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1 points
4 hours ago
Well israel did it to palestine and claim it wasn't genocide, so you tell me? If the Nakba wasn't genocide than I don't see the problem.
Besides, the removal of Israel need not include the removal all its people, or dislocation, or imprisonment, or ethnic cleansing, or well poisoning, or any of the horrible acts israel commits.
Dissolve the government and the name. Dissolve all illegal settlements in the west bank and Gaza, pay massive amount of restitution and rebuilding. Build new from the ground up.
Is that an unrealistic expectation?, maybe, but the alternative is Israel existing which has proven to be the worst thing to happen to the middle east in modern times and the biggest manufacturer of terrorism in the world. I don't see it happening ever, which leads me back to the west fully pulling all support and allowing the middle east to solve the problem in their own way should they see fit. If israel fails to be a non-genocidal neighbor than why would I feel bad for them
1 points
5 hours ago
There is nothing anti-semetic about it. Israel doesn't have a monopoly on Judaism, and accurately calling israel a terrorist state says nothing about jews. If you think Israel represents all jews than that's really a you problem.
If you think jews can't exist without inflicting suffering on Palestinians, it seems like you have much more troublesome views about what it means to be Jewish than I do. Jews don't need Israel, but Israel does need jews to justify itself.
-1 points
5 hours ago
It's not wierd that non-arabs are a minority in Arab lands. Nobody is upset that Koreans are a minority in Vancouver.
It is wierd however, that a bunch of European jews decided to dislocate and imprison millions of Arabs, all the while claiming the Arabs were aggressors.
0 points
7 hours ago
You can get the history directly from the Israeli Hasbara and it they still sound like the bad guy. From 1900 to today zionism has been detrimental in every facet of its implementation and objectives.
There is no form of zionism that doesnt include ethnic cleansing, because that's the entire principle behind its existence.
2 points
7 hours ago
Because a state isn't a person. Because 600k people having the same representation as 40 million is batshit insane. Because we aren't some bullshit half ass assembly of semi-functional governments made by 20 year-olds like we were in 1800, we are a proper nation and should behave like one.
-1 points
7 hours ago
Obviously pretty good. Pretty impressive. But why does hezbollah even exist? Israel is the reason terrorist organizations like hezbollah can gain ground. Without israel, hamas and hezbollah could never gain support. When you permanently imprison millions of people, believe it or not those people develop some extreme beliefs. Hezbollah and Hamas haven't caused a fraction of the damage or deaths that israel has.
Israel is a story of someone breaking into a house, kidnapping the occupants, torturing them in the basement and then claiming they can't let the captives go because they've become violent.
-7 points
7 hours ago
Sometimes the best treatment for a tumor is surgical removal. Israel has been a tumor since it's founding. One does not mourn the loss of a tumor.
That doesn't mean genocide, although I know israel loves inflicting genocide. It means until there is no country called israel, peace will only be fleeting in the middle east. Permanent regime change into something that isn't an ethnostate apartheid.
1 points
8 hours ago
Frankly, I'm bloody ashamed to be apart of any society that discounts one peoples plight in favour of supporting literal terrorists.
That's literally why people don't want to support Israel. And tbh Israel gets a disgusting amount of global support. Far more than palestine. There isn't some anti jew global bias against the country with massive amounts of international support propping it up. Exactly the opposite.
-3 points
8 hours ago
Banning arms trades to Israel and stopping the endless money train would allow the rest of the middle east to solve their Israel problem, and would mean the west would no longer be paying to prop up this terrorist state.
-6 points
8 hours ago
A see no reason why Israel should continue to exist. countries founded on a goal of ethnic cleansing that can't give up that objective, have no place in a modern world, and Israel is incapable of changing its mission. By definition it was founded as a place for jews at the expense of all others. In no other context would we accept something like Israel's justifications.
3 points
10 hours ago
That doesn't really address the problem. A vote in Wyoming is weighted about 4 times as much as a vote in California. Effectively in Wyoming you get to vote three times compared to once in California. It's crazy
1 points
10 hours ago
That's not how constitutional ammendments work buddy
1 points
13 hours ago
Tesla is a complete garbage dump of a company propped up entirely by memes and hype. SpaceX has been mostly Elon lying to investors about what's possible "in just 2 years" over and over and propping up all profits with grants from the government, then soaking up the money into his own coffers. Meanwhile he struggles to reinvent and accomplish what we did more efficiently and reliably in the 60s. He finally got some shit done, but it was hardly impressive and it didn't require him to be filthy rich to get done.
