If I removed all of the spiders from my house, the fly population wouldn’t increase? I don’t remember my high school biology too clearly, but I seem to remember a definite link between predator and prey which would suggest rampant increase in an environment where predators are sparse.

Yep. Spiders are top 10 ugliest creatures in history, but I would never kill one unless it was a lethally toxic variety. Because they keep the population of disease-carrying, filthy-egg-laying proboscidean-vomiting flying vermin down. Spiders are bros.

Do you know the answer to your question?

The angle is having an ingroup. Build a community around absolutely anything and people will come, just so they can belong. Flat earth is just one of these. Flerfers are funny because it’s so absurd, but the same psychology is at play for e.g. the manosphere, local sports teams and anything else if you look hard enough.
And they pay the bills via advertising. Another win for capitalism. Yay.

So you can’t answer the question?

Can you?

Are you time traveling to last month when that question was still relevant?

That’s nothing. I’m so hot and good at sex, I can make you like sex with men that say that they can make you like men and sex.

Seriously though, I had a friend that used to boast that he’d ‘turned his girlfriend straight’. She was maybe 19, so any reasonable person would assume she’s still figuring herself out. I couldn’t get my head around the level of hubris needed to think you have that power. Do these guys truly believe they have literally magical penises?

Technically, it didn’t disappear at all!

It literally means for Israel to cease to exist.

Just stating the same lie as a fact won’t convince anyone with critical thinking faculties, you know?
The only reply this requires is: “No, it doesn’t”, and I’m done. You are adequately refuted.

In your first sentence you are claiming that the slogan “from the river to the sea” was made by people that will gladly tell you they want to wipe out Israel. I think you will have a very hard time making this case, but by all means, go ahead.

I’m willing to have my mind changed on this, as I am with all things, because I’m always willing to learn. Are you?

I think you’ve got s point there. Making fun of people in that way is surely going to entrench their views.

I think everyone -including public figures- should be allowed to learn from their mistakes and grow. I think social media can interfere with that and make people refuse to admit error and double down for fear of being cancelled. Ideally this should change.
But, the case of Jo Rowling in particular is egregious. Not only does she refuse to engage with the possibility of being wrong, her bigotry extends beyond words, into concrete, hateful actions where she is fuelling the fire of transphobia worldwide with her influence, both parasocial and financial. That results in misery and suffering for millions. Fuck Jo Rowling.
This condemnation of her doesn’t extend to everyone. And if she one day sees the light and walks everything back, then she should get a chance to redeem herself, too.

The clues to who she is were there all along in her writing. She couldn’t keep quiet, because she believes what she’s doing is right. Because she’s conservative.
The only major black character in the series is called “Shacklebolt”. The only Asian, “Cho Chang”. Zero LGBTQ representation in the books. Harry had the world at his feet and decided to join the police. The whole struggle of the saga is for a return to the status quo, rather than a better world. General lack of female agency, and women just being hysterical and needing to be slapped out of it. Goblins as an antisemitic trope. I could go on.
I put it to you that it was inevitable that, one way or another, her rancorous bile would have spilled out into the public debate as soon as she got famous.

So if I say, “from the Thames to the English channel”, you think I’m advocating to wipe out the county of Kent?
Gtfo of here you weirdo.

Utter nonsense. Just because Israel lies between the river and the sea, doesn’t mean the words “from the river to the sea” mean “eliminate Israel”. You’re completely mental.

Your question was obviously bait, so why would I ever answer it on your terms? Just get to whatever it is you’re getting at, already. This is boring.

Israel is not the only thing between the Mediterranean and the Jordan, no.

I’m not sure if you’re aware of how language works, but I am. And I can assure you, your statement is not true, particularly the part you have italicised. This is not as simple as you think it is or would like it to be.
I hope one day you realise how mistaken you are.

No, it doesn’t, and yes, it is.

It’s not a bad example, and I credit you with the intelligence to understand the principle the example is driving at, which you are choosing to ignore, that is: meanings change.
Do you really believe that girl made that t-shirt with genocidal intent? Do you think she wants Israelis wiped out?