For example, many say this about the Israeli/Arab conflict. However, this conflict is thousands of years old. The Israelis solidly lost a war to keep their land in the BC era

This is incredibly historically illiterate on multiple fronts. The Israeli/Palestine conflict only dates back to 1948, with precursors in 1930s. First, Israel wasn’t lost to “Arabs” in “the BC”. The Babylonians were not Arab and the exile of Jews in the 6th century BC were cultural elites and not the broader population. It was part of an attempt to assimilate Judah into the broader Babylon empire. That was defeated by the Persian empire and Judeans were allowed to return to Judea (now Southern Israel). The traditional idea of the beginning of the Diaspora was the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD and the violent expulsion of parts of Jerusalem by the Romans. Though the vast majority of the real diaspora was from immigrants to major Roman cities predating the destruction of the Second Temple and not Jerusalem exiles.

The majority of people that were living in what is now considered Israel were not Arab invaders, but the native peoples that have always lived there that, after the Arab conquest of the 8th century, started to speak Arabic and convert to Islam. The difference between a Mizrahi Jew and a Palestinian is most likely whether one of their ancestors converted to Islam in the last 13 centuries.

Not that Iron Age Philistines, Samaritans, Canaanites, etc. were secret proto-muslims secretly waiting for the Romans to purge Jews so that two millennia later “real Arabs” could occupy the “promised land”.

I don’t speak Japanese, but it is a combination of slang and lack of formal addresses, conjugations, or cases. Like Romance languages having formal and informal versions of “you” and using terms like monsieur.

Red Son was just a confession!

They should have been Rage For The Machine!

I am literally friends with a woman that decided when she lived in Japan that the more lower classl/colloquial form of Japanese was easier and only spoke that. So there is a white, Ph. D., upper class woman that speaks fluent Japanese, but only like a Yakuza.

Wow, I am finally glad that the worst people in the world telling you not to support them, even if some of those evil assholes are Democrats, has stopped working.

We need cops to keep us safe!

The Democrats actively contribute to non-voting by being the only space for opposition, but then always campaigning on being “polite Republicans that fill out paperwork”

Harris/Biden ran on opposing all of these. The Dems can’t simultaneously fight against Bernie and progressives and then pretend at some point they were fore them because Bernie was in a Dem primary at one point and forced Dem candidates to find deceptive ways to deflect and lie like Harris saying “access to healthcare for all”

Yes, litterally, “good things are better than bad things.”

Probably Obama, Clinton, or Reagan. Weird how much overlap there is between them.

Open the pod bay doors Grok!

I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that until you denounce the ANC.

Terrorism and antisemitism only mean thinking Palestinians are human. The more you think that Palestinians are expendable, the more you can be accepted by the US government.

This is literally me with an ex-girlfriend.

It’s almost like you need an economic system to become a billionaire, control the labor of thousands of other people, and buy off other systems of accountability with your ill gained wealth. Weird, anyway, the form of society and how money/resources are allocated doesn’t matter at all, but somehow communism is still bad for some reason, even if it means more equality and lack of oligarchs.

It is both an outgrowth of UK and US directly funding and supporting Muslim extremism to divide opposition to colonialism/imperialism since Jews, Christians, and leftists would be alienated and the rally around the flag type of effect of using already at-hand identity markers to opposed invaders and oppressors. The entire cold war was the US and sometimes their vassals like Saudi Arabia funding and supporting Islamism, as a counterweight to secular leftist forms of anti-colonialism, which they were actively suppressing, because of its incompatibility with socialism/communism.

Most easy and obvious examples is the Mujaheddin, aka proto-Al Qaeda and Taliban precursor. And Israel supporting Hamas over the PLO since the PLO was a secular organization that appealed to human rights.

Almost exclusively backed fascists and dictators one might say. Important facet of the Cold War, “say what you will about fascists, they will never go soft on Communists.”

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Again, one of the major failures of the Democrats is how shallow their bench is and how they kneecap anyone that isn’t a party right-winger on the public stage. Thus why it is important to look to broader and systemic reform, rather than pick a specific person as the “good candidate” in the next presidential election.

No, it is you that refuse to criticize because you are okay with no solutions.

Do I have to personally do the internal gladhanding to personally choose, out of the 1000s of Democrat politicians of all levels, which one would be the perfect candidate. Honestly, at this point, I think that maybe JD Pritzker might be the best candidate, as he seems vaguely progressive in the decade or two old Democrat mold. And has been standing up to Trump the best a Governor can. Even if I, personally, am far more left than him.

The Democrats offer no solutions and are absolutely not serious in opposing the Republicans. Their job is to use the two party system to take up all space for opposing Republicans, while making their policies bipartisan.

But ultimately, this is why, long term, we need to form coalitions and mechanisms of wielding power outside of the Democratic party. So that there can be opposition to right-wing policies. It is being as unserious as never considering actions outside the Democratic party that shows you aren’t serious about improving the country.