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by Udik 6y ago
Hmm. Have you thought about the possibility that what you consider "breathtaking racism and misogyny" might not be seen as such my a sizable portion, maybe a majority of Americans? Because every time you point out that something i
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> the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans. Literally is the keyword here, because the translation "death to something" is just the literal mistranslati
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> my first-hand experience that This Time It's Different. I've lived on the SF peninsula for 10 years. Wait, are you saying that your concern is based on a personal experience of 10 years in a place? Besides the fact that your
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> Eventually he died of a bear mauling Wow, same year and two months later than Timothy Treadwell, "Grizzly Man". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
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> That's like pondering whether submarines can swim. It's an old adage. But it's less smart than it sounds [1]. Swimming is an action defined by its mechanics- you swim when you do certain precise movements with your body.
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Totally agree. Medicine doesn't lift people out of poverty, and cutting our own emissions doesn't cure diseases. Creating economic development does both, and incidentally economic development means more CO2 emissions, at least o
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> The guideline for me ... It's not far from the situation now. The situation now is that vast parts of the West Bank are ultimately under Israel's control- Israel can decide to appropriate portions of land and build on it, bui
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Sure, it's not the fact that the US, UK and Saudi Arabia financed, trained and armed the rebels with 1 billion dollars a year [1]. Noo, it's climate change. Imagine what would happen in your country if any group of rebels or ter
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> And here you have the problem with climate change, and destruction of our world in general: the richer you are, the less affected you are. I see it the other way around: climate change is only going to increase by a few percentage poin
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Ok. So that infographic mentions 147 million migrants, of which 86 in sub-saharian Africa. It also says that the population of sub-saharian Africa is projected to double in the same timeframe, but of course it's easier and less expen
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The water problems of Bangladesh seem to have little to do with climate change. It's a mix of political problems with neighboring countries, arsenic contamination of the soil, lack of sanitation.
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> the 10 million migrant number. Just the other day I read a long and detailed article about a predicted number of 200 million "climate migrants" by 2050, 86 million from Africa alone. Nowhere in the long article was ever menti
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A video? From "the Epoch Times", i.e. Falun Gong? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times Edit: Which is in turn sourced from a document published by CSBA: "Center for Strategic and Budgetary Ass
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This doesn't answer my questions.
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Really? Your objection to the fact that a country is not allowed to build cities on occupied territories is "are you saying Jews are not allowed to live there"?. Haha. Sorry, that is funny. Well, you know, it's not really abo
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Haha. Well, for what it's worth, I wasn't even referring to Israel with those examples. I was just pushing your argument that "might is right" to its rightful conclusion, to prove its (ethical) absurdity. > For the mo
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Sure, and conflict and murder and genocide is also the standard that humanity applies. And also wars to stop all of those, sanctions, international blame, loss of moral standing, these are also standards that humanity applies. So the standa
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> Palestinians have their own autonomy, where they would manage it by their own standards And how would this "autonomy" be different from full sovereignty? And in case it were different, to which superior body would this autono
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> Whether it's right or not, we want to believe it or not, might has always become rite Ah, ok, if might is right then we're fine. Of course you cannot complain if someone else exercises this rule in a more local way: I might e
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> The Palestinians ... have autonomy Wait, are you saying that they would not vote for Israel's government?
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> There are so many different issues at play here No, there aren't. When someone has appropriated something he doesn't have a legitimate right to, the first, rightful thing to do is to give it back. It doesn't matter to wh
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> I hope Israel would take as many Palestinians as possible. Without turning itself into one. > We can go on creating a great country for the Israeli Arabs, Jews, Druze and Christians So you're arguing for the one-state solution.
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>That people would be happy to see house and land prices skyrocket? > 70% would. Government would. Please. Stop and think. There are countries who had their youth decimated in atrocious wars to conquer portions of new territory propor
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And what do you plan to do with the excess Palestinians? We're talking a few million people.
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> Whatever land was appropriated, was done so as a result of Arab aggression What part of "it's illegal to appropriate someone's land even after an aggression" you don't understand? And it's illegal for a re
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So you think Israel should get the land. And with or without its current inhabitants?
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That's not even an issue. There are two parties who are having a dispute; one of the two parties has appropriated something from the other. You don't need to know who gave more blows to understand who's in the wrong here. How
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Sorry but I don't get it. The legitimate borders of Israel were established after the 1948 war, the famous "green line". Israel doesn't need any agreement with anyone else to just withdraw inside those borders. Once it w
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> Israelis firmly believed in a two state solution and offered an agreement that was signed and accepted, called Oslo They believed in the solution very much but kept (effectively) annexing more and more land. People don't mention i
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> If you could assure them that giving up those regions would guarantee peace, you would win an election. Eh. Are you sure you thought this through? There are about 800 thousand Israelis living in occupied and annexed territories. That&#

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