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by aguaviva 2y ago
Many focus too much on understanding meaning, but what's crucial is also training your mouth and larynx muscles to form the sounds naturally. Yup, the value of simple vocal training part (combined with active listening, and occasiona
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Well, we disagree about the assuming-the-worst part, then. I think mine was fair enough take, given what they said vis-a-vis the actual state of the world in the past 15 years or so. Or at pretty much any time since the State of Israel has
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If that's the only comparison that comes to mind, then you're basically proving the commenter's point.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Pre-Israel Palestinians are mostly of Jewish origin. Not the 97 percent who were non-Jewish. Who were a diverse group of folks, including a significant minority (20 percent or more seems a good estimate) whose recent ancestors were non-in
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except it doesn't. People like to say it does, but this stance is largely based on a single line (up at the very top) which is frequently mistranslated, as in the version you are unfortunately citing. In particular it mistranslates a k
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The newer migrants might still be linguistically isolated. And the poor, helpless Amis also in any case. But the Türkendeutsche no longer are - not the under-50 set, anyway. Try ordering a Börek in Berlin sometime - the person serving you
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by aguaviva 2y ago
This professor says that what happens in Gaza is genocide because ... That's very plainly not a fair description of what he was saying. He gives plenty of reasons beyond the small snippet you've chosen to zero in on. It is int
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It is by no means agreed that the violent ethnic cleansing of Germans from Czechoslavaka, Poland and other areas after WW2 was justified. You're just assuming it is and that everyone agrees with you on this. Most bizarrely, as a way
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by aguaviva 2y ago
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It wasn't the moral condemnation, but their weighing in on a hotly disputed case (along with the fact that they're a highly respected organization with first-hand knowledge of what's been happening on the ground) that makes t
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Evidence of some interesting new phenomenon Not entirely new, but certainly interesting and relevant in the sense of one of the world's most highly respected organizations weighing in on one of the most flagrant large-scale violation
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The commenter themselves narrowed the scope when they said Forget all the dead from the Hamas massacre of October 7th, And went on to focus on the 12k+ wounded soldiers and 100k displaced. But even if we include those killed on Oc
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Then you should assume the best interpretation of my intent, as well. The commenter was really quite clueless when they said "No Western country in recent times has gone through something even remotely similar to what Israel has gone a
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There's more to it than that. Many responsible historians have looked into the question of why the Allies found it necessary to make a point of deliberately targeting civilians during the strategic campaign (while not even attempting
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Your framing was disingenuous, straight up -- it was a baiting question in the classic mold -- and that's why it was necessary to shut it down. When you start a question with "Surely you will admit ...", it presupposes a cert
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by aguaviva 2y ago
(auschwitz alone was almost doubling that 20k kill count each week btw) Perhaps in its record week. But "each week", no. In fact its average was 4-5k per week. Meanwhile, it is unlikely that the Dresden bombing (occuring as it
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Surely you would admit ... You know, you could have asked your question in a normal, straightforward manner -- e.g. "Would you say the Oct 7th attack was also genocidal in nature, per these criteria?" -- and you would have gotte
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It never fully pulled out of Gaza, only partially. It continued to maintain control of borders, maritime and airspace, to maintain control over key resources, and to bomb and invade the territory on multiple occasions. That's why the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Israel hasn't been an occupying force. They left Gaza in 2005. That's the narrative that the State of Israel promotes. But as with many things it says, it is wildly disconnected from reality. Israel never fully "left"
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I dunno, Gaza (on per-sqkm basis) still looks nothing like Hamburg '43. In fact the numbers of civilians killed are roughly similar (probably 30k for Gaza vs. 40k for Hamburg 43-45) against roughly equal pre-war population size (abou
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Probably a function of the particlar psychographic you hang out with. Meanwhile one observes the denial of any potential to even discuss ENM (along with straight-up cheating) contributing to an immeasurable portion of dyad breakups. Or peop
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But if you go that way you get so yeah the Nazi's committed genocide but so did their opponents so it doesn't really matter. I don't think that follows. In terms of implying the "so they're all basically the same
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm glad you "know" what kind of medical care I've been receiving, and how much I've been paying for it.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And then you'd wonder if things like the bombing of Dresden count as genocide. Yup, that's exactly what it was. A "mini" one, granted, perhaps 5 percent (if we count all the other terror bombings conducted by the Alli
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There are no demonstrations for the hanged queers in teheran, Actually there've been large demonstrations in major Western cities against the Mullah regime, organized by exile groups, targeting all its forms of oppression, including
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There are no Israeli casualties? Precisely zero civilian casualties inside Israel proper since Oct 8th (due to the Hamas conflict) is what they apparently meant. There's no Western country ... These being the only ones whose popula
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If you've never seen things in this way, you should start. I entertained that way of seeing things at one point, actually. But I got over it in my teenage years.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Either you think the CEO was an undeserving victim, or you think that only billionaires and their enforces deserve a monopoly on lethal force. Neither choice is valid, and this statement is just pure mindfuck. It is completely irrelevant
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That's a valid point. We need to better language to describe the new breed of postmodern terror-driven autocrats like Putin, and post-truth / antidemocratic Western leaders like Trump. But at the end of the day, it's academic
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I would apply the term "cynical" to the decisions made by Amazon's management which create the working conditions that compel their workers to strike, while providing top 1% compensation to themselves. These people are just d

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