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Trump rounds trans people up into death camps

"another attempt to distract us from the Epstein files!"

we have to find ways to restore the other side's empathy. it's the only thing that's worked for me.

I'm trans. I spent months talking with TERFs, long ago. it was horrible. but, I managed to make a connection with one of them. I described my experiences, my life, the feelings of dysphoria, the hurt from the hate.. she listened, and came to care about me, and left their hateful cult.

I repeated this with conservatives I met. taught myself to keep my cool, to be honest, to answer mocking with sincerity. I didn't try to be "one of the good ones," I didn't throw my sisters under the bus, I made it clear that most of us were like me - just wanting to live happy, fulfilling lives.

we need to make friends with enemies. even when they betray us and hurt us. it's dangerous but I can see no better way forward.

I'm pretty sure the Epstein files are the distraction from sending the military to conquer our own cities.

aren't we all hermaphrodites in that analogy?

I'd actually love a series of 1-hour lectures and a series of textbooks, but I'm a massive nerd.

leader/follower for things like Paxos and RAID arrays works okay.

wait, like bears, or bear bears? are bear bears like bears?

what the fuck is with Windows App? it takes gigs and it's literally just an RDP wrapper.

Jesus would have hated movie theater concession stands.

theoretically, Muslims and Jews should be closer. both believe in one god, rather than a trinity. both reject icons. both follow the dietary laws. both Jews and Arabs descend from Abraham.

maybe the closer you are the more you have to fight about 🤷‍♀️

I'm not sure Jesus said anything about whether his followers need to keep kosher or observe the Torah. "I have come not to replace the Law, but to fulfill it" or something, right? I don't think he weighed in on circumcision or pork. wasn't that largely the early Christians deciding after his death?

whoa, I didn't know there were Churches that don't follow Paul. he's one of my biggest issues with Christianity.

I felt like Christianity suffered a lot from so many gentiles streaming in early on without becoming Jews, and by the time it became the religion of Rome it blended with Sol Invictus, Greek Platonism and other Roman mythology, and became incomprehensible. Jesus was Jewish, the Disciples were all Jews, all the context of his teachings only make sense in a context the fresh converts lacked.

I kinda wonder about an alternate universe where a sect of Jews accept Jesus as Moshiach but not as literally God. there'd be no trinity, the parables would go into the Talmud, he'd be seen as a rebbe like Hillel I guess.