#facts don't care about your feelings

[arunswild]

These kinds of comments really bug me because it's so clear how confused the person who wrote them is.

So let me clear this up for you, @nagashii

Israel has not stolen Palestinian culture. Of all the ridiculous claims you could make, this one is probably the most silly because it's absolutely meaningless. I'd love to hear what cultural things you think we "stole", but I'm just letting you know that whatever you think it is, you're wrong. I'm not gonna bother elaborating

You're making a very important distinction between Jews and Israel, which is great except you screwed it up. You are assuming that the existence of Jews is not dependent on the existence of Israel, while ignoring the fact that the REASON Israel exists is to protect the Jewish people. Even if there's a very Jewish person who has no interest in Israel, Israel has helped them in more ways than you can imagine. Israel gives money and aid to Jewish community and it's also gained the right to prosecute people who commit antisemitic hate crimes in other countries. So you can say that Jews are okay but Israel needs to die, but you're basically saying Jews need to die, which is, obviously, antisemitic and disgusting.

Israel doesn't have genocidal ideals, don't be idiotic. If Israel wanted to commit genocide, believe me, there would be no humanitarian aid, no warnings, no attempts to evacuate gazans. The IDF has absolutely no interest in harming anyone who isn't part of Hamas, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The fact that Hamas uses its civilians as human shields makes this incredibly hard. I know people who are currently fighting in Gaza. Trust me, killing more people is the last thing they want. Obviously there are some morons who want to kill everyone and take Gaza back, but they're idiots and nobody really gives a shit what they think because they're being childish and narrow. Those few people do not represent Israel.

The Jewish people are absolutely and completely entitled to have a country of their own, and the fact that Israel was the land chosen has not only Historical and Traditional but also Legal reasons. I'll reblog this with links to useful explanations. As I said, Israel is essential to the continued existence of the Jewish people which means that yes, we are entitled to it. Absolutely. Whether or not all the actions of the Israeli government are okay is a completely different story. The botton line is that Israel must and will continue to exist.

Hope this helps.

#@nagashii #jewish #israel #jews #am israel hai #war #ישראבלר #antisemitism #ישראל #jumblr #israel hamas war #absurd #don't be stupid #Facts #facts don't care about your feelings

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Big Telco’s fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts

I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

Reality has a distinct anti-conservative bias, but conservatives have an answer: when the facts don't support your policies, just get different facts. Who needs evidence-based policy when you can have policy-based evidence?

Take gun violence. Conservatives tell us that "an armed society is a polite society," which means that the more guns you have, the less gun violence you'll experience. To prevent reality from unfairly staining this pristine ideological mind-palace with facts, conservatives passed the Dickey Amendment, which had the effect of banning the CDC from gathering stats on American gun-violence. No stats, no violence!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

Policy-based evidence is at the core of so many cherished conservative beliefs, like the idea that queer people (and not youth pastors) are responsible for the sexual abuse of children, or the idea that minimum wages (and not monopolies) decrease jobs, or the idea that socialized medicine (and not private equity) leads to death panels:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

The Biden administration features a sizable cohort of effective regulators, whose job is to gather evidence and then make policy from it:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis

Fortunately for conservatives, not every Biden agency is led by competent, honest brokers – the finance wing of the Dems got to foist some of their most ghoulish members upon the American people, including a no-fooling cheerleader for mass foreclosure:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/06/personnel-are-policy/#janice-eberly

And these same DINOs reached across the aisle to work with Republicans to keep some of the most competent, principled agency leaders from being seated, like the remarkable Gigi Sohn, targeted by a homophobic smear campaign funded by the telco industry, who feared her presence on the FCC:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/culture-war-bullshit-stole-your-broadband/

The telcos are old hands at this stuff. Long before the gun control debates, Ma Bell had figured out that a monopoly over Americans' telecoms was a license to print money, and they set to corrupting agencies from the FCC to the DoJ:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/14/jam-to-day/

Reality has a vicious anti-telco bias. Think of Net Neutrality, the idea that if you pay an ISP for internet service, they should make a best effort to deliver the data you request, rather than deliberately slowing down your connection in the hopes that you'll seek out data from the company's preferred partners, who've paid a bribe for "premium delivery."

This shouldn't even be up for debate. The idea that your ISP should prioritize its preferred data over your preferred data is as absurd as the idea that a taxi-driver should slow down your rides to any pizzeria except Domino's, which has paid it for "premium service." If your cabbie circled the block twice every time you asked for a ride to Massimo's Pizza, you'd be rightly pissed – and the cab company would be fined.

