I’m curious how far you think that extends? At least some percentage of the Israeli Jews, Israeli Palestinians, and Israeli Christians currently benefitting from colonization trace their ancestry to Isreal prior to the creation of the state, are they to be “decolonized” from the only land their family has ever known? What about people who are 2-3 generations in, they are to rely on the kindness of Palestinians when they take over? If Palestinians take over, are they now the new religious ethnostate?

There is no question that Israel is a amoral colonialist religious ethnostate. But if the solution involves removing people from the region you’ll end up in a very familiar scenario i would call genocide the minute it gets violent. I think whether it sounds fair or not there has to be some restorative justice for Palestinians rather than purely punitive action to Israeli citizens. If decolonization in your mind involves removing Jews from Israel entirely I think you’ve lost me. Focus on rebuilding communities and seizing land more recently taken by violence this generation, or within what is now occupied Palestinian land.

I never know what people mean by “Isreal should not exist.” its a comment very open to interpretation. Do you mean the government should not exist? Its people should disappear?

I think Israel could exist if it wasn’t a imperialist religious ethnostate, the problem is the government and who it leaves out. If Israel included all Palestine and all citizens as equal partners in its government it could most certainly exist. Its never going to happen in our lifetime, but a one state solution is the only solution that doesn’t involve genocide as a prerequisite of success, IMO.

There is the changemyview sub but it didn’t really get the traction here that it had on reddit.

Sure, and you are the most sane person I’ve seen from .ml. Most of them act like Putin and Xi Jinping are humanitarians with rainbows shooting out of their asses and that any criticism of their authoritarianism is propaganda.

The propaganda issue goes all ways.

Very little you said here is controversial on Lemmy. Its more the glazing of sociopathic authoritarians that winds people up. Just because they pretend to be socialist while building their power through capitalistic oligarchy.

But if you just want to critisize western imperialism, I think you’ll nearly always find common ground.

That’s not a sure thing. In places that are solidly one party control a lot of voters stay home. This win could cause the Dems to wake up in Kansas and realize their state is competitive. Voter turnout will only increase, which always helps the Dems.

Hell… fucking… Yeah… I’ve been saying for 20 years that Texas was winnable we just needed to invest in good candidates. Everyone kept saying i was delusional. People without any awareness of what Texas is culturally view it like its Alabama, when its more like Wisconsin (fiercely independent and down to earth), IMO.

Stats only work until they don’t. Statisticians are great with simple logic, not so great when some of the same people that voted Trump voted Mamdani and AOC. The political calculus is shifting in this country and now is the best chance we have of a sudden takeover. You are right that political shifts usually need to be senate and congress first (and states and counties and cities) but I think the normal political rules don’t hold as strong right now. If she can win a primary, she can win the presidency. Harris couldn’t overcome racism and sexism because she had little to offer.

I worked in Dem politics for the first Obama election. He was so popular that he regularly had racists committing to voting for him. When we got regional or national polling we would regularly hear from polling companies that people would answer polls with (paraphrasing) “I’m voting for the n-word, I might be racist, but I’m not stupid”. Also we had a white lady volunteer in one of the local county campaign offices that regularly used racial epithets like the n-word and she was sent home cause no one knew what to do about it.

Don’t expect predictable logic from voters.

Yuck, they really make it seem like they are just a non profit.

Aren’t they a foundation?

The lights often automatically changes to cyclists priority in many places in the Netherlands, and often provide underpasses to avoid conflict points in the first place. It is not a comparable situation. Traffic laws and infrastructure in the USA, for instance, are incredibly biased in favor of cars, so their comment is absolutely relevant.

When I bike in the USA often the safest time for me to cross an intersection is unrelated to whether I have a green light, but more related to if anyone else at the intersection does. The safest time for me to go is when no one else at the light has a green light, not when I do.