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Post by jokowueu »

UltraSane wrote: post #211
ebbi wrote: post #132

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So you don't accept the fact that a lot of this sectarian violence flared after the toppling of Saddam, which was because of the US? And how many of the deaths do you attribute to the sectarian violence, as opposed to the direct actions of the US in the region?

The VAST majority of the deaths were from sectarian violence.

That was caused by a power vacuum and US's intentional act to oust the Ba'ath Party, remove all control from a country and it will fall to chaos especially when blood feuds are involved .

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Post by nailer »

cholantesh wrote: post #172
FunnyUsername wrote: post #53

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It's at least plausible that the population did increase. Estimates of births during the war are larger than the casualty count that Hamas claims.

Estimates of birth that rely on the mid-2023 figure and deliberately ignore Israel's systematic dismantling of the health and food systems in Gaza and the drop in fertility levels. >the casualty count that Hamas claims The Gaza Health Ministry's count is widely regarded as an underestimate, but mostly by people who don't refer to it with a dogwhistling caveat.

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Post by throw310822 »

lukan wrote: post #214
throw310822 wrote: post #208

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You're right, expelling Israelis from Palestine would be a crime exactly as it's been a crime expelling Palestinians. While I believe that Jews had no right in the first place to immigrate there, this doesn't change the status of their descendants who are born there and whose families are born there. But let's be clear on this: Jews that are not currently in Israel have no right to immigrate there. Jews that are in I…

But what about Palestinians who were born elsewhere? Do they have a right to go back to their ancestors land? To me it seems close to the arguments of the jewish who see themself as native, "just" on a larger timescale. There is no easy solution that I can see. (except letting go of fanatism)

In the case of Palestinians, "their ancestors" means their fathers or grandfathers. They still have the keys of their homes. In the case of Jews, it means some mythical ancestor of 2 thousand years ago or more.

But yes, the question of the "right of return" of Palestinian refugees is a tough one; but I think it's a distraction. The very minimum the international community should force Israel to, is to withdraw within the 1967 border and cease any interference with the territory and sovereignty of Palestinians. It won't happen because the goal of Israelis and Zionists everywhere is to conquer as much land as they can, and a constant state of attrition is the excuse they need to keep settling more ethnically-cleansed land.

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Post by chakintosh »

cbeach wrote: post #224
jeanlou wrote: post #220

It's funny how when talking about Israël's wrongdoings, everything is just "allegedly". Facts already confirms genocide, but hey, they don't want to land in hot water.

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> The Hamas Charter explicitly called for the “annihilation” of the Jewish state.

See, this is what grinds my effing gears. On one hand you have a party "calling" for the "annihilation" of Israel. On the other hand, you have a part who is calling for the annihilation of palestinians AND they are ACTIVELY doing it. But no, you have to draw an equivalence somehow ...

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Post by jwblackwell »

I absolutely love the idea of Replit and I think it's an awesome platform and idea.

I do wonder how sustainable it is as a business though. I expect Replit is sending the majority of that money to the big AI labs through API costs

As soon as anything becomes serious you're going to try and take it off Replit and use something like Claude Code and AWS etc

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Post by davedx »

gameboy45 wrote: post #16

interesting hearing his justification for working w Saudi but not Israel: He says he would never work with Israel now. “I think it’s an illegitimate and criminal government,” he told me during our gun safety training. “I mean, [Benjamin] Netanyahu is a war criminal.” When I pointed out that Saudi Arabia has its own abysmal human rights record, Masad drew a contrast. “I just think about how Replit is going to be used.…

If your primary cause is Palestine then it's pretty internally consistent?

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Post by soldthat »

siltcakes wrote: post #72
soldthat wrote: post #39

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Most of the world has a positive view of self-determination for every other group; Ukrainians, Palestinians, the Irish, etc.

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There are 2 million Arabs in Israel. There are 0 Jews in areas under full Palestinian control.
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