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McGrann evolved his thinking from the Dead Economy essay to (what I think is) a more profound piece using The Grand Inquisitor as a framework. Text and audio links here: https://zi…

I was part of a team building a complex web gui. We started the project in 2015. The GUI had a _lot_ of cascading business logic, an editable high-density grid, all kinds of fun. I…

>I don't think "getting invaded" counts as "choosing offensive war". Do you know what Hamas is? Do you know their charter? Do you know that they diverted billions of $, meant to bu…

That is polling, that isn't reality. I live here. In places like Jerusalem, Jews and Arabs are together all day, every day. 40% of the police officers in Jerusalem are Arabs. What …

After some 503 Service Unavailable errors, I find that I _can_ add mp4 files to an entry, but cannot add jpeg or static images of any format.

What is the life expectancy of a body politic that chooses ongoing offensive war? That is not a well thought out question. The answer is different in PA controlled areas, non PA ar…

>dissolving the whole state What? You understand what would happen next, right? Is there a single time in history when that has occurred? And if so, what happened next? What a fant…

I am not saying it is good or desirable. Do you live in a place that has a death cult committing daily acts of violence and killing (against people on both sides of the fence, of b…

Well said. What I try to emphasize is that Hamas has agency. They make the decision to keep fighting, or stop fighting. To deny Hamas agency is to dehumanize them. They have as muc…

There is not a single person in the Middle East who maps the behavior of Hamas to that of the PLO in the 1980's. Hamas is a death cult. They will fight to the last Gazan child. The…

Inventing what, exactly? The population growth rate in the West Bank and Gaza is higher than that of Europe. I ain't the one having the babies... The residents of those places are.…

Israelis are brutalized, by the actions of Hamas and at having no choice but to fight Hamas in horrible circumstances. Hamas could have ended the war in Gaza a year ago. Or on Octo…

East Jerusalem is ... not a nut anyone here is going to crack. What do those folks want for themselves? Be part of the Palestinian Authority? (Not the ones I have been doing a remo…

- There is only one Israeli citizenship. Jews have it. Israeli Arab Muslims have it. Israeli Arab Christians have it. Druze have it. It's the same. Is there discrimination, in all …

That is two random youtubers. You know better than to listen to rants on line... I hope!

Can you explain a genocide in Gaza or the West Bank both of which have growing Palestinian populations even during wartime? (If you correct for the 100K+ who left Gaza before Egypt…

Have you paid attention to who can hold power in, say, Iran? Or Saudi Arabia? Or Syria? Or Jordan? Israel isn't any more apartheid than any of those places. Given that Israeli Arab…

I think you have not paid attention to European and Middle Eastern countries. They are all ethno states. The very concept "nation-state" is an alignment of "ethnic tribe" with "pol…

The problems of Israeli democracy are not the ones you list. The fundamental issue is the population of the West Bank, who, outside of Palestinian Authority areas (aka "Area A"), a…

I agree. Bombing can only "do" so much....

Evangelical Zionists who fund extremist Jews ... Film, Til Kingdom Come -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Til_Kingdom_Come_(film)

>3) Israeli intelligence knew October 7 was gonna happen and did little to prevent it This is not considered valid in Israel. In Israel October 7 is considered a massive failure of…