Yes, corporate media! Which party destroyed all public and independent media, and gave all media a profit incentive? Which party did it's best to provide objective media, without a profit incentive, but with a system that supports journalistic integrity as much as possible?

AOC is NOT a millionaire and Nancy Pelosi is FAR from being a socialist. Pelosi is a corporate centrist Democrat, who takes lost of campaign donations from the wealthy. She hates progressives, leftists and socialists just as much as any Republican, because they are a threat to her wealth, that is based on corruption.
Just don't think that Pelosi's corruption is worse than any Republican's.

"Change is supposed to come from the top"? Who told you that? In history, change has almost always been fought, bled and died over. The only time you could say something like that was when your founding fathers wrote The Constitution, but don't think that the working class had nothing to do with that. People were fed-up with a ruling class sending them off to die in wars, and the elites were afraid to end up at the end of a pitchfork.

I am not against the EU in principle, but I am very much against how it is organized to favor the wealthy and corporations. The Socialist Party is also
not against European cooperation, but we fight against the EU power grab constantly, and fight for countries to retain their sovereignty and self-determination.

You are right about people's selfish nature. So, what makes people give up
their "what's in it for me?" reasoning, when they want to give up all their rights
as workers, their pension, their social safety net, to further enrich some wealthy assholes who think that they deserve everything they take, and YOU deserve nothing?

You might be smarter than you think, because you ask better questions than most. Your thoughts are very anti-establishment. I can relate to that, but why do you think that AOC is the establishment? She was despised by both parties, when voters made her a representative. Remember how she was dismissed as a stupid waitress? They spat on her as a peasant. And now she has some money, she is the establishment? Who told you this nonsense?

Let's say AOC will keep her current function for the next 40 years. Elon Musk makes the same money in 7 minutes and 46 seconds. And he went on stage
with a chainsaw joking about cutting government money. Since then, he got
$38 BILLION in total government funding, loans, subsidies, and tax credits.
AOC would need to keep her function for 218,391 years to earn that.

Your people are trapped by poverty, that is impossible to escape.
Your ideas are keeping lots of people in a state of survival, instead of a state of thriving. That doesn't just hurt them, it hurts your country. Poor people don't create wealth for your country and they don't consume a lot. The products that they do consume are mostly low quality, unhealthy food, which only benefits some producers and resellers, but those don't add much to your economy either.

This doesn't just make something more expensive when you go outside of the US.
It will make every product more expensive that isn't made in the US, or that was made with raw materials from outside of the US.

On top of that your president added the tariffs. It can be a good idea for products that you want to make in the US, but there are so many raw materials and products that you just don't have. That is hurting consumers and it is hurting manufacturing. It's making American products more expensive, which is impacting your export.

Republicans; free money for billionaires.

Humans would have been long extinct, if we hadn't worked together.
Our strength lies in solidarity. It's what makes us human.

First of all, Turning Point doesn't agree with you that high turnout is good for you. Turning Point's leadership has explicitly stated that their data shows general, untargeted high turnout is unpredictable. Instead, their entire multi-million dollar midterm strategy is focused on low-propensity voters.

Turning Point Action does not release formal statistical probability models. They are 100% an opinion based medium. They don't predict the election with percentages,
they are framing the midterms as an 'absolute emergency' for the MAGA movement.
That means that they are very worried.

That is completely the opposite of all historical data. Republicans always benefit
from low turnout and Democrats always benefit from high turnout.
That's why Republicans always try to limit voter turnout, by:
1. Limiting Mail-In and Absentee Voting
2. Implementation of Strict Photo ID and Citizenship Mandates
3. Aggressive Voter Roll Purges
4. Adjustments to Polling Access

Trump is now polling around 32% approval and 65% disapproval.
Traders place the probability of Democrats winning the House at 90%.
There is a 63% probability of a total Democratic Sweep.
Trump has a roughly 9% to 22% chance of keeping his full majority.

Inflation isn't the only mechanism at play in the loss of value of the dollar.
Besides inflation, there is also 'depreciation'; loss of value against other currencies.
Inflation means that you can buy less for your dollar in the US.
Depreciation means that you can buy less for your dollar outside of the US.
The dollar lost more than 10% of value against a broad basket of major global currencies since President Trump took office for his second term on January 20, 2025.

