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  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlImportant distinction
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    2 years ago

    What is “too far” though? Is raising your children to follow specific religious rules already too far? Because I think it is, but many others think that’s okay. What about expecting your surroundings to accommodate your religion? At what point exactly is that going too far?










  • When I visit friends in northern Germany they also run around like it’s summer when it’s close to winter cold for me.

    I had a friend jump into the North Sea to rescue a beer crate we put into the water for staying ice cold that swam away. While I was freezing on two blankets near the fire in a coat.

    That beer was also too cold. None of their behaviour made any sense.






  • Please, not this again… Personally, I am a lot in favour of communism. But some people, especially US Americans, have a fundamentally wrong idea about the housing shown in the upper picture.

    This is often neither cheap, nor does it reduce homelessness. And it’s also not the goal of that kind of rental homes to reduce homelessness.

    That is just normal homes of average people in many places.

    It’s not “cheap housing for everyone”.


  • Sorry but that’s bullshit. There are plenty of people who speak out against Israel (for example in Germany, of all places) who still hold their job. So there. Your anti-semitic theory of Jews from Israel secretly shadow controlling all governemnts is refuted.

    Btw, when your theory is correct how come the media doesn’t cover the bombing of Israel by Gaza and Lebanon? Most people don’t even know it’s happening.

    When your theory is true, how come that UN can be biased against Israel and no one is doing anything about it? The UN found that 40 % of all Human rights violations since 2006 (!) have supposedly taken place in Israel. With competitors like China, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that raised quite a few eyebrows but no one has done anything about it.

    Also, simply to bring in some statistics, there are 16.1 million Jews worldwide. And 9.37 million Israelis. No one cares for this tiny minority unless they are battling extinction again.

    What is more likely is that A you wish there was an easy answer, like one side has to be the bad one.

    And B you are falling hard for propaganda. Propaganda is one of the only weapons groups like Hamas have in their arsenal. And it’s not just Hamas who have an interest in Israel being gone. Add every other Islamic state into that mix.

    I don’t know which news sides you use but use some fact checkers as well. They aren’t perfect but here is a US based list: https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=620677&p=4333407

    Also, when you start doubting media, I found this quite important: https://stratcomcoe.org/

    This is NATO analysis of strategies used by several organisations and countries.

    https://stratcomcoe.org/publications/hybrid-threats-hamas-use-of-human-shields-in-gaza/87

    Here you can find a PDF that explains how Hamas is using human shields and what media coverage has to do with their strategy in particular.


  • That’s because you ignore everything that has happened in Palestine unless it’s connected to Israel.

    It has nothing to do with “Jews controlling the world” or other conspiracy theories. It’s that when you are living in a “western” culture you are more aligned with the culture of Israel (women’s rights, rights for LGBTQ people, at least the hope for democracy, protection of citizens instead of using them as propaganda tools, etc.).

    That is why many western politicians and media rather reluctantly call out Israel on it’s war crimes.

    Imagine when what many seem to wish comes true and Israel is abolished. The whole area becomes Palestine. Then we will have another country where people suffer under a religious zealot leadership. No rights for women or LGBTQ, no schools that educate their children to become free thinkers, no democracy or working for a better future, etc.