acargitz @ theacharnian @lemmy.ca

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Given how Germany, France, the UK etc have all lined up behind Israel, towing the line that Israel has a right to defend itself, and even going as far as saying that Israel is doing our dirty work for us, I have very serious doubts that Harris would not have followed Israel down the warpath.

Just like with Putin's stooges, the grovelling and the self humiliation is the point.

Skyrim something about Vici.

Now that foreigners are no longer it, I am looking forward to learning who is going to be revealed as the next scapegoat for the neoliberal enshittification of the country!

Trump isn't "considering" anything. He's not a rational actor, he's a narcissistic egomaniac, unable to ask or take advice, unable to think about anything that isn't about how cool he is perceived.

I don't understand why verbose is bad. Verbose is maintainable.

Break them up into infrastructure and ISP services. Infrastructure is a natural monopoly, they can compete over services on top of it if they want.

Isn't there a particular Nazi paramilitary that dresses up exactly like that? Those guys that were on a U Haul?

I've heard the accusation that she's a Russian asset, but Iranian? First time I've ever heard that one.

This is what happens when you make your Staatsräson "never again to those people in particular" as opposed to "never again to anyone ever", then spend two years pretending that anti-Semitism is an imported problem, and end up saying that an illegal war by a genocidal apartheid state is your own dirty business.

I don't know what "the tiktok crowd" is, but I suspect you're talking about the woke left somehow. So let me respond to what I think you're saying, and if I'm misunderstanding, just correct me. Nobody in the woke left is thinking that "the Jews are doing a genocide against Muslims". The accusation is that Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinians. Israel and Jewish people: not the same thing. Muslims and Palestinians: not the same thing.

I think that's exactly the reference here.

"Semites" as a description of a set of people is as much antiquated a terminology as the word "Aryans". In fact it was Ernest Renan that first made that distinction in the 19th century to specifically frame history as a tension between Semites and Aryans (cf Hannah Arendt). It's of course just a bunch of scientific racism bollocks. And it is precisely because of that that the term "antisemitism" has always meant hatred of Jews in particular (in the "Jews vs Aryans" sense).

The only term that persists in the sciences today is the term "semitic languages", which is basically similar to "indo-european languages", and which of course has nothing to do with antisemitism.

I suspect this is even worse. If these idiots succeed at forcing an externally imposed regime change, Iran (a country of 90 million people) might go the way of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, i.e., total fucking chaos for at least a decade if not more. If you thought Daesh and the refugee crisis was bad, just you fucking wait.

And this all happened while the Iranians were supposedly negotiating with the US. Why should anyone ever negotiate with the West ever again if it is just a stalling tactic until you get stabbed in the back? So not only is this a collapse of international law, it is even collapse of the basic capacity for international diplomacy. And it does send a hugely hugely strong message to the Saudis, the Turks, the Emiratis, basically anyone and everyone: get nukes asap, see what happened to Iran?.

Not to mention that the Israelis are causing US imperial over-extension, when the US fascist right (Bannon, MTG, etc) are already distancing themselves from zionists. So who do you think the fascists will blame for US decline once immigrants and democrats are no longer adequate scapegoats? Who is always the scapegoat of last resort for the fascists?

The 20th century was monstrous. Well, fellow monkeys, welcome to the 21st...

Palestinian lives matter.

These are the "shared values" we have with Israel.

The Gaza playbook.

We have the "Hamas health ministry" instead.

Who will vote it down?

The Semites thing is a red herring. anti-Semitism is Jew hatred.