Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Triggernometry"
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I'm in the U.S., and yes, we've exported behavior, no question, as I rode the train into Nice, France, I saw "Crypts and Bloods" gang graffiti on walls and railway bridges, I recognized them from my neighborhood in the 1980s, This export is now world-wide, reaching Brazil and East Africa, sorry for the export, even worse than the Disneylands.
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@tonycatman I have issues with the Rosa Parks narrative, as I was taught in the 1960s she was an exhausted domestic who just wanted to sit down, and only 30 years later did I find out she was an activist who was testing of segregation on buses for the NAACP, others had been doing same, only her action gained traction in the news. Rosa Parks deserves accolades, but they should be based on facts. BTW, whites could sit in Black section if bus filled up, and in some cases, like that of Jackie Robinson and his wife, a Black person could be bumped from a flight to allow a white person to board. There was no equivalent to that in the Jim Crow South for White people, so I disagree.
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@tmapache "a lot more" is not very descriptive. I used US Govt published stats.
Your question about Iraq, now that does sound like sarcasm. I'm 69, Vietnam was part of my coming of political age. I protested, argued for 18 year olds to get the vote, and took in much of the anti-American rhetoric of my peers and the progressive left.
The rhetoric of the "Woke" left is off the rails. It blames White European Men, Capitalism, and even Science, for the coming Mass Extinction of the planet. They have flipped to an Armageddon narrative to condition people into compliance. Chomsky called it "Manufacturing Consent", it is now called "Nudge Theory", check out the "Behavioral Insights Team".
The US has never been very good at being the policeman for the world, even worse at covert intelligence work. What nation on the planet would be better at it?
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@ajs41 I was in SF 1989 at time of Earthquake, it took a decade to recover, which was spurred by the Dot Com boom in the late 1990s. It was not "perfect", and every night in the Western Addition and Fillmore there were guns shots, drug deals and danger, the area around 7th and Market, UN Plaza, was a drug taking shooting gallery. Is it worse today? Yes, but not perfect in the 1990s. BTW, in the 1980s I drove a DeSoto Cab in SF, so got a pretty good view of the place.
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@JimmyJaxJellyStax In my city they already have tax-exempt status and will be designating my neighborhood an historic LGBTQ-ii Zone, we already have tax payer paid rainbow crosswalks, $165,000, and my former Mayor, now congressman, just gave tribute to RuPaul on the floor of congress, now part of the congressional record. It's religion, with a dogma and catechism if not supported, leads to excommunication. It's now insinuating itself into government, not funny.
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Trump's action in Syria saved millions according to people on the ground there. He authorized several military actions in Syria, including airstrikes against the Syrian government in response to the use of chemical weapons and targeted strikes against ISIS targets. Proponents argue that these actions were necessary to deter the use of chemical weapons and to combat ISIS, which had committed numerous atrocities against civilians. By the time of the pullout the ISIS forces were severely degraded. Kurds have it tough everywhere in the region.
After the US withdrawal, Turkey launched a military operation into northeastern Syria, targeting Kurdish forces. This operation, known as Operation Peace Spring, resulted in clashes between Turkish and Kurdish forces and raised significant humanitarian concerns. The Kurds accused Turkey of human rights abuses and targeting civilian areas, while Turkey claimed it was targeting Kurdish militants it considers to be terrorists.
Turkey is a member of NATO, what is the US role in that situation?
In 2023, the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been involved in fighting with Arab tribes in northeast Syria. The SDF are the armed force of the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria (AANES), which is supported by the US. The SDF have been fighting against ISIL (ISIS) in Syria since 2016.
The US never stopped supporting the Kurdish SDF, as reported by both Syria and al-Jazeera. Destiny has no grasp on the issues in the Middle-East whatsoever.
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@C.D.J.Burton Don't see the oxymoron, and would admit to one, please describe. Yes, my comments related to American Jurisprudence, something with deep roots in Parliamentary Privilege, as outlined in the English Bill of Rights in 1689.
I looked for my comment you mentioned, it is gone, but not by me?
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@C.D.J.Burton Yes, I would agree, as I'm into moderation and reasoned action. The American Constitution is clear, your right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose. Civilization and Total Freedom are not compatible.
