Eric Faceplant

Eric Faceplant

@ericfaceplant.bsky.social

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People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't count. (this is from the Cass report)

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

I'm not exaggerating, that is the transphobes' *entire argument*: The near-unanimous positive findings on youth transition do not count because we have methodological quibbles with the research. In any other field you would look at early, promising research and go "yep, keep expanding."

They didn't even really try to sell the rehashed Iraq war propaganda. It was basically, "We know you know this is bullshit, but we have to say something. Weapons of mass destruction! Evil dictator the world is better off without! Ok, Pete, send in the bombers."

It's ridiculous to talk about the "right to exist" of a nation-state. That's like talking about the right to exist of a currency. The rupee doesn't have a right to exist. It's a fiction we have created. If these fictions are causing harm, we don't need to recognize them.

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Israel has treated people in its sphere of influence horribly to an extent that is widely recognized as criminal, and it makes the preposterous and antisemitic claim that it represents the interests of all of the Jews in the world.

The harm that continues to be done in the name of this fiction, aided by most western nation-states, can never be forgiven by anyone with a conscience. Recognizing the legitimacy of Israel is completely unethical, and forever will be.

It's ridiculous to talk about the "right to exist" of a nation-state. That's like talking about the right to exist of a currency. The rupee doesn't have a right to exist. It's a fiction we have created. If these fictions are causing harm, we don't need to recognize them.

Currencies exist because it is useful to have a placeholder for value to facilitate trade. Nation-states are a placeholder for control over a geographic area. Some treat the people inside their area more fairly than others.

Eric Faceplant reposted

It seems like you're having trouble understanding my opinion on this controversial issue. Here, let me make it clearer: Imagine if, instead of what is happening, something totally different was happening, where my position would be undeniably correct.

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I'm confused about how the AP put out a story titled, "Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel’s strongest supporters" with no mention of evangelical beliefs about Israel helping kick off the end times and the return of Christ. THAT'S THE MAIN THING. apnews.com/article/isra...

apnews.comWhy conservative American evangelicals are among Israel's strongest supportersOne of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was with American evangelicals on Monday.

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”