NoneOfUrBusiness
@NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
- Comment on Should I permanently leave Israel? 6 months ago:
So of course in the end it should come down to what you want to do and where you see yourself living a happier life, and not what people on the internet think you should do. However, purely from a "making the world a better place" perspective, I'd recommend not returning. I get the idea of trying to change society from within, but frankly I think Israel in its current state is beyond saving. The sense of invincibility, among other issues, is too much for simple activism to fix; the country as a whole needs the Nazi Germay treatment (the de-Nazification part, not the war part). At least by not being in Israel you make sure your tax money and children aren't used in genocide.
I repeat, do what you feel is best for you, but to directly answer your question your absence does more to weaken the Israeli Apartheid apparatus than your presence. Do vote though; definitely vote.
- Comment on a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave? 6 months ago:
I mean yes but it's diminishing returns. The rule kind of falls apart at these numbers.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 7 months ago:
car makers just jack up their prices so they make more off the subsidy
Exactly.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 7 months ago:
Really we should be subsidizing EVs from our own manufacturers.
You are. Still not doing much to corporate greed.
- Comment on Big booty meteorologists are best meteorologists 7 months ago:
I mean no, but the people with meteorology degrees are probably not gonna be working a job where the number one requirement is to be hot (and not, y'know, have a meteorology degree).
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 7 months ago:
Yeah. The protests aren't because Bibi's actions are too right-wing; they're because even as a far-right leader he's doing a shit job. Him being a genocidal far right leader isn't, as a rule, an issue with the general Israeli public.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 7 months ago:
There are protests against Bibi because of his disregard for the hostages' lives and attempt to destroy Israeli democracy. His party isn't losing support AFAIK, and the right wing is actually growing.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 7 months ago:
I mean yes but at least in the US the latter two are overwhelmingly more common.
- Comment on Israelis laughingly describing how they raped underage girls and mass executed Palestinians in cages during the Nakba 7 months ago:
It did. The IDF was made from Jewish paramilitaries like Haganah and Irgun that existed way before 1948, and were made into/declared a formal army in May 1948.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 7 months ago:
Okay I entered this thinking "ugh, more shilling for proto-fascism" but you know what? I'm convinced. Take my upvote or whatever we call those here.
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 7 months ago:
Even if you don't want to hear it, nothing I wrote was inaccurate.
I know; but the conclusion is frankly ridiculous. First of all you do realize that the mass grave didn't exist prior to the IDF arriving right? Hamas was fighting a was before that thing was discovered and had no chance to occupy anywhere and cause this much damage. The IDF would've blown the whole place to oblivion instead of piecemeal bombing it like they did. And second, they were bound using plastic bindings the IDF uses to cuff its prisoners. And third, many were also covered in plastic and hastily buried. Again, something only the IDF would do.
It's an IDF-made mass grave, no two ways about it.
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 7 months ago:
I love this. Saved.
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 7 months ago:
That's... A shitload of copium. Like seriously, I know you're shilling for the IDF but you can do better. I doubt Hamas has killed 400 Gazans in their whole history.
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 7 months ago:
Some of them were buried with their arms tied behind their backs, or otherwise had evidence of summary executions.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Uh... He literally does. Fucking Reagan did it before.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Uh... You're thinking of AIPAC.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Man you (either intentionally or unintentionally) underestimate just how much the POTUS can order Israel around. Reagan did it, Bush did it, hell even Biden did it. It's not rocket science.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Okay tbf they're both a core democratic constituency and criminally underperforming. Young voters where a major factor in Hillary's failure in 2016 and Biden's success in 2020. And now they'll be a major factor in his failure in 2024.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 8 months ago:
True but it's better than nothing.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 8 months ago:
First half is correct, second half isn't. Student loans are a predatory system taking advantage of kids' hope for a better future.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Honestly no. Bad representation is worse than no representation. This is an extreme example, but just look at Muslim representation in Western media. I mean just take the extremist terrorist Muslim, or the idea that Muslim women are oppressed and need to be "liberated" from their hijab.
Again this is an extreme example but this is what bad representation is; it reduces a group of people into a few stereotypical character traits. As a Muslim I'd rather Islam not be represented at all if this is what that representation will be.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 11 months ago:
There's a lot but it mainly comes down to how Europeans were more developed than the rest of the world due to their frequent wars, so when they went to colonize the world nobody stood a chance. And since colonialism and the subsequent horrible decolonization messed up those countries, we get the state of the world today.
To be more specific, colonialism basically turned affected countries into oversized plantations run by foreigners. Any political development that was already there went out the window, and of course no more could be made. Then you got decolonization, where you had countries either being fought off (like France) or packing their bags and leaving (like the British). This created massive power vacuums, and when you have power vacuums you get power struggles and dictatorships and from there we see the world's current state. On the other hand you have Botswana, where they actually had a native ruler class who could rule when the British left. They were an occupied country, not an oversized plantation, so they're virtually one of the best places to be in Africa.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 11 months ago:
Because developed countries already went through their corruption. The processes by which these countries became democracies tend to be bloody. Other countries were behind the curve, then their political and social development was frozen in time by Western colonialism.
- Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says 11 months ago:
I don't think Israel has a similar problem right now? If this was how Israeli politics worked you'd see right wingers and left wingers concentrating into one party each, but that's not happening. I don't see how Palestinians would call the left wing to abandon all their causes and run towards the right wing and their genocidal agenda.
- Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says 11 months ago:
Okay I think you misunderstood me. I meant a coalition with left-wing and Palestinian parties. The 2021 government had an Arab party in the coalition so it's not exactly impossible.
- Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says 11 months ago:
Yeah right wingers and Palestinians don't go together at all. I'm saying that with more Palestinians a left wing-Palestinian government is also possible.
- Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says 11 months ago:
Isn't that coalition mostly right wing?
- Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says 11 months ago:
given population differences alone and presumed voting along established political (ie religious) lines, you’d end up with a Jewish/Israeli government rather than a Muslim/Arab government.
You'd end up with a government with both groups. It'd be possible to, for example, have a large Arab party in a coalition government with a left-wing Jewish coalition. And also someone like Netanyahu would've never won; because Palestinians would all rally around someone else.
This is especially true in a parliamentary government like Israel; the Knesset would look much different if the Palestinian population suddenly tripled.
- Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says 11 months ago:
Israel has existed for 80 years, so if it suddenly stopped existing, where do the people who have been born there over 3 generations go?
I never said they should go anywhere. The one-state solution holds that everyone should live in one state, without anyone going anywhere.
- Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says 11 months ago:
No no. Irgub and crew then went on to create Likud and their ilk. They are the current government. Anyway I guess if you wanna only count the actions of the modern Israeli state, it went beyond self-defense in 1948 with Israeli massacres like Deir Yassin.