It’s not as good as the retro text the nation song though

They are trying to portray the correct timeline, obviously.
IRA succeeded and Mark Chapman didn’t. That’s the right way around.

Exactly. Name names or fuck off

So you can’t answer the question?

Can you?

There isn’t a debate still to be had. This is protected speech. It’s potentially damaging, but the debate as to whether or not she should be allowed to express these views was won during the Renaissance, I’m pretty sure.
Conversely I wouldn’t expect anyone to be prosecuted in any way for denying the ongoing Gazan genocide.

Are you time traveling to last month when that question was still relevant?

That’s nothing. I’m so hot and good at sex, I can make you like sex with men that say that they can make you like men and sex.

Seriously though, I had a friend that used to boast that he’d ‘turned his girlfriend straight’. She was maybe 19, so any reasonable person would assume she’s still figuring herself out. I couldn’t get my head around the level of hubris needed to think you have that power. Do these guys truly believe they have literally magical penises?

Technically, it didn’t disappear at all!

Completely incorrect. Empiricism does not require faith. And empiricism has no immutable dogma or doctrine. While empiricism can provide the guidance that religion offers, it is not a religion.

Fascinating stuff. Or at least I assume it would be, if it made any sense.

I came here to upvote this. Thank you for commenting

It literally means for Israel to cease to exist.

Just stating the same lie as a fact won’t convince anyone with critical thinking faculties, you know?
The only reply this requires is: “No, it doesn’t”, and I’m done. You are adequately refuted.

In your first sentence you are claiming that the slogan “from the river to the sea” was made by people that will gladly tell you they want to wipe out Israel. I think you will have a very hard time making this case, but by all means, go ahead.

I’m willing to have my mind changed in this, as I am still all things, because I’m always willing to learn. Are you?

Oof

She’s praised the perpetrators? When? Can you link it?

I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if any evidence of that ever comes out.

I think you’ve got s point there. Making fun of people in that way is surely going to entrench their views.

I think everyone -including public figures- should be allowed to learn from their mistakes and grow. I think social media can interfere with that and make people refuse to admit error and double down for fear of being cancelled. Ideally this should change.
But, the case of Jo Rowling in particular is egregious. Not only does she refuse to engage with the possibility of being wrong, her bigotry extends beyond words, into concrete, hateful actions where she is fuelling the fire of transphobia worldwide with her influence, both parasocial and financial. That results in misery and suffering for millions. Fuck Jo Rowling.
This condemnation of her doesn’t extend to everyone. And if she one day sees the light and walks everything back, then she should get a chance to redeem herself, too.

The clues to who she is were there all along in her writing. She couldn’t keep quiet, because she believes what she’s doing is right. Because she’s conservative.
The only major black character in the series is called “Shacklebolt”. The only Asian, “Cho Chang”. Zero LGBTQ representation in the books. Harry had the world at his feet and decided to join the police. The whole struggle of the saga is for a return to the status quo, rather than a better world. General lack of female agency, and women just being hysterical and needing to be slapped out of it. Goblins as an antisemitic trope. I could go on.
I put it to you that it was inevitable that, one way or another, her rancorous bile would have spilled out into the public debate as soon as she got famous.

Netenyahu has wanted the US to back Israel’s war with Iran for at least 20 years. Trump is the first president sufficiently cognitively challenged to do it.
These people are opportunists, not 5D chess players.