Back when Ajit Pai was Trump's FCC chairman, he made killing Net Neutrality his top priority. But regulators aren't allowed to act without evidence, so Pai had to seek out as much policy-based evidence as he could. To that end, Pai allowed millions of obviously fake comments to be entered into the docket (comments from dead people, one million comments from @pornhub.com address, comments from sitting Senators who disavowed them, etc). Then Pai actively – and illegally – obstructed the NY Attorney General's investigation into the fraud:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#pais-lies

The pursuit of policy-based evidence is greatly aided by the absence of real evidence. If you're gonna fill the docket with made-up nonsense, it helps if there's no truthful stuff in there to get in the way. To that end, the FCC has systematically avoided collecting data on American broadband delivery, collecting as little objective data as possible:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

This willful ignorance was a huge boon to the telcos, who demanded billions in fed subsidies for "underserved areas" and then just blew it on anything they felt like – like the $45 billion of public money they wasted on obsolete copper wiring for rural "broadband" expansion under Trump:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/all-broadband-politics-are-local/

Like other cherished conservative delusions, the unsupportable fantasy that private industry is better at rolling out broadband is hugely consequential. Before the pandemic, this meant that America – the birthplace of the internet – had the slowest, most expensive internet service of any G8 country. During the lockdown, broadband deserts meant that millions of poor and rural Americans were cut off from employment, education, health care and family:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/12/ajit-pai/#pai

Pai's response was to commit another $8 billion in public funds to broadband expansion, but without any idea of where the broadband deserts were – just handing more money over to monopoly telcos to spend as they see fit, with zero accountability:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

All that changed after the 2020 election. Pai was removed from office (and immediately blocked me on Twitter) (oh, diddums), and his successor, Biden FCC chair Jessic Rosenworcel, started gathering evidence, soliciting your broadband complaints:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/23/parliament-of-landlords/#fcc

And even better, your broadband speed measurements:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#fly-my-pretties

All that evidence spurred Congress to act. In 2021, Congress ordered the FCC to investigate and punish discrimination in internet service provision, "based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin":

https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ58/PLAW-117publ58.pdf

In other words, Congress ordered the FCC to crack down on "digital redlining." That's when historic patterns of underinvestment in majority Black neighborhoods and other underserved communities create broadband deserts, where internet service is slower and more expensive than service literally across the street:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/flicc/#digital-divide

FCC Chair Rosenworcel has published the agency's plan for fulfilling this obligation. It's pretty straightforward: they're going to collect data on pricing, speed and other key service factors, and punish companies that practice discrimination:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/preventing-digital-discrimination-broadband-internet-access

This has provoked howls of protests from the ISP cartel, their lobbying org, and their Republican pals on the FCC. Writing for Ars Technica, Jon Brodkin rounds up a selection of these objections:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/internet-providers-say-the-fcc-should-not-investigate-broadband-prices/

There's GOP FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, with a Steve Bannon-seque condemnation of "the administrative state [taking] effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the US. He's especially pissed that the FCC is going to regulate big landlords who force all their tenants to get slow, expensive from ISPs who offer kickbacks to landlords:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/carr-opposes-bidens-internet-plan

The response from telco lobbyists NCTA is particularly, nakedly absurd: they demand that the FCC exempt price from consideration of whether an ISP is practicing discrimination, calling prices a "non-technical aspect of broadband service":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/110897268295/1

I mean, sure – it's easy to prove that an ISP doesn't discriminate against customers if you don't ask how much they charge! "Sure, you live in a historically underserved neighborhood, but technically we'll give you a 100mb fiber connection, provided you give us $20m to install it."

This is a profoundly stupid demand, but that didn't stop the wireless lobbying org CTIA from chiming in with the same talking points, demanding that the FCC drop plans to collect data on "pricing, deposits, discounts, and data caps," evaluation of price is unnecessary in the competitive wireless marketplace":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1107735021925/1

Individual cartel members weighed in as well, with AT&T and Verizon threatening to sue over the rules, joined by yet another lobbying group, USTelecom:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1103655327582/1

The next step in this playbook is whipping up the low-information base by calling this "socialism" and mobilizing some of the worst-served, most-gouged people in America to shoot themselves in the face (again), to own the libs:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/useful-idiotsuseful-idiots/#unrequited-love

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/10/digital-redlining/#stop-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts

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#pluralistic #reality-based community #willful ignorance #digital redlining #telecoms #isps #cable company fuckery #net neutrality #network neutrality #fcc #monopolies #market failures #musketfuckers #ammosexuals #guns #race #reality has an anti-conservative bias #dickey amendment #policy based evidence #facts don't care about your feelings

[generalgrievousherothefactualcw]

Stop with the bs! Jedi & Sith are evil in Star Wars Canon and it's a fact! Grievous is a hero who kills both & it's a fact!

