Felons are allowed to retire?

In any event, I hope that he is doing better.

I bet that as he was suffering all that he could think was, ‘Boy, I sure am glad that I don’t live in Cuba or North Korea right now.’

I wish that I could be that high.

For me, the biggest flaw in the two-state proposal is that it would fail to resolve the Herzlian ruling class’s lust for spazio vitale, and there would always remain a risk of the IOF waging a war against an independent Palestinian state. (Remember 1967.) So recognizing Palestine would mean very little if it also meant recognising its occupation.

The likeliest outcome is that the most privileged sections of the occupation are going to leave out of exhaustion and frustration (with maybe a few stragglers awaiting somebody’s wrath), then the least privileged foreigners—the houseless Jews, the communist Jews, the Jews who have nothing left to lose—they are going to accept the presence of returnees in their region and submit to a plurinational government.

Wishful thinking? Perhaps, but I am basing that on my observations of the neocolony. Look around… crime is worsening within the ethnostate. The number of people refusing the IOF is growing. Scores of thousands of settlers have quit the occupation. Wishful thinking would be peace happening immediately. Rather, the neocolony’s road to collapse is going to be long and painful, which it did not need to be, but nevertheless remains the likeliest outcome since the ruling class is dragging its feet.

These Herzlians all need electroconvulsive therapy. In their case they’d actually come out of the process wiser than they were beforehand.

I gave up on trying to persuade anticommunists long ago. You can benefit lurkers by deconstructing anticommunists’ arguments, but your chances of actually getting anticommunists to question their own politics are quite low.

Your time would be better spent assisting strikers, helping the homeless, donating a dollar to a good cause, or simply studying more. You cannot help those who won’t help theirselves. Capitalism’s increasing pressure on lower-class people like us is what is mainly going to drive many into questioning anticommunism, not conversation.

If you still think that attempting to persuade casual anticommunists is worthwhile then you would do well to borrow the classic rabbinic tradition of discouraging an interested party three times. Just don’t actively seek out recruits, especially if they are upper-class or petty bourgeois. There are better things that you could be doing.

Ah shit, here we go again.

The rich deserve worse than heavy taxation.

Me too, thanks.

That’s a good point, Joanna Maciejewska, but I don’t see what laundry and dishes have to do with white genocide in South Africa. Claims of targeted violence exist with “Kill the Boer” cited as racial. However, evidence suggests that farm attacks are part of general crime, not systematic genocide, though perspectives vary.

Putin has justified the war through baseless comparisons of Kyiv’s government to Nazi Germany.

I agree, Ukraine isn’t really like the Third Reich, which built a colossal empire through a series of diplomatic and military victories. It’s more akin to the Kingdom of Romania: a minor Axis power that depended on a Western empire to settle its own imperialistic scores with the Russians and their closest allies.

But for layfolk with only a basic understanding of World War II, it is only natural that the equivalence with the Third Reich would be more obvious to them, for reasons which I have covered repeatedly.

Skaijo himself was later killed in an ambush by Palestinian resistance

No comment.

So look, here’s what I would say to you: it’s true what I said, that all the speaking that I’ve done, or other people have done internationally, all the advocacy that you may have done, all the letter writing and petitions that you may have signed… have not saved a single finger of a single Gazan child. Some might say that we have failed. Don’t believe that for one second! You have not failed! The very fact that in the face of all the propaganda and all the withholding of truth, so many people’s hearts are broken, that’s a sign, that’s a tribute to humanity. And if your heart is broken, that’s a tribute to you. Even if you feel broken-hearted, and helpless, and hopeless, and in despair, don’t let that get to you. Because you have a larger goal here, which is to contribute to the light and the truth in the world as best you see it. And that is a long-term… struggle. It’s a long-term calling. And all of us can contribute to it.

— Gabor Maté

My stepdad is a propertarian and the closest that we got to a serious political conversation was in a car ride five years ago. I tried to tell him that the Bolivarian Rep. of Venezuela was suffering because of U.S. sanctions, but he denied it.

A week or so after that, I told my mom that I disagree with his assertion that socialism ‘doesn’t work’. I said that socialist movements have been successful, and when she brought it up with him, he nitpicked my terminology and he told her to tell me to look up the ‘tragedy of the commons’. At that point, I decided to lie to my mom that I agreed with him.

A few more weeks after that, I sardonically told him (through Facebook) that redistributing wealth to the poor increases poverty, and he gave it a thumbs‐up.

I was shocked; I must have looked like a deer in the headlights when I saw that.

Anyway, I think that arguing with antisocialists is almost always a waste of time, especially if you literally live with them. It is fun to troll them into unjokingly agreeing with the most inane or counterintuitive statements imaginable, but normally I would reply directly to them only with a blank stare and awkward silence. I’ve driven people off the wall with that before.

If I lived with ‘Alex’ then I’d most likely come up with utterly inane conclusions that they might find agreeable, as, ‘Allowing illegals in this country has been proven to result in fewer job opportunities for police officers.’ They might be gullible enough to actually agree with that.

On a minor note, are you interested in contacting me through Steam or Discord?

Request [to be unbanned] declined by simple majority vote.

Reason: Anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity on hexbear. User in question, citing the post linked, chosen of his own free will to state that he understands the reason why he was banned but considers the decision as unreasonable instead of simply apologizing for making anti-semetic [sic] remarks on hexbear.

Welp, I tried.

ETA: I actually kind of regret doing this, because it brought up unwanted memories of when I tried to politely and compassionately appeal bans on other social media only to stay banned anyway. I know that that sounds like a trivial inconvenience but memories like these can sometimes visibly inhibit my mood for hours.

Epidemics that raged inside the Warsaw ghetto in 1941 and 1942 provided [Axis] occupation forces with a medical rationale for the isolation and extermination of the Jewish population. And what was one of the principal causes for typhoid fever in the ghetto if not the [Axis] bombing of water-filtering stations? This forced the populace to drink unfiltered, often unboiled water, a situation exacerbated by food shortages—a “diet […] exactly the opposite of what was required for typhoid patients.”³¹

(Source.)

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A.I.-generated imagery is likely going to affect traditional art in the same way that knitting machines affected hand knitting.

Have you asked any physicians to vouch for you?

I think that we all hand out permanent bans too easily. It makes sense for obvious ragebait accounts and spambots, but for users who are socially awkward or in need of reeducation, a permanent ban is just too long. That is a measure much better suited for lost causes. I can ask @[email protected] to consider reducing your ban (maybe to a week or something), but I can’t promise anything.

I agree that something like the Shoah is extremely unlikely to befall Jewish people again, and seeing so many false alarms over antisemitism would make anybody feel cynical. I take antisemitism seriously and even I have to say that they’re wearing down my morale. It’s like attending a hotline but receiving dozens of calls everyday from little kids over trivial problems.

That being said, some Jews (especially the Charedim) face harassment from individuals, and occasionally the violence becomes lethal. Nearly seven years ago a neofascist stabbed Blaze Bernstein to death, and of course there was the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting later that same year. I know that those aren’t the most recent examples, but it is plausible that the ordinary incidents usually go unreported because the victims don’t expect the authorities to do anything.

Personally, though, I think that the focus on antisemitism is too narrow. Jewish people have plenty of problems, and some will tell you that antisemitism is not even in the top five. They have varying responses depending on where they live: pollution, inaccessible healthcare, want of transportation, want of worker’s rights, or even settler-colonialism (it affects one Puerto Rican Jew whom I know), to name only a few examples. Treating antisemitism as Jews’ only problem is inaccurate and uncreative.