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How can a religion murder a person? States can impose laws that allow or even mandate murder for you quitting the religion, but that’s another instance of a state telling you what to do and what not to do just in a much more extreme fashion.

As for a religion justifying the killing for quitting, well, that still depends on a jurisdiction where the killing would be allowed by the state.

Anyway, I think your comment is derailing a bit because in the case of France it is not allowed to kill in the name of any religion, but it is forbidden to practice your religion freely if you’re a Muslim.

Weird and interesting story at the same time, but there were already some royals who in the 1700s had the same evangelical beliefs, colonial interests and also strong antisemitism.

They thought that by colonizing Palestine they could get rid of the Jews and also have them in a geopolitically convenient location where they could have a grip on the Arabs. They were undermining pan-Arabism already in the 1800s.

It’s really some Illuminati conspiracy mumbo jumbo that goes back centuries and apparently it’s hard to get rid of.

Another possible factor is perception management. They wanna keep up the image of Israel being the good guys because of geopolitics, arms sales and because it’s easier than trying to explain the complexity of the situation and also that it’s actually the fault of the British.

I think politicians and the media think that us normal people are too stupid too handle a situation that isn’t black and white, so they try to make sure we have a clear idea of who are the bad guys and who are our heroes. And my personal view is that this has been going on for so long that they actually started believing their own lies.

OMG I never dared to say this out loud, it‘s so controversial yet so true!

Invite a private military group founded by a mafia boss that recruits felons what could possibly go wrong.

I recommend replacing it with the silent middle finger.

Tell me you’re not a scientist without telling me you’re not a scientist.

So I checked out Google scholar and to be honest for the alleged 20 years of being a researcher his contribution to the academic community seems marginal at best. Holding him up to the usual performance metrics, most postdocs in my lab had more citations and I also don’t see articles in big journal. Leaving aside the fact that your whole argument is subject to a logical fallacy your appeal to authority doesn’t seem to appeal to a good authority. He may have been working in the industry and he may have been involved in policy making, but that doesn’t mean he’s any authority when it comes to economics as a scientific discipline.

Yes but Milei aka Argentine’s Trump deserves every bad news.

I would agree but then again Israel is aligned with the US or more like the US is aligned with Israel and it’s a very very ugly thing to commit genocide in the name of freedom and democracy. I still much rather benefit from the privilege that comes with living in a democratic country, but I dare say being on the receiving end of either democratic or authoritarian geopolitics boils down to essentially the same thing.

Yeah it’s crazy. They have some machine learning system that gives targets and partly they use autonomous drones that will just attack those targets. Some human approves or disapproves the targets but apparently this is just done so they can say that there’s a human layer and they spend like 20 seconds to decide if someone has to die or not.

Idk why you’re getting so many downvotes, we’re like 2-3 elections away from having fascists and literal Nazis, among them e.g. people who are descendants of NSDAP officials and convicted war criminals (Beatrix von Storch). The situation is bleak in Germany.

Trump’s brain is also absolutely cooked. He just doesn’t look as confused as Biden I think that helps him. Plus that his voters don’t care about facts, I’m guessing they might have actually had some bleach.

I think that makes you a better fit than both current candidates by far. Let me know how we can sneak you into the elections

Will Biden remember this tomorrow?

But just to be clear: I hope he drops out and the dems win with someone else

Yeah I’m German and imo it’s totally xenophobia and with darker looking people a race issue, that’s why I said that they use the same rhetoric against Syrians and Ukrainians that they used against German refugees back in the day and against Spanish, Italian, Polish, Turkish people in the 60s/70s and against Russians and Yugoslavian people in the 90s.

I actually have some Syrian friends because I helped them in 2015 when the influx was peaking, and many of them are honestly just normal people who came here to work, go to school or study, party, check out Tinder and stuff. There were also some crazies that I stayed far away from but that doesn’t surprise me if people seek shelter from a warzone.

