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Yeah, some humans also wonder why jogging is a thing.

Like mesh networks?

The bread song

This stupid fad is gonna have a hell of a hangover in 10 years...

That is not so clear-cut https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/01/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor/ I'd have to go see if there is any correlation between these and Kamala/Hillary's results, but I'm not expecting it to be strong.

(Oh, and of course, I didn't check if any of these elections were woman vs woman, where it would not serve as an indicator of misogyny to elect a woman)

My point is that even women can win elections in deep red states, particularly if they follow "conservative" values close enough. But then again president has the whole commander-in-chief aura...ok...

Why do women win Governor elections, then?

Where did I say it was China's fault? Even if I was being sarcastic that for once it wasn't the US, how did you interpret that I said it had to be China?

PS: ah, was it the multipolar world thing? Ok, I was thinking in the sense of post-US. I'm just surprised that for once there isn't a bunch of people blaming "the west" for it. Maybe that's why people don't care about it.

No, Ukraine was not officially a country until it officially signed independence from the USSR, no. That's exactly my point. That's why Taiwan is such a contentious issue, I guess. That's why Tibet is not a country...Scotland...Kurdistan...Catalonia, the list is very long.

TACO TACO :)

Huh, I thought every conflict in the world was the fault of the US...welcome to the multipolar world I guess :/

It wasn't the Palestinians' own country yet, it was first an Ottoman province and then a british Colony. Just like the partition of India in 47 didn't give all of british India to Indians, Palestinians didn't get all of the land they claimed. Plus the partition plan was plain stupid and bound to end in violence by "sharing" Jerusalem.

But I get it, the difference here is that most Israelis were immigrants to the mandate and refugees from WW2 with a clear nationalist intent to have a jewish country for jewish people with jewish rule and jewish laws...by violence if necessary.

Yeah, I guess one way to look at it is as colonizers or a "cruzader kingdom", but in this case there is no original jewish country to return to in their own worldview...so that approach is just going to get you endless war against an embattled people.

But to return to the main point I was making: none of this is equivalent to what russia did. The partition of the USSR was done peacefully, accepted by both sides and since 2007 russia decided they couldn't let their neighbour live in peace, culminating in the 2014 and 2022 invasions.

It's as if Israel and Palestine had decided to coexist peacefully and then 30 years later one of them decided to take over and deny the other's right to exist the other for no good reason. (plus one of them is the largest country in the world, even less reason to conquer anybody else)

~~hilarious~~ tenebrous