Ice @ Iceblade02 @lemmy.world

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What about you, EU

That's an impressive track record.

One presidency is more than a full-time job. Whilst I do like him cut the poor guy some slack.

University prof? Witty? Sharp tongue?

I'm down.

An astronaut for president? That's actually pretty catchy.

Also seems like an interesting guy outside of that.

Seems like an interesting guy, and fits my two basic criteria: not being a geriatric and being a reasonable person. I've limited my expectations to avoid disappointment :'D

From the bottom of my heart - I hate it.

For some reason it caught on as the go-to messaging app for casual conversations for folks my generation (in my country at least).

Deleted my account roughly a year ago.

I'd expect as much. If I moved to Stockholm the traffic insurance on my car would double, and if my car was written on me rather than my mother it would double again (insurance companies hate young men).

This depends so much on the source of the insecurity. However, we have to adress one thing first - you shouldn't have to feel bad being around a friend. If doing these things bothers you, then don't, for your sake and theirs. Feeling bad around your friend will (as you yourself said) end your friendship over time. There has to be space for two in a relation.

For me at least, honesty is key in a real friendship. It is the most basic aspect of respect, and if something is bothering you, say so. No need to be accusatory (i.e you do this or that) and instead frame it from your own perspective, dropping it in natural conversation ("It really makes my day when....", "It really bothers me when..."). Someone who values you will pick up on these things.

Quite a few places, particularly if it was coupled with a decent job. Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, S. Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and mayyybe the US depending on how enticing the job was.

Let's hope that everyone will agree to it.

Fair, I was confused by your parallell between religious groups (christianity, islam) vs ethnicities (amish or ethnic jews). Now that you clarified, your argument makes more sense to me.

I agree with you - nobody should be displaced from their homes, even in the face of somebody elses "home claim", since this would eternally perpetuate the same problem.

There is some food for thought that follows from this reasoning also. The foundation/creation/growth of almost every nation/state (I'm sure there is some unique obscure one somewhere who can claim to be the first humans to settle their land) has involved displacing people, and almost every settled people has done so by displacing those who came before. Does this not mean almost every other past creation/perpetuation/growth of a state/nation/settled people was wrong? (Even the kurdish people settled their current territories by force, just a long, long time ago)

That is simply incorrect. Most Israeli citizens were born in Israel

A point of critique to your critique. There are ethnic jews, cultural jews and religious jews. Most ethnic/cultural jews are not religious jews. See more in my other comment

Just because someone is born in a country doesn't automatically make them "of that nation" identity-wise first and foremost. Take the romani peoples as another example, they often identify first and foremost as romani, rather than by the country of their birth.

You mix up the religion Judaism with the ethnicity and culture. The jewish cultural and ethnic group is amongst the least religious peoples in the world, as many as 75% according to a study a few years back being atheist or agnostic (myself included).

The various jewish ethnic groups do have genetic ties to a geographic area and have diseases almost entirely unique to that ancestry.

That does however beg the question of whether ancestry is any sort of motivation to lay claim to an area of land in the first place. A question that can be endlessly debated and if accepted at face value opens up endless cans of worms. (How far back? Forever? Can it be lost? What if multiple peoples have claim to an area? etc. etc.)

Please read the comment you replied to. "bombings of children" would be covered by "death and destruction", i.e things I (and hopefully you) don't want happening.

I’ve seen the claim many times before and it’s been thoroughly debunked as disinformation again and again.

Oh? Well in that case please go ahead! I've yet to see such a "thorough debunking". Don't worry, I'll be patient. Go ahead and make me pleasantly surprised.

Edit: Been a few hours at this point, and it seems like @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world wasn't able to "thoroughly debunk" my statement, instead leaving behind a downvote. I'll open up the call to anyone who finds this comment in the future. Prove me wrong!

In this instance I'd love to be wrong, it'd be a good thing if Palestinian schools aren't brain washing kids with hateful propaganda.

Do you really think trolling is appropriate for such a serious topic?

I don't think anybody here wants death and destruction.

Two wrongs don't make a right. I was highlighting to the OP why education (in this instance) isn't actually reducing bigotry and hate like it would in many other cases, but instead making the problem worse.

Besides, the issue with problematic materials in teaching is hardly limited to Gaza.

If you're unhappy with this particular link, just search yourself. There are condemnations from several institutions (amongst them the EU comission). This is pretty much common knowledge for those who are familiar with the situation.