Should we listen to immigrants telling us immigrants are bad people?

These people are all of foreign descent. Meaning their direct ancestors came to the country that these people want to lock down for immigration. 

If it were up to them, they would not have been born in the country that they want to shield from 'foreigners'

Why do a lot of immigrants don't want more immigrants to enter 'their' country?

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Be Hard (#stoetry)

Between the gold and the glitter

she stood out

as the most shiny of all

Diamonds are cheap

compared to the price

of her love

His feelings ran deep

As deep

as the ocean in her eyes

Drowning

would not be hard

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Are there only two genders in nature?

It's almost impossible to believe but there are actually people who are convinced everything in nature is binary: either 'this' or 'that'. But that thought is simply false. For instance: nature in no way looks anything like on the 'one hour photo service' pictures of the late eighties:

The sun just isn't always the same shade of yellow and neither is the beach. The sea isn't always the same colour green, the sky isn't always the same colour blue and people in real life are never either pink or brown. 

Not even for those who desperately want that to be true.

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Just think of it: why are most aliens you see on tv neither male or female? The only exception I can think of - although there are probably more - are the so called 'Predators'; those fighting 'Aliens' on Earth all appear to be male. Although rumour has it that female Predators are just as ruthless.

Back on Earth there are all kind of gender-combinations with a ginormous mix of characteristics. 

Some life can change gender at will and even humans don't always follow the 'men hunt, women stay gather (click)' adagium. 

Extremely scared and conservative people are terrified. And they live - like young children like to play - in 'the upside down world'. So people who believe in science they call 'woke'. While they themselves squeeze their eyes tight, put their fingers in their ears and go 'Nah nah nah!'

Why do you think some people think there are always only two genders? And why are they terrified about there being more?

The End of the World (#stoetry)

Everybody should feel free!

To express themselves.

To say what they want,

To act like they want.

To wear what they want.

So I'm with Jesus:

everyone is equal!

But some are more equal than others:

A boy wearing long hair and a dress!? 

Before you know if, 

girls will want to wear 

their hair short and trousers.

That would mean the end of the world!

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It can't be a coincidence! Yes, it can.

Conspiracy theorists have one thing in common: they don't have a clue what 'causality' means. 

Most of them are lazy too and simply repeat what they heard other conspiracy theorists say.

Simply sticking two pieces of data together and stating they are connected doesn't mean you 'have woken up', 'looked it up' or 'did your own research'. It just means you're stupid.

I made up the above samples, here's one doing the rounds amongst simple people who believe right wing populists stating they are fighting pedophiles:

'His last name translates to 'sugar mountain'. That must mean he lures children with candy and piles their dead bodies in front of his pedo Cabal friends in a huge mountain! Right? It just can't be a coincidence!'

Why are 'wappies' (MAGA-people, Q-fans, Karens, anti-vaxxers, racists, etc) so stupid and gullible they believe anything that's popular in their narrow minded bubble?

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The Mugger (a #ShortStory)

"Give me your money or I'll stab you!" 

"In the past few days I lost my job, my home and my girlfriend, 

with all my money. And now am forced to go live with my mom again. 

Please stab me." 

The guy almost started crying, was at the brink 

of giving me his sharpened screwdriver but reconsidered, 

shook his head and walked away. 

"F*ck, I can't even get myself killed if I want to. 

Is there really nothing I can succeed at these days?" 

It took me a while but I 'm okay now. 

And I hope so is the mugger.

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Trolls!

"Father reunited with daughter after doing two tours in Afghanistan." a post may read.

Some replies will look like:

"What a terrible dad, abandoning his child!"

If you have a social media account (Instagram, Reddit, Threads, Facebook or whatever) you have probably come across posts and responses like this.

While people with empathy are happy for the father and daughter, people who hate themselves and their own lives want others to be just as miserable as they are.

They are commonly known as 'trolls' and are known party poopers; very negative people who refuse to believe there can be good in the world.

Do you think we should feel sorry for trolls or simply feed them to mythical trolls 

and be done with them?

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Poor Puppy (a #ShortStory)

Mankind had made such a mess of the planet

that an alien race came to educate us.

On the condition of a world wide cease fire

and no internet, tv or radio for a week,

just printed press. And the formation

of a world government without money

or lobbyists.

Punishable by releasing

a virus to wipe out humanity.

Simply by making everyone

as stupid as the most stupid ex-president

of the stupidest country,

thus destroying themselves.

The aliens had chosen

an African woman

to be mankind's President.

After the dust had settled,

the fossil industry had come to a halt

and a few million idiots

were relocated to Mars.

Without telling them the Martians

had been given the plans to The Dome

to easily spot its weaknesses.

The human President

thanked the alien Ambassador

and presented it with a gift:

"Oh, thank you. You shouldn't have!"

And in two bites the alien

had devoured its tasty gift.

The poor puppy.

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There are good people on both sides

'But the Palestinians are at least as bad as the Israeli soldiers in their use of violence!'