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17:23 Cortes had help from more than few dogs, when he landed on the Yucatan, the local people who were descended from the Mayan hated the Aztecs and helped Cortes, even freeing a Franciscan Friar who spoke the local language so acted as interpreter. The Aztec's were not "weak", but very young, the alliances which ruled were perhaps a century old. Dr. Taylor gives the tale short, and an inaccurate tell.
I'd add that many surnames that ended in "S" or "Z" may have been descended from Jewish Conversos, and while it was against Spanish Law from conversos to travel to the new world, we know of course they did. Ironically, horse husbandry came to the new world with Jews and led to the cowboys north and south, and the culture of the plains Indians.
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The Enlightenment may have killed G_D, but Nietzsche went on to say that the G_D idea would be persistent, and re-emerge. We are watching a new religion taking shape, and bureaucrats and professors cloistered in the humanities are becoming the new clerics producing the canon and catechism we must all live by. If you don't ally with the framework of this new religion, an inquisition is already in place to deal with you, and you will banished, excommunicated, or eventually, something worse. Murray is correct, this has happened before, human behavior has been pretty consistent for the last 120,000 years. Our pre-frontal lobe is often quite dangerous.
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Herbert Marcuse, one of the founders of the Frankfurt School, taught here in California for years, and one of his star pupils was Angela Davis, who was later fired from UCLA for being a Communist. You can't say there is "zero" connection. I was in school in the 70s and 80s watching the mutations happen. No, there is a connection, but a distortion, no doubt. It's simple, class was changed to race, all the rhetoric is the same, as is the strategy, a long march into the institutions. Gramsci. Read the intro to the proposed NEW MATH curriculum for California. It's soaked in American Deconstructionism and European Critical Theory.... it is the framework, if not the content, for CRT.
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@DarkAngel2512 "We", since Coleman's birth in 1996, almost 10 years after CRT began to be academically formalized by Crenshaw, et al, have recategorized race yet again. I use Jazz as an example of something I experience directly and know about. Jazz is now formally an ideological ghetto captured by race essentialists, which has rendered it artistically moot. We had a momentary flowering in the mid-1980s, but that's long over. I currently live in a Gay ideological ghetto with rainbow crosswalks, rainbow lifeguard stations, rainbow flags in business windows, even my local 7-11 displays a "safe place" rainbow flag in the window, which includes its corporate logo. "We" are humans, only the long and tedious process of evolution will alter our endemic bigotry and narrowing of perception based on tribal affiliation. This is why we need to teach young people both CIVICS and CIVILITY, something no longer considered relevant. It's Nietzsche's "Will to Power" for the 5% Hughes and others have identified.
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@russetbulba3199 39 were innocent workers from Thailand. Two sons were shipped hom to father.
The data reveals that on October 7, 38 children lost their lives, with three of them aged between 0 and 3 years old, and four between 3 and 6 years old. Additionally, 42 children were abducted in the Gaza Strip
Hamas terrorists brutally murdered 39 Thai nationals, and kidnapped 31 Thai nationals to Gaza,” Hagari said. “Like them, other foreign nationals were abducted, including from Tanzania, Nepal, Mexico, the US, and France
ICC Warrant charged Hamas leadership with Kidnapping, R@pae and T@rture, not Israel.
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@Si_Mondo "ethics" is an abstraction of civilization. War is an abrogation of civilization. Both Marxism/Leninism and Fascism are related to Nietzsche's ideas of Beyond Good and Evil, they both claim classical liberalism is a failure, and ethics is for weaklings.
Judaism is the foundation of Western ethics, as found in the 10 commandments and the "Golden Rule", both Marxism and Fascism considered these ethical foundations to be a kind of "opiate" of the masses. (Read Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism 1932).
Attempting to frame war in ethical terms is necessary, but without consequences, it is only an academic exercise.
War is Hell. The US armed forces did not act "ethically" in WW2, neither did my classmates in Vietnam. The Japanese were not ethical, nor were the NVA/DRV. The US now allies with the Japanese and has trade relations with Vietnam. Peace is possible, even without calls to "ethical" behavior in war.
We need more grown-ups in the room, not throwback Yippies from the 1960s.
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Israel is a nation/state, just like Jordan, and can set their own immigration law. Jordan is a Palestinian state, do they have the right of return to Jordan?
Starting in 1948, nearly 1 million Jews came, not from Brooklyn, but from North Africa, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, even India and later Ethiopia. Israel welcomed Vietnamese refugees into Israel and naturalized them. 160,000 Arabs did not leave the new state of Israel and now number 1.8 million, 21% of the population. War has consequences, and the Arabs declared war on the new State, something they promised to do as early as 1921.
