It is interesting how easily the article passes off ‘stacking courts’ as more of a danger with elections than appointments.

Unfortunately this person did not have a western sounding name so there’s going to be even less attention than Rachel’s murder received.

A few wooden stakes, a roll of chicken wire, an AR-15, and an overwatching IDF sniper or armored vehicle. That’s your settler starter pack.

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Isn’t the rate of homeownership like 95%? Seems like a tough market.

They know liberal sensibilities very well.

Like planting trees to displace Palestinians. They can play the uncritical like a fiddle.

The leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour party, Colum Eastwood, last week said he was making his oath “under protest” and that his true allegiance was to the “people of Derry and the people of Ireland”.

His colleague Claire Hanna prefaced it in Irish and English when she was sworn in, saying: “In friendship and in hope of a reconciled new Ireland, my allegiance is to the people of Belfast South and Mid Down & I say these words in order to serve them.”

The Irish know what’s up.

Likely a demonstration of why they’ve been banned on some .ml community no doubt.

Communities on .ml are moderated in a way that pisses people off, especially in regard to politics.

People that judge someone with an .ml name on an different instance and a different community are acting like clowns. They’re just being lazy and/or prejudicial.

There’s a red line somewhere in there.

They at least demonstrate they know there’s only a threat against them from the left.

Problem with Trumpism is that it relies too heavily on Trump. Once he’s out there isn’t a solid or feasible successor. The factions supporting Trump won’t go away but Trump is their best shot for immediate wins.

For anyone reading the above: Hamas is the one in negotiations with Israel. The words that came out after ‘but’ was a factual statement, not a justifying qualifier.

Hamas is negotiating with Israel on behalf of Gaza. Textbook case of prejudice hijacking reading comprehension.

Day in and day out, yes. It is a Kafkaesque political strategy. It is about injecting discord and confusion.

It is a pretty common tactic for accepting or supporting a genocide, or priming people to shame others for not accepting or supporting a genocide.

Corollary: there’s a somewhat relevant quote by Sartre on the ‘anti semite’ from the immediate aftermath of WW2: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

It’s going to take years, if not decades, to clear the rubble and the human remains still inside.

The millions of reconstruction for billions worth of damage will ensure there is maximum amount of ‘unpopulated’ Gazan area for Israel to remain occupying.

Which also means there is a baked in flashpoint of conflict where Israel will have to leave areas that are rebuilt. The entire history and existence of Israel indicates this will not happen: settlers will occupy anywhere the IDF is: which brings us back to the status quo.

Far from it: history is an account of things that happened. Learning from it requires a solid adherence to what is known about what happened.

The value of speculating on alternate timelines is not to learn from the theorized history but to illustrate how interwoven it is with the events of the time.

You can still call that learning from history, but it is a very different avenue of inquiry. I love alternate timelines, and I also respect the limits of their value.

It seems odd to me how the author compares Ukraine to an alternative reality of 1938 imagined by their favorite historian.

Flat comparing 2020s to 1930s is already tenuous enough.

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So you say uou’ve heard complaints about Lemmy devs, who run the instance in question here, for four years.

That is a direct illustration of what I mean: from the start of Lemmy there’s been complaints of the devs.

As the Fediverse becomes bigger, this type of stuff isn’t going to be wanted by any entity especially not ones owned by Meta.

I was more responding to the person from threads with that line. But I was more identifying a convenient alignment than a conspiracy to act.

I mean there are Lemmy communities with discord servers dedicated to brigading tankies and falsifying interactions on places like .ml. One of those communities is on my instance and comes up on my feed constantly. But I will admit that I have not seen that effort from Threads.

But nonetheless, since it is a fair assumption any thread with the word ‘tankie’ in it is going to go off the rails: I am not suggesting .ml admins and their mods aren’t overblowing their interactions or bringing a lot of this onto themselves. They’re just as mired in bad faith as the next poorly run community or instance. I am just saying I am not surprised by it.