Why'd you just say "bosses" again?
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I'm from southern California. 'Nuff said.
Damn, are you Elastigirl? 'Cause you be reachin'.
The modern state of Israel exists because a bunch of Christian doomsdayers thought that it existing would make Jesus come back and end the world, and post-WWII seemed like the perfect time to redraw some borders with no consideration for the people already living there. That's the death cult you're talking about.
And I know Judaism views Israel as its ancestral homeland. It's not like the Jews have no claim to it whatsoever. Additionally, I understand that post-WWII genuinely was a great time to give the Jewish people some reparations. But you're acting like they've been there the whole time and no one else also has a claim to it, and you're further acting like after the European Christian death cult moved them in there (again, to try and make Jesus come back and end the world), they didn't then spend the next 70 years viciously subjugating the Palestinians who'd actually been living there for ages.
MLK Jr. said that a riot is the last voice of the unheard. That's not true about every riot, but if you have been aware of the geopolitics of this region of the world for more than like a month? and are not being a disingenuous shitbag, then this is the exact type of riot he was talking about. I know you have a lot of trouble with the not being a disingenuous shitbag part, but fortunately it seems like most people here also recognize that.
Israel invaded Palestine. History didn't start a week ago.
I mean, if you want to go down that rabbit hole, you certainly can dig into centuries of imperialism and oppression in Africa by outside colonial powers.
Yeah, the accent will change in the time it takes to get to the next village.
"Grassroots OUTRAGE as CNN BLATANTLY MISREPORTS FACTS"
body of article recounts that margaret brennan chuckled a little bit... on cbs
Hell yeah.
Sidenote, referencing the comments, I hate when people call Jane Jacobs a NIMBY because she didn't want a freeway built through Manhattan. The thing with construction of new housing projects like this is that they provide homes and businesses and create communities. Freeways destroy all of that. Jane Jacobs had homes, businesses, and communities in her neighborhood and wanted to keep them from getting destroyed. The NIMBYs who tried to stop this want to stop homes, businesses, and communities from existing. Those two things are polar opposites of each other.
This is good news.
The framing of the organization being called "stop population decline" strikes me as weird given that the global population is far from declining, and either already has surpassed or will soon surpass eight billion. It is true that data is more granular than that: some demographics have more children than others, which leads to shifts over time. All of this is normal and, if not good, at worst neutral. The problem arises when by far the most common voices to say anything about "population decline" or "overpopulation" or anything like that are typically using those terms as dogwhistles for white supremacy/Great Replacement bullshit.
I'll grant that their About page seems to mostly be stuff I agree with, and from a cursory look at their website, I'm not seeing evidence of white supremacy on it. But idk, the vibes are still off for me.