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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

cess11 wrote: post #244
UltraSane wrote: post #207

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What does "Zionist" mean to you? I honestly don't understand what it means when Israel has existed as a Jewish state for 76 years and seems likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

Zionism is older than the state of Israel. It is a political movement consisting mainly of christians. If you want to learn more you could do worse than follow Zachary Foster's lectures for the Rutgers Center: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zachary+foster+... The podcast The Empire Never Ended has recently finished a rather good series on Meir Kahane, one of the most important influences on contemporary…

Kahane, notably a terrorist and racial supremacist.

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Post by flumpcakes »

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #259
flumpcakes wrote: post #239

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> these days anyone who says "I support Palestine Action" They have a video of people from this group attacking police with sledgehammers. It is strange how much of this 'direction action' is harming Ukraine support and not Israel. If people wanted to support Palestine they can do it without attacking their own countries' military - which is not operating in Israel at all. > "she was murdered by ICE" They have a vide…

The UK military is and has been operating in Gaza, the UK government is just lying about it. Public flight tracking data makes it obvious.

That's a big statement to make - do you have any credible sources on that?

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Post by oa335 »

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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Likud government and charter explicitly calls for all land between the river and the sea to be for Jews.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

siltcakes wrote: post #93
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #88

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> Jewish homeland is Poland, Russia, Germany Jews have been in the Levant longer than they’ve been in Germany. (And in both for less time than they’ve been in America.) The problem is with the notion of a homeland. Whose ancestors had what claim to something shouldn’t have bearing on how people are treated today.

Ashkenazis are Europeans.

> Ashkenazis are Europeans

Okay? So are most American Jews.

Most humans can legitimately claim ancestry to the Levant. It's the coast closest to the cradle of civilization.

There is absolutely evil happening in Gaza. But pretending this is black-and-white, from an ocean away, is just alienating. It turns what should be a broad political discussion into a niche issue.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

mjevans wrote: post #186
siltcakes wrote: post #109

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Returning land to the people it was brutally taken from is not “ethic cleansing”. The right of return is still valid.

At some point, all land has been taken either by direct force, or by the threat of force. All land, everywhere. It is NOT a natural right that anyone owns any land, nor that any countries exist. That is something everyone's ancestors fought each other for and created as a system of human society. Of course that's written in the past tense. Facing reality rather than the fantasy presented in history books and document…

> At some point, all land has been taken either by direct force, or by the threat of force

You're broadly correct. But there is land that was settled within the historical record.

The Levant, obviously, is not that. It was settled prior to the historical record. It is the coast closest to our cradle of civilisation. Every human with ancestry outside Africa has some sort of claim to lineage to that land.

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Post by sd9 »

The title is a non-sequitur.

“Terrorist sympathizer” and “successful businessperson” (or “rich person”) are completely orthogonal. Building a successful business does not necessarily change your terrorist sympathisation status. You can be a rich terrorist sympathiser.

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Post by barnabee »

flumpcakes wrote: post #262
femiagbabiaka wrote: post #259

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The UK military is and has been operating in Gaza, the UK government is just lying about it. Public flight tracking data makes it obvious.

That's a big statement to make - do you have any credible sources on that?

At a minimum the RAF has operated hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza.

Multiple sources linked on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_Gaza_wa...

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

lostlogin wrote: post #182
xdennis wrote: post #118

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No land was stolen. All land was purchased before the war. All land taken after wars was taken after wars started by the Arabs. That's always been the case with nations who lost wars. Germany lost the war and lost land because of it. Should Germany take back land that was "brutally taken from them"? Or should they maybe just accept that they shouldn't have started the war? The Germans certainly have accepted that.

If a war has finished, should the victor still be able to keep taking land off the loser? What’s the duration of that right?

> If a war has finished, should the victor still be able to keep taking land off the loser? What’s the duration of that right?

Practically? In 2026? As long as you can keep it. We're back to deciding borders through force versus treaty. Which, based on the rhetoric around Gaza, is ambiguously worse.

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Post by HPsquared »

simondotau wrote: post #254
flumpcakes wrote: post #251

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Is there something you disagree with? My opinions were pretty neutral.

The internet is where every issue is a binary, nuance is scorned, and moderate views are weakness. You should know this already.

It's like Hamlet. "To upvote, or to downvote".
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