Oh cool, look the Democrats are trying to suppress the vote in Michigan.

A Disney movie? Believe it or not, piracy.

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The way I understood your point is that their foundational atrocity, the Nakba, makes majority-Jewish democracy impossible. I.e., it could have never at any point in its history have been a democratic country. Did I understand your point wrong?

To that point I responded that other ethnostate democracies exist in the region that also have foundational atrocities in their history but are now pretty democratic and pretty peaceful, …all things considered. But they had to learn the lesson the hard way. That’s my point, that Israelis need to at some point also face the harsh reality of the impossibility of their nationalist delusions. Just like the Greeks, the Turks, the Bulgarians etc.

I don’t see it. Same shit happened all over the Balkans, Anatolia and the Caucasus. Hell it’s not even the most recent example. Cyprus has been subjected to colonization by Anatolian Turks since the 1974 war, and that’s after the Yom Kippur War.

I don’t think so. In the context of the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, the Nakba is (sadly) not that unique.

The Israelis have been “creating facts on the ground” in the West Bank for thirty years.

These are now facts and Israel will have to reckon with what those facts mean.

It has always been a trilemma for them: Israel can be large, Jewish, democratic, pick two. They seem to have frozen the first variable, making the trilemma a dilemma: a Jewish state or a democratic one.

Because of European asylum rules. Those migrants have to be processed in their country of entry.

Also, because they are racist fucks, who are paid to believe that Greece is being invaded.

Um, you’re describing Greece plus or minus some unemployment percentage points.

That’s exactly what tens if not hundreds of thousands of young Greeks have done in the last 15 years.

Greece has a brain drain problem. This ridiculous measure is actually sold by the government as an attempt to address the shortage of certain skilled worker categories. By … incentivizing the few that are left to pack up and leave. In practice, it’s just class warfare.

The Greek ruling class is a bunch of grifters, landlords, smugglers and gangsters (always have been, since 1830) and they are basically betting on a “recovery” based on cheap labour.

Poor people also care about not dying from the effects of climate change.

Poor people don’t care about the megaprofits of the oil, gas, and automotive industries.

Wait until PSPP wins the next election and the PQ sets up another independence referendum. Then suddenly the Rest of Canada will remember that no actually the do love french and they do value bilingualism and that actually french language and culture are super duper important for the Canadian national identity.

I don’t know about this particular piece of news, but the insane expansion of HSR for example is no fake news.

I was actually talking about things like the Entente, the WW2 Allies, the League of Three Emperors, the Holy Alliance, the Quintuple Alliance, the League of the North, etc.

History most decidedly did not start in 1992.

Maybe at some point the Americans will get scared that the Chinese are actually making strides ahead of them in electrification and decarbonization to actually get unstuck from their idiotic culture war over fossil fuels.

Study a little bit of the history of great power alliances and the group of “historically allied with Russia” becomes pretty large.

Meanwhile, Turkey still does not recognize the Armenian Genocide, while playing pretend champion of human rights in the ICJ.

Ever heard of the phrase “lip service”?

Getting rid of Netanyahu is not going to bring peace. Israeli intransigence is structural, it is literally built as an apartheid system.