The Arab League has 22 States encompassing almost 450 Million people. Israel has less than 9 million, and less than 6 million of those are Jews. Why is statism okay for Arabs but no for Jews?
BTW, during the last days of the Ottoman Empire Jews were the majority population in East Jerusalem, and before Israel was made a state Jews were half the population of Haifa. They are as indigenous as any Arab, never left, and in fact, were conquered by Arabs 1400 years ago, not 3,000.
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@pankakesnotstellar It made sense then, about an orphan virus running through the population killing like a wildfire, but not now, which is only about "feelings" being triggered. I was working at SF General Hospital in the old building next to the quarantine ward when transmission was still not fully known. I had dinner with men who had KS on their tongues and inside their mouths which you could see when they ate, I watched men dropped dead on the street from malnutrition and pneumonia, diseases related to HIV infection, I understand much from that time, lived it, and only wish others learned that facts matter, and fantasy is not sustainable. Kathleen Stock, even after being cancelled by her own ideology, continues to believe it is correct, only administered by the wrong people. Just like some say Communism is correct, but never correctly applied. Nonsense.
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I'm 66 years-old, was 16 in 1971, of my group of friends, perhaps 20 in number, count more than half dead, only a few were addicted, the others died because drugs opened their "minds" to dangerous behavior they could not handle. I was also convicted of felony possession for sale in 1975. I understand the issue, understand "turning off" how ironic, the area of the brain that generates "depression" is a good thing. Does science yet know what percentage of people with clinical depression have an "organic" disease of the brain that requires such invasive treatment, a treatment that will have to be monitored for years and years? I often feel this is a regression back to the NEW AGE thinking of Power Pyramids and Magic Crystals. Dr. Tim Leary, before he was kicked out of the academy, ran tests on habitual criminals with psycho-active drugs, he had good results, but didn't play the game, and even Huxley told him not to be the "Pied Piper" of this stuff, but here we go again.
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@lordsneed9418 "alternative", is that I don't believe math can be used to value individual suffering. It's a poor argument. There is no "alternative" explanation.
The principle of proportionality in warfare is primarily concerned with balancing military advantage against potential civilian harm. It's rooted in international humanitarian law and aims to limit the impact of armed conflict on non-combatants. Israel has kept to that standard, and I believe it would stand up to scrutiny in an international court.
KK's most egregious historical error was the conflation of European acts toward Native Americans and the issues of land in the Levant. Not equivalent.
Regardless of the "math" question, which is a red herring at this point, Jews fought alongside the British in WW1 to free the region from the Ottoman/Turk. The Arabs also fought. The Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not, even after they received the largest share of the British Mandate, Trans-Jordan. Proof? Here it is: "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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Israel considers Area C to be fully within its control, and some parties have proposed annexing it. The Oslo II Accord of 1995 divided the West Bank into three administrative areas, including Area C, which was to be gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction. However, negotiations have stalled and stopped, and Israel still has full control of Area C.
Oslo failed, the security concerns of Israel were not met, the PA never had political control of Islamist terror groups, proven in June 14, 2007 by the takeover of Gaza by Hamas and the continued support for the Lions' Den on the West Bank. Area C is required then for security, as is the Golan Heights.
Destiny's arguments depends on the ignorance of others. Do you own fact checking.
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@nicholasjohnferriman8283 Here are just a few violations by Hamas over the years: 15 July: Israel accepted the ceasefire initiated by Egypt and stopped all fire at 09:00. However, terrorists fired more than 50 rockets at Israeli communities. Only after six hours of continuous rocket attacks did the IDF respond.
17 July: Israel agreed to a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire. The terrorist organizations rejected it and fired rockets, including at the city of Be'er-Sheva.
20 July: Israel approved a two-hour medical/humanitarian window in the area of Shejaiya, following an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) request. Forty minutes after the ceasefire began, Hamas violated it. Nevertheless, Israel implemented the ceasefire, even extending it for two more hours.
26-27 July: Israel respected an UN-requested humanitarian ceasefire from 08:00-20:00 on Saturday, 26 July. Israel announced its readiness to prolong the ceasefire until midnight, but a few minutes after 20:00, Hamas renewed firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
On the same day (26 July), Hamas announced a 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire, at 14:00. Hamas violated its own ceasefire a short time later. Despite Hamas’ continuous fire, Israel decided to extend the humanitarian ceasefire a second time, from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday.
