I'm anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. I feel that Israel is asking for free money (the US gives them billions every year for no reason) to commit war crimes against other nations (Palestine, for example, neither Israel nor Palestine are in the right). How do you as a Jewish person feel about Israel?
As a Jewish person I feel I have personal responsibility to criticise the actions of Israel. There is nothing I have more loathing for than the demand that you hold those is power free from guilt of obvious wrongs for no other reason than you share their race, religion, or nationality.
I dislike invoking Godwin's law, especially when discussing Israel, but I feel that standing silently at the side simply because it's not *my* people under persecution makes me no better than those who watched the Jews grimly walk towards the ghettos that would became their graves.
And Palestinian leaders are far from free of guilt. They have sold their own people down the river an infuriating number of times. My anger at them is not defensive, I don't feel personally threatened, I'm just sick of them being so useless in terms of alleviating the suffering of the people they're in charge of.
haruhi . I feel exactly the same way. Hamas is definitely just as guilty, if not more so, as Israel. Thank you for actually giving me a thought out response.
palestine isn't a nation. The US gives dozens of countries hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid each year yet you only complain about Israel. Israel and the Jews are in the right. You have zero evidence of war crimes.
Oh you're serious. A quick search will gives you thousands of pieces of evidence (some reliable, some not so much), but I doubt you'll let that alter your pre-conceived opinion. I was raised in a pro-Zionist household, but when I became an adult I realized that not every opinion your parents and the media has is true. www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/evidence-israeli-war-crimes-gaza-interactive-15072810-150728133534137.html
mondoweiss.net/2015/07/country-holding-accountable
The whole UN wants to hold them accountable, but the US (I'm a US citizen and soldier) continues to suck their collective schmeckle a little Yiddish for you, my brainwashed companion? .
Targeting civilians is a war crime though. The numbers of civilians the Israel has killed compared to any other nation doesn't add up. I get it though, the whole world (all Muslims, many neighboring nations, etc) despise Israel. Fighting monsters has turned Israel into the worst monster in order to defend itself, but it's gone too far.
Dude you clearly have no clue what the **** is going on. You better cut that ******* pretentious tone of yours because you are making yourself look like an even bigger dumb ass.
Actually, the US (in all its faults) is considered to be the nation that follows the Geneva Accords better than any other. Though I guess Israel hasn't actually signed Geneva Protocols I, II, or III.
I could write a longer novel about how Israel's actions are justifiable. But arguing with these edgy meme-nazis is impossible. Therefore, I only apply the way of arguing that they're using. Go to the politics board and you'll see how I usually argue.
Maybe that's because you ***** define yourselves by your stupid MADE UP religion. None of that **** is real or even matters. Everybody has hated jews since the dawn of jews, makes me wonder if it's jews that are the problem. You're only religious because you were brought up and brainwashed. Think for yourself faggot.
The electoral college. It's set up in the US government. Basically, each state has a number of votes relative to the population of the state (at least 1, California has the most at 55). The president is decided based on the votes of the electoral college, not the actual public vote. While the members of the electoral college are there to represent the wishes of their state's general popular vote, and will often submit their votes according to the results in districts they represent, they aren't actually legally required to do so, and occasionally completely disregard it. For instance, a candidate could have 85% of all votes in the popular vote, but if 270 votes in the electoral college are in favor of another candidate, that one is the one that becomes president. This was originally set up because a lot of people in the early US were completely uneducated, or didn't have access to the polls. Outdated now, but it's written in to the basic workings of the US, so we're stuck with it.
In the presidential election, there are a total of x votes, where x is the total number of electors from every state, which is proportional to the population of each state (and also equal to the number of senators and representatives given to each state). These electors are in turn voted in by said population during the presidential election; when you vote, you aren't voting for a president, you're voting for a guy who promises to vote for that president. The popular vote is the majority vote among these electors, and every vote regardless of it's original direction goes towards the popular vote by the end of the election.
This means that in republican states, such as Texas and Idaho, democratic votes literally don't matter, and visa versa. The only states where YOUR vote matters are swing states, such as Florida and New Hampshire, which are states where the electoral votes are very close. This man's vote basically doesn't matter, because even in swing states, it is extremely rare for the election to come down to one single vote.
I'm aware of this. I'm questioning why theintercourser thinks that the fact that some people are less wise with their voting than others is a reason for the electoral college's existence.
The electoral college was chosen over direct election because the founding fathers thought people were too stupid to correctly vote. as anon said " For instance, a candidate could have 85% of all votes in the popular vote, but if 270 votes in the electoral college are in favor of another candidate, that one is the one that becomes president. This was originally set up because a lot of people in the early US were completely uneducated, or didn't have access to the polls. Outdated now, but it's written in to the basic workings of the US, so we're stuck with it."
Hilter was a leftist look it up.
Enviormental freak, big government, business controlled by said government.
National socialism is just socialism for your own people.
No, those are simply the definitions of "leftism" connotated in the modern day. The actual definition of leftism, that separates the left from the right, is the belief in the establishment of individual rights and the people. If you remove the voting rights from the people and declare yourself an indisputable dictator, you are, by definition, not a leftist.
Hitler had a liberal policy. He wanted to increase pension, he wanted to let profits flow to the pockets of the people, his enviormental policy's are leftwinged.
Sorry i dont have the sources on me because, but look it up.
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How do I explain this to you? If you believe that your group and only your group are the ones deserving benefits, and you violently attack those outside of your group, to the extent that you even invade other countries for no reason other than "My people want me to." You are undeniably a right-wing figure. You might be a right-wing politician who cares for and benefits his people, but you are still right wing.
Again: because it is only for your own people, it is a rightist ideology. Rightism implies the belief in a social hierarchy or superiority of a specific group. If you place the people of your nation hierarchically above others, then you are acting in a right-wing fashion. That doesn't make it bad, that just makes it right-wing.
You take this one bit for your own people and you put it on the other end of the political spectrum because of that.
If Trump tweets he wants to slightly increase taxes on cars that get less than 20 miles per gallon, would that make him a liberal? The vast majority of his policy's where left-winged.
You're ignoring other key parts of his politik however. Hitler also banned elections, and was made a leader-for-life, which is inherently undemocratic and thus right-wing. He also ordered the SS to viciously stifle dissent and spread propaganda, yet another right-wing political action. Left-wing politics is not compatible with the curtailing of intellectual rights or the harassment of the people, both of which Hitler allowed and even ordered. Not to mention is obvious use of labor camps for undesirables, which was in essence a form of slavery, yet another instance of non-Leftist policies.
Jesus Christ, do I really have to do this right now?
Communism is a broad categorization that includes hundreds of ideologies, such as revolutionary and non-revolutionary Trotskyism, Leninism, Syndicalism, Socialism, and also Stalinism and Maoism, both of which may be Communist, but are right-wing ideologies.
I geddit. Everything good and nice is left-winged.
Everything bad is right winged.
Leftwinged includes: islam, cure for cancer, sliced bread, equality, wealth and Avatar TLA
Rightwinged includes: radical isam, cancer, rape, slavery, poverty and the live action last airbender movie
Leftism includes: Sikihism and certain sects of Christianity, expansion of basic rights, democracy, and charity
Rightism includes: Religious conservatism, meritocracy, capitalism, and representation.
There are good and bad things from each category, and too much in either direction is always bad, but just because you don't like what political fact implies about certain historical figures doesn't mean that it's wrong.