Echoes Down The Corridor

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

Kurzgesagt made a good video on this almost exactly a year ago, in 2025.

I keep just staring at shit like this and saying, "y'all know this would be so much fucking easier to deal with if y'all stopped eating animals? Stopped packing tons of stressed, immunocompromised, miserable animals into dirt lots filled with their own shit?" It's literally just feeding these flies and other parasites and diseases, which also spread to native wildlife, pets, and humans.

Like yes, this specific outbreak among others related to the gutting of regulations is because of Trump and his cronies, and we absolutely should be doing something about that. But it won't get to the root of the issue of all of these problems existing in the first place because we won't leave animals alone.

Also, Kurzgesagt is a pretty bad source of science communication, despite their high budget animations.

The radiation is used to sterilise the male flies so that the flies only lay sterile eggs. That's one reason why the x-ray technician goes in the little booth. An x-ray is basically harmless, many x-ray scans every day and you're probably not having kids.

The same thing is being done in Hawaii with sterile male mosquitos to stop non-native malaria carrying mosquitos from breeding, both for the health of humans but also because malaria is driving native species to extinction.

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“Enjoying a specific kink does not make you an inherently bad person”

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Isnotreal

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

Kurzgesagt made a good video on this almost exactly a year ago, in 2025.

I keep just staring at shit like this and saying, "y'all know this would be so much fucking easier to deal with if y'all stopped eating animals? Stopped packing tons of stressed, immunocompromised, miserable animals into dirt lots filled with their own shit?" It's literally just feeding these flies and other parasites and diseases, which also spread to native wildlife, pets, and humans.

Like yes, this specific outbreak among others related to the gutting of regulations is because of Trump and his cronies, and we absolutely should be doing something about that. But it won't get to the root of the issue of all of these problems existing in the first place because we won't leave animals alone.

Also, Kurzgesagt is a pretty bad source of science communication, despite their high budget animations.

The radiation is used to sterilise the male flies so that the flies only lay sterile eggs. That's one reason why the x-ray technician goes in the little booth. An x-ray is basically harmless, many x-ray scans every day and you're probably not having kids.

The same thing is being done in Hawaii with sterile male mosquitos to stop non-native malaria carrying mosquitos from breeding, both for the health of humans but also because malaria is driving native species to extinction.

The malefactors in Roald Dahl’s fiction are easy to spot. “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face,” the author writes in The Twits. “And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.” Miss Trunchbull, the abusive headmistress of Matilda, is a “gigantic holy terror” with “an obstinate chin, a cruel mouth and small arrogant eyes.” Augustus Gloop, the greedy glutton of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is a “big fat boy” who is likened to a dog and a pig. In James and the Giant Peach, the protagonist is oppressed by his “enormously fat” Aunt Sponge, who resembles “soggy overboiled cabbage,” and the “bony” Aunt Spiker, with her “screeching voice and long wet narrow lips.” In Dahl’s children’s books, evil is self-evident and announces itself in crude, stereotypical terms.

Giant, a play about Dahl running on Broadway through June, is anything but childish. And although the celebrated writer might be construed as the villain of the production, he is nothing like the villains of his own work. The play dramatizes a debate between Dahl and his associates over a book review he published in 1983, which began with criticism of Israel’s recent military campaign in Lebanon but swerved into negative generalizations about “a race of people”—Jews. Dahl is pressed by his publisher to walk back some of his more incendiary assertions, but instead he doubles down, telling a dumbstruck journalist at the end of the play that “there is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity” and that “even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” (Although the play itself is fiction based on true events, this exchange is genuine and reenacted verbatim.)

Giant could have taken the same approach to Dahl as Dahl took to his own characters, clearly telegraphing the author’s ills and reducing him to them. But as written by Mark Rosenblatt and directed by Nicholas Hytner, Giant doesn’t caricature its subject. Instead, the play does something much more difficult: It shows how Dahl excels at many things—including anti-Semitism.

A lot of so-called progressives are not progressive. Let's call it what it is. They are part of a racist, fascist, extremist, anti-democratic, foreign propaganda fueled hate movement the same as the far right. And the great uniter for different types of fascists and bigots is antisemitism because it's so deeply ingrained across so many cultures. These people were never against Nazis.

They just used "Nazi" as a catch-all term for "bad person" without knowing anything about them. They never cared about protecting people from Nazis. Only finding an acceptable category of person to hate. It's why they call Jews Nazis now even though it makes no sense.

Literally the only context in which that word salad of a sentence would occur is if you're talking about Israel in some way and someone says, "no, that's antisemitic."

It's an impressive move, because we already had "antizionism isn't antisemitism!"

And sure, that's an INCREDIBLY ridiculous statement. Like, OMG?! ALERT THE PRESS, THERE'S AN ENTIRE TOPIC YOU CAN TALK ABOUT WITHOUT EVER RISKING SAYING SOMETHING ANTISEMITIC??? Is antizionism also inherently never racist, misogynist, Islamophobic, ableist, etc?! YOU'VE SOLVED OPPRESSION!!!

But since everybody was pretending it WASN'T a ridiculous statement, there was no real need to take it to the next level. By rephrasing it to imply that the only reason anyone would ever accuse you of hating Jews was that you oppose genocide.

The true fucking BEAUTY of this move is that it is wildly antisemitic to genuinely believe there's a specifically Jewish movement in favor of genocide.

Like, yeah, THAT'S what the history of the past 200 years have shown us. Jews COMMIT genocide. Jews just loooove a good genocide.

It's so poetic and sad that they would do to others what was just done to them!

Sure, they haven't enslaved 26,000,000 people, or any people at all. They haven't built industrial death factories. They haven't killed 41% of the Palestinians on earth, or 66% of the people of Palestine. They haven't developed a massive propaganda system telling the world that Palestinians are the cause of all its problems. They haven't stripped Palestinian Israelis of their citizenship, their businesses, their jobs, or their bank accounts.

It's extremely antisemitic to erase the entire Holocaust, or claim that Jews are actually doing any of the above because "they're the real Nazis."