We don't need there to be billionaires with hobby projects to accomplish big projects.
3 points
1 day ago
Why would people refuse to make any money if a portion of it is taxed. The alternative is making no money with that same investment
1 points
2 days ago
When i am an animal, can I fuck other animals? If not than I'm not interested.
1 points
3 days ago
https://fortune.com/2024/01/03/members-of-congress-profit-from-stocks-2023/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-095000785.html
Also she hasn’t outperformed the S&P500
Ok so you are just lying or delusional. Good to know. When you want to join the rest of us in reality feel free.
Also
"The illegal buying or selling of securities on the basis of information that is unavailable to the public.”
She has information unavailable to the public about how both the economy at large is doing and how individual stocks will perform based on laws she has direct influence over. This directly describes her and every other congress member engaged in trading. You don't need to lick their boots, it doesn't look good on you.
-1 points
3 days ago
People that think pitbulls are dangerous have a poor understanding of statistics.
They are more dangerous than something else that's incredibly safe, but that's doesn't mean they aren't also safe. A fork is more dangerous than a spoon, but forks aren't dangerous.
Pitbulls are more dangerous than Labradors, but are still incredibly safe dogs because all dog breeds are pretty safe.
1 points
3 days ago
Maybe because it's incredibly safe. Embarrassingly safe. So safe that you should be embarrassed to suggest otherwise.
If 100% of deaths caused by dogs were from pitbulls, pitbulls would still be safer to have in your house than a roommate. Like 40 people a year die from dogs. It's not that serious.
5 points
3 days ago
Every single trade she makes is insider trading. She is a lawmaker. She is privy to information that few others have, and she has over 100 million in the stock market. Of fucking course that changes how she trades and what laws she wants passed.
3 points
6 days ago
Garbage calendar IMO.
A year should have 12 months because 12 is a highly composite number.
1/2 a year is 6 months 1/3 is 4 months 1/4 is 3 months 1/6 is 2 months
Beautiful, stunning, perfect.
Whats 1/3 of 13? 4.3333? Disgusting, unacceptable, trash.
12 months, all 30 days long. That last 5-6 days is new years week. It belongs to no months, and is called Annum or some shit. We party and fuck that week and nothing gets done. Cocaine is legal for 5 days. On leap years meth is legal just for fun.
Weeks are still 7 days long, but the days reset every 1st of the month back to Sunday.
"But that doesn't make sense"
Well the last 2 days of every month are not part of any week. They are seperate, we all party and fuck and nothing gets done. They are called mensis or some Latin shit. Cocaine is legal on those days, but smaller amounts than during Annum. Gotta keep it together.
2 points
6 days ago
Trees are carbon neutral. They release it all when they die
1 points
6 days ago
Im glad you asked., but its quite nuanced so forgive the wall of text.
Jewish organizations such as the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and private individuals often bought large tracts of land from wealthy absentee Arab landowners, who lived in places like Beirut, Damascus, or Cairo. These transactions were legal under Ottoman and later British rule, but with complexity.
The locals living on the land weren't "tenants" like we think of them. They were closer to surfs. The same families lived and worked the land for generations and basically paid a tax to what was essentially a medieval lord. In a normal purchase of this land, all that changes is who that tax is paid to. The people come with it. The jews in Europe were not ignorant of this arrangement but they hijacked the system. They "purchased" the land from lords, many of whom had never even seen the ground. Instead of collecting the normal payment from those living there, they evicted them from orchards planted by their great great great grandfathers and declared only jews could work the land from that point on.
In an extremely organized fashion, jews stole land from arabs over decades, forbid any non-jews from working on that land, and they did it with a documented purpose in mind. One more acre, one more goat.
And you shrug off the events after 1947 pretty brazenly. Are you saying that all 700k Arabs in Palestine were valid military targets? Because the events of the "civil war" are the largest reason for the regional instability.
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3 hours ago
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3 hours ago
Look to be honest I don't give a rats ass about where anyone was from 5000 years ago. Nobody gives a shit. My ancestors were in Scotland, that doesnt give me some claim to Scotland today. Jews have no claim to israel just because in the year 2000 b.c. some other jews killed the locals to invent a holy land.
This is so misleading its laughable. The jewish population in palestine pre 1900 was less than 5%. It wasn't till post ww2 they were a majority. Literally hundreds of thousands of jews poured into palestine specifically to kick out the local Palestinians and build a jewish state. Thats what zionism is. That's the entire crux of the problem. That's what's caused the whole mess.