28 July: Israel accepted Hamas' request for a ceasefire in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. The IDF was instructed to cease military attacks, but Hamas continued to launch rockets at Israel.
30 July: Israel announced a temporary humanitarian ceasefire between 15:00-19:00. A few minutes after the ceasefire began Hamas fired rockets at the southern cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon, as well as other Israeli communities.
1 August: Israel accepted the UN/US proposal for a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire beginning 8:00 Friday (1 August). Hamas violated the ceasefire an hour-and-a-half later when, at approximately 09:30, an attack was executed against IDF forces. Hamas terrorists, including a suicide attacker, fired at the IDF forces. During the attack, two IDF soldiers were killed by Hamas fire and Israel suspects that Second Lt. Hadar Goldin was kidnapped during the exchange of fire and dragged into a tunnel. (He was declared dead on 3 August based on forensic evidence found in the tunnel).
4 August: Israel authorized a 7-hour humanitarian window in Gaza, from 10:00-17:00. Hamas kept firing rockets throughout the lull.
5-8 August: Israel accepted the Egyptian proposed 72-hour ceasefire, beginning on Tuesday, 5 August at 08:00. Israel had already pulled out all its forces from the Gaza Strip. Prior to its expiration on 8 August, Israel notified Egypt that it accepted a 72-hour extension but the Palestinian delegation was not willing to renew the ceasefire. At approximately 04:30 on Friday, 8 August, two rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel, in violation of the ceasefire that was set to expire at 08:00. Terrorists increased the rocket fire immediately after 08:00, injuring a number of Israelis. Israel held its fire for hours, but eventually was forced to react.
10-13 August: A 72-hour ceasefire began at midnight between 10-11 August. Despite the firing of several rockets towards the end of the 72-hour ceasefire at midnight on Tuesday, 13 August, the ceasefire has been extended for five days, until midnight on Monday, 18 August.
19 August: Although the ceasefire was extended for an additional 24 hours, at about 3:30 pm, three rockets fired from Gaza hit Beersheva and Netivot, violating the ceasefire. In response, the IDF struck terrorist targets in Gaza. Throughout the rest of the day, a total of 50 rockets were fired from Gaza, strikingthroughout southern Israel, including a shopping center in the Ashkelon coast region, as well as in Tel Aviv and, shortly before midnight, the Jerusalem area.
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@jasonmehlhorn4359 Marx and Friedrich Engels, his collaborator, contributed immensely to socialist theory through their works, most notably "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital."
Marx's contributions helped to shape and define modern socialist thought. Perhaps I would have better stated it as "modern socialism".
Norman has in many interviews called Chomsky his mentor, both believe Capitalism should be ended.
Chomsky is critical of capitalism, he advocates for alternative economic models based on principles of social justice. He has expressed support for libertarian socialism, cooperatives, and participatory economics as potential alternatives to capitalism.
Norman is framed in this belief, which informs his opinion on the current state of Israeli. Both Chomsky and Norman believe Israel is "Capitalism", and as such, perpetuates social injustice in the region. This is the Soviet narrative which was taken up by the PLO in the 1960s. It is a brand of Liberation Theology, a viralent form when combined with Islamist theology.
Israel is fighting this weird Chimera of Marxist dialectic fused with Islamic Jihad. A fusion wishing for one form of Armageddon or another.
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@nickwyatt9498 If that were mostly true, there would not be much to worry about. I have a neighbor who is a PhD, not from Harvard, but a state University in California, which he obtained in 1983. His focus was "Ethnic Studies", and he went on to chair a department at a large institution in Texas. He calls himself a "Social Democrat", but in hanging with him, casually, a little drinking, he spilled the beans, and he is fully franchised in the different aspects of the Frankfurt school, Gramsci, etc., and began waxing poetic about "Critical Theory" and "Deconstructionism", and how "we" Marxists are taking back the institutions that was stolen from us by Scientists and Technocrats. I could see the sparkle in his eyes, which then glazed over in an almost religious ecstasy. I believe you underestimate what's going on, and how the infiltration is almost complete.
