Laughs nervously in Canadian.

Not just “Israel” in general, we are not talking about some random researcher studying frogs or something. The Israeli MINISTRY OF DEFENCE.

Spanish prime minister calls for Israel to be banned from sports events after chaos at cycling race

That is the correct response.

At this point, you don’t even need to be pro-Palestine to be against the Gaza genocide. You just need to be against, you know, genocides. The bar is in the basement, even centrist Israeli liberal zionists are able to pass it. But somehow this is now “radical” politics.

Well, the Right is trying to make Kirk into a new Horst Wessel figure, so I’m registering this is as a based attempt to keep the Overton Window at its current position.

Free speech, bitches.

When it comes to climate policy, i.e., the policy that directly impacts the future survival of human civilization, a stark choice seems to arise: US is force for evil; China is a force for good. If that makes us uncomfortable, my fellow westerners, well, cold hard facts don’t care about our feelings. If you want to save liberal democracy as a concept, we have to deeply, deeply reform the West.

Who are you asking?

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.

Yea, that’s what I meant. They’re not doing one now, they should be OK for Eurovision 2026.

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They did theirs last century, same with Canada.

Quintessential “that’s how you do it” meme.

Posted in World News because it seems to imply the US is going to be asserting of some kind of universal jurisdiction against …internet trolling?

It doesn’t change absolutely anything in my argument, it remains exactly the same. Antinatalism absconds not only the responsibility to improve the world but even the possibility of a better world existing in the future, it assumes à priori that existence is and will remain insufferable.

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You’re contradicting your own argument:

It was never meant to remedy shitty living conditions.

Vs

Ask anyone with disabilities, abusive families, trauma, financial hardship, and generally going though too much shit in life and you’ll find that it was never about a lack of imagination.

This is a contradiction. You are literally picking the antinatalist option because of shitty living conditions.

And of course, the lack of imagination is not whether you can imagine things being better but whether you can imagine things becoming better starting from where we are here and now.

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We suffer because we are able to imagine how things could have been so much better. It is because we can imagine ourselves in a better place

If you can imagine such a place, steelman your argument then, try making it without a premise of shitty living conditions. Pick a convivial world, and make an antinatalist argument from that world. Does it still stand?

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Finally, the argument that says nonexistence might be better is literally vacuous: False implies True. Nonexistence therefore is trivially whatever you want it to be, but not In any meaningful sense.

shit…

Excellent framing BBC. Because “Israel bombs Qatar” would be too …biased, right?

How about you Americans shut the fuck up about your goddamn election from two years ago. It’s really fucking tiresome at this point.