Yes, activism helps. Not a lot on a global scale all at once, but a lot of small changes make a massive difference to real people. I see this firsthand as a member of a small party here; we punch way above our weight because we actually mobilize people.

Everything you said about the IMF, debt traps, and the global economy has truth
to it. But treating it like an unchangeable 'death cult' means giving up before the fight even starts. Change has never come from the top down; it’s always pushed from the outside. The labor rights we have, environmental regulations, local consumer protections, none of that was handed down by benevolent bankers.
It was clawed back by cynical, tired voters who still chose to do something rather than shrug and say 'it's all a cartel.' Cynicism feels smart because it's never wrong about how bad things are, but it never built anything better either.

If they didn't think that your opinion matters, and they had it all in the bag, they wouldn't spend so much money on campaign ads for Republicans and corporate Democrats. They also wouldn't have the corporate media attack the left constantly. There's a good reason why the left is their enemy, and it's not to defend the rights of working people.

And why did you vote for Trump then, if everything better is impossible?
Trump promised to change EVERYTHING. If you really believed that nothing will help, why did that message resonate with you?

Or was it only that Trump shows his hate for all the people you hate?

You think that the government needs to spend NOTHING on average people and give the billionaires full control over everything, to punish people, if they
are not working hard enough. Where does that leave YOU?

Is that the MAGA spirit? "We cannot do it, it costs money!"
Well, make you billionaires do it then. That's what you say you have them for.

So, you just accept this as a force of nature.
That's exactly what they want you to believe.
Then you don't hold them accountable.

It's not just imported food. Your food manufactures have been processing garbage
for decades. Your country allows chemicals and processes for your food that other countries are mortified about. That's because it makes the manufactures more profit.
That is more important than your health. Don't act like this is something new.

Everyone who doesn't have a little soil to do so, is shit out of luck then.

That's you just repeating people who want you to believe that there aren't any choices.
You have choices. The choices of voters got you where you are now,
and the choices of voters can turn you back on a better track too.

Lots of politicians on the the left do not take corporate money and there are more of them now. Some libertarians also do not take corporate money, but they are a dying breed. Overturning Citizens United isn't easy, but they got it in too.

A week after the first billionaire who makes money of 3D-printed food bribes Trump,
all of MAGA is going to accept it, eat it and defend it.

MAGA loves an immigrant billionaire who makes his money from electric cars
and space shit, paid for with your tax-dollars, because he turned Twitter
into the source for their daily rage-bait.

And then what? How many educated people will they still need?

Will it come with the same poop bacteria and parasites that are in your food now?

Gas prices are important for you, I understand, but why fight for pennies
at the pump, if you have to sell your car to pay for your health?

You are cheerleading a system that is actively costing you everything.
Can you actually afford your (next) life-saving medical procedure(s)?
Healthcare should be a service that you have already paid for with your
decades of hard labor and tax dollars. Yet, it is deeply tragic to see you
willing to face financial ruin (and possibly death) to keep away the very
protection that you earned.

I just hope the billionaires you defend turn out to be just as loyal to your health
as you have been to their bank accounts.

SURVIVAL MARKETS for the masses: When you destroy regulatory agencies
to boost corporate profits, you create a deadly food system for the poor, while
the rich remain completely untouched.

The Trump administration and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. actively gutted the system by firing thousands of FDA employees, cutting the number of food safety inspectors in half, and defunding disease surveillance. The result is a massive, record-breaking outbreak of Cyclospora parasites from human fecal contamination in the country's mass-market lettuce supply, alongside rolled-back meat safety checks.

Donald Trump, RFK Jr., and the corporate elites who lobbied for these cuts aren't eating that poop-contaminated lettuce or parasite-ridden meat. The ultra-rich don’t shop at regular grocery stores or eat mass-produced food affected by these supply chain collapses. They buy from exclusive, hyper-expensive organic boutiques that source from private, highly verified farms, or they have personal chefs who vet their food.

The elites use their political power to eliminate the regulations that keep your food safe just to grow their stock portfolios. Then, they use that extra profit to buy their way out of the toxic reality they just created for everyone else. They privatize the safety and socialize the poison.

