Yes, Netanyahu is a far-right extremist and saying he only wants Hamas to surrender at this point is wild.

But Zionism itself is not the problem here. The problem is fascism. Zionism is only the idea that Israel as a Jewish state should exist. That could very well co-exist with a Palestinian state. That the Israeli government doesn’t want to allow that is because the government is fascist.

Yeah no, saying fascists aren’t human beings isn’t “funny” or “quirky”. Is fascists dying a beautiful thing? Sure. But they’re still humans.

Net migration rate is 3 per 1000 people in the US and 3.2 in the UK. Germany has a net migration rate of 1.8 per 1000, France 1.1, and every other Western European country has at least 3.5. Also Germany and France both have a higher percentage of their population being immigrants than both the US and UK. So that’s definitively not it.

Conservative =/= Republican. Some of the perceptions in the US are skewed so far to the right that you don’t even realise how conservative the Democratic Party is. In a lot of other countries in the world, there are like 3-4 major parties left of where Obama stood, but only like 1, maybe 2, right of him.

If we’re being honest, everything Robert gets paid for could be classified as child labour sometimes

“Some More News” and “Hood Politics”

Also what these articles always fail to consider: Usually protests become violent when peaceful protests have failed. So violent protests often face something that is much harder to change/politicians are more unwilling to change. So of course they are less often successful. Not because they are less effective, but because the nature of their demands is different.

Yeah no, the sling was considered a very very deadly weapon back then. That’s the thing. And that’s not what bible school would want to portray. But the sling as a weapon was pretty much the Magnum Revolver of those days.

I don’t know about ancient duel rules to say whether bringing a sling was permitted. The take is more along the lines of “David wasn’t an underdog. If anything, David was the clear favourite to win because of his weapon”. Because a sling at the time was a highly effective and deadly weapon which was still regularly used for centuries after the supposed events of that biblical story because of its effectiveness.

We could meet in the middle and call it electromagnetic pull?

Just wear that skirt bro.

Not a cartoon, but number 1 most unhinged kids’ show has to be Boohbah. Everyone involved in the making of this show has to have been on drugs constantly, that’s the only explanation I can think of for why this show exists.

No, because what you are doing isn’t x^2 with x=-5. It is -x^2 with x=5.

Of course antisemitism doesn’t always have to be antizionist. But I’d maintain that antizionism is always antisemitic. When other countries commit horrific and disgusting acts, they are criticised, but their existence is in no way or form questioned like the existence of Israel is. So no, it’s not “antizionism = antisemitism”, but it is “antizionism ∈ antisemitism”

Came to the comments to say In Time. I always have to remind myself how bad it was, because I really like the concept, so the movie tends to be much better in my head than it actually is as I keep adding things that weren’t there.

For everyone who doesn’t know: This is German far-right extremist politician Alexander Gauland

It is. It’s pretentious as fuck.

No. There were 6 popes who hadn’t been cardinals. Although it’s been a few hundred years since the last one (Urban VI., elected in 1378).

Youth worker here: How much fucking work it is to just keep things from falling apart constantly. People assume most of my work is planning and doing activities with teenagers. But a lot of the time I’m like 50% caretaker.

I work with people with disabilities, this sounds exactly like they text so I feel kind of weird about this being a meme, idk