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  • I still don’t know if I can make a generalization that it’s because Israelis are predominantly of a faith and therefore are cultish, and by extension likely to be abusers within the faith. In the end, a majority of Israelis are not religious and don’t subscribe to religious doctrine.

    So I agree with your second paragraph:

    I think these stats are a reflection of just how toxic Israeli culture has become in some areas. It’s a slippery slope from → these types of people are not human to → inhumanity applied to other groups, as we all know. Eventually it is applied on oneself when it becomes so ingrained in the culture.

    And because of how sadistic and toxic the culture is, it’s even more apparent in the spinoff cults.


  • The context of the post and comment are about liberal zionism, and the extended context is that a liberal zionist is just as bad as a fascist, which is true. The big common denominator (amongst many other things) being genocide.

    Israel has been largely headed by liberal zionists for the majority of it’s genocidal colonial history so far. It’s only recently that the rightwing have gained the majority they enjoy now. And they both agree on the genocide, just differ on the optics and language used.




  • South Africa isn’t a totalitarian state, it’s a proportional representative Republic. Which means that if a party has X percentage of votes and seats, they get a seat. South Africa have the GNU (government of national unity) coalition and McKenzie said that he would walk away if he wasn’t given a seat - thereby dissolving government. So he was given the sports ministry, the most insignificant position since the World Cup way back when. And in that role, he’s just pushed his racist rhetoric and corruption

    How can you appoint someone like that (a convicted criminal)

    • people serve their time and can run in elections and get voted in. Nelson Mandela did it.

    So if someone wants to bring up something that they’re not very informed about, it’s called “muddying the waters” of discourse, especially when that person wants to try and push their rhetoric on whether Israel is apartheid and what South Africa’s more accepted stance is on the topic.

    Like, why even bring it up if you don’t know much about the politics involved? What point are you arguing by saying that this voice in South African politics says that apartheid doesn’t exist? Should we argue the Jim Crow policies didn’t exist because some MAGAT said so and platform them?







  • I don’t know if we’ve read the same article because it reads as fear mongering defensive improvements with the tone that it’s for offensive use.

    China’s nuclear missiles can already reach any city in the United States. Now, satellite images reviewed by Reuters show Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles.

    China’s nuclear build-up is among the most scrutinized facets of President Xi Jinping’s military modernization because of what some foreign diplomats describe as Beijing’s lack of transparency and failed efforts by the United States to engage the Chinese leadership on its evolving nuclear capabilities and intentions.

    But some senior Western diplomats and analysts say China would possibly resort to nuclear coercion to limit outside involvement in a conflict over Taiwan.

    The scale of what is emerging in China’s northwestern desert has left even seasoned analysts startled.