It’s not about religion, they just want to steal their land and houses.

It’s rabid nationalism. Most Jews (and most Israelis) are secular, though they might light a candle once a year.

/Singing akong with Bob Vylan.

…which only applies to Palestinians.

This makes my ops guys cry.

1789 47

A guano republic.

I was lucky last time, was able to reconstruct almost all of it (99.7%) in 3 weeks of after-work messing around. The 0.3% is non-critical.

Now I do something I wrote myself with cron, rsync, hardlinks and gpg. It’s simple, easy to test and fairly bulletproof. Protip: keep many backups of your keys or you’ll wish you had.

US and Russia are two cheeks of the same ass now.

Nitpicking is not an argument, it’s hasbara.

Appeals

Too long a time lag to achieve anything.

And I know people who have been called up for IDF service but who are dual nationals living outside Israel in order to avoid it.

They should be drafting the settlers first. Or better yet, there should be mutiny and the corrupt warmonger should be driven out.

Rule number 1: don’t get caught.

Self-regulation is not regulation at all.

It could be dementia.

Many ancient empires did the same, millennia before the US existed.

It was shit then and it’s still shit now.

Self-determination doesn’t always mean that people will make what we regard as optimal choices.

Cultural erasure is a form of genocide by most definitions.

China is not just requiring the teaching of Mandarin, it is taking steps to eradicate the use of Tibetan and other non-Han languages.

And yes, Western countries have done it too, and it’s just as much a crime when they do it. For example, in Britain, children used to be punished for speaking Welsh or Gaelic in schools. The same happened with Catalan and Basque in Spain. Those are just two of many examples.

Mao was actually less brutal to ethnic minorities than the post-Mao CCP has been.