You are imagining a fantasy world where perfect market competition instantly forces corporations to drop their prices to pennies the second wages go down.
In the real world, without labor leverage, you don't get cheap goods, you get a Dual Economy. (An economy split between luxury production for the ultra-rich
and survival markets for the impoverished)

When you strip workers of all buying power, corporations simply stop making products for the masses. Why build millions of affordable cars or houses if the workers can't buy them anyway? Instead, the entire economy shifts to service
the only people who still have money: the hyper-wealthy elites.

Industries stop competing for your pennies and start competing for the billions
at the top. The economy shifts its resources entirely toward:
1. Luxury production: Yachts, mansions, private security, and high-end tech.
2. Asset hoarding: Buying up all the land, housing, and resources, and renting them back to the impoverished workers.

Mass-market products don't become "cheaper" to match your crashed wages; they just become lower quality, while basic needs like housing remain as expensive as possible, because you must have them to survive.

So, this completely contradicts your economic arguments, but it doesn't contradict your personal opinions.

IF you are actually perfectly fine with a system where a handful of billionaires exploit the rest of humanity like modern-day slaves, just say so.
Stop trying to twist the laws of economics to justify it. Once you admit that,
we can finally have a discussion about what this is really about: why on earth
do you want a world like that?

The average property tax in the US:

"The average effective property tax rate in the United States is approximately 0.8%
to 1.1% of a home's assessed or market value (with a national median rate hovering around 0.9% to 1.02%)"

Funny how you switched an uncommented image with the quote
"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow",
that was attributed to Vincent van Gogh in your picture, to your Zionist propaganda.

Funny and a good trick. A RAT MOVE, but you tricked me.
It just shows that you cannot be trusted on ANYTHING.

I’m actually quite flattered that you want to honor our respected Dutch artist
with this beautiful quote! However, I have to correct you: Van Gogh unfortunately
never said or wrote this.

The misconception started around 2009, when a museum in Basel used this phrase
on the flap jacket of a Van Gogh exhibition catalog without a proper source. The internet did the rest, permanently gluing his name to it. In reality, the metaphor is much closer
to a line from the 19th-century French writer Йmile Zola.

The underlying sentiment does resonate with my philosophy on life. For me, walking off the paved road means refusing to adopt off-the-shelf opinions or blindly follow a crowd.
My views and thoughts are entirely my own, shaped by careful reflection rather than consensus. It requires independent thought, but I can highly recommend it.

Wow, Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary,
Katie Zacharia, really is the craziest deranged cretin,
of the whole line of bodged Barbie clones, I have ever seen.

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The Vatican? Who is talking about the Vatican?

Anyway, since you have no counter arguments, that settles it.

Character attacks are your only 'argument', bozo.

The judge’s political background is a cheap political talking point, not a legal defense. Under the Fourth Amendment, a search warrant is trash unless there is actual probable cause of a live, unexpired crime. Signing off as a registered Democrat means nothing.

For all we know, this Hillary Clinton donor is a corporate, centrist Democrat, a faction that despises progressives like Ilhan Omar just as much as any Republican does. Judges make errors and get misled by ambitious prosecutors all the time. Since the affidavit is sealed, this article has zero facts and relies entirely on political spin to ignore constitutional law.

"The director of the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library noted that they originally listed 1981 simply because it was "widely available" on Wikipedia at the time, and they had published the date without official documentation."

Even IF she did become a citizen with false papers, the statute of limitations for that is 5 to 10 years. That means that a judge cannot legally issue a search warrant, because the only underlying crime is entirely expired.

If she did that, she could loose her citizenship, but that would be a civil lawsuit,
not a criminal lawsuit. A judge is ONLY allowed to issue a search warrant for that, if prosecutors can convince the judge that a live, unexpired crime is actively occurring. You only have presented a weak case for an expired crime from 26 years ago.