'Okay, bud. Show me one single video of Palestinian soldiers beating up Israeli women and children and demolishing the homes where they have lived for generations. And where's video of a Palestinian shooting an Israeli in the back, not as an act of war or even terrorism but just for fun?'

'Well...er...'

Above was written months before Hamas terrorists on October 7th 2023 produced their violent attack on Israeli civilians and six different intelligence agencies as well as the IDF with their all powerful 'Iron Dome' defense system miserably failed.

Of course violence is never the right course of action. But tell me - in all honesty: if you're European and the descendants of European Jews came back to reclaim the house you live in now, would you simply give up on the house your family had lived in for 80 years? And if it was 3000 years?

If you sympathize with 'those poor Jews', why don't you give them a piece of your own land to live on instead of giving them half the land of some other people?

If you're really worried about how Hamas treats Jews these days, where was your outrage when your own government treated Jews as second rate citizens?

What are you doing about the current anti-Semitism in your country? Are you 'closing the curtains' like when people did when their Jewish neighbours were rounded up by the Nazis and their local supporters?

Did your (grand)parents look away when Jews were murdered? Are you looking away while Palestinians are murdered?

Look up how your ancestors treated Jews (or other people for that matter) in the past. Were they nice to them?

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Can someone explain to me why the international community would have condemned the actions if it wasn't an Israeli but a Muslim soldier shooting a civilian in the back for fun? What makes Israel so special that it's absolutely no problem for them to oppress people because of their heritage, or because others once did to them what they are now doing to another peoples?

Here is an IDF spokesman denying Gaza is being bombarded and refusing to answer the simple question: of the 700 people daily being killed by the Israeli military, how many of them are Hamas terrorists?

"We are not bombarding Gaza"

An IDF spokesman says Israel is not bombarding Gaza. pic.twitter.com/rnqLhD5VQr

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 26, 2023

The medicine is worse than the cure. To take down Hamas 'because they kill people!', is it worth it to kill a few thousand children? If someone - gods forbid - was to kill your child - would that entitle you to kill hundreds of people simply because they look a bit like the killer?

'Yeah, but the Palestinians voted for Hamas so they and their children deserve to die!' If you truly believed that you would have no problem with the IDF dropping a bomb on Hamburg 'because the Germans voted for Hitler so they deserve to die!'

Instead of welcoming Jewish holocaust survivors into European countries or giving them a piece of German land in retribution, the allies suffered from the 'Not in my Backyard' syndrome and decided to transport the surviving Jews to the area named Palestine. Without asking the locals if that was okay. Based on 'Yeah, but some of their ancestors may have lived there 3000 years ago!' And? They themselves lived in Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin just five years ago. Why not give them back the homes they were literally taken from? 

Because the new inhabitants wouldn't like that? Or because anti-Semitism was still raging through Europe and just about everyone was glad to see the Jews go?

Among the Jews being sent away were survivors of the actual Nazi death camps. Here's their (rather disturbing) story on their encounter with the Palestinians at the time.

Children are dying. And different parties are blaming eachother. But nobody seems to wonder why the USA voted against a temporary cease fire so the Israeli and the Gazans can bury their dead without being bombed. It may be a very simple answer: US politicians don't want violence to stop because their sponsors would lose money and influence:

https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/10/american-weapons-used-gaza-trigger-war-crime-accusations-us/

The weapons the IDF uses on the people of Gaza*? 'Made in the USA'.

*Israel doesn't just aim its guns on 'Hamas'. That's nonsense. They are lying or can't aim. What if they did kill 'a Hamas terrorist!' Is it really worth the lives of a few thousand children to take down a single terrorist who is responsible for killing half a dozen of people?

Here's one of the excuses people use for killing babies:

"Yeah, but Israel has existed for over 3000 years!"

Since in Jewish schools there's only word of jews going to the Promised Land but most rabbis won't say a word about the (Palestinian) people who already lived there for thousands of years, I think it's a good thing many Jews are starting to realize they haven't exactly been taught the whole truth about their heritage:

So here's a bit of history I found on the internet:

Palestine - and Jerusalem specifically - is a holy place for Jews, Christians and Muslims. If we’re really going to speak historically, the land belonged to the Canaanites, and was later taken over by Israelites during the times of Moses. 

Israel has not existed for 3,000 years, that is simple history. Try finding a map that says 'Israel' on it from before 1949. The land alternated between the Muslim and the Christian empires, predominantly during the time of the crusades. During those times the Jews lived among the kingdoms and even faced exile during some periods, but they were never the rulers of the land at that point in history. This disproves the “3,000 years” -theory. 

Up until after World War II, the land was predominantly inhabited by native Palestinians. Who took in the Jewish population as refugees after the holocaust.

I could not find any numbers on how much money and aid our western 'civilised' countries gave these Jews and Palestinians to help with the settlement.

Of course the matter is far more complicated than anyone can summarize in a single blogpost. I just know this: every single war is won by weapon traders and millionaires disguised as religious and political leaders. Everybody else loses.

Whoever started this conflict, why and when, it really doesn't matter: in a war decent people can only choose one side: that of the victims.