#general grievous #star wars #grievousisahero #star wars the clone wars #jediarevil #facts #jedi are villains #jedi are evil #grievous is a hero & it's a fact #jedi apologists are dumb #facts don't care about your feelingz #facts don't care about your feelings #star wars canon #the clone wars #sith #palpatine #jedi #grievous #grievous isn't a villain & it's a fact #grievous hero tcw is factual

[comradeolivia]

So I’m kinda interested in how modern talking points on the right evolved from old fascist believes and from slaving owners ideas, as those are their main basis. Well, I was reading this thing about how the German Nazis would make propaganda about how Jewish people were putting empathy into politics and that was a terrible thing because it stopped the “natural order” and other gross stuff like that. This idea was later spread by the John Birch society, replacing the word Jew with communist.

Anyways, next time Ben Shapiro says facts don’t care about your feelings, know he is repeating an edited version of Nazi propaganda.

#jumblr #i’m a proud jew and every time i learn something it makes me wanna yeet ben shapiros kippah back to the holy land #oy vey #anyways feel free to tell people this history if they say facts don’t care about your feelings to you #socialism #socialist #anti capitalist #communism #eat the rich #ben shapiro #facts don't care about your feelings

[acespoliticalwaffles]

Finally got a call back from the autism assessment people. And what do you know? They said that insurance wouldn’t cover it so if we want to actually get me in to get tested it’ll be 4,000 US$ out of pocket. My parents said we can’t afford that right now.

This is what we mean when we say diagnosis is a privilege. Because in the US, it literally costs thousands of dollars for them to even look at you. And even if you can afford that, or your insurance will pay for it (most probably won’t), you still have to deal with doctors who have a very narrow view of what autism looks like, both in how it presents itself symptom-wise, and in how the people who have it look physically. If you do not fit the stereotype of Smart, but Socially Awkward White Boy, there is a chance they will reject you outright.

“Diagnosis is a privilege” doesn’t mean that only privileged people get diagnosed, or that your life must have been easy and perfect if you yourself were able to get one. It means that not everyone with certain conditions/disorders/neurodivergencies is able to get diagnosed with them for a variety of reasons that don’t include “they’re faking it”. And that is literally just a fact.

Like, seriously, what do people who think diagnosis isn’t a privilege think getting diagnosed is like? Like, with some disorders it’s much easier. I was diagnosed with depression the first day I saw my first psychiatrist. But most of the disorders they always claim people are faking (autism, adhd, did) are actually very difficult to get diagnosed with just because it takes so long and can often be very expensive. Like, I’ve literally been waiting to get diagnosed for almost half a year. And now they say they won’t even try unless we fork over $4,000. People who are against self-diagnosis are so fucking dense. Like, what do you want me to do? Say I don’t have autism because I couldn’t pay them to check??? Cause only rich people can have autism I guess./s

Knowing that I’m autistic has helped me understand a lot about myself that I didn’t before. It has helped me realize that some of my weak points (not being able to work with vague instructions, being very sensitive to criticism, etc.) have a reason behind them and other people experience them in similar ways. I am autistic. I do not have any doubts about being autistic. And I do not have to prove to strangers on the internet that I am autistic before I get to talk about my experiences with it without being relentlessly scrutinized.

Edit: Been seeing some ppl talk about this phrase in a way I hadn’t before and I want to clarify: getting diagnosed is not always actually good, especially when you’re very young and you don’t get to decide whether you want it or not. What I meant in this post is that access to diagnosis is a privilege. Hope that clears things up if you had questions. This was mainly meant to demonstrate that ppl who are against self-dx need to get their facts straight. I’m not actually here to talk about the privilege aspect very much either (I didn’t realize there was discourse there), but in short: it’s complicated, but it is often a result of some privilege that ppl are able to get diagnosed, especially later in life. I also want to make it clear that it’s very valid to not want a dx. I actually went back and forth on it myself bc of all the fucked up laws and discrimination and stuff. (Which is yet another reason self-dx is valid and sometimes the best option) So yeah. Idk, just wanted to make it clear what I’m trying to say.

#self dx #self diagnosis #autism #autism diagnosis #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #actually autism #anti fakeclaiming #fake disorder cringe #fakeclaiming #self diagnosed autism #fuck fakeclaimers #anti self dx #anti self diagnosis #diagnosis is a privilege #god what if I tag #facts don't care about your feelings #cause it’s true #facts don’t care about your classism #facts don’t care about your ableism #we’ll see if I have to take that off #i don’t want a ton of conservatives on this post #well here’s hoping I don’t get fucking harassed 😘

[iwasenhancedtoomanytimes]

Today my gender is "data corruption"..ah..so do I wear pink, blue or matrix?

#genderplasma #gender fluid #lgbtqia #lgbt #transrights #trans #facts don't care about your feelings #lgbtqia+ #genderfluid

[blk-chauvinist]

This is the reason I don't back and forth with feminists online, and block those who feel they have to have the last word. In their pea-brains, women are never wrong, and men are never right. Best to avoid the mental exhaustion in dealing with them. They simply lack the ability to engage in objective introspection...and the integrity to even try.