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Anarcho/Syndicalist, claims Chomsky, and Norman claims "mentorship" with Chomsky:
Maoism and anarcho-syndicalism are both ideologies that fall under the broader umbrella of socialism, but they have significant differences in their principles, methods, and goals.
1. *Theory and Ideology:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism is a political and social theory derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China. Maoism emphasizes revolutionary struggle and guerrilla warfare as means to achieve a communist society. It focuses on the mobilization of peasants and the rural poor, advocating for a protracted people's war against capitalist and imperialist forces.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism that emphasizes the organization of workers into decentralized labor unions as a means to overthrow the capitalist system and establish a stateless society. It rejects hierarchical structures, including the state and capitalism, and advocates for direct action, solidarity, and worker control of the means of production.
2. *Role of the State:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism typically advocates for a transitional socialist state, led by a vanguard party representing the interests of the proletariat. This state is seen as necessary to carry out the revolutionary transformation of society and defend against counter-revolutionary forces.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalists reject the idea of a transitional state, viewing all forms of government as inherently oppressive. Instead, they aim for the immediate abolition of the state and the establishment of decentralized, self-managed communities and workplaces.
3. *Economic Organization:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism traditionally advocates for a centrally planned economy, with the state controlling the means of production and distribution. However, Maoists have also experimented with more decentralized economic models, such as agricultural communes during Mao Zedong's rule in China.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalists envision a decentralized economic system based on worker-owned and -managed enterprises organized into federations of labor unions. Production and distribution would be coordinated through voluntary associations and mutual aid, without the need for central planning or market mechanisms.
4. *Approach to Revolution:*
- *Maoism:* Maoism emphasizes the need for a disciplined revolutionary party to lead the struggle against capitalism and imperialism. It sees armed conflict and mass mobilization as essential tactics for achieving revolutionary change.
- *Anarcho-Syndicalism:* Anarcho-syndicalists believe in direct action, such as strikes, boycotts, and sabotage, as the primary means of challenging the power of capital and the state. They emphasize building grassroots solidarity and worker empowerment to create a revolutionary counter-power from below.
While both Maoism and anarcho-syndicalism share a commitment to socialism and the overthrow of capitalism, they diverge significantly in their strategies, organizational models, and visions of a post-revolutionary society." ChatGPT 3.5
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@moodyonroody5313 Jews were the majority in East Jerusalem under the Ottoman/Turk. Ask yourself why Jewish populations shrank in areas like Safed in the Galilei and even in Gaza over that few hundred years. Jews made up perhaps 8-15% of what became the British Mandate, the vast majority of that land became Trans-Jordan. Jews didn't take a disproportionate amount of the region ceded by the Ottoman/Turk. Beginning in 1948 close to one million Jews from other than Europe came to Israel, and along with Arabs, now make up the majority of Israeli population. You do understand Israel is not a majority European nation colonizing the region?
Jews fought with the British in WW1, there were Jewish battalions, Jews gave their lives to free the land from the Ottoman/Turk, just as Arabs did. Jews were willing to share, Arabs were not, and still don't. Proof? Here it is: "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921."
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@MineralGPK Sure, but both, including Rhode Island, profited mightily from the slave trade, and would not exist in their current configuration otherwise. I don't buy into the 1619 project, and it is possible there were people born in 1789 who lived to see Slavery ended, so it ended in America within the beginning of America and lifespan of one human. But it was "wide-spread", in both actual terms, and its economic impact. Slavery was at an end of its economic usefulness anyway, with technology, we made a slave of the carbon molecule, and labor then needed to be skilled and educated so they could be good consumers. I wonder what that would have looked like? Southern elites and carpetbaggers did figure it out, and it was called "Jim Crow" and created vagrancy laws that made indentured servants out of former slaves. Just because all that is true, does not mean I have to put up with acts of revenge by their descendants, and neither do you.
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@dabankarim3795 175,000 Palestinians stayed in the new nation/state of Israel. They now number 1.9 million, 20% of the population. They serve in the Knesset the Supreme Court and the IDF. The Palestinian state of Jordan was created in 1946, it restricts the number of Christians in government and academia, and there are no Jews.
In 1920, at the time of the San Remo conference and the creation of the temporary British mandate, Jews were willing to share, it was some Arabs who were not, and still don't. Proof? Here it is:
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress.
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@Ondolite LOL, Kisin knows more than the average Westerner, to be sure, but that's not much.
