ComradeSalad

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[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because millennia of religious conflict and friction between communities is not going to magically disappear even in the goal of a free and fair Palestine. It would be a process. You can't just say "Everyone is free and fair now", and expect everyone to shake hands and go about their day. People are still beholden to their own biases, that is not a risk that we should be willing to take. All it takes is one person or group to become "aspirational", and you end up back at square one.

There will be opportunists, seditionists, religious extremists, and many others attempting to take advantage of the situation, in the wake of the creation of a Palestinian free state. That can be prevented and mitigated with a third party, if only for a time.

Think of it like a GDR scenario. The Soviet Union didn't leave the GDR up to its own devices the second the war was over, because that would have been disastrous. They monitored and kept watch over the situation for several years until tensions had decreased and the GDR could be established. Jerusalem would be an extreme hotbed of hostility as everyone would try and make their move. That can be avoided.

Just because you say everyone is free and fair, doesn't mean that that'll automatically be the case. That is idealist, especially in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the Israeli regime.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I never did say that this should only apply to Jerusalem, I would be perfectly willing to extend this idea to other massively important cultural sites.

Also I’m not saying that the city would be completely independent of Palestine, or that it would be treated like a separate country, but moreso that the city basically becomes an “Open city” not divided up, controlled by any one faith, or used as a political bargaining chip, and that it’s ultimately authority would be a third party non-beholden to its own biases or agendas. (I just use the UN as an example, I wish there was a better choice)

I’m not saying that conflict is sure to happen and, that it’s impossible for Palestine to figure it out, but why risk it? It’s an extremely hot issue that can lead to a lot of extreme conflict, so why not try to stem that before it has a chance to occur?

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

No, there’s not much of a debate there. We have preserved bodies and near perfectly preserved brains.

The parts of their brain that regulate aspects such as complex thinking and task completion are much much smaller and less developed then Homo sapiens, while the parts of the brain that regulate better eyesight and hearing are better. That’s why they quickly fell behind in group building, tool production, planning, tactics, and etc. A regular Neanderthal would have leveled out at about the intelligence of a 7-8 year old child, no matter how much you taught them or helped them. That’s what allowed us to outbreed and kill them all.

Yes, we did interbreed with them to a degree, but it was still extremely limited.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Neanderthals were not a Homo Sapien evolutionary step. They were actually our evolutionary rivals, hence why we drove them extinct as our brains basically beat their brawn.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago

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[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Interesting question, but due to its extreme importance to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, some of the largest religions the worlds, and the extreme mellenia long dispute between those groups over control of the city; after Palestine is return as a whole entity, would it make sense to isolate Jerusalem as its own independent city state? Or maybe even an international zone administered by the UN?

Thoughts on something like that?

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, Rhodesia were at least honest about being Nazis. Israel are much more like Arpathied South Africa

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Yourself" and those words are in the third person, I am not referring to you, especially with the context of the sentence before it. If you interpret it that way, then I apologize, but that's not on me.

I don't want to argue about this. We can just not agree and leave it at that. I'm perfectly fine with that.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not to political opinions alone, but just to the act of not being able to take care of yourself, but imposing yourself and your opinions onto conversations nonetheless. Which are mostly pretty terrible.

But to each their own. Universal, will never mean 100% of course.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

But that’s still innate to a person and pretty unchangeable unless you take extreme measures ( random surgery is not self care). Plus a poor shave is pretty universal, a nose shape is not.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Poor self care and discipline while always getting into the business of others?

It feels like a situation where a person can't even take care of themselves, but demand that they be the arbiter and center of the conversation and morality.

A big nose is pretty much pure race propaganda, but a poor shave and ill fitting glasses is pretty universal.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Makes sense!

Though I will say for the point in the middle. Why did those people immigrate? And why to the UK in particular and in such large numbers? I feel like we both know the answer to that is colonization.

Though I do hope it’s good. After seeing British “Chinese food” I don’t have high hopes at all, and the lack of seasoning is frightening in that second image, but I feel like it could definitely be good! Especially going off of that first picture.

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