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This innovative treat was invented in 2021 by Nouel Catis Omamalin, a Filipino pastry chef, and Sarah Hamouda, a British-Egyptian engineer living in Dubai. Together, they founded Fix Dessert Chocolatier, an Emirati chocolate company that first launched the bar under the playful name Can’t Get Knafeh of It—a nod to the beloved Middle Eastern dessert knafeh, which inspired its flavor profile.

They offer the thrill of revelation without the burden of dealing with complexity.

They have different jargon and different priorities, but provide the same relief: Finally the world makes sense...and everything wrong is someone else's fault.

They're all selling the same emotional experience: A moment of awakening. That lightning bolt where everything suddenly makes sense. Whether it’s "the elites are eating babies" or "whiteness is a structural force," the rush is identical. You're not just learning, you're enlightened. The veil has been lifted.

They provide a villain who explains everything. No messy complexity, just a clear bad guy. The outgroup. The sick, immoral Them which is standing in the way of the righteous Us. Globalist elites. The Patriarchy. The Libs.

They provide a tribe that gets it. Once you're in, you're not just agreeing with ideas. You're part of a We, a totalizing in-group. Outsiders (They) are blind, brainwashed, or evil.

Why do so many people fall into this trap? Human brains love shortcuts. Thinking is hard. Wrestling with uncertainty is exhausting.

These ideologies hand you a pre-packaged reality where you don't have to weigh evidence, you just have to follow the script.

It feels good. The high from feeling that you see the truth is addictive. That's why people double down on their narrative even when facts contradict them. Admitting doubt means losing that sweet, sweet certainty fix. The prospect withdrawal is terrifying.

Blame is comforting. If everything wrong in the world is because of them, then you're not just a spectator, you're a warrior. Warriors don’t have to engage in messy, difficult, painful self-reflection. They just fight.

Jargon as a badge

Do your own research

Check your privilege

Take the red pill

The right phrase is the signal or shibboleth that you're in the club.

But no ideology or narrative explains everything.

The world is chaos, power is complicated, nobody is in charge, and most of us are just guessing and fumbling our way forward.

But that's a tough sell. Nobody wants to hear it.

Who wants to swallow the "maybe-I-need-to-keep-thinking-about-it" pill when they can have the "I-can-see-the-Matrix-glitching-and-there-is-no-spoon" fantasy?

We have to learn to hold our beliefs seriously, but lightly enough to keep re-examining them with the receipt of new information.

We have to stay curious.

We have to accept that not knowing is part of being human in a bizarre, complex, baffling world.

Ansarallah supporters raise Hezbollah flags during an anti-israel and anti-U.S. rally in Sanaa, Yemen, September 27, 2024.

"Well, after 75 years of how the Palestinians have been treated, can you blame them for the 7/10 attack?"

And the response that I've been itching to give to that...

"So, you're saying that the Nakba was acceptable back in 1948? Because after 1000+ years of mistreatment by Muslim Arabs, including multiple massacres and ethnic cleansing in living memory, that means that the Jews were justified with the Nakba--indeed, they were restrained, because they could have easily done so much worse, and the Palestinians Arabs hadn't had any mistreatment yet at the hands of the Jews. There was a clear side who had been the victims (the Jews) and a clear side who had been the victimizers for over a thousand years, as the Muslims been the ones doing the mistreatment to the Jews. If you're saying that 75 years of marginalization justifies mass rape and murder, then the Israelis in 1948 would have been justified in killing every single proto-Palestinian Arab by that same metric.

"No? That's different? How? How is it different? Explain to me how it's different without using the word 'colonizer', because a vast number of the Jews who lived there were unquestionably native and had never been living elsewhere. Sure, they were just a portion of the Jewish population as a whole, but so are the Palestinian militants. Would someone whose family had been butchered in the 1929 Hebron Massacre not be justified in taking out their hate on other Arabs? Because that's the standard you're promoting now. How is it different?

"On what ethical grounds is it okay to say that the Palestinians deserve to get to rape and murder for 75 years of marginalization, and yet that the Jews simply displacing them but allowing them to continue living, sparing their lives after 1200+ years of brutal suppression... that act is somehow the most horrendous and monstrous act in the entire history of mankind, as some Pro-Palestinian activists have explicitly said?"

some pro-palestinian american muslim influencer making this vid specifically shitting on UAE as "bad muslims" because they built a few churches, synagogues and hindu temples in addition to mosques, and that's not what a pious country does.

i guess the good muslims are the ones that perpetrate the largest pogrom since the holocaust, then. you can't make up this level of contempt for secularism. and it's always coming from people that could only promote their hateful medieval ideologies in western secular countries to begin with, whose entitled arrogance can only be there.

all to convince the progressive passerby the palestinian national aspiration would magically morph centuries of arab-islamist supremacism into anything other that the dhimmitude jews extricated themselves from through ethnoreligious self-determination - at best