Israel =/= Judaism

There are Jews who don’t like the government of Israel, and Israelis critical of their own country.

Watch me supporting human rights in the global south by reads notes arming religious fanatics who want to turn women into cattle

Prior to WWII, there were a lot of different conflicts where most of the main actors in WWII were involved. Spanish civil war with the coupists supported by the nazis, Germany annexing Austria and Czechia, Russia trying to occupy Finland, Italy doing whatever the fuck Italy was doing… Of course, that doesn’t mean that a world war is a necessary conclusion, but I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking it’s a hint.

If the citizens supported getting the president out, why not vote for it? Coups in democracies are almost always the instrument of those who cannot win elections.

Women experience a fair amount of harassment in the open league. They aren’t forbidden from participating, but the environment discourages it, so they set up a women’s league too.

If there wasn’t widespread cognitive damage amongst a fair bunch of male players and organizers, they could implement a far more sensible solution: punishing harassment.

None of y’all are getting it. Trans women have an unfair advantage in chess because they can turn the king into another queen.

I think people generally agree that the drafts for the Vietnam war were not justified.

BATTLE-POPE, INITIATE COMBAT SEQUENCE.

If it’s a crime, do not fire them, lock them up in pris-

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the actions “treason” and has initiated criminal proceedings.

Oh. Oh well.

It was probably framing it like

Fun fact: All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover.

Instead of something like “we noticed the effects of climate change exceptionally this year because we stopped blowing sulphur (…)”. Yes, this is probably pedantic in a room where everyone understands anthropocentric climate change. Still, I can understand why some people might want to be extremely clear with how we use language regarding this topic, given… Everything that’s going on.

Get someone killed because you irresponsibly drunk before driving and you get sent to jail. Get someone killed because you wanted to cut costs to make more money, have a slap of the wrist and perhaps pay reparations to the family and off to home you go.

Note that the EFF is a minority party that is nowhere close to getting the government. Mandela’s party, the African National Congress, is nowhere the same at all. Don’t let idiots conflate the two.

Some important distinctions that must be made:

Resisting active colonization is a fair goal, but these people aren’t calling for the expulsion of people who consciously made the decision to invade their country, but for the ethnic cleansing of the descendants of those colonizers too, which doesn’t make it any less of a call for genocide.

Reclaiming reparations and economic justice is fair. You can do it by investigating crimes committed during apartheid and finding out which wealth comes from taking advantage of an unfair economic framework based on exploitation and racism. If you go through the route of claiming “all white people in South Africa are colonizers and therefore may be stripped of property”, the logical conclusion is that a poor white dumbfuck who was born after Mandela’s rise to power, didn’t get an inheritance of some sort, but worked hard and bought a small plot of land should receive the same treatment as Elon Musk’s father, which is an insane take and not based on a desire of economic justice, but on identitarian, racist lines.

Agreed with the take that Ukraine is going to have a difficult road ahead if they want to join the EU. But that shouldn’t be the end of the discussion. We can set up EU-Ukraine deals like we have with Norway, UK, Switzerland and many other countries in the meantime. Deals to guarantee Ukraine’s defense and to provide help in the reconstruction of the country should have high priority.

The solution will definitely require one or several bots or drones of some sort, but even the act of getting the bot inside might trigger a trap that damages the room itself. I suppose the archeologists will eventually have to request resources to set up a combined team that involves engineers.

…But mostly due to their extremely privileged position at the strait. That’s probably even more valuable than having oil.

So things as usual.

The genuine peripheralisation and plunder of Ukraine, it can be seen, has been carried out by the advanced capitalism of the West. In these circumstances, arguments designed to blame Russia for Ukraine’s economic dilemmas over the years are distracting and unhelpful.

It is a remarkable example of moral degradation to call an unfair trade relationship “plunder” when the country this author is making apologia for has actually invaded, destroyed cities, murdered thousands and actually, literally plundered Ukraine, and not in figurative terms.

The relations of core-periphery are a phenomenon that deserves to be taken seriously, not to be used as a use-and-throw-away talking point when you’re out of arguments to defend your preferred imperial power.

Speaking to weekly magazine Der Spiegel, in an interview first published on Saturday, Skea warned against laying too much value on the international community’s current nominal target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared the pre-industrial era.

“We should not despair and fall into a state of shock” if global temperatures were to increase by this amount, he said.

In a separate discussion with German news agency DPA, Skea expanded on why.

“If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change,” he said.

“The world won’t end if it warms by more than 1.5 degrees,” Skea told Der Spiegel. “It will however be a more dangerous world.”

Surpassing that mark would lead to many problems and social tensions, he said, but still that would not constitute an existential threat to humanity.

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Skea predicted that one difficult area might prove to be changing people’s lifestyles. He said that no scientist could tell people how to live or what to eat.

“Individual abstinence is good, but it alone will not bring about the change to the extent it will be necessary,” Skea said. “If we are to live more climate consciously, we need entirely new infrastructure. People will not get on bikes if there are no cycle paths.”

Skea said he also wanted to adapt the IPCC so that it could provide better and more targeted advice to specific groups of people on how they could act to combat climate change.

He named groups like town planners, landowners and businesses: “With all these things it’s about real people and their real lives, not scientific abstractions. We need to come down a level,” he told DPA.

How to self-report for brain damage without mentioning you have brain damage

I’m an Ex-christian. Religion has provoked plenty of suffering against me and my family through my life. I want to have the right to burn a Bible. The same way, I want Ex-muslims to have the right to burn the Quran.