Even IF they have probable cause for this, the judge has still broken the law by issuing this search warrant. The official process is that the Department of Justice (DOJ) must file a civil lawsuit against her in a US District Court. The government faces an exceptionally high evidentiary bar. Under Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 340(a), they must present "clear, convincing, and unequivocal" evidence that citizenship was obtained illegally, or via the concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation. A federal judge, not an immigration agency, must evaluate the evidence and make the final ruling. If the judge rules in favor of the government, the individual's naturalization is revoked, usually reverting their status back to a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) or making them subject to deportation proceedings.

If the judge broke the law by signing the search warrant without a valid, unexpired criminal basis, the government would have severely damaged, if not completely destroyed, their criminal case against her. In an unlawful search, the "exclusionary rule" applies. Any evidence obtained during an illegal search, including the physical boxes of documents agents removed from her home on October 12, 2026, becomes completely inadmissible in court. If the government's primary evidence is thrown out, prosecutors usually have to drop the charges because they no longer have a case.

No, because the wealthy would own everything and would
only allow you the absolute minimum you need to survive.
Do you know anything about the time of lords and serfs?

You claim Europe is 'destroyed,' yet European countries consistently rank highest globally for quality of life, healthcare, and safety.

You claim Europe didn't help Ukraine or support a ceasefire, when Europe has given tens of billions in military aid to Ukraine and European leaders have repeatedly negotiated for peace and hostages.

You claim Trump tried to 'protect the people of Europe,' but your clown is actively frustrating the resistance to Russia, by bowing to Putin's wishes and buying diesel from him. You are literally funding the adversary you claim to oppose.

We had the Iran nuclear threat completely covered and locked down. Your 90% panic is just repeating the most obvious Netanyahu lie ever invented. Trump is the one who unilaterally destroyed the deal, and now your clown expects us to jump into his stupid war just to distract people from his massive failures at home.

Trump has achieved absolutely NOTHING. Iran completely embarrassed him.
The very citizens he claimed he wanted to 'liberate', now hate the US even more.
His reckless approach left the world with zero guarantees that Iran won't or can't build nuclear weapons, while his 'genius' strategy only succeeded in pushing them straight into a tighter cooperation with China and Russia.

Trump acts like he can just demand a 'better deal' whenever he wants, but why
would they ever trust the paper the US signs again? The US showed the world it is completely untrustworthy and backward. Europe is now the only one left to clean up his mess and drive actual diplomacy.

Your claim that 'the Euro created a monopoly' makes no sense either, a currency
isn't a business, it's a medium of exchange. It is economically illiterate to call a
shared currency a monopoly.

You claim Putin wants 'communism' back, showing you don't even know what communism is, Putin is an ultra-capitalist oligarch, not a Soviet Marxist.

As for the 'communist totality' in the US, you are cheering for a leader who openly talks about being a dictator on day one, suspending parts of the Constitution, and using the military against American citizens. You are terrified of a fictional globalist boogeyman, while actively begging for actual authoritarian rule at home. Wake up!

Oh, so the fact that he signed off on warrants is proof
that the judge determined probable cause.
THAT HOLDS TRUE IN EVERY CASE AGAINST TRUMP TOO, I ASSUME.
DUMBASS!!!

French workers DO work, and when they do, they invest their time, health, and labor into the economy. That is their investment. Why should corporate elites be entitled to record profits off that labor, while the workers are 'entitled to nothing'?
You're literally bragging about your own exploitation.

If everyone had your submissive mindset, we’d still be working 16-hour days
in coal mines for pennies.

"this was written in the 7th century and its in the quran"
THIS is what I know. WHY DOES IT MATTER??

Here are some other 7th-century myths:

1. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
A group of young men flee religious persecution and hide inside a cave, where God places them and their dog into a deep sleep to protect them. They remain asleep for over 300 years, with the text explicitly detailing how God periodically rolls them from their left to their right sides to prevent their bodies and clothes from rotting, while their dog keeps watch at the entrance with its paws stretched out. Upon waking, the men believe they have only slept for a single afternoon, discovering the truth only when they attempt to buy bread in the city using coins that are centuries out of date.