I think especially the more conservative type of people were a bit shocked by some aspects of German society and they tended to stick rather to themselves but they’re also the kind of people who wanted to start working immediately because in a conservative family the man has to provide. Some are also just lazy and don’t want to do anything but not more than my German friends from what I saw.

Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian society are for middle eastern standards pretty liberal and especially Syria is very diverse in terms of ethnicity and religion from what I understood, so they’re not like Saudi Arabia or Taliban kind of horribly conservative. So stuff like wearing Burqas, or child marriage as horrible as it is is rather some racist stereotype than a problem that would hinder us from integrating refugees and benefiting from their labor. I think there were some cases where the bride and groom were teenagers and it was clashing with German law but iirc the media made it seem far worse than it was.

Sidenote they also told me that in Lebanon and sometimes Jordan they got treated like shit by the locals, so by now I’m pretty convinced that people are just xenophobic by default.

I personally would be happy about more refugees, because it’s the right thing to do and it has the positive side effect that they’re often willing to do shitty jobs that us Germans won’t do. I would have tons of examples for this apart from the bus. Stuff like old school German baking tradition is rapidly disappearing because no German is willing to get up at 4am anymore to have bread ready at 6am. If you need an electrician or other handyman it’s basically impossible because their books are filled for months ahead and they won’t come for small shit.

There’s a crazy labor shortage in low paying jobs and people are increasingly not willing to come to Germany because of all the racism, there was recently an article about Philippino nurses rather going to Saudi Arabia lol. So yeah, it’s frustrating.

There were millions of deceased and millions others murdered in the holocaust, so overpopulation wasn’t an issue after world war 2. The displaced in Germany were Germans, so culture wasn’t an issue. Yet, refugees were discriminated against with pretty much the same rhetoric that is currently used against Ukrainians and Syrians.

I live in Germany and I have a lot of problems:

• we already have water shortages due to climate change
• the heat waves are a new phenomenon and they’re unbearable because no one has an A/C and due to the housing crisis I can’t buy my own home where it would be worth to shell out thousands to install one
• the lack of digitalization in this country is crazy, I have to check my mailbox every day and many government tasks are still done by mail or fucking fax machine
• the already mentioned housing crisis makes it impossible to find affordable housing and if you find it you’re trapped there forever, I can’t even think of having kids because I know I won’t be able to find a 3 room flat
• public transportation in my place is already top notch for Germany and it still sucks, they had to reduce busses and metro because they can’t find enough drivers and they’re chronically underfunded. As a consequence you often have to go by car and be stuck in ridiculous traffic jams
• the pension system will collapse when all the boomers retire, there won’t be enough people to pay for their retirement, politicians know this but are completely ignoring it
• our infrastructure is rotting away and because of self-mandated austerity the state is incapable of making investments into our schools, roads, railways, hell even electricity grids
• for a developed country our internet speed is ridiculous because we’re still mostly relying on copper cables instead of fiber
• Our current governing parties are eroding our democracy through pushing mass surveillance, silencing the press and violently suppressing protests against climate change, genocide, etc. s.t. we don’t even need actual fascist parties to slide into a state of fascism

Asylum seekers and regular work migrants are not the problem, in a more pragmatic society they would be part of the solution. I have no negative impact in my daily live from some poor fuckers who are fleeing from warzones and crazy dictatorships but all of the above are affecting me constantly. Btw I don’t understand your remark about caucasians, can you explain what you mean with that?

Copy/paste because I’m lazy:

I honestly think that no matter what we’re doing the right would have a problem with migration because they want to go back to a white supremacist kind of society. We’re hearing the same shit how about Syrians and Ukrainians now that we heard in the 90s about Russian and Yugoslavian people, in the 60s/70s about Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish people and in the 40s/50s about German refugees.

To rescue the 4 hostages in return for almost 300 dead Palestinians and magnitudes more of wounded people.

Yeah The Guardian is basically Fox News /s