Wasn’t the Nazi government a significant “partner” in seeding the idea of a Jewish state? Others were talking about it first, sure, and the Balfour Declaration explicated the idea before the Nazi party existed, but the Nazis were hugely supportive of the idea as a more “humane” way to cleanse their population would be to simply ship the undesirables away.

I don’t have a source for this, that’s part of why I’m asking about it. I don’t know where I learned of it and, if anyone else has heard of this, maybe they know some names I can read about or point me to a source.

That is absolutely what would happen.

I thought this was a shitpost copypasta but there was no punchline and it ends with contact information… Is this a parody of a scam or someone actually trying to pull a scam?

If you go years without peeing, where does the pee go?

Do the balls just start getting bigger?

I suppose I can agree the way the system should work, with rehabilitation being the purpose, 20 years is a reasonable maximum and I’d be glad the decision for how long to hold a criminal wasn’t mine. I haven’t studied the subject, I’d trust the people who have.

The maximum sentence for a plot to start a race war is twenty years?

Wait, would you mind expanding on that about the Hungarian uprising? Isn’t that where the term “tankies” originates from, something something Soviet tanks rolling over innocent civilians to get them back to work, I don’t know what the original “tankies” argued about the situation but I’m curious if this proof actually establishes that, no, the original “tankies” weren’t actually being unreasonable at all

I know I’m not getting the metaphor here because to me, this looks like Republicans and Democrats working together to impale fascism using the power societies gain when wielding the “stake” of communism??

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The Luigi Legacy…

I’m gonna talk out my ass for a minute, I haven’t actually done any focused reading on most of the tidbits I’m about to discuss. Just putting together a lot of disconnected thoughts and anecdotes I’ve collected over the years

I’m remembering that the phrase “white pride” only exists in imitation of the phrase “black pride” and the accompanying explanation for why one is absolutely not at all problematic while the other is unabashedly supremacist. That explanation being that “black” references the culture common to that group of people which, in the case of American black people, can’t really be narrowed down to any one country. While it can be narrowed down (mostly) to one continent, that still represents a fifth of the Earth’s land-area and therefore includes a lot of cultures that don’t have anything in common.

So, “black culture” then is a sort of (the word I’m about to use may be problematic, I don’t know, it makes sense in my head but I’m white and have no idea how it might feel to have someone else describe me this way) “prosthetic” culture. I’m thinking, because they did lose a real part of themselves but, because there are so many others with the same culture-esque background in America, the phrase “black culture” refers to a real thing that exists.

Now, the other direction. “White culture” is problematic because, what culture is it that “white” people share? People who are “white” have a cultural history already, they don’t need a prosthetic. I know I come from something vaguely Scots-Irish. If I could be bothered to look into that more, I could surely find clubs, celebrations, or whatever kind of pageantry I wanted to validate that identity. But what cultural history do I have in common with this other random “white” person who it turns out is actually Romanian?

And that brings me to the best bit! Take all the people who are considered “white” today, put them in a room and have them discuss with each other, looking for the single attribute that their culture shares with the most other cultures in that room. I would guess (totally out my ass here, I have no idea) that the one thing most cultures have in common today even the ones currently considered “white” is that they used to be persecuted for their non-whiteness.

I don’t have any numbers for that. I’m just thinking about how, for example, Italians didn’t used to be “white”, Irish people didn’t used to be “white”, or Romanian people are still kind of struggling to be considered “white”. Or we could take it another way, Jews aren’t “white” regardless of their skin color (though of course the state of Israel is likely to sterilize anyone whose skin is too dark…) and I remember a stereotype about Catholics that sure seemed to fit in the category of non-“white”.

So, now I don’t remember what the subject of the post I’m writing this in was…

This quote is part of her speech delivered 19 November 2014 as acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (Ursula K. Le Guin’s speech, obviously)

That looks promising! Thanks!!

Ooooof

While your argument is sound, a server can’t feed their children or care for disabled parents with sound arguments and principled stances.

I usually aim for the nearest dollar around 30%.

I’m a defense contractor and none of the “work” I have ever done in my life has done any human any good. I think it’s important to use my nonsense salary to pay the people who actually add value to society.

Ooooh it would be fun to do SimCity 2000 again…

Oh wow, yeah it totally does. I thought Le Guin died in like the 80s

Right, I get that, but where was it he was bitten?

I’d really like a source for the “200 million per decade” number, the closest I’m aware of is this catalog of US atrocities but that’s both a wider and narrower subject than this one, not directly comparable.