#Feminism Is Anti-Male #Feminism Is A Cancer #Bad Women #Integrity #Walk Away Fellas #Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings #MGTOW #Red-Pill #BMGTOW

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

What's so frustrating about talking to older, financially stable people about the struggles young people are facing is that they really really don't want to face up to the reality that they failed to make a better world for their children and to drop their superiority complex about how things were harder back in the day.

It doesn't matter how much you point to the studies, the charts, the data that show that it is OBJECTIVELY more difficult to own a home on an average salary now than it was 40 years ago in most western countries. Basic necessities like rent are a bigger proportion of our incomes than they were for most of the second half of the 20th century.

The REAL value of wages has fallen or stagnated but boomers refuse to acknowledge this because they don't want to understand inflation and are stuck in some mindset from decades ago where they think 60,000 a year is a lot of money. Not even to mention the climate change denial and destruction of the environment their children now have to live with.

It doesn't matter how many facts and figures you have when you're talking to a brick wall. They don't care about the facts because it would force them to accept uncomfortable realities.

#and yet these are the same people #who scream #FACTS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS #when they're the MOST emotionally driven people and refuse to accept facts

[gretasworld]

Traditional gypsy outfits, headscarves, head jewellery,braids,corsets and such.

Remember : Not every dark skin person is black. There are several other races brown skinned races living on this big planet. If its one thing fuckflix did ok with Greta, it is her culture they presented correctly.

#greta of danesti #castevania greta #alucard x greta #greta x alucard #gretacard #romani people #gypsy girl #traditional dress #romanian #facts don't care about your feelings #castlevania #ethnic minority #callingallromanis #romania

[siteforsoreyes]

I've decided I don't want anyone who isn't a leftist to talk about the Witcher ever

#sometimes you talk to a man who likes the Witcher and you just fucking know he thinks the books were based on the video games #the Witcher as a text loves abortion and gay people and minorities #facts don't care about your feelings #the Witcher

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

It's wild that Taylor being 19 and specifically older then Hero means that Nick was the first one to have kids.

Nicky talks about how Sparrow/Lark were raising Hero, implying he was probably around for a bit of her life before leaving for Hell. Nick probably helped raise Taylor for the beginning of his life. Maybe around 5-8?? Depending on how early the twins decided to start using Hero. I hope at least after she was 5+ because if they were trying to use her doodler curse as a fucking toddler that's be r e a l ✨fucked up✨. I have to think that Nicky used the memory syringes to erase Taylor and possibly Cassandra's memories of him since Taylor doesn't know anything about his dad at all. 5-8 is absolutely old enough to start clearly remembering things. Fuck, I remember shit from when I was 2-3.

Taylor being 19 has so many plot implications outside of being a really funny joke and only existing as Hero/Taylor ship propaganda

#taylor is an adult and theres nothing y'all can do about it #sorry not sorry #facts don't care about your feelings #dungeons and daddies #dungeons and daddies s2 #dungeons and daddies s2 spoilers #taylor swift dndads

[sandycheekscockvore]

feelings-based society is how you end up with a fascist nation

#youtube ad made me think about this #stupid #facts don't care about your feelings #liberals destroyed

[generalgrievousherothefactualcw]

You're truly pathetic if you think Grievous is a "villain" when he's only avenging his people after the Jedi villains slaughtered his innocent people.

Grievous is a hero and it's a fact 💯

#general grievous #grievousisahero #star wars #star wars the clone wars #grievous is a hero & it's a fact #jedi apologists are dumb #facts #facts don't care about your feelingz #jediarevil #facts don't care about your feelings #canon grievous is a hero #grievous isn't a villain & it's a fact #star wars canon

[silver-ace-of-spades]

what the fuck lmao

why are ben shapiro and i compatible

#toxic electricity #tomodachi life #bennifer sharpedo #me to the game: #facts don't care about your feelings #swearing tw #i'm wheezing #pen island shenanigans

[thebillyengland]

you need to die. like really soon 💀

I get all the love from the loving, tolerant, understanding, all inclusive left. :D

#leftist being leftist #hate mail #lol #triggered #no facts just insult #facts don't care about your feelings

[nuttyblizzardinternet]

I don't like the idea that you have to kiss someone's ass in order for them to like you I'm sorry if my opinion makes me a horrible evil monster in your eyes but I literally don't even give a shit. If you don't like what I have to say just fucking block and delete, bro. I'm not gonna pander to you for woke moral points. I've got more important shit to worry about than gender ideology and "progression" I say what I think and that's why I only got 2 friends.

#facts don't care about your feelings