I’m giving up on Lemmy. Too many toxic users. Too many bad mods who fail to remove the toxicity. And toxicity seems to be part of the culture here, judging from how everyone acts like it’s normal. Also, why is everyone a programmer?
Yes. Absolutely.
Unfortunately, Israel doesn’t want peace as much as it wants all of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Peace will happen when the international community forces Israel to return the West Bank and most of East Jerusalem (including the Al-Aqsa mosque) to the Palestinians and recognize Palestinian statehood.
And what guarantee is there that the Palestinians wouldn’t have it worse under Kamala Harris and Josh “Peace is not Possible” Shapiro?
But nothing is more suspicious than seeing someone go from limited mention to being called a zionist constantly
I think that’s a pretty natural consequence of:
Reports that he is the front-runner to be Harris’s vice-presidential pick (which pretty naturally takes someone from “who?” to the topic of national discussion); and
The Philadelphia Inquirer digging up an old op-ed where he says that the Palestinians are incapable of governing themselves.
I’m going to skip over everything else that has been reported about that op-ed and focus on that one line. Because that is bonkers.
I do believe people’s political opinions can change, and that’s why I’ll forgive most of the op-ed (my opinions have certainly changed since I was 20, and I’m not much younger than Shapiro). But that one line speaks to a bigoted, colonialist mindset that would have been more at home in the 1860s than the 1990s.
I honestly think it’s disqualifying. For someone to think like that at age 20 points to such a lack of empathy, it’s probably the sign of a sociopathic personality.
If Harris picks Shapiro, then I guess I’m back to voting third-party.
I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.
The Crusaders didn’t do a fraction of what Muslims did during their actual initial conquest.
The Crusaders killed every man, woman, and child in Jerusalem until the streets were flowing with blood.
because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge
What are you talking about?
Are you blaming the collapse of the Roman Empire and the ensuing Dark Ages on Muslims? (A religion that didn’t even exist yet at the start of the Dark Ages.)
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In case anyone needs a refresher on Marianne Williamson:
Senator, astronaut, navy captain, identical twin, and straight white man.
And his wife is Gabby Giffords, a former congresswoman who survived being shot in the head in an assassination attempt (and I mean actually shot in the head, not just a grazed ear).
The only thing this may do is maybe lower the Israel issue and weapon sales.
Good enough for me. I’m not expecting her to bring in America’s golden age or anything.
Free Palestine.
No chance. Maybe Harris/Kelly.
Basically, voting 3rd party in this system is, in fact, throwing away your vote.
If my preferred party gets more votes this year than they did four years ago, that is a good outcome. Gradually increasing the third-party turnout year over year is how we will chip away at the two-party system.
And if my vote helps my preferred party increase their vote, that is a good use of my vote.
Season 8, Episode 1 - “Treehouse of Horror VII”
And Homer gloats “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos”, not realizing that voting for Kodos instead of Kang makes no difference.
And when somebody suggests voting third-party, they’re told: “Go ahead. Throw your vote away!”
As a result, the humans all end up enslaved because they didn’t want to vote third-party.
For protection.
There was a writer’s strike in the middle of the final season which seems to have sent the show off the rails.
I knew a woman who took a job in a porn shop while she worked on her book (a children’s book), and depression set in when she realized she hadn’t touched her manuscript in 2 years and her career was being a porn clerk.
She ended up becoming the manager of three stores.
Edit: This was back in the ‘90s, when people bought porn in stores.