Here's what I know. The early 20th Century Pan-Arabists did not want a Zionist nation/state in the region. They were okay with Western European Jewish money, just not Western European Jews. They said as much in a report to Churchill in 1921.
There are less than 6 million Jews in Israel, and about 450 million Arabs in the 22 nation Arab League. Oppressor? Victim?
Read the report to Churchill in 1921. It's full of hate and threats of violence if a majority Jewish state is created in the region, however small. That's as true today as it was over 100 years ago. It's the Arabs who have been suing for ethnic cleansing, just as they are doing now in the Sudan.
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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@AutobahnBuilder ChatGPT definition of the origin and meaning of "Based"
Lil B, also known as "The BasedGod," is a rapper, songwriter, and internet personality who popularized the term "based." He often uses it in his music and social media presence. The exact meaning of "based" can be somewhat subjective and has evolved over time, but generally, Lil B has explained it as being true to oneself, expressing positivity, and being confident in one's individuality.
The term "based" is thought to have originated from the word "basehead," a slang term for someone addicted to crack cocaine. However, Lil B transformed its meaning into something positive and empowering. He has said that "based" means being yourself, not caring what others think, and staying true to your beliefs and values. It's about embracing who you are and spreading love and positivity.
Since Lil B popularized the term, it has gained widespread usage, especially in internet culture and among younger generations, to describe someone or something as authentic, genuine, or unapologetically unique.
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@henrydobson9419 Are you saying the primary intended use, by both the United States and Israel is to kill children in their beds?
The goal is defense of the free world, a responsibility the US took on, reluctantly, after WW2. It's performance has been a mixed bag, some failure, some success. Israel is a success. It's a liberal democracy in a neighborhood with few liberal friends. The US indeed uses Israel as a proxy for war, as it did in the 1970s with the F4s sold to Israel that engaged Soviet MIGs in 1973.
The US is about to ship offensive weapons to the Ukraine as Russian drones bomb areas where children are going to school 18 feet underground, with more than a million Children displaced outside the border of their homes, and 10s of thousands kidnapped by Russia and forced into adoption in Russian homes. In the Sudan, non-Arab children are dying everyday from violence and malnutrition. The world is a tough place to be a kid, and why I'd rather America had the premier MIC than any other nation/state in the world today.
Down the street from me last week, at University of California @ Irvine, a professor was arrested for refusing a legal demand to leave the property; he was wearing the Red Scarf of the Communist "Young Pioneers". America has a viral infection on its campuses, the takeover by anti-American, anti-Capitalist ideologues who teach hate against classical liberal values. These protest will get Donald Trump elected, just as the protests in the 1960s and early 1970s got Nixon elected. The Marxist Dialectic equals chaos, always has.
Marx predicted a transition phase where there would be a dictatorship of the proletariat. The post-Stalin Marxists like Marcuse predicted that transitional dictatorship would actually be women and other marginalized groups in the West. That's the real battlefront here in America, and to some degree, because of the weird allegiance between the neo-Marxists and Islamists, Israel, too.
There are 22 Arab states in a League which emcompasses almost half a billion people. Israel is less than 9 million, with almost 2 million of those Arab citizens. Why is statism evil for Jews by not Arabs?
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@henrydobson9419 Iran would be fighting with Sunni tribes regardless of Israel. Tribal warfare is endemic, look at the recent carnage in Syria, 500,000 civilians dead, or the ethnic cleansing of non-Arabs in the Sudan, or civil war in Yemen.
The Hashemites controlled the Hejaz until the war with Ibn Saud in the 1930s. Both Churchill and TE Lawrence were correct about the place.
Israel is a pimple they cannot pop, to that I agree, but it is not the central issue, which is the incursion of Western Liberal Values into the region. Worth the fight.
9/11 was Wahhabi inspired, enemy of Iran. Motivated by what happened in Afghanistan, not so much Israel.
Again, why is it okay for there to be Pan-Arab statism but not Jewish statism in the region? The 1st and 2nd Temples are material fact, Jews there first, never left.
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@henrydobson9419 The "proxy" was cold-war in origin, as I mentioned, Egypt turned to the Soviets and flew MIGs in the 1973 war against US F4s. Lot's of good intel from that.
See below, the internal conflicts in these failed states dwarf the conflict with Israel. Check out Black September in Jordan and the recent trial is Swiss court of Bashar Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad.
