grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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This isn't a conflict that was going on in the Ottoman period. This is a recent conflict and this attempt to turn it into a thousands year old religious war is bullshit. This is a colonial project where the goal is to take land. Very material in nature. That project has been in place since 1948.

Damn, 1948 was a thousand years ago? Time is weird, I guess.

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

Actually the only hope of truly lasting peace is the dissolution of Israel and the creation of a new state that doesn't limit citizenship and suffrage along ethnic or religious lines.

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

More specifically,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment

Absolutely. In much the same way that public private partnerships are a giveaway to private interests. Current day government looks to save a few dollars by outsourcing development to a private interest. However, thanks to inflation the money saved is worth less every year, while the actual, real world things which are now owned by some rich asshole are not subject to that same depreciation, and probably even appreciates over time.

So, some kind of Trail of Tears? Why exactly do indigenous inhabitants of that land need to leave?

Oh, and,

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-17/ty-article/.premium/when-will-the-u-s-get-tired-of-helping-israel-with-un-vetoes/00000186-5fa9-d22b-ad9e-7febfdc60000

https://www.un.org/unispal/document-category/vetoed-draft-resolution/

It's a reference to this album. From a patriotic Winnipegger.

Western Standard is not a great paper. It's run by Derek Fildebrandt who was at one point leader of the (now dissolved) Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta.

You bet your ass it's a propaganda piece.

It can often cost more to go to a place that doesn’t tip than the value of the tip.

Sure sounds like your ideal situations is to go to tipping places but not tip to save yourself money at the expense of a working person. Go eat at McDonalds, they don't do tips.

It's access to contraception combined with material conditions. It's much easier for people to make the choice of whether they want to have children these days, and a lot of people are looking around and saying, "nah."

There's also the fact that heavily developed nations with declining birth rates are also overwhelmingly responsible for climate change.

Hey, it's all good.

I think you may have misunderstood the kind of drug testing the article is talking about. This is a service for drug users to get their drugs tested for contaminants, not drug testing drug users.

Just in case your personal style is lacking that 19th century rail baron aesthetic you've been wanting.

Huh. Sounds like a vote of no confidence is warranted, then.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY

Oh my, you are right. I totally whiffed on the year.

I found this article which seems to be about the same strike, though it's from July. I'm not familiar enough with SSESA to know their situation and why there was so much time between the strike mandate and the strike but I imagine there must have been some ongoing negotiation that recently broke down.