OccamsTeapot
@OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 3 months ago:
I’m confused why you were so outraged by the use of human shields at first and now when I send examples you all of a sudden don’t seem to care. You didn’t even mention the second example yet.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 3 months ago:
Ah so using human shields is OK all of a sudden? What about the second example? Don’t worry, I can find more if you like
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 3 months ago:
On one hand you have fighters shielding themselves behind civilians
You’re right, this is disgusting…
And this is too. Do these people have no morals? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/23/human-shielding-in-action-israeli-forces-strap-palestinian-man-to-jeep
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 7 months ago:
I was born in the UK but with a West Indian and an actual Indian grandparent on one side. Lived there my entire life up until relatively recently. There were still people who would consider me not British. When people either in the UK or where I live now ask where I’m from and I tell them I’m British, there are many people who say “but where are you really from?”
But it doesn’t mean anything if I say I’m Jamaican, or Indian, because one I’ve been to for some odd trips as a kid and the other I only transferred through an airport. Yeah my DNA shows that, but my entire life has basically minimal connection to either of those places and a continuous connection to Britain.
I got the accent and the passport, but I didn’t get the skin colour. So these people will always exist who want to make it seem like I’m not “really” British. But that is on them, not me. I am British, whether they like it or not.
This is really a long winded way of saying: there will always be some people who consider you not truly British. Fuck them. They are idiots that have at best shackled themselves to some outdated view of what it means to be “British” and at worst want to shutter the whole country off to anyone who doesn’t look or speak like them and pull us all back to the stone age.
I think if you speak to people you are close with about this they would consider you British. If you speak with Baz down at the Red Lion he’ll ask you for a pierogi and then fall asleep in his own vomit after a few too many pints of carling. I think Baz is much less important than all of the real people in your life and most of all, the way you view yourself.
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- Comment on Here is my dog, Oscar. 8 months ago:
He needs a health bar: Oscar, devourer of treats
- Comment on UNRWA commissioner says truck with humanitarian aid for Gaza blocked by israel because it contained medical scissors 9 months ago:
The scissors being banned is obviously ridiculous, but solar powered lights?! What could anyone possibly do with them? Smash them and use a shard as a shiv?
- Comment on Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song 10 months ago:
Literal pot-bellied vampire goblins
- Comment on How can I prove myself that my brain isn't just creating images so I can experience life? 11 months ago:
Dr. Samuel Johnson (writer of the original English dictionary) was posed this theory. In response (probably a little drunk) he ran up and kicked a giant stone, saying “I refute it thus!” He broke his foot.
Probably don’t do that but I guess you see his point.
- Comment on Hot earth 1 year ago:
Yeah there’s a fucking ton of applications in physics as well but then again physics has ghost particle fields and a single observation can make a wave function the size of the universe collapse to an infinitesimal point. So stop doing physics as well
- Comment on Hot earth 1 year ago:
Topologically my socks don’t have a hole in. Stop doing topology, they have played us for absolute fools
- Comment on Reddit & Gaza situation 1 year ago:
Israel is doing the actual killing, but let’s be real. Hamas knew what would happen when they attacked, that was likely part of the reason for it. Their intent was to provoke exactly this type of over response. They have the blood of the 21k (whatever, I don’t keep up anymore, too many) on their hands just like the IDF. To them, this is mission accomplished. Fuck them.
- Comment on I Can't Drink Now Like I Used to a Few Years Ago (26M), is that Normal? 1 year ago:
That’s a funny way to spell cocaine
- Comment on Semantics: What's the greater security threat to the Federation? 1 year ago:
Similar to surveillance, but the lack of pre-emptive warnings.
“Captain there’s an unauthorized shuttle launch/transport”
“Can you use the tractor beam/get a lock on them?”
“They’re too far away/too much interference”
“Can we please get a warning before the thing actually happens next time ensign?”
- Comment on Where everyone knows your name 1 year ago:
I think they actually confirmed this at some point! Maybe in What We Left Behind
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
Why?
- Comment on I have fire arms therefore you are wrong 1 year ago:
Woman: I just don’t feel like having sex right now…
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