Not really a joke in that, having one, will probably exclude you. Might be worth the investment🥹

Did nobody open a history book before two years ago? We’ve been the imperial iron fist of the West for a century. Since manifest destiny and the Monroe doctrine even.

I just came to terms with not hating our past, bc better us than Russia, North Korea, Iran, et al running the show. But bruh - we’ve got our warts. Covered in em.

Cheap consumer goods come from advantageous trade relationships. Trade is impacted by regimes, culture, military size differences, etc. Do the math. Lookup Dole and why them bananas so cheap. Need faster cheaper shipping, let’s buy Panama! The list is endless.

In spite of the speed run, the calendar is ticking quicker than I imagined. I think the vibe around the midterms when primary season kicks off, will paint a picture of what’s next.

They hate the West’s genocides we bring on ourselves… theirs are okay.

I think you downvoted me but acknowledge I make sense? Well if you think make sense, perhaps consider actually heeding the advice to look through the world with different contextual lenses

Rant in agreement, not directed at you: I got banned from /c/progressivepolitics for sharing a dozen reputable links with the most obvious history of Iran in the last 50 years. Fuck Iran. Fuck their government. Fuck bigotry. Fuck classsism. And fuck you antisemites looking for any enemy of the Jews to cheer on. You’re transparent, full of shit and argue in bad faith. Best case this place is flooded with Russian bots. You know, the ones pushing the Ukraine with the Jewish leader are the Nazis, Russians? And now the Jews, who Russians fucking adore, are the Nazis everywhere. Jfc. Clearly Israel’s regime and Likud are fucking deplorable. Don’t pretend you care about Palestinians more than an excuse to pipe up about the Jews. I fucking hate this site. I think I’m done. Siding with fucking Iran?!?! On anything?! The West should fucking level their nuclear infrastructure and pull a Nicaragua on their government if Israel doesn’t succeed first. Fuck that shithole terrorist funding country. Bc we care about rehoming all the exiled Persians, right? Bc the migrants? Right? Bc we care about them no matter where they’re from, right? So women can wear bikinis and get doctorates, right? So people can be gay and practice the religion they want, right? Disingenuous bullshit motherfuckers on here. Rot in hell you Nazi tanky bootlicking fucks and fuck you fake leftist preachy privileged little shits. Iran is not good. They have lots of enemies that are as shitty as them, but only the Jews getting you cheering for Iran. Read a fucking history book or a fucking news article from literally less than a year ago, and see who you’re cheering, you ignorant cunts.

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No such thing. Kievan Rus getting their name jacked by Moscow trash.

Yeah these headlines always grind my gears. Even the equity they don’t steal, they leverage as if their own assets. They’re fucking mine and yours.

Better than global rubels

War… When powerful men send poor kids to kill poor kids for natural resources. We know what it’s good for.

I figured it was a North Korea / Blazing Saddles move.

I’m a fifth generation American Jew. My grandfathers killed Nazis by the dozen. We’re american as fuck. I love playing guitar to country and classic rock. My parents were both blue collar union. I grew up in a gas station smelling fumes doing homework when my mechanic grandfather picked me up from school covered in grease bc my parents were busy working 5 jobs.

I’ve always waited with bated breath for the day Nixon’s comments about being Jewish before American captivates the poor angry masses again. And we’re here. Antisemitic violence in US at 8x YoY. In the back of my head always, if the president blames the Argentines for our economy, they could go back to Argentina. Israel was founded bc millions of people were genocided bc they had no Argentina to go home too.

So… in practice, I’ve lived what you say. In theory, this is an unanswered question. And the whole, “the Jews can just go to…” argument falls flat when you look at how every surrounding country has rejected Palestinian refugees and asylum seekers for decades now.

Yes, irony that Israelis genociding Palestinians is my argument philosophically for Jews needing a home. But I figured you were familiar with the topic for context. AND that 20 years later, I’m still an empathetic person who this morning while making my son breakfast, listening to immortal technique, start crying every time I hear him rap “trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live.” I’ve felt for those babies for DECADES while everyone wrote them off as dirty poor brown news headlines.

So I get to teach my kid to stand up for Gaza and little boys and girls just like him that should get to play and dream about their futures and hopes, but also to look out for and fight Nazis at home, while fearing that my neighbors are going to kill him. So it’s not so black and white unless you tuned in two years ago and put on the latest pin. Some of us have been and are still outraged about every genocide going on across the globe, but Sudanese, Uyghurs, et al don’t have the ear of purported progressives. I literally say sobbing parked in the car listening to news from Sudan two weeks ago on democracy now. THEYRE ROUNDING UP WOMEN AND CHILDREN, and I haven’t seen a single fucking headline here.

It’s hard not to feel like whites and Christians are using Jews and Muslims for fodder to control oil rich regions. Have you seen the latest Heritage Foundation papers on antisemitism? Project Esther? Literally against tackling supremacy in the US while genociding Palestine.

Yeah exactly. I was just thinking my kid will probably never see it because I can’t imagine visiting ever again.

If a white people… Dog-the article is literally that this is a greater than normal punishment.

Finally looked it up recently. Et al is for names of people. Etc for everything else.

I forgot too. I’m like, “isn’t this what Vlad does well? How did this happen?” Good point

Yeah… wait … What? Wtf is this math?

I have had Israeli friends walk me through every intricacy of the system even almost 20 years ago, and when asking them, so wtf are you supposed to do to make it work for everyone? And they just get sad and don’t have a good answer. This isn’t new.

2.4% of the population.

If the much larger black or Hispanic or Asian communities rallied behind something, you flouting voting bloc conspiracies then too?