Defections in Soviet MIGs
On 15–17 August 1968, the pilots of nine Syrian MiG-17s and three MiG-21s defected to Jordan after failing in a coup attempt
On June 14, 1976, A Palestinian pilot in the Syrian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant Mahmoud Musleh Yasin, defected to Iraq with his MiG-23 Flogger.
On July 27, 1976, Syrian pilot Captain Ahmed Abdul Qadar Al-Termanini, the "October war" hero, defected to Iraq with his MiG-21 fighter jet.
On October 11, 1989, Syrian pilot Abdel Bassem landed his MiG-23ML in Israel.
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@brandonborgerding182 "more sustainable"? Not sure what that means. The current GDP of Israel is quite impressive. The amount of direct aid from the US is not substantial, and an equal measure goes to Egypt, Jordan, and many other countries around the world. If the 22 Arab League states, numbering 450 million in population, were to make peace with Israel, recognize its nation/state borders, there would be little need for the US to aid any of the countries in the region, which is really tantamount to a bribe. Syria is still in civil war, Yemen, too, and Turkey, the UAE and Iran are financing genocide against non-Arabs in Sudan. The planet remains a dangerous place, my American tax dollars are being spent in defense of my self--interest, so okay by me.
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@afRolowkey "Taxation without Representation", not about being taxed, but about not being an equal member of the community. I learned that in 4th grade in 1964 and never forgot it.
Franklin and Washington were VERY different people. Franklin was over 6 feet tall, a body builder, a womanizer, and most likely an agnostic. He invented two genius devices, one of which saved 100,000s of lives in Europe, the "Lightening Rod", and a energy conserving stove, still in use, called appropriately, the Franklin Stove. He did not patent either device, he was already rich, and gave these inventions freely to the world. Franklin is on the same level as Newton, Einstein and Di Vinci. One of he great minds of the last 500 years.
Washington was not particularly well educated, he failed at a number of early attempts to make a life, but developed a mature ethical and moral stand in the world. He could have been KING of America, he was offered that, or President for LIFE, but turned it down, walking away from power after two terms. Really, first time a revolutionary leader ever voluntarily gave up power, setting a strong moral and ethical precedent for the world.
These are the more seminal things to know about those two men.
BTW, the majority of slaves in the Washington family were not his, but his wife's through her first marriage, You can fact check that.
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Niall, Niall, In the federal election of July 1932, the Nazis won 37.3% of the popular vote, they did not have a majority of the people behind them. On March 7, 1936, Hitler repudiated agreement on the Rhineland and ordered the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) into the demilitarized zone in 1938. Austria welcomed Hitler in, next stop the Sudetenland. This began the reassertion of German power the PEOPLE wanted, and so did much of the World, including some in England and America. Naill, shame, shame on you. Trump is not HITLER, he's PT Barnum.
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Sam assumes "Eleusinian Mysteries" were psychedelic, a fact not in evidence, or that they were available to everyone, which they were not, or the effect was universally the same, which I doubt.
Does Sam think Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler would have benefited from a psychedelic experience? Scary thought. Really didn't help the realistic and pragmatic judgement of Dr. Tim.
I would like to add, since Sam has such disdain for the value of organized religion, the great franchiser of Christianity, Saul/Paul of Tarsus, had what is described as a psychedelic transformation while on the road to Damascus searching for his donkeys. Ironic, in that Saul/Paul meets Sam(uel) on that journey.
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@Metonymy1979 Despite legal protections provided by the Weimar Constitution, discrimination against Jews was evident in various aspects of public life. For example:
Economic Discrimination: Jews faced discrimination in employment, education, and access to certain professions. Many businesses openly displayed signs indicating they didn't serve Jews, and Jews often encountered barriers to advancement in their careers due to anti-Semitic hiring practices.
Social Exclusion: Jews were often excluded from certain social clubs, organizations, and events. Social discrimination was pervasive, with Jews facing ostracism and exclusion from mainstream society.
Violence and Harassment: Jews were targeted in acts of violence, vandalism, and harassment by anti-Semitic groups. Synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses, and homes were sometimes attacked, and Jews faced physical threats and intimidation.
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@wasdwasdedsf "we", don't include me. I don't know, and in no position to know. What I know is the Dems were willing to do anything, as now, to keep DJT out of the WH. Nancy is on record, again, saying so, just last week. Donald is correct, there is a danger here, but I understand that's his instinct, which lacks real knowledge to understand the full scope of the danger, or how baked in it is at this point.
