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literally the organizing principle of the current democratic party in the US is state pluralism

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the US was a slaver empire for the beginning of its history and then an apartheid state until the modern era. now it is a pluralistic democracy.

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look, just about ever full fledged democracy on earth outside of europe has adopted pluralism as its organizing principle, including the US. this is not the only way to build a state bsky.app/profile/dani...

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i also do not think there is anything terribly unique about how zionism has manifested itself, it is just what has occured many many times over when a state tries to paper over the contradictions between how people and national borders are organized

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the nation-state is not the default organizational structure, it was a predominantly 18th-20th century construction which existed in practice *almost* exclusively in europe and required a couple hundred years of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and forced religious conversion to build

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the backdrop of the discussion over zionism is this question about how to best organize states. i am surprised at how favorably many liberals view nationalism not just as a mode of organizing resistance to (post)colonial oppression but as the preferred building block of state organization

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i am not sure i agree with what jeremy o’harris is saying here (that journalists should ignore the elites) but its interesting that the response is “my job is to reflect society” and not “my job is to report on things which are occuring in society”, which are very much not the same tjing

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i said this about the times but it applies to all legacy journalism

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fair perhaps i should reconsider

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thats great, then i think we dont disagree here and its just a semantic issue

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i mean, i think the people saying that i want to destroy israel clearly mean “an israel which does not maintain ethnic supremacy for jews is functionally nonexistant”

it was notably partitioned, forced to give up its conquered territories, its (captured) leaders were mostly shot, and it was told never to have an offensive military again

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most of the time? a new government is formed

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rfra but genocide doesnt pass strict scrutiny

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like the original position was whether no zionist religious organization should be considered problematic for green membership and i dont think we can confidently say that

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me either, though nobody is advocating that?

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the resolution was based on a negative assumption in all cases for 1)

i dont think wahhabist mosques generally do this either?

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i think the issue is that the israeli state’s existence is defined as the continued maintence of this regime bsky.app/profile/tire...

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the resolution that failed would have prevented any sanctions on members for their affiliations with religious zionist organizations, it did not require the opposite

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states are absolutely constrained by specific codes of conduct as well. notably - genocide as defined by the UN and the UNSC has authorized military intervention to prevent state violations of international law

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this pertains specifically to sovereign states, which i am not

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if they continue to prosecute a genocide, i think we should keep our options on the table as we should with any other state which does this

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i mean, the resolution would have prohibited any consideration whatsoever for someone’s affiliation with a religious organization specifically w/re to zionism and israel?

i think we should give them nothing and actively oppose their interests as we do with similar countries

it is the fact that they are prosecuting a genocide and maintain tiered and seperate legal rights for non-jews, and especially arabs

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do you think the issue i have with israel is what they call themselves?

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you are asking if, in a pure hypothetical, whether i think states like saudi arabia deserve to exist? i am a liberal so the answer is obviously no

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supporters of the current russian state deserve condemnation

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do you think we should send iran and china JDAMs? defend them at the UN? what is your position here - that genocide and apartheid should be supported everywhere?

please cite what international law holds that its legal and fine to hold seperate political rights based on ethnicity?

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my position on israel is they are an openly genocidal apartheid state and should be treated similar to any state in those cirucumstances ought to be

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what is it you think i am advocating? do you think i believe we should topple these governments?

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do they have a right to maintain seperate political rights for non-jews?

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this requires constant high salience politicking which became untenable when the israeli government started prosecuting a genocide.

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the reason we talk about israel more is because supporters of israel want the US-israeli relationship to be based on shared values and political structures a la the US relationship with Canada, not on a transactional basis, which is what we have with the saudis and UAE.

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many people are in fact arguing that

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easiest question i’ve ever answered

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