we don’t have an endless supply of planet to go around, but greed is infinite

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the sheer hubris…

turns out the kind of people who want asshole policies are themselves… well… not burdened by conscience

oh. yeah damaging property is kinda missing the “terror” in “terrorism”. I get it. Thank you :)

I do think that arresting people for voicing their support is counter-productive, unnecessarily heavy-handed and at the very least controversial from a freedom-of-speech point of view.

But I don’t see how the government should not ban a group that resorts to sabotage to achieve their political goals? Any state – democratically legitimized or no – will be very twitchy about stuff that touches national security.

Am I missing some nuance here?

Charming.

There is such a thing as context. Red paint on a street is an annoyance (and may make for very visible and effective protest). Red paint on hi-tech equipment is sabotage (and makes for very unpleasant reactions by the owners of said equipment).

Mandatory Palestine

the UK is against backing “Palestine Action” which is a group that has sabotaged British military equipment. Surprisingly, the British government doesn’t take kindly to that sort of thing.

how dare you bring logic to a circlejerk

the strongest countries, period.

China and Russia are colonial powers, too.

i dont know how changing flags every day helps victims of concentration camps.

Probably yes, maybe even more so. Plus, harsh winters. Yay.

excuse me, but that is shit logic.

people are indivisible, which makes them different from a gallon of water.

what does

Think bigger.

This is what sometimes happens when you give people power without controlling for outcomes (vulgo: without oversight).

Everything else is circumstantial. It can be a religious context, but it doesnt have to be. Bad things have happened in state-run institutions, in foster homes, in prisons, in families - wherever there is a power imbalance that goes unchecked.

uprisings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc? Yes very much.

I’m thinking of it more as the decline of the Roman Republic.

don’t worry, there’s still a lot of way to go for the American empire.

would you also claim the same for the United States? Their original sin is even darker, as most natives did not move away but simply died.

Iriginal sin is not necessarily destiny.

Lol, this sounds like a quote from someone in 1914 being catastrophicly wrong.

…or from someone describing one of the scores of conflicts since where “regional” has been a fitting description

of course not. the alternative should be a free and open society where Jews are but one of many groups.

Israel is currently sliding away from this - sadly - but it still has the potential

for starters, If you’d like to immerse yourself into the system of Middle Eastern clients and proxies, you will have an especially fun and long day going through the rather noxious minions of Iran.