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Idk, unless there are actual allegations I don’t really see it. Adin Ross seems too stupid to take advantage of anyone.
Indeed, by the time we get to today, it would turn out that having ancestors who fled from the same persecution is much less meaningful a similarity than what the people alive today actually make of that history.
Fair point
This is probably far-fetched, but I’d like to think that Crooks was the first republican to actually be intellectually honest about Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and decided to take “kill your local pedophile” to its logical conclusion
You know what, good points. I shouldn’t have fallen for it so quickly
this guy disagrees: https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1812366460955562225
Yeah I’ve been having similar thoughts.
2014-2020 or so was a period of significant ideological change & realignment in the US in a number of ways, but now things have kind of reached a new equilibrium, so the current ideological terrain is probably what we’re going to have for a while. I think this is mostly because the internet & social media reached maximum penetration around 2014, and the 2014-2020 period was just the US’s ideological terrain adjusting to that step change.
(Admittedly, I also might be biased because 2014-2020 is also basically the period when I was 18-25 years old, so of course it seemed to me like a lot of things were in flux)
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That’s not what I was getting at. I was assuming that people who come across this post would already know that Israel oppresses non-Jews. My point is that it gets even worse than that: the non-Jews are the numerical majority, so the whole thing is more egregious than many Americans might be aware.
I guess I do think a numerical majority being subjugated is more noteworthy in some ways than a numerical minority.
I brought it up because it kind of disproves the idea that “Jews have a special relationship with that region and/or are uniquely entitled to it.” They’re not even the majority there currently! And they weren’t in 1948 either.
What the hell does “self-determination” even mean? I feel like since 10/7 we’ve all been gaslit into the idea that “self-determination” is some obvious, uncontroversial thing
Thanks everyone for the responses. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m sorry for any offense I caused.
Thank you for this response, and for your other ones in this thread as well.
This passage in particular really gave me some needed perspective:
There are no “uncontacted tribes”, everyone has been in touch with their neighbors the whole time, for as long as there have been humans. Every part of the world, except Antarctica and a very small number of islands, has been inhabited by humans a very long time, with Polynesia being one of the last places humans arrived at a few thousand years ago. Humans have been in NA for at least 30,000 years, Australia for at least 40k but probably longer, in Europe for at least 50k. Even the famous North Sentinelese have had more and less contact with their neighbors over prior centuries. Their current closed borders are a modern policy decision made by a modern people choosing how to interact with other people in the modern world.
(Although I didn’t mention them directly, the Sentinelese definitely were one of the things I had lingering in my mind when I posted my OP, so I’m glad you said something about them)
thanks for the book recs, they’re on my list now.
I didn’t know that, but that is interesting
this was clarifying, thanks
the Canadian Shield
so this is it, right? We’re, like, definitely in WW3 now?
been thinking about this a lot this morning.