Please also report people being rude, that’s a temp ban here.

Good article from forward on the existing Nazi collaborator monuments in Latvia, and their participation in the Holocaust.

Stalin offered the western powers a million men to field against nazi germany, and they refused.

It’s the most anti-communist country on the planet, so there’s not much hope. Talk of raising wages or organizing collectively, or not agreeing with US imperialist foreign policy gets you labelled a commie / tankie by its witch-hunting, McCarthyite majority.

If there’s a list of countries to next take the communist road, the US would be dead last.

This has never done anything in countries that use it, like SK, Japan, Australia, etc. It might make the candidate stacking a little more expensive, but that’s it.

If capital stands above the political system, the method of voting doesn’t matter.

For Palestine specifically, Khalidi’s The hundred years war on Palestine goes over the period of transition from the ottoman empire, to zionist colonization. It goes in-depth into peaceful relations between religious communities for hundreds of years before zionism.

As for the middle ages through the ottoman empire, you can glance over these wiki sections, but its fairly universally accepted that Islamic states were in general refuges and safe-havens for jewish peoples who had to flee christian persecution, or those who already lived in the regions.

This is the correct answer. So many US’isms are bourgeois / aristocratic imitation.

Cars / wasteful transportation, lawns, sprawled out cities, high amounts of meat consumption, vacation homes / timeshares / exotic vacations, having servants, etc. These are things that are only possible for countries with huge amounts of land and resources, and not sustainable or doable for most of the world.

Palestinians fighting for their homes, and their right to exist, are not terrorists. We should not let the ICC or any “official” body dictate morality for us; we know the Palestinian cause is a just one.

but let’s not pretend the Palestinians wouldn’t be doing the same given the upper hand.

They lived in peace for hundreds of years before the zionist settler-colonial project. So there’s no evidence that the victims of Zionism can be equated with their oppressors, just because “all religion bad”.

Muslim countries historically have been far kinder to their religious minorities than any european one also.

Least violent westerner.

Throwing a temper tantrum because you want the world to be destroyed in a nuclear war.

It should be noted that social media companies like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc all have major incentives to inflate their user counts (with bots, or counting inactive users). Those user counts are the product that they’re selling to advertisers to set up on their platform.

We don’t have that incentive, in fact its the opposite, we’d rather have less users that are more active, as more users require more moderation resources and time.

The idea that Russia was provoked into invading their neighbors is ridiculous if you actually look at the history Russias relations with their neighbors in the late 00’s. It’s just imperialism…

@[email protected] thanks for linking this.

This could’ve been a great episode of columbo.

Anyone who has the thought: “yes i would kill clone me”, you better watch your back, your clone thinks the same way you do.

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Never thought about it before, but I guess this makes portal guns impossible, since scenarios like this break conservation of energy.