In the West Bank there is no Hamas. So why is then Israel killing people, expanding colonies, destroying olive trees, stealing land, sheltering, aiding and abetting extremist settlers?

So long as Turkey isn’t part of it, is a good idea.

When you culture is so much about cOMpEtItiOn that you forget that sports are just a made up thing for witch we get to make whatever rules we like. Gender segregation in sports isn’t that eternal either.

If you’re that worried about different abilities competing, install a tiered system like the Special Olympics.

EDIT: Interesting read: https://daily.jstor.org/gender-incommensurability-in-sports/

What if the separation of competitions, “said to be a natural consequence of the differences between men and women,” is actually is “just a tool to create those differences”?

Someone else posted this Jacobin article that explains it: https://jacobin.com/2020/01/franc-zone-french-neocolonialism-africa

Go tell it to your dumb ass president.

Don’t take Meloni for granted.

The West African Franc and the Central African Franc and how France is using them to hold the economic keys to huge parts of its former colonial empire.

Not sure if that’s what the previous poster referred to, but that’s what I’d guess.

You are right to condemn Hamas war crimes.

Are you condemning Israeli war crimes with equal vehemence?

In fact, given the ridiculous power imbalance and the disproportionate power and scale, I would expect you would be spending almost all of your alloted condemn-war-crimes-time condemning the Israelis. Are you?

The current incarnation of the USA is not the usual USA, it’s MAGA USA, just like we characterize Fascist Italy, Peronist Argentina or Frankoist Spain. The NYT is in opposition but it’s still a newspaper from the MAGA USA.

Ok so hear me out: fuck the New York Times. I don’t even bother to read the article and I happen to think the CDU is a bunch of yahoos. But an …American newspaper, telling a European democracy what it does or what it doesn’t need? Get the fuck out of here.

Sure, the essayist is probably German and probably makes some good points. But, honestly fuck MAGA USA and their newspapers.

Signed, a dual EU/Canada citizen.

The only reason the blue collar man in the meme can afford a suburban home, a large family and free time on one income is because of very large taxes on the rich and very high rates of unionization. If people have these and choose to be trad-idiots, fine, so long as other people can also have these things and be free to choose to not be trad-idiots.

You need to stop finding excuses for the people who are bad at representing you.