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@tistelnilsson On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children. On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children.
OCHA did not explain its actions but the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies did:
The UN attributed its original, higher figures to the Hamas-controlled Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza, whose figures OCHA has cited continually for the past two months. The UN gave no source for the lower figures in its May 8 update, but the figures precisely match those in a May 2 report from a different Hamas-controlled organization, the Gaza Ministry of Health.
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@YesBruv105 No, as you know, there are many forms and sects of "Marxism", often ripe with intermural conflict, Trotsky was assassinated, for Pete's sake. There's a brand of American Marxism fathered by a member of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, along with Gramsci, who saw that violent revolution would not come to settled democracies, and the only option was a "soft-Marxism" with a long march into the institutions from the inside. This 3rd wave is using race instead of class as the wedge issue, and doing it very successfully, but I don't believe it is sustainable, because as mixed race children start asking their parents if they should "hate" grandpa for being "white", the end of this tactic is near.
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@emilianosintarias7337 Again, Mormons think of themselves as Christians, but few Christians consider Mormons Christian. The foundation and framework of CRT is Marxist, as stated by those who both created and promote it. What's wrong with Marxism? At base it asserts human behavior is a cultural construct, which I believe is fallacious. It's possible to function quite well in a fallacious framework, like believing the world is FLAT, something which works just fine in a limited context, but is not correct. Marxism is not unlike the Flat Earth societies of today, they make what sound like good arguments when you hear them, but further research proof them to be laughable, if not dangerous.
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@souetrejeremy 21% ARE Arab, 160,000 out of the 900,000 didn't leave, and now number 1.9 million. It's not "IF", it is a fact. Arabs server on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in the IDF. Show me the comparable in the region. Jews fought against the Turks and won. The Arabs didn't want to share, and I have the proof (see below)
"transferred from the Ottomans, to the British, and then to Israel." LOL "Transferred" in a peace treaty after a World War the Jews fought in to free Palestine from the Ottoman/Turk. British NEVER held title to the region, it was an Allied Power TEMPORARY administrative mandate. Israel was a creation of the United Nations, a vote was taken. Jordan was a creation of the Brits, Iraq was a creation of the Brits, not Israel.
Should "The Land" go back to Turkey? They lost it in a war.
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress.
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@tonycatman yes, and in my post I mentioned Rosa Parks was part of an organized effort by the NAACP to challenge segregated buses, that was my point, I was not taught that, came out much later. She still deserves great credit, but it was the luck of the draw that her case got published while others did not. The myth of her being this poor, tired domestic just wanting a seat on the bus is pure fantasy. Her real life is more compelling than the myth, glad it is finally being told.
Oh, same true for colored drinking fountain, if white one did not work, whites could use the colored, but not vis versa.
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@kaybrown7733 Public Television Show "Finding Your Roots, Season 3, Episode 1"
Ty Burrell [star of “Modern Family”] had heard a family story that his maternal great-grandmother was black, a woman named Susanna Weeks, who managed on her own to make her way from North Carolina and Tennessee all the way to Oregon, and then to stake a claim, again, all by herself, under the Homestead Act.
Women Homesteaders
The Homestead Act of 1862 created opportunities for women that had not existed before. Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted women were eligible to claim up to 160 acres of federal land in their own names. According to the act’s stipulations, these women could take ownership
only after five years, when they had successfully demonstrated that they were able to “prove up,” or improve, their properties. Thousands of women took advantage of this opportunity, and an estimated 10–12 percent of all homesteaders were women." - PBS California Teacher's Lesson Plan
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@kaybrown7733 "Jim Crow" is a late 19th Century term, the racial segregation laws were on the books for decades before that. You want the "whole" history, you got it Black women could legally Homestead Land in 1862, the historical record shows they did, and successfully. Why is that a bad thing?
Another whole history, the first person of color to be Vice-President was not Kamala Harris, but Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation, a registered Native indigenous person and member of the GOP.
One of the largest slave owners in the south was Black, William Ellison Jr.
Stand Watie was a Native American who achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, Watie was a Cherokee chief and soldier who commanded the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles at Pea Ridge, and later led a brigade of Native American troops. His Cherokee name, De-ga-ta-ga, means "he stands". They fought for the south and slavery.
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