NoneOfUrBusiness

You should look up the correlation between alcohol consumption and cancer rates. It’s pretty clear-cut; the graph goes down ever so slightly down* and then keeps on rising. The “safe” limit would just be a function of how high a probability of getting cancer you’re willing to tolerate.

*Medical issues are a common reason not to drink, so the cancer rate for the total non-drinking population is appreciably higher than it would be for a healthy non-drinking individual. There’s no causation behind that drop to our knowledge.

PS: I said “cancer,” but the same principle applies to liver failure and a host of other “fun” diseases.

Moderate what now? According to a recent poll, 80% of Israeli Jews aren’t brothered by the suffering of Palestinians. Look up the Tel Aviv University Peace Index; Israeli society is rotten to the core. The moderate position in Israeli politics is “we should prioritize the safety of the hostages, of course without compromising the Great Patriotic War™.” The people who give enough of a shit about the genocide to act are a fringe minority among fringe minorities

now that the US has made it perfectly clear which side it’s on.

US’s been perfectly clear which side it’s on for decades; Trump is just louder about it.

I really don’t have a problem with Iran getting nukes, but the headline is misleading as hell. Iran isn’t building nukes; EU leaders are threatening sanctions over nuclear facility inspections. Also I doubt Iran cares too much about this because no matter the EU position, US secondary sanctions preclude any significant trade with the EU. This was what ultimately wrecked JCPOA.

Yeah. Before the French Revolution execution via beheading was reserved for nobles, and it was done manually using a weapon rather than via a machine. Meanwhile commoners got to have all the wonderful medieval execution methods like breaking on the wheel and burning at the stake. In the interest of Enlightenment ideals, abandoning medieval barbarism and equality between citizens the Legislative Assembly voted to do away with this system and made it so all French citizens got a execution via beheading like the nobility. However, executioners said that if the lines got too long they might have to rush their work, and a sloppy job would cause undue suffering to the condemned, defeating the point of the whole affair. This is where the clean and efficient guillotine came in. The guillotine as a tool was meant to bring the masses up, not bring the nobility down. That’s not what it’s associated with nowadays, but it’s plenty dignified compared to being hanged, drawn and quartered.

The point of the guillotine was to give all citizens an equal, dignified and relatively painless death. Too good for those fucks.

I mean, how many capital H Holocausts are there? The Madagascar Plan was IIRC a Nazi Germany plan to dump all Germany’s Jews in Madagascar.

I mean yes, and most of the people that did ended up going to America rather than Israel. My point is that the popular myth that Israeli Jews are somehow deeply tied to the Holocaust and other horrors of fascism and that’s why they fled to Palestine is just that, a myth. Israel tries to play up that supposed connection to get Western sympathy, but again nothing of the sort exists. The parent comment is building on this myth by implying that the people of Israel are doing to others what has been done to them when in reality that’s not true.

I did, and? I guess there was a typo but I don’t see your point.

They couldn’t get anyone else to accept them, because doing so as a neighbor of Israel means setting yourself up for war (or occupation) 10 years down the line, and if any of those Zionist stooges were willing to do that they’d have went to war already. Also I should note that the vast majority of South Sudanese don’t speak Arabic, so this would be somehow even worse than dumping them in Sinai or something.

The vast majority of Israelis are of Middle Eastern or Eastern European descent, in that order. Most of these guys had nothing to do with the Holocaust or anything that led up to it.

Next time on a weekday, please.

I mean, every resistance organization in history hated the absolute guts of the people oppressing them. It’s technically a bad thing, but it’s also unavoidable. Irish paramilitaries during the Troubles tended to hate the shit out of Protestants for example, and I’d bet good money plenty Jewish resistance fighters hated Germans as an ethnic group. It’s unfortunately a very natural human reaction and in no way unique to Palestinians.

Oh shit you’re right. My bad.

As an Egyptian I would be thrilled if Israel tried to invade. Even our Zionist stooges wouldn’t be able to ignore that.

I don’t think Hamas is very fond of the guy starving and murdering them. I know it’s fashionable on Lemmy to portray them as Machiavellian actors who only care about power, but like these are living, breathing people too and nobody enjoys getting carpet bombed.

Edit: I misunderstood that.

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I hate fascist solidarity.

Boo fucking hoo. No sympathy for the war machine.

Apparently the bridge thing is something the Italian right keeps calling for despite every expert worth their salt agreeing it’s a terrible idea.

I mean, what else can they do? Edit: The job of Amnesty International and similar organizations is to keep us informed; it’s up to us, armed with this information, to act to stop this madness. The fact that their strongly worded letters don’t lead to change is completely on us.