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  • I was born in the UK but with a West Indian and an actual Indian grandparent on one side. Lived there my entire life up until relatively recently. There were still people who would consider me not British. When people either in the UK or where I live now ask where I'm from and I tell them I'm British, there are many people who say "but where are you really from?"

    But it doesn't mean anything if I say I'm Jamaican, or Indian, because one I've been to for some odd trips as a kid and the other I only transferred through an airport. Yeah my DNA shows that, but my entire life has basically minimal connection to either of those places and a continuous connection to Britain.

    I got the accent and the passport, but I didn't get the skin colour. So these people will always exist who want to make it seem like I'm not "really" British. But that is on them, not me. I am British, whether they like it or not.

    This is really a long winded way of saying: there will always be some people who consider you not truly British. Fuck them. They are idiots that have at best shackled themselves to some outdated view of what it means to be "British" and at worst want to shutter the whole country off to anyone who doesn't look or speak like them and pull us all back to the stone age.

    I think if you speak to people you are close with about this they would consider you British. If you speak with Baz down at the Red Lion he'll ask you for a pierogi and then fall asleep in his own vomit after a few too many pints of carling. I think Baz is much less important than all of the real people in your life and most of all, the way you view yourself.

  • Israel is like, our only consistant ally out there

    Consistently fucking awful, yeah. Ties should be cut.

    Oh I'm sure he did notice, the question is probably more of "why did you keep sending them aid" to which the answer is ...

    You're right though. Problem is the genocide convention which explicitly makes it illegal to do this and the US laws being ignored which say the same

  • “It’s clear that there have been violations,” one humanitarian official said. “Frankly, why are people starving and why did you finally decide to drop aid from the sky or build a very expensive port if you yourself had not determined that aid is being blocked?”

    Well quite. If the report says everything is fine, it's ridiculous, and if it says there have been violations: why the fuck didn't you notice when the rest of us did?

  • "It looked like a whole new proposal," one [Israeli] official said.

    A source with knowledge of the negotiations said the U.S. invited the Israelis to Cairo over the weekend but they chose not to send a team. One Israeli official admitted it was a mistake that led Israel to have less visibility into the talks

    Wow so weird that if you don't show up to negotiations things happen without you! Who would have thought

    It's almost like they have no interest in diplomacy or actually getting the hostages back

  • Not at all! I'm not even sure what you mean about the moderation.

    Honestly I just know there are such people on Lemmy and their explanation for stuff like this is interesting to me. I don't even want them to be banned in general, I can just downvote and move on.

    I got an answer, though. So far "it's crazy to think Israel would do that on purpose, there are many possible explanations" and yet the facts still stand and no adequate explanation of the facts seems like it could be acceptable

  • Soon after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas and the start of Israel's offensive in Gaza, leading Republicans, including presidential candidates, said the U.S. should not welcome Palestinian refugees, claiming that they are antisemitic and potential national security risks.

    They really just eat up any racist stereotypes they're given

  • I mean, does it really make a difference? I agree that more things like this should be protested. But even if you think they're hypocrites that doesn't mean they're wrong now. Put it this way: if they had protested the Saudis, would this protest be totally cool with you?

    And obviously the answer is because their university and government are backing and funding this one. If you can't see the difference in relevance to the average American you have a serious problem.

  • Yeah but Obama got two terms, not his fault Hilary didn't inspire people.

    I did too much research on approval ratings now soooo...

    Trump: 41%

    Obama:

    1st term: 49%

    2nd: 47%

    Bush:

    1st: 62% (!)

    2nd: 37%

    Clinton:

    1st: 50%

    2nd: 61%

    Other Bush: 61%

    And...

    Biden, average to date: 43%

    Oof. The only president people like him more than is Trump or 2nd term Bush. Lucky he is the one running I guess, haha

  • Concerning. But also Obama was less popular than Trump at this point and we know how those both turned out, so hopefully Biden can change it around. Maybe don't send a genocidal government bombs that will be dropped on children? Idk I'm not a political scientist

  • Fair enough. It is being used more colloquially in this case, you're right. I retract the accusation of fascism and substitute "an unjust authoritarian crackdown on the right to freedom of speech and expression, undermining the very tenets of democratic society. A national embarrassment."

  • I dunno why people are downvoting this.

    Because many people in this community can't take any criticism of Biden, even if it's done by people who want him to be better and win the election. It's sad and counterproductive