2. The Iron Wall of Dhul-Qarnayn
A legendary king travels to the physical ends of a flat earth, reaching the furthest western point where he witnesses the sun setting directly into a dark, muddy pool of water, and then the furthest eastern point where the sun rises over people who have no shelter from its heat. During his journey, he encounters a terrified population plagued by the apocalyptic tribes of Gog and Magog, and he protects them by pouring an immense barrier of molten iron and copper between two mountains, sealing millions of these destructive creatures behind the wall until the end of days.

3. The Transmutation of the Sabbath Breakers
The inhabitants of a coastal town attempt to bypass strict religious laws that forbid fishing on the Saturday Sabbath by setting up their nets on Friday evening and harvesting the trapped fish on Sunday morning. In immediate response to this theological loophole, God intervenes and instantly mutates the entire deceptive population of the town into physical apes and swine as a permanent public punishment for their trickery.

4. The Voyage of Cesair and the Birth of Ireland
Before the Great Flood, Noah’s granddaughter, Cesair, is denied a place on the Ark because of her pagan beliefs. Under divine guidance, she builds three giant ships and sets sail across the uncharted oceans with fifty women and only three men, including her father Bith and the shapeshifter Fintan. After a perilous voyage, they land on the uninhabited shores of Ireland, exactly forty days before the deluge begins. When the global flood finally hits, the entire colony drowns except for Fintan, who survives for thousands of years by magically transforming into a salmon, an eagle, and a hawk, witnessing the entire subsequent history of the island and the arrival of the magical Tuatha Dй Danann warriors.

Do you believe that they are all true, because they are from the 7th century?

OMG, what are you guys babbling about? Guess_Who is just copying random shit about WWII, that makes zero sense in any context, because he doesn't add any actual arguments or conclusions. And phart is just spouting every conspiracy theory that his algorithm's rabbit hole threw up in his face.

By sheer numbers, Hitler's regime was far worse than Unit 731. Bias against Asians seems to be the only reason to claim otherwise.

In some ways wars advance science, but in other ways wars throw back humanity for decades. The most useful advances in science are made during peacetime, when governments are not wasting money and people on murdering other people.

Believing that Hitler's scientists developed a general cure for cancer is based on complete ignorance of biological science. Cancer is not a single disease, it is hundreds
of different diseases, driven by distinct genetic mutations that cause cells to divide uncontrollably, in lots of different ways. You cannot cure it with a single, general silver bullet. To even attempt a universal fix, you would need advanced, targeted gene therapy to rewrite DNA at a cellular level. That technology was lightyears out of reach in the 1940s, and it remains one of our most complex scientific frontiers today. There was
no hidden cure, it's bullshit.

Your country keeps records!!! Journalists can request access to them.
You being in the same country doesn't provide you ANY more information.

There was NO reason to raid her home.

The specific identity of the judge who signed off on the search warrant remains sealed / anonymous in public court documents. If he is protected by your regime, he faces no risk at all.

You're only creating precedent. Never cry about the rights of your representatives
in the future, when accountability is coming for them. I'll laugh my ass off.

The Parting of the Red Sea is based on a much older story.

Enuma Elish (Babylonian) — c. 18th–12th Century BCE
• The Myth: The god Marduk splits the primeval water goddess Tiamat in half to create the ordered world.
• Biblical Adaptation: The writers transformed this cosmic battle into a historical event, where Yahweh splits the sea to conquer chaos (Egypt) and create a path for His people.

The Westcar Papyrus (Egyptian) — c. 1600–1500 BCE
• The Myth: A royal magician folds one half of a lake's water onto the other half to retrieve a lost jewel from the dry lake bed.
• Biblical Adaptation: The visual imagery of standing walls of water exposing the dry floor was localized into the Exodus narrative.

The Baal Cycle (Canaanite) — c. 1400 BCE
• The Myth: The storm god Baal defeats Yam (the god of the sea and chaos) to establish his kingship.
• Biblical Adaptation: Israelite writers used the exact same poetic language. Yahweh uses a powerful wind (a storm-god attribute) to conquer Yam (the Hebrew word for sea) and demonstrate His supreme authority over rival Canaanite deities.

The Book of Exodus (Hebrew Bible) — c. 6th Century BCE
• The Synthesis: Written down much later (largely during the Babylonian Exile), this narrative combined these well-known regional motifs into a single historical epic to prove that their God, Yahweh, controlled the elements.

