HomerianSymphony @ HomerianSymphony @lemmy.world

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Sure. They did that too, but that was after the creation of the ethnostate.

Britain took Palestine in 1916. In 1917, they invited Jews to settle there in the Balfour Declaration.

The British left in May 1948, and the Jewish settlers declared the existence of Israel (driving out 750,000 Palestinian refugees) in July. Then Israel annexed East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza in 1967, and they’ve been building illegal settlements in the West Bank since then.

Again, just trying to be clear on what happened. I'm not trying to downplay any of it.

More housing is exactly what America desperately needs right now, and hearing Harris say this makes me want to vote for her.

But I still need to hear that she's going to do something about Israel.

Colonialist forces invaded, created an ethnostate

Er, it was the British who colonized Palestine. Then the Jews came as refugees who had been invited by Britain. Then the British left, and it was the Jews who created the ethnostate.

So the people who invaded and the people who created the ethnostate were two different groups of people.

Sorry if that sounds pedantic, but I think it's important to be clear on what happened in this case.

There wouldn't be any Palestinian terrorism if Israel would stop oppressing the Palestinians.

No, they won't. Because there's not going to be any genocide in Michigan. You're delusional.

You're fearmongering about a hypothetical genocide in order to distract from a very real, very current genocide, and that is contemptible.

The term "genocide" was invented by survivors of the Holocaust to be a klaxon call. The idea was that this crime needed a unique, distinct name so that when people heard it, they'd know to drop everything and intervene.

It wasn't invented to be used in political propaganda. When you abuse the term, you undermine its usefulness. You undermine its purpose.

I'm just gonna assume you're not old enough to drink since you don't know how bars work.

1. I didn't make it up.

But you're the one who suggested the bar was 100 miles away from anything.

And even then, you could still probably get an Uber. It would be pricey, but that's your fault for going to a bar 100 miles away from anything.

I love that you have to make up impossible scenarios to justify why you won't vote third party.

I bet there are more third-party candidates in America than bars that are 100 miles from anything.

Nobody puts a bar 100 miles from anywhere. People don't drive an hour and a half to go to bar.

Voting isn't just about winning. It's about telling the powers-that-be what you want.

You know how people describe the free market as "voting with your dollar"? Voting is like voting with your dollar. Except it's voting with your vote.

Honestly, I think American democracy is already almost dead. America is a corporatocracy. The politicians think their job is to please the corporations, and the corporations will squeeze the life out of America as far as possible. Our communities are dead. People are broke and miserable. Families are falling apart. We're turning against each other. The Democrats aren't going to fix this. The Democrats helped create this.

The Democrats have to give us a reason to vote for them. They should be working to earn our vote rather than working to serve the corporations. "Vote blue no matter who" gives the Democrats no incentive to be better.

You should just admit you don't care about Gaza.

No one in Michigan is going to fall for that.

and you're also participating in #10, too.

That’s enough. We’re done here.

As tragic as the situation in Ukraine is, you can’t just call everything genocide. That’s a disservice to the victims of actual genocide.

Here’s some information about genocide:

https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/what-is-genocide/the-ten-stages-of-genocide/

I did say it was a genocidal campaign, though.

But it’s not. Russia isn’t targeting civilians.

I can’t believe you would look at Ukraine, which has been stockpiling weapons for 10 years (provided by every Western power), which has membership in the United Nations, which gets nothing but sympathetic coverage in the Western media (because they’re white), and say “this is just like Gaza”.

[but] maybe you'll learn your lesson for next time!

Or you could realize that those two drivers are not your only options. Get a cab, walk to a bus stop, or find a different driver.

It’s not about teaching Tim a lesson. It’s about getting yourself home safely.

“Vote Harris for a slower genocide” isn’t going to win you Michigan.

Have fun losing Michigan.