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For those reading this thread and wanting to delve deeper, I recently read an interesting book on the subject: "Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations" by Michael Walzer

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Certainly not, that is definitively and absolutely the Special Occasion juice.

I don't know if you meant it to be, but that's an incredibly antisemitic dogwhistle, and if not I hope that you'll consider deleting it and never doing it again.

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I'm not enjoying the concerted effort on Bluesky to "All Live Matter" Yom Hashoah. Or the Holocaust Inversion victim blaming, the anachronistic Israel blaming, or the overall replacement of empathy and outrage with indifference and spite.

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David B @aardvarkz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The question is whether either Lebanon or Israel has the capability of getting rid of Hezbollah on their own. It seems like teaming up is likely the best path forward.

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It's one thing to screw around with Iran (which is already more than bad enough), and quite another to get into it with China (potentially catastrophically worse).

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Too many people would rather proudly wallow in their ignorance and wrongness than be gently and politely corrected.

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Too many people would rather proudly wallow in their ignorance and wrongness than be gently and politely corrected.

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When was this? I don't see the story on their website, and there's not a link on the screenshot.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 12/04/2026

I wish that more people would be opposed to war because it causes needless death and suffering and not merely to cynically score domestic political points like it's a sporting event.

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This seems suboptimal

Cumulative area burnt by wildfire curves for the US showing 2026 starting off massively worse than any prior year

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I obviously can't speak to your personal experience, but for many decades Arafat was widely considered to be equally as bad as Hitler, in a very literal sense. Just the thought of talking to him was anathema (hence the subsequent assassination by those who remained unconvinced).

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 11/04/2026

To the contrary, it was specifically his reputation as a legendary uncompromising general that afforded him the political power to negotiate with someone who was perceived as an intractable enemy.

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As a reminder, the capsule will now be blown up to prevent the Atlanteans from getting their greedy paws on it

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Because many of them are in positions of power and setting budgets and policies that aren't easily avoided.

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I think you are understating the situation, as most of the time they were living in a world deliberately built *against* them.

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It's not been great for a while but has become significantly worse lately, the distinction has all but ceased to exist.

Isn't "Fox" just the Anglicized spelling of the surname "Fuchs"? And don't forget that there's an ' to make it possessive.

label on bottle of Fox's U-bet Original Chocolate Flavor Syrup

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Much smaller Israel is being attacked with similar weapons, its leader issues a similar (arguably less defiant) statement, and is excoriated as an evil bloodthirsty genocidal threat to the whole world. Yes, the situations are somewhat different, but there's a clear double standard at play here.

Ukraine killed 35,000+ Russians last month alone, its leader issues a defiant statement that they intend to continue until the threat is eliminated, and he's hailed as a courageous hero. [1/2]

Zelenskyy Office: "Ukraine will not stop strikes on Russian territory despite requests from partners. Kyiv is acting in its own national interest amid ongoing war, despite differing views from allies."

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The singling out of Israel as uniquely illegitimate is one of the things that makes a lot of the anti-Zionist sentiment expressed here on the daily tacitly antisemitic.

Every post-Ottoman Arab state, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, was created by European colonial powers drawing lines through tribal and sectarian areas with indifference to the consequences that are still felt today. The entire modern state system is built on this foundation: land taken, people moved, suffering endured, and eventually, when both sides accepted finality, a durable peace.

Either Khalil believes every nation-state on Earth should be dismantled, or he is applying a standard that exists for Jews and Jews alone. The entire Arab world spans 13 million square kilometers and nearly half a billion people. Israel barely covers 22,000 square kilometers and is home to only 7 million Jews. Khalil doesn’t call for the dissolution of Jordan, doesn’t demand China answer for Tibet, or push for the right of return for millions of Hindus and Muslims displaced by the partition of India and Pakistan. He saves that demand for the one Jewish state on Earth, a nation smaller than New Jersey, surrounded by a region that has tried to destroy its people repeatedly. This is antisemitism through the vocabulary of liberation.

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'm still baffled that this wasn't immediately disqualifying, especially since there are 3 other perfectly good candidates running against him. Yet if anything, his support continues to build. Which is shameful and quite terrible, especially in the context of all the other antisemitism going on.

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Now do you believe me when I tell you the ocean has absorbed ~30% of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted? 🩵 And that it has absorbed 90%+ of the heat trapped by greenhouse gasses? 🩵

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David B @aardvarkz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

How is his statement a dogwhistle? He's literally just saying the antisemitic part out loud in clear words.

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David B @aardvarkz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Consider a spherical bugge...