Divine Land Allocation is also a very ancient theme.

Sumerian & Babylonian Royal Inscriptions — c. 2500–1800 BCE
• The Myth: Gods like Enlil or Marduk directly assign fertile territories, kingdoms, and city borders to specific kings and their peoples to establish divine order.
• The Adaptation: The concept of a supreme deity drawing physical borders and handing a specific piece of earth to a designated group was already a standard legal and religious practice in Mesopotamia.

The Egyptian Conception of Sacred Soil — c. 2000 BCE
• The Myth: The creator god Amun-Ra designates the fertile Nile valley specifically for the Egyptians since the creation of the world (Zep Tepi), while framing outside lands as chaotic.
• The Adaptation: Regional nations adopted the Egyptian idea that living on a specific, god-given piece of land was a requirement for spiritual purity and divine blessing.

The Hittite and Amorite Land Claims — c. 1800–1400 BCE
• The Myth: Migrating Near Eastern tribes claimed their storm gods (like Tarhunz or Amurru) commanded them to march into, conquer, and settle specific fertile valleys.
• The Adaptation: Invading or migrating groups consistently used the "divine mandate"
to 'legally' and 'morally' justify taking over lands that were already occupied by others.

The Hebrew Bible & Later Islamic Texts — c. 6th Century BCE & 7th Century CE
• The Synthesis: The biblical writers (and later the Quran) took this ancient, universal political tool, using a god to legitimize territorial ownership, and tied it to their own monotheistic covenant. The land was no longer just won by strength; it was an inheritance granted by the one true God based on religious obedience.

From a literal, historical perspective, this recycling undermines the claim of unique divine revelation. It demonstrates that these stories are human literary products, evolved folklore rather than eyewitness history.

Far from proving history, this continuous copying proves something else: that myths
are just tools humans invent to claim territory and assert dominance over rival cultures.

She is not complaining and causing trouble, she is fighting for all Americans to have
a home they can afford, healthcare, education, childcare and food for children of poor parents. While Trump is closing hospitals in rural areas, she is defending them.

Ilhan Omar entered the United States legally as a refugee in 1995 when she was a child. She became a US citizen five years later, in 2000, at the age of 17 through derivative citizenship via her father's naturalization.

She did not marry ANYONE to "get into the country." Her legal entry and her US citizenship were both fully established long before her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (the British citizen at the center of the rumors). She was already a US citizen for nine years at that time.

Trump is a fucking liar and a racist, and you are too, if you keep supporting this lie.

I know, so what?
What makes something true?
Is something true, when it is written in an old book?
Why does the age of a book matter for the content being true?

"This is legal"? WTF are you talking about?

You can keep repeating what you said, but YOU are not accepting that the holocaust is a genocide, by not accepting the authority that defines genocides.

Don't change the subject and make it personal, COWARD!!!

"The God Delusion" from Richard Dawkins mentions the following:

Chapter 7, Page 248: "The conquest of the Promised Land is presented as a series of divine commands to exterminate every living thing, to leave nothing that breathes. This is not just bad morality; it is a terrifying blueprint for ethnic cleansing, justified solely by the claim that a particular piece of territory was 'promised' to a specific group of people by their God."

Chapter 8, Page 259: "The take-home message is that 'thou shalt not kill' applies only to the in-group. Religion is a label of in-group/out-group identification, and it is a potent source of conflict... It is hard to see any solution to the problem as long as children are systematically brought up to believe that they are 'chosen' or 'special' by virtue of their ancestors' religion."

Using bullet points and formal terms creates the illusion of a logical argument, but you are just making assertions without proving them.

A logically sound moral system cannot just begin with high-level behavioral traits like 'honesty' or 'integrity'. Every coherent framework requires a foundational premise,
a root from which all secondary values are derived.

As a secular humanist, my framework is explicitly built on a single, non-negotiable axiom: the intrinsic value of human existence. From this ultimate foundation, the right to human well-being and subsequent ethical behaviors naturally and logically follow.

You, on the other hand, are presenting the branches of a tree while skipping the root entirely. You define what you believe character is, but you fail to explain why these specific traits hold any objective worth. Without a foundational premise that cannot be dissected further, your definitions of 'virtue' and 'lack of character' are not a logical system, they are merely arbitrary, personal preferences.

