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Idk, unless there are actual allegations I don’t really see it. Adin Ross seems too stupid to take advantage of anyone.
This is probably far-fetched, but I’d like to think that Crooks was the first republican to actually be intellectually honest about Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and decided to take “kill your local pedophile” to its logical conclusion
You know what, good points. I shouldn’t have fallen for it so quickly
this guy disagrees: https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1812366460955562225
Yeah I’ve been having similar thoughts.
2014-2020 or so was a period of significant ideological change & realignment in the US in a number of ways, but now things have kind of reached a new equilibrium, so the current ideological terrain is probably what we’re going to have for a while. I think this is mostly because the internet & social media reached maximum penetration around 2014, and the 2014-2020 period was just the US’s ideological terrain adjusting to that step change.
(Admittedly, I also might be biased because 2014-2020 is also basically the period when I was 18-25 years old, so of course it seemed to me like a lot of things were in flux)
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lmfao I didn’t even know that half of it
That’s not what I was getting at. I was assuming that people who come across this post would already know that Israel oppresses non-Jews. My point is that it gets even worse than that: the non-Jews are the numerical majority, so the whole thing is more egregious than many Americans might be aware.
I guess I do think a numerical majority being subjugated is more noteworthy in some ways than a numerical minority.
I brought it up because it kind of disproves the idea that “Jews have a special relationship with that region and/or are uniquely entitled to it.” They’re not even the majority there currently! And they weren’t in 1948 either.
In their perception, Britain turned against the Zionists around 1939 or so (White paper) and sided with the Arabs in opposing a Jewish state after that. So they mean “Independence” as independence from Britain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_insurgency_in_Mandatory_Palestine
What the hell does “self-determination” even mean? I feel like since 10/7 we’ve all been gaslit into the idea that “self-determination” is some obvious, uncontroversial thing
the Canadian Shield
I wish homeownership wasn’t so important in the US.
I’m probably going to buy a house at some point because it’s what makes sense given how our society is currently set up, but really I wish I could just rent an apartment for the same as (or marginally more than) what it costs to maintain & insure an apartment. If I could do that then I wouldn’t really give a shit about owning a home.
Civil Rights Corps is way better
That is the correct assignment of blame and I’m not really sure why you’re mocking it. How do you think Supreme Court rulings work?
Russia supports Hamas; Ukraine supports Israel.
This in particular stands out as extremely questionable, if not just outright false.
Netanyahu and Putin have been fairly friendly for a long while, and Israel has in many ways sided with Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 (continuing diplomatic relations with Russia when many countries broke off with them, not sanctioning Russia, not sending weapons to Ukraine, etc).
Both Ukraine and Russia have formally condemned the settlements, and Israel has gotten butthurt about it in both cases. Russia is somewhat more aggressive about reaching a two-state solution and making concessions to the Palestinians than Ukraine is, but it’s not a huge difference.
It’s fairly complicated, but overall I don’t think either Ukraine or Russia can be said to be more supportive of Israel (or of Palestine) than the other one is. Israel has a lukewarm relationship with both. There are no strong contrasts to be made here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine–Ukraine_relations
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Ukraine_relations
so this is it, right? We’re, like, definitely in WW3 now?
been thinking about this a lot this morning.