“If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I’m sorry, my friends, there would be no Canada the next day,”

Palestine is Buffalo in this analogy, right?

Not improving your political stances, but just benefiting from a popular artist? It’s the Democrats wildest dreams!

The “fuck immigrants over” party is not popular with immigrants. Big surprise.

Republicans fuck over so many people, then they have to resort to crazy schemes like gerrymandering and voter suppression to not lose all the time. If they want to win, maybe do more popular things! This also goes for Joe Biden: all this complaining about leftist not voting for him, but he does nothing to convince them either.

Why would this analogy hold? Why can nations control who comes in and not cities, counties, or any other set of borders we’ve come up with?

On top of that, the US doesn’t seem to respect other borders as much either, when it sends troops to whatever place, usually without getting invited.

People here seem to think that the parties that want unification are pro-CCP. Taiwan (until now) thinks they are the rightful rulers of China. A decent part of three Taiwanese still want reunification. I’m happy that they don’t have that delusion anymore, and I hope China follows suit, but let’s not see the situation here too black and white.

This comment got to me really late, probably to Lemmy’s distributed nature.

But I still want to add: of course business will make more money if you allow more practices, but selling personal data just has too many negative consequences.

Also low quality advertising? You mean like billboards and in the newspaper? You mean regular advertising?

No, just ban the collection of user data and selling to 3rd parties. Enormous fines for anyone still doing it. Destroy this entire industry please.

Exactly, it’s the whole “black lives matter” vs “all lives matter” thing all over again.

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I don’t think you’re completely right here. The two-state solution isn’t very popular with regular Palestinians either. A two-state solution cements Israel as ethno-state and doesn’t address all the Palestinians already deported.

Also Israeli settlers keep violently stealing people’s houses, which I would also consider breaking the ceasefire.

There are certainly Jews that are indigenous to that region, but most of them are not.

And in any case, why would Jews that haven’t lived there for multiple generations have more rights to the land than people actually living there?

Can an Irish-American go to Ireland and kick people out of their houses? No! They can move there and get their own house, that’s it. Same with Jews wanting to live in Palestine. They can move there, they can’t form their own country and deport the people living there. That’s called ethnic cleansing.

Israel is going to spend even more of its blood preforming a ground invasion.

Those poor innocent invading soldiers trying to invade and colonize more and more land from these savage indigenous people. If only the indigenous people just accepted their fate peacefully and just give up their homes to the colonizers. They simply are the wrong ethnicity so they have to leave their houses or be shot. Not enough people consider how bad that makes the colonizers feel. Not leaving your house means you are just asking to be killed.

Yeah, why don’t they just let the Israelis commit genocide them peacefully?

Republican means you are in favor of a republic, meaning no monarchy. Communism wants a classless society, so they are republicans as a logical consequence of the ideology. America is a democratic republic, so both Democrats and Republicans are just meaningless labels .

I don’t think there is much difference in the use of the word liberal. If I compare the politics of the main liberal party in my home country (VVD in the Netherlands) there isn’t that much difference with the average Democrat in the US. The main difference is whether they are perceived as left or right wing by the population.

And it very much is neoliberal. Both parties (VVD and Democrats) are in favor of a smaller government and laissez-fair capitalism. They might need to compromise on these principles from time to time to remain popular, and in Europe maybe a bit more.

Funny thing: right wrong conspiracy nuts get their talking points from the us, so more and more people are starting to call liberals left-wing communists in Europe. So far it’s just by the people who get their talking points online.

These kinds of articles are not about wanting to add to the runtime, just about providing extra context to the things portrayed in the movie.

it’s interesting that an American is pushing Chinese talking points

Maybe he just agrees with it? What is it about Americans that they wouldn’t be convinced of other perspectives? Americans can only align with US propaganda?