

(This is a song about not taking drugs, but it’s framed as a drug bragging about being really bad).
Send me bad puns. Good puns welcome too.


(This is a song about not taking drugs, but it’s framed as a drug bragging about being really bad).


Oh shit you’re right. I guess technically the CCP does have anti-air capabilities while China the country does not. This also means the PLA is the world’s largest leftwing militia.


The CCP, being a political party, does not in fact have anti-air capabilities. The country they run, China, has anti-air capabilities.


Sure that’s a fair point, but then we’d expect other polls to produce similar results. It’s not like we have to take their word for it.


“The entire political spectrum” doesn’t mean “every single person ever,” or even “every single politician ever.” The implication is only that the statement applies to all political segments of the population. If the left, right and center (and any other significant political blocs) mostly agree on something, then the whole political spectrum supports it, even if some people don’t.


Echoing basically all other replies: Israel doesn’t actually have the juice to get their lebensraum alone; they need all sorts of American and European support for it. Cutting off their support would immediately destroy their position as regional near-hegemon and force them to compromise.


The poll they cite only polled 500 people
Which is more than enough. Statistically, you only need 30 or so samples to get a normal distribution, at which case the error varies with 1/sqrt(n) for sample size n. This means that if a sample size of 8000 would only have 4 times less error (so from 4% to 2%) compared to one of 500. The mathematics of the thing is ironclad: Provided the sample is representative (i.e. doesn’t unfairly over or underrepresent a particular group) and exceeds the mid-double digits*, any issues with sample size would manifest as a large calculated error.


There’s literally Israeli Kinesset members that oppose the genocide in Gaza and the war with Iran.
How many?


Israel is doing that too, but also America has a lot more domestic opposition to its leadership’s naked imperialism than Israel. This opposition rarely translates to action making it more or less worthless, but still, Americans do better on the “do you not like naked imperialism” index than Israeli Jews.


Read closer, they’re criticizing Netanyahu for not being pro-war enough. Not all of them are infected, but Israel is a lot worse than even America in this regard.


Even the Nazis weren’t “a whole nation of genocidal maniacs.” In both Israel and Nazi Germany there is/was opposition to the atrocities committed by their leadership, just not enough. In Israel in particular “do you support comically evil thing” polls tend to get 60-80% support, except the Iran war which at its outset had 93% support. That’s not a whole nation of genocidal maniacs; that’s a nation of mostly genocidal maniacs.


Have you thought about the sheer retardation of modern copyright law today?


Yeah America’s track record (even before Trump for the libs in the back) does not imply respect for international or even American humanitarian law. Pete Hegseth can kiss my ass if even a single pilot refuses to drop the bombs.


The US isn’t an ICC signatory, but it has its own military law that defines illegal orders, so some subset of war crimes is also illegal under US law. I’m guessing destroying the water infrastructure of nearly 100 million people would be included, but I’ll leave it to someone else to fact check that.
TL;DR: It’s illegal to commit some war crimes in America, but I don’t know about this particular war crime.


and directly perpetrated by people who were the descendants of those victims and keepers of those memories
Not quite. Israel is predominantly populated by Jews of Middle Eastern or Eastern European descent who had nothing to do with the Holocaust. There are plenty of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, but Israel was built and remains predominantly shaped by people who didn’t experience the Holocaust. In fact, quite ironically, Israel basically stole and keeps stealing a lot of Holocaust survivors’ reparation money.


canceled a workshop about the “fragility of democracy.”
Tbf, this is a good way to educate people about the fragility of democracy.
Did you really draw a whole world map just for this? Respect, man/woman/compadre.


There is no military long-term solution, nor does there need to be. “Don’t try to overthrow governments you don’t like” sounds like a pretty good long-term solution.


Uh… why? They don’t get anything substantial from closing it, and it’d earn them the enmity of half the world when they’re clearly trying to end their pariah state status.
-Theodor Herzl (paraphrased because I can’t be assed to get the original quote).
They always have been; it just took a livestreamed genocide for Westerners to get the point.