I’m just some guy, you know.
Please don’t blame Israel for antisemitism. There is literally nothing Israel could ever do to justify antisemitism.
Blame Israel for what they are doing to Palestine. Give Israel it’s much deserved consequences for war crimes and genocide.
Blame antisemites for antisemitism. Ethnic hatred is unjustifiable.
after private videos leaked on social media
Leaked sex videos on a social media website?
Universal healthcare doesn’t give you license to police everyone else’s lifestyle to your preferred level of health-consciousness.
Opium production in Afghanistan rose
despiteas a result of ban: UN report
FTFY
Imagine being the UN and still not understanding what happens when you do a prohibition.
Are you under the bizarre impression that the only possible thing you can do to someone who commits a crime is imprison them?
I didn’t say anything about imprisoning people. Any legal consequence for possession of a plant is too far.
It helps them quit.
It leverages a nanny state that forces people to quit whether they want to or not.
You’re talking about making it a prescription drug only allowed for cessation purposes. That sure sounds like a ban on recreational use to me. What happens when someone without a prescription is caught with tobacco under this system you’re proposing? What makes this preferable to just letting people smoke?
And then what about everything outside of that ridiculous context? Arrest people for possession of a plant? That’s always been a good idea.
Tobacco is important to people. If you ban it, there will be a black market. Especially for something like a plant that can simply be grown.
Look, fuck the Iranian morality police, but there is a video of the arrest and there is nothing in it that suggests that they “smashed her head into the concrete” during the arrest. From what I saw, she’s pretty much just restrained and forced into the back of a police car. Amnesty International is suggesting that violence was a part of the arrest, but they aren’t providing specific details on what that entails. I don’t doubt that this woman’s human rights are being violated right now, given how Iran usually operates, but it’s incredibly suspicious to find an anonymous Internet rando who claims to know the specifics on that alleged violence that other reputable sources apparently don’t.
If you have a trustworthy source on this detail, I’d like to see it, otherwise it kinda sounds like you’re sprinkling fake details into a very real story about the oppression of women, which isn’t helpful.
I actually read the article, and if you get all the way to the first sentence, you’ll learn that he will be eligible for release starting at 28.
A 15-year-old boy who followed a teenager he did not know through Birmingham city centre and stabbed him to death after a four-minute conversation has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.
the UK’s largest mobile, inflatable planetarium
It’s like the size of a truck fully inflated. I can’t find a single picture of the inside. I’m guessing that this isn’t a sought after status…
I know that you’re in favor of forced sterilizations. I know enough.
I think broad decriminalization for possession, use, and small time dealing, with strict criminalization for production, and large scale distribution is the best possible solution. Legalization can be a step too far for certain extremely dangerous drugs like Fentanyl that should never be used outside of a hospital setting. We just need to make sure that whatever war we’re waging against drugs is against the actual people responsible for the problem, not the victims of the problem.
I support [crimes against humanity]
How very fascist of you. I’m sure it’s just a happy little coincidence to you that forced sterilization in the West has overwhelmingly been targeted at queer and PoC communities.
Yeah, I was about to say, are we trying to create child killers or something? Like, is that the goal?
Moderators cannot remove the bot from the instance, but they can remove it from the communities that they moderate. It is a lie to say that moderators cannot personally remove the bot.
This is a story about a Kurdish activist sentenced to death in Iran. Not sure what Turkey or Israel has to do with it…
The United States is not at war with North Korea…
You have 3,296 comments and only 11 of them have a positive score. You are remarkably unlikable.
Holy shit, thank you for putting this account into proper context. This user’s content looks almost completely manufactured.
Look, the Jewish People are both defined by ethnicity and religion, but the way you speak of that dynamic shows a profound ignorance of it. This isn’t some Israeli conspiracy, most self-identified Jews are at least somewhat ethnically Jewish. Not all are religious, though many respect tradition regardless. That ethnic group historically originated from the Levant, and Judaism as a religion views the Levant as a holy land.
The only real Judaic aspect of Israel’s war on Palestine is Zionism, which can range from the belief that an Israeli has a basic right to exist in the Levant (alongside others), to the belief that Israel should dominate the Levant (and expel others). Netanyahu is on the latter end of that spectrum, and supports mass violence against and forced displacement of Palestinians to meet that end, which is indefensible. We cannot accept Israel, U.S. ally or not, to be engaged in a holy war.
But anyone deciding to point the finger at Israel when they encounter real-world antisemitism isn’t actually making a statement about Israel. They are deflecting blame away from bigots, and suggesting that they might at least have some excuse for their hate. I don’t have any tolerance for that.