theacharnian

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

The only thing that would make this even more ridiculous is if the Trump organization sues them for copyright infringement.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

you follow the guy on linkedin or something?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Israel is an Apartheid state (convicted) that is on trial for Genocide and whose political leadership is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

You can't pinkwash that.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

That's the wrong way to look at it. Israel is a project of the West. Merz explained it: Israel is doing our dirty job.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I think the owning occurred at bombing time not at building time.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The NDP's usual theme hasn't been at all democratic socialism for a while now. Lewis is bringing back unapologetically socialist policies to the foreground. It's a chance to rebuild the NDP as a democratic socialist party and take it back from the centrists who let themselves get outflanked from the left by Justin friggin Trudeau.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One thing that is entirely facepalm-worthy is this "explanation" the Nova agency gave:

Francesco Civita, a spokesperson for Nova, confirmed that the news agency had ended its relationship with Nunziati over his Gaza question. Civita said that Nunziati had been let go for asking a question that was “technically incorrect” because Russia had invaded a sovereign country unprovoked, whereas Israel was responding to an attack.

So, Pinho could have just made that case, right? There was nothing pushy or loaded about the question. If anything, if one truly believes that the two cases are so different, then they should actually want to be asked this question, as a chance to educate the public about the difference.

 

Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm an atheist you dumbass.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Failure happens. Expensive failure too, just ask the folks who ran the Arianne program. What matters is what they will learn from it to avoid it happening in the future.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Again, what an unserious thing to insist on, despite the scholarly consensus.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That's an unserious thing to say.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The fact that a religious mythology exists around a historical figure does not disprove the existence of that person. Siddhartha Gautama, Socrates, Mohammed, Alexander the Great were real people, regardless of the traditions about their lives that arose about them afterwards. The Wikipedia article is actually very precise:

[T]he general consensus among modern scholars is that a Jewish man named Jesus of Nazareth existed in the Herodian Kingdom of Judea and the subsequent Herodian tetrarchy in the 1st century AD, upon whose life and teachings Christianity was later constructed

However, scholars distinguish between the 'Christ of faith' as presented in the New Testament and the subsequent Christian theology, and a minimal 'Jesus of history', of whom almost nothing can be known

Again, this has nothing to do with the video.

 

Put aside for a second the question of whether a left government is feasible or not. Pretend it is.

Practical question: what would it mean for a newly elected left government to take a hammer to the capitalist state, the way Bannon talks about the trumpist takeover, by "flooding the zone"? Let's say we get power tomorrow, what do we do so that by the time the right regroups we have completely changed the game in ways that the institutions (courts etc) don't have time to react? How do we hurt them the way they hurt us?

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