets you called out. You want to erase Palestinians cultural heritage? You want to pretend that mixed race people aren't real? You get called racist. Because that's what you are

There have, in fact, been antisemitic Jews. You're just also one of them. It doesnt make me happy, I firmly wish that people like you weren't so incredibly racist and antisemitic, but we don't always get what we want, so I can at least call you out for being this way, to help others know to avoid

No no no, we're not focusing on you trying to dodge out of being an antisemite. Stop hating Jews and Palestinians, and maybe we can talk about the spelling of words after you racist freak.

Ah, yes, lecturing me about anti-Semitism as you erase the Palestinians cultural heritage *and* tokenizing Jews into just whether or not they "empty their pockets" for me. Fucking racist as hell, crazy how people like you act on main.

Not at all, I'm pointing out that they've an ancestral connection to the land as good as any Israeli. That you're so racist you refuse to admit that, and would paint all Palestinians as that, is deeply humiliating for you and your position. The racism you live and breath is disgusting

Then you should really stop trying to erase the historical record of how people like the Palestinians exist, racist

You are, quite literally, arguing that mixed race people don't exist. Why are so many Israel-Supporters the most racist people on Earth?

Yeah, that stuff happened, that doesn't mean the descendants aren't descendants you psycho-wiener.

This isn't indigenous erasure, because the Jews living in the land, to one degree or another, intermarried with the Arabs, forming the Palestinians. Nebuchadnezzar isn't relevant to this, no one is arguing Jews weren't in the land, or oppressed. You're responding to me, not the ghosts in your head

So, yes, they are the descendants of colonizers...and indigenous people. Telling me you don't think both can be true is telling me that you're a deeply racist person, unironically. As a question, what's your opinion on mixed race people?

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USpolitics 🇺🇸@uspol.skyfleet.blue · 2mo ago

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Me to Seth Moulton rn

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It takes an incredible amount of chutzpah for Seth Moulton to have this on his campaign website. Seth, *you* threw trans kids under the bus for political gain!