acargitz @ theacharnian @lemmy.ca

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Would it kill you to not jokingly deny the humanity of every person outside the United States, Liberia, and the Cayman Islands? Just say Fahrenheit. Jeez, yank.

Fair

In between the Matrix in 1999 and 2011 you have 9-11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the 2008 financial crash. And that's just the big US-centric stuff.

It's true yours is a far more civilized way of doing it. My version, if you really think about it puts a target on the back of the Dragons to be slain early so that their Hoard is redistributed to the Free Peoples. Your version ensures that no Dragon ever hoards up too much and we save ourselves all the Dragon slaying dramatics.

No wealth above a certain amount should be inherited. There is no moral justification for absurd amounts of intergenerational wealth.

If only there was an entire federal agency whose sole job would be to track them down and tax them.

Reminder that it is Israeli right wingers themselves that have opened that door by saying that Hamas are worse than Nazis and comparing the October 7th attacks to the Holocaust.

Whoever told you Israel is a democracy lied to you. Israel is a democracy the way Apartheid South Africa was a democracy.

Good point, the IDF, being an occupying army, under international law is absolutely a legitimate target for violent armed Palestinian resistance

By the way, do apply the same logic to the Hamas fighters.

I edited my comment since I made it. Here is the newer version. Bold the bit that I think adresses your concern.

Edit: why is "death to the IDF" mild compared to "death to Arabs"? You can choose to not join or to leave the IDF (it might cost you some jail time, but if that's the price for keeping one's soul, so be it). You can at the very least not self-identify with it and distance yourself from what it has become. Basically, there are many off ramps out of the IDF. There are no ramps off of existing as an Arab.

Exactly. That's what many people don't realize. Hamas atrocities are themselves a product of Israeli Jewish-supremacist occupation apartheid. There are multiple instances in history where occupation and subjugation has brutalized a population to the point of themselves becoming butchers when given the chance. From Boudicca, to King Phillip's War, to the late excesses of the Haitian Revolution, to Nat Turner's rebellion, to the early days of the Greek Revolution, and even Terror periods of the French and Russian Revolutions. These excesses and atrocities are not to be glorified, but they must be understood as really sad outcomes of the pre-existing brutal regime. It's always chickens coming home to roost, and in fact it's usually a wonder that the atrocities are not worse.

Hamas committed horrible atrocities on October 7th. Was anyone really surprised they did so however? These were an outcome of decades of brutal occupation.

Hell, I'll even say something very controversial: Israeli atrocities themselves are the outcome of the extraordinary brutalization of Jews in the decades preceding the founding of Israel. Hitler is laughing in hell. This is his intergenerational evil at work, 80 years after he bit his luger.

"Death to the IDF" is not what I would chant, but it's honestly mild compared to the kinds of slogans (eg. "Death to Arabs" and "Let your village burn") West-funded, West-supported, West-armed, and West-protected-from-accountability Israeli fanatics chant before committing actual fucking atrocities. Hell, it's mild compared to the Amalek rhetoric of Israeli state leadership.

Edit: why is "death to the IDF" mild compared to "death to Arabs"? You can choose to not join or to leave the IDF (it might cost you some jail time, but if that's the price for keeping one's soul, so be it). You can at the very least not self-identify with it and distance yourself from what it has become. Basically, there are many off ramps out of the IDF. There are no ramps off of existing as an Arab.

So like ....kids of illegal aliens are ... sovereign citizens?

Question : didn't the supreme court just say that lower level judges can't block him? Which would mean that appeal judges can? So this question is far from settled?

Of all the things European countries do, that's the one you like?

So the TV pundits are calling this "class warfare", right?

What's that flag?

Your "drunk master" schtick is getting old man. We're not even surprised at this point.

Sure yes absolutely. But that doesn't negate the obligation of the CBC to write more accessibly.

In this case what really threw me off is that "residents" are intern doctors and "internists" are permanent doctors.