Yemen says ready to join Colombia-proposed ‘global army’ to liberate Palestine 🫡

The existence of queer people in the general population isn't in question, though. How that statistic is relevant to Yemen's human right's record is what we're confused about.

Cowbee the GOAT back at it again

Okay: while I'm not arguing that it definitely happens, or arguing that if altruism can even exist, I'd like to point out that both those articles are written to present the perspective about why it happens, they do not present evidence for either how it happens nor it's effectiveness in furthering imperialist goals.

It's a bit of a gotcha question on my part, I admit - the evidence you would need to present to conclusively prove those claims doesn't exist (or, rather, it does exist and it's not reported). There's many reasons for that, the first ones people arrive at being usually "that would prove it and the US obviously doesn't want it proved" (legit) and "reporting which NGOs have cash on hand would make them targets" (also legit but a lot more complicated, leat of all because imperialist countries generally use the turmoil/"lawlessness" that created the problem itself as a tool of imperialism).

Do you mean that if we added the values given for two distinct entities together, they would be larger than that of a single entity? That's... sure, I'm not going to say that addition doesn't exist. But if you used that when compiling the above statistics, you wouldn't be comparing donations from distinct groups, and the meaning of the above statistic would be fundamentally changed.

It would be the contributions of all member states to the EC and then germany's contributions added together, vs a single country (the US).

Which has nothing to do with Yemen's human rights record, or the point I was making with that statistic, and is an intellectually valueless enterprise within that context.

Then I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for you to understand that those people are very faithful to god’s word and that sharia law has all logic to them.

I'm sorry, that's not at all what I was trying to say. I understand the culture that this situation exists within, but while I understand how it happened, I do not think it is good that it has happened, or that we should respect that they kill people just because of the strength of their beliefs.

I don’t see how Islam can change in that regard

I know many queer muslims, and while I do not see a path forward for implementing queer rights in most muslim countries right now, the existence of so many different muslim groups should show that the quran is not a true monolith - this gives me hope that one day, there really can be peace.