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Cake day: September 4th, 2024

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  • Two points

    Firstly the people of Europe are not a united front in anything and there is a plurality of opinions and positions on just about everything, including the current conflict escalation between Israel and Palestine.

    Second I think it’s of utmost importance to differentiate between people of a nation and the government of a nation. Im this case the people of the nations were behaving like assholes, true. But Israelis as a whole are individuals with individual opinions. Like all inhabitants of all states.

    People seem to forget this in times like these. I know of people that were scared they were going to be attacked (and they did get attacked sometimes) for looking Asian in the first months of corona. Now I almost never hear Russian on the streets in my city. And if I do, people are looking.

    I feel bad about this development.







  • Great argument. What do