I hope the Thailand sexpat life is fulfilling for you and you never join the “Pattaya Flying Club”

I am very amused that that’s what you think we get up to in our free time.

Chalamet’s Wonka was actually surprisingly brilliant. I wasn’t even going to watch the movie, they just happened to be showing it at the airport while I was on a long layover so I figured what the hell. I’m really glad I did

It’s not naive, actually – I’m not sure why it was referred to as such. It is a highly calculated and very malicious move to force pregnant women to give birth whether they want to or not – thereby reinforcing the patriarchy by making it infinitely more difficult for women to access education and the workforce.

I’m pretty sure baring children will land you in prison* regardless of your gender

*unless you’re rich, or famous, or powerful, or Donald Trump, or some eldritch combination thereof

On a serious note, I’m not quite sure how to parse your statement. I don’t think women’s value should be defined in the slightest by whether they have kids or not. Are you saying that women who don’t bear kids are less valuable than mothers? more valuable than mothers? (I’m leaning towards interpreting it as the former, because it is my firm belief that men are pretty useless, but it still helps to clarify)

Thank you. I’m glad I have the presence of mind to not barge into a (harmless) community that has nothing to do with me and inflict my opinions upon them.

Absolutely the fuck not. I’m happy to stay the hell away from you and your opinions

It’s reasonable that people might not even notice the theme of the community when posting.

It is absolutely not. I’ve been on Lemmy 3 years and I’ve never even felt the need to comment on a post without checking what community it’s in and if it’s a community I want to engage with.

Ironically reinforcing why we need this community to begin with

Thank you for the anecdote, I guess? I don’t quite understand why you felt the need to share it in a childfree community in response to a thought process that is unique to childfree people though.

I’m glad your trip to Paris was fun and I don’t really know what to do with the knowledge that you’re bored of traveling solo. My feelings on the matter are diametrically opposed to yours, I don’t know what else to tell you.

Yes that’s why I posted a screenshot and not a direct link.

You’re a dude, I take it.

Every Twitter post has a Grok button that can’t be removed. Just because the logo is there doesn’t mean the image is AI-generated. It’s literally a screenshot I took off of my phone display.

Because like I said, they’re both sides of the same coin. The vote was unanimous – everyone voted for him.

Straight from the horse’s mouth:

Here he is claiming that a one-state solution would mean the end of Israel, and he supports Israel

Here he is saying that Hamas “terrorists” “attacked Israel” and repeating the “Israel has the right to defend itself” talking point

Here he is vowing to continue to support “defensive arms” shipments to Israel, a class of weapon he continued to very conveniently leave out of his whitewashing attempts to reduce arms sales to Israel later

Bernie Sanders also voted to confirm notorious right-winger and staunch pro-Israel Republican Marco Rubio as the US Secretary of State.

But the way he talks and acts, I strongly doubt that’s his opinion

Then why is he constantly spouting it in public where everyone can hear him and be convinced that yes, that is his opinion that the Palestinians wouldn’t be genocided if they just rolled over and let Israel take everything from them

And you can’t draw any conclusions from that.

Course you can. The conclusion is that he’s a Zionist.

and something should be done about it. Back then it was reallocate the money that goes towards Israel and give it to the people in Gaza (as humanitarian aid)

The thing that should be done about it is to call for the dissolution and revocation of recognition for the Zionist identity. He’s not doing that, he’s not coming even close to that or to expressing his support for the Palestinian people to have control over (all of) their own land. Lip service is what he’s doing to maintain the illusion that he’s “leftist”, and lip service doesn’t do a damn thing.

he started saying many years ago, the US shouldn’t give a nickel to Israel. And he called out the war, Netanyahu, all the woman and children dying…?

None of that is relevant when he keeps qualifying it with “but Israel has the right to defend itself” – no it fucking doesn’t. Israel doesn’t even have the right to exist. It’s just a colonial outpost on stolen Palestinian land.

I’m not blaming him at all for this? I’m glad he’s taking this stand.

I’m saying he’s been ineffective (and also outright disappointing, like his pro-Zionist stance) in bringing about any kind of useful change because the establishment keeps him (and AOC, and probably eventually Zohran Mamdani too, as much as I’m loath to admit it) around as a sort of controlled opposition/progressive figurehead to show that they’re not all that bad when they absolutely in fact are just the other side of the same coin.

As an adult it’s cool to see the little clams burrow down in the turf for a minute.

As a mid-30s adult I and my partner (also mid-30s) spent about two hours on a beach in Thailand collecting pretty shells and digging in the sand to make little waterways. It was indeed cool to be around.

Mighty you and you alone.

Is that why you think people should have kids? So there’s someone who feels compelled by guilt and familial obligation to show up? I can tell you it doesn’t work like that. Having kids is no guarantee you won’t die alone, and being childfree has nothing to do with how many people show up to care for you because they love you and want to care for you.

100% disagree. Discounting the fact that zoos are highly unethical, if I were to go to the zoo I’d want to see (and listen to and learn about) the animals, not to someone’s kids yelling their heads off and running amok and annoying the animals