slowturtle

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by slowturtle 9mo ago
By "Arabs who live in Israel" you mean the minority of Arabs who the Israelis didn't force out at gunpoint during Plan Dalet and the Nakba. The Israelis can rectify the situation at any time by either allowing the Palestinian
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by slowturtle 9mo ago
Funny how you were originally arguing that Israel doesn't control the West Bank, but now you say "perhaps there would be more freedom and self-determination for the West Bank", correctly suggesting that there isn't self-
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by slowturtle 9mo ago
As for Gaza, it's ridiculous to say that Israel doesn't occupy it when even long before October 2023 the Israelis have imposed a complete blockade on the territory. They control the movement of goods, they control the water supply
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by slowturtle 9mo ago
The West Bank is administered by the Israeli Civil Administration which is a branch of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Even the Israeli High Court of Justice (Supreme Court) says that "Israel holds the Area in belligerent occupation&q
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by slowturtle 9mo ago
You’re ignoring 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 2 million in the Gaza Strip who are forced to live under Israel’s military occupation and law but do not have political representation in its government. That’s
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by slowturtle 9mo ago
Israel is not a democracy. You cannot call yourself a democracy when 5 million people live under your military occupation and are subject to military law without any political representation. An apartheid state cannot be a democracy.
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by slowturtle 1y ago
> Israel values the lives of their hostages above all else and will try to rescue them no matter the cost. Then why did the Israelis violate the ceasefire in March earlier this year, after they refused to move on to the second phase whic
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by slowturtle 1y ago
Probably because Israel violated the ceasefire earlier this year (that was a sham from the beginning) that lasted from January to March. The first phase of the ceasefire saw an exchange of hostages, but then the Israelis refused to move on
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by slowturtle 1y ago
UK surgeon Nick Maynard, a volunteer at Nasser Hospital, tells Good Morning Britain that he and other doctors tried to bring baby formula into Gaza and the Israelis confiscated it from them with no justification. [0] [0] https://
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by slowturtle 2y ago
Carter was the only president to call Israel what it is, an apartheid state.[0] Rest in peace. [0] https://youtube.com/shorts/y23V6PLTCMw
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by slowturtle 3y ago
The war's been at a stalemate for over a year with Ukraine having lost control of its eastern provinces in spite of receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in aid from "the West". Sounds like a loss to me, regardless of one
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by slowturtle 3y ago
Just because "we" are from English-speaking countries doesn't mean "we" have the same "enemies", and the idea that people are assigned a list of enemies based on where they're born is insane. Being bo
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by slowturtle 3y ago
I can’t wait for the day I can strap on my Apple® Vision Pro® 9 with OpenAI® integration and spend all my time interfacing ( wink ) with my virtual girlfriend. Sure my unlit 3 by 3 meter LifePod® is a little cramped and my arm itches from t
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by slowturtle 3y ago
> I can certainly think of some other ethnicity in that region who had their land occupied and was cleansed from the region. And I can certainly think of some other ethnicity in that region who that ethnicity cleansed from the region a
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by slowturtle 3y ago
> Any rational person of western ideology, that isn’t myopically viewing this as some oppressed/oppressor academic generalization, gets why Israel must act the way they are acting. Why must Israel act in a way that includes indiscri
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by slowturtle 3y ago
> Hamas is making that very difficult by blending in with the population, putting command centers under major hospitals and so on. If there's a command center under a hospital, then you don't bomb the hospital. The fact that yo
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by slowturtle 3y ago
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress in March 2013 that the NSA did not collect data on millions of Americans, just three months(!) before Snowden and Greenwald revealed the classified NSA documents proving otherwis
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by slowturtle 3y ago
The point is that Fauci and the CDC lied to the public about the efficacy of masks, even if they lied with "good" intentions. They simply could've explained that supplies were low and asked people not to hoard them. Instead t
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by slowturtle 3y ago
I've been checking in on the Herculaneum scrolls every few months for years to see if any progress has been made reading them yet, so to see such a well orchestrated competition around them is really exciting!
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by slowturtle 3y ago
> I'm dubious that the "Fed's money printer" had much of an effect on inflation. It certainly didn't cause the SVB or other banks to go under. The rate increases did that.. The rate increases were an attempt to c