rutellthesinful

what scenario are you imagining where any of meta’s product offerings are useful to me?

tfw your national strategic reserve of facebook posts is depleted

Without technology prepared to counter teleporters

like the shields all the ships in starwars have?

You don’t consider Barbary raids an act of war?

assuming i did, declaring war just so you can capture whites to sell as slaves seems kind of oppress-y to me

given that the point of contention here is whether or not it was ultimately because they were white or because they were non-muslim, i’m not sure what point you’re trying to make by re-classifying piracy as an act of war?

Capitalize Black.

i didn’t use any capital letters in my response, including on “muslim” which you’d capitalize for the same reasons you’re arguing to capitalize “black”

also, your linked source says to capitalize “white”, which you’ve done at no point so far

And “Yes.” on both counts.

i feel like we’ve hit bedrock then

i’m not sure how to convince you that pirate raids that went all the way to iceland just to avoid “muslims” probably wouldn’t raid a settlement consisting of black non-muslims

You can’t change race by reciting The Shahada.

i feel like you’re intentionally missing my point here

And irrespective anything you have said white people have never been oppressed for being white

you restating a thing doesn’t make that thing true though…?

not really sure there’s much point in going on further with this since it seems like we have pretty different reads on the topic at hand that aren’t going to be brought into alignment through further discussion

war captives and society-wide anti-Blackness actualizing in dehumanization and chattel enslavement

where are you getting “war captives”?

If a captured ship had white and non-white non-muslims on it, do you imagine only the white non-muslims would be enslaved and everyone else let go?

i imagine instances probably occurred both ways

do you think a captured ship with only black non-muslims on it would’ve been captured in the first place?

do you think a coastal settlement with a population of only black non-muslims would’ve been raided for slaves?

Further, your comment about albinism proves you understand race to be a social construct.

if race didn’t exist, american chattel slavery still would’ve done, because the social construct is invented afterwards to justify the act

the same appears to be true here, just with “non-muslim” being the back-engineered justification

i really don’t imagine it would’ve made much difference, kind of like how an african that was also albino still would’ve ended up enslaved

While Barbary corsairs looted the cargo of ships they captured, their primary goal was to capture non-Muslim people for sale as slaves or for ransom.

it seems kind of obvious what their test for “non-muslim” likely was

You don’t need to know what it feels like.

no, but it can help

Trying to fight intolerance with intolerance isn’t successful.

blanket statements like this are rarely helpful or true

Barbary slave trade?

Biden could have had this 30 minute conversation at literally any point over the past several months

But either you’d be strategically weakening the country to give invading forces an easier time, at which point you’re throwing civilians into the meat grinder anyway, or you’re starving the country until it devolves into literal anarchy, because the only people in the position to surrender were entrenched enough that they’d be the last one to see their power structure fall apart.

but it’s not the hexbears making these memes…?

the ai:

def is_hamas(target):
  return True

they should just link the display to the steering wheel

to go left and right you steer accordingly

to go up and down you accelerate or break

do you do the same when somebody says “China”?

the cold war, probably

but what kind of protest is “I’ll have no choice but to sell the ape”?

like even if your “threat” is losing you as a member of the community, you’re still selling it to somebody else who will just take your place

the candiru acu is actually the common name for cetopsis candiru

the fish that swims up where it shouldn’t is the vandellia cirrhosa

other elections, primaries

but those are both votes

ideally, yeah, if you wanted to exercise pressure on the biden administration, you wouldn’t withhold your vote in this specific election, but those “other elections” have already passed

you could vote differently for the house and senate, but arguably that might actually lead to a worse outcome

donations

if you’re very rich, then maybe, but most people aren’t

general social pressure

general social pressure means very little without votes to back it up

sanders has a tidal wave of social pressure behind him, but then lost the primary, so nothing changed

it’s why every time a politician tries to campaign for young voters, they crash and burn, because while young voters often inflict the most social pressure, they never actually go and vote

The alternative is to abstain or vote for someone with no chance

the point isn’t to vote for the person to get them into office

the point is to vote for the person whose policies you prefer, so that you shift the other candidates closer to that position

yeah, 4 years of a very bad candidate is worse than 4 years of a meh candidate, but if you vote that way forever your candidate will never be anything more than meh

appoint three SCOTUS justices, irreversibly damage the environment, and pass voting “reform” to lessen the impact of your future votes

if you think this outweighs the benefit of improving the democrat position going forward, and that’s a perfectly reasonable position to have, then sure vote for them

but don’t act like you never had any choice in the matter, or that voting for somebody else would be meaningless

if you think voting for biden this time is more important, then by all means do that

just understand the choice you’re making, rather than pretending one doesn’t exist