theacharnian

For like 10 minutes in the beginning.

Listen, people from the former Soviet bloc, we get it, you were traumatized. But you can't just blanketly force your bad experience on the rest of us. In much of the world, the polarity of your experience was reversed. Communists were (and are) the people arguing for democracy for human rights and for liberty. And they were the people persecuted and jailed and tortured for this. Joke all you like, but it's just simply historical fact in places ranging from Spain and Greece to like Indonesia and Nepal. And in those places, the conflation of communism and Nazism as "totalitarianism" is just obscene.

In France in particular, I mean look at the tricolour: socialist ideas are part of what being French is. And this fascist mayor is doing something obscene, essentially lumping the collaborationists and the pétainistes together with the people who fought against them for a free french people.

Yes, your experiences are valid, but they are not the only ones that are valid.

If it weren't for their stupid fucking gun laws, I would absolutely be advocating for a hemisphere wide Schengen. Beyond containing American gun stupidity, there is zero reason to have hard borders in the Americas.

The US Department of Education did not immediately respond to inquiries.

Didn't Trump shut it down?

Telegraph lobby rages against telephonication.

Drop the drama, calm the clash, ease the beef.

So you're going to tone down the hateful rhetoric and try to depolarize the situation? Right? Right?

I'm counting from the early 2000s when the Israelis were still actually making plausible 2 state solution proposals, even if only rhetorically. I think 2007 is the last time the Israeli government actually signed a joint statement with the Palestinians in support of the 2 state solution. Since then there hasn't even been even lip service, as far as I can tell.

At some point, western countries have to actually believe Netanyahu when he says there is not going to be a Palestinian state. The 2 state solution is dead. Israel has killed it with acts just like this. No amount of farcical recognition of the rump Bantustan in Ramallah is going to undo this.

So it's a simple matter of recognizing the reality that Israel is either going to be a Jewish state serving the fears of a Jewish diaspora or a democratic republic of the actual people, Arabs, Jews and others, who live under its law. It's a simple choice, that the Israeli governments of the past twenty years have been etching in blood on the land.

What do these yahoos mean by "left", I wonder? Bardella is talking about Mélenchon? Geert Wilders about Frans Timmermans or Jimmy Dijk? Wiedel about Ines Schwerdtner? And Abascal about Sanchez? Like, what are you actually talking about you fascist nitwits?

They need to import American style culture war so badly. They need us to be as polarized as the Americans so so so badly.

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