It makes more sense when you realize that the cruelty is the point.

Oh yeah, we're getting all the classics now. "all criticism of Democrats is Russian propaganda, war is peace, and Democrats can't be blamed for actively funding genocide and letting the leader of a foreign nation very publicly walk all over them in an election year" and you still think you came up with all of that yourself. How quaint.

Well I already tried the first thing and he didn't believe me.

That's an interesting perspective though, I'll have to think on that. Thanks!

I'll be sure to let you know when I start taking advice from lemmy on my personal relationships.

He was using "everyone just wants to be right" as an excuse to shut down. His very weak rationalizations to not take a stance yet reject any advocacy for the humanity of palestinians were very transparent and I found it both disgusting and insulting. He would claim he didn't know enough, to not know "what does Hamas even want", but told me he'd have to see my sources on everything I tried to explain to him. Especially when I told him about Israel's lies of sexual violence that occurred October 7th (which was his main talking point, "you don't rape people". Well, there's not a shred of evidence that they did) and then threatened to mute our chat for sending these sources without reading or viewing them because they were "too long" or cited a tweet at some point, and I assume he did mute me but idk cause that's where things ended.

I understand that antisemitism is rising. That is happening everywhere. You also have the AFD on the rise (which he denied). That can hardly be blamed on Palestinian activists. If anything, Israel is to blame for manufacturing the situation. Fascists co-opting the movement because they want to see both sides destroy each other is hardly any reason to continue funding Israel as they wage a genocidal war, nor is it one to shut down any democratic process on the matter. They are poisoning the discourse and you are playing right into it.

And no, I refuse to accept your framing that anything Iran does is automatically bad, antisemitic, or out of proportion to the situation. Israel is no more righteous in this than they are and is actively provoking a regional conflict with weapons that we are providing.

Lol there it is, off comes the mask. Dishonestly suggesting that criticizing Israel's actions is antisemitism just because the democrats made a big show about facilitating negotiations and writing strongly worded letters and sending care packages while Netanyahu openly defies and sabotages the negotiations and continues bombing innocent civilians without recourse.

You can lead a horse to fresh water but you can't make them drink. This conversation is over. You don't give a fuck about Palestine.

Read my full reply and I promise it will make sense.

Policy/actions and talking points are two different things. The democrat's walk does not match their talk. You're falling for talking points and feel-good finger wagging while the policy and action is effectively the same.

Netanyahu is already running the show, we're already helping him carry this out. It doesn't make a difference if the guy signing the checks has an (R) or (D) next to their name and feigns pride or concern in doing so, if either way there are zero consequences for escalating the situation to a full multi-front war.

If you stop reading me and those objecting to genocide like adversaries instead of potential allies, and move past the monkey brain telling you to fear fear fear the unknown, you might find very little to disagree with in what we're actually saying. You might find it in yourself at least to resist the urge to alienate voters that are paying attention and care enough to find such a legitimate objection, mobilize for protests, and organize a voting bloc large enough that it threatens the power of the democratic establishment (only if they do not make a good faith attempt to meet these voters' demands, of course, which shows how little faith you have in the power of organizing, which calls into question your plan for after the election, but that's besides my point)

I disagreed with third party and non-votes myself at first, but then I saw how people like you treated others simply for finding their voices and using them to stand up for justice. I saw that what you are saying does not line up with the realities of the democratic platform, that it didn't 4 years ago either, and that the democrats aren't really promising anything that I could use to argue with undecided voters. I asked myself how progress could ever happen if this is how I am compelled to treat those pushing for it, and I could not find an answer. I couldn't beat them, so I joined them.

I realized you actually might not have it all figured out if your only means of recruiting these people to vote for the Democrats; again, people that care and argue with very reasonable logic; is to shout them down and silence them with deeply and nakedly flawed talking points. All while expending energy that you could be directing at someone with any power to change things and to capture that vote.

We've been through the same shit with climate change and countless other examples. The "invisible hand of the free market" is bullshit, you cannot make systemic change with individual action and no amount of shouting at people and following them around to brigade their posts will change that. It has to come from the top, and the only way we can influence the top is as a collective.

It's not being "smug" or any of the things you've said I've done, you just aren't able to find any good argument to the contrary so you attack the way I come off to you. I'm disagreeing with you on something you have strong feelings about, so I come off as an adversary and you project adversarial traits onto me which, to be clear, are not there.

Well with the way you argue, projecting your own actions onto the other person and not producing any argument of substance, this must happen quite a bit, and you must be a very proud and joyful person. Good for you.

As for adding iron to the food, you might be thinking of acidic foods causing iron to leech out into the food.

No there are actual cast iron trinkets you can cook with to fortify your food with iron. I can't answer if that same effect would work through seasoning though.

Yes. It is non-stick and not teflon but it's still a non-metal coating on top of a metal pan.

some kind of artifical stone

Ceramic - similar to glass in that it's made by melting sand (tiny stones)

My pans are ceramic, they're great nonstick pans. Usually any patina of burn-on is easy to clean off with some barkeeper's friend. Everything else comes off in cooking. Still wouldn't use metal utensils on it though as at the end of the day it is still just a coating and scraping it will degrade my pan. But they're still like new a couple years after buying them and they're very aesthetically pleasing pans to boot. And no pfas to my knowledge.

One of them is an aldi find, safe in the oven up to 450°

The other one is just a t-fal frying pan with a plastic handle. So not oven safe at all.

Olive oil works well for seasoning, idk about taste though. You burn all that stuff away and what's left is bonded to the pan so there's not much room for flavor to transfer.