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simoom22
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Your version is plenty uncut and soggy as well. A significant amount of land buys involved evictions of peasants. There was plenty of violence in the arab revolts against British rule, when Jewish militia acted as British auxiliaries. Pogroms were very rare in pre-modern Arab lands, and usually related to factional politics, since jews often had significant political rights and power. The British suck. Most MENA Jews migrated voluntarily, and there's clear evidence that mossad had projects to heighten tensions in those countries, including even planning the bombing of synagogues.
simoom22
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> But ... what then keeps us in the status quo of fluoridated water supplies?

> ...thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper.
simoom22
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Is milk a brand name? I thought it was just a word for boob juice.
simoom22
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
There's definitely more at play than just bad thoughts. Actions result from emotions and expectations that are conditioned by complex patterns of social behavior reinforced by material pressures and legal institutions providing complex feedback to behaviors and all of that is also part of the explanation why memes spread farther and faster in some places, like American schools, than in other places.
simoom22
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Um, have you been to America before, or read any of it's history? Of course we don't openly discuss the racialized class of cheap reserve peon labor that is maintained for everyone else's benefit, that would be super uncomfortable.
simoom22
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Having the global reserve currency is a pretty big difference too. The base economy of the Lebanese government is Lebanon, the base economy of the US government is the world.
simoom22
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Yeah, I hate when woke liberals and college administrators go on about their Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and subverting the bourgeois counter-revolution, good grief.
simoom22
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
You realize that historically labor unions predated government laws about labor unions, right?
simoom22
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I'm not sure this is true. I recall from listening to the Blowback podcast that Castro initially tried to align with the US, and there was disagreement among US leaders about whether he was friend or foe. But we had a bunch of people in Florida, among them the dictator he ousted, offering to try and kill him, so we just went with that.