(Phart, if you want to know who has a better argument, ASK GROK!)

I understand you, but I don't AGREE with you, because you have no consistent system of morality and you are incapable of logical reasoning.

By your OWN logic, I could ONLY call this genocide, if I saw it myself.

Unless you accept the authority that decides what to call a genocide and what not, YOU are denying that the holocaust is a genocide.

The few innocent people involved? Tens of thousands of children alone.
You're describing 'collective punishment' by definition. That's a WAR CRIME.
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The Fourth Geneva Convention (1949). The US ratified this treaty in 1955.

What you are going through right now are the horrible ideas of Trump.
He is a reverse Robin Hood; he steals from the poor to give to the wealthy.

French people are protesting their government and the wealthy they service.
They have balls, you are neutered.

Even if that is true, is that supposed to mean something to me?
That whole area used to be ethnically diverse for millennia.
If these are the standards, then OK, they passed the minimum.
That's no argument against the ethnic cleansing going on for decades.
Palestinians were robbed from their houses, house by house, street by street.
Anytime there was some form of protest against that, it was used to swat them down and steal more of their land. Later the strategy with walls was introduced. Put a wall around them with armed guards at the entrance. Starve them out so they have to leave. Kick out the remaining ones and take the area. Next area. This is how Israel stole most of the land. Any protest was just met with overwhelming violence. In the meantime, Palestinians were just murdered for fun. When you control the law, you can kill with impunity. The numbers are a bit lower, but the level of evil is on par with the holocaust. And you disgust me for supporting it.

By that logic, we cannot call the holocaust a genocide either.
I was not there in Germany, to understand their reasons. Were you?

Funny how your definitions of ownership change when it serves your country.
Remember how we talked about survivors on an uninhabited island? You said that one of them would own a crate of supplies if they found it. Now it's OK to literally murder people in a country that owns the natural resources?

You actually proved my point. I completely agree with you about the average Confederate soldier. Most of them didn't own slaves; in fact, the institution of slavery economically harmed poor Southern whites. They were manipulated by a wealthy elite, who absolutely DID fight to maintain slavery.
Just like modern terrorists who are brainwashed by their leaders and have very little left to live for, those Confederate soldiers had nothing to gain and everything to lose. They were easily turned into pawns. They bravely fought and died, for what they believed was right. It just happened to be an atrocious lie.

My question to you is: if you can clearly see how poverty, trauma, and manipulation drove those soldiers to fight, why can't you apply that exact same human psychology to people today? And more importantly, you need to realize that you don't make these people less extreme by inflicting even more suffering upon them. Escalating the misery only feeds the cycle.

I don't care about the education of Ben Shapiro, because he is a grifter.
He talks that fast, so people don't have time to recognize all the lies.
Only use an argument from authority with people who are credible and honest.

• Against Full Citizenship Rights: Voting rights mask institutional exclusion. While Arab citizens hold passports and vote, they face systemic discrimination in housing and zoning. The Admissions Committees Law legally permits hundreds of community towns to reject Arab applicants based on "social suitability," enforcing de facto segregation.

• Against the Claim of Coexistence: Coexistence is fractured by structural inequality. Daily interaction exists, but it takes place within a system of deep economic disparity. Nearly 39% of Arab families live below the poverty line [Israel Democracy Institute] due to decades of underfunded municipal infrastructure, segregated school systems, and restricted land allocations for Arab towns.

• Against the Apartheid Critique: Sovereign borders are a legal fiction in human rights analysis. Restricting the debate to Israel proper ignores the reality that one single authority—the Israeli government—maintains ultimate military, economic, and bureaucratic control over the entire territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, managing a fragmented but singular hierarchy of ethnic dominance.

• Against the Dismissal of Media Controversy: Constitutional law explicitly codifies inequality. Shapiro's dismissal of critics ignores the 2018 Nation-State Law. This constitutional Basic Law explicitly declares that national self-determination is "unique to the Jewish people" and downgrades the Arabic language, proving that inequality is not a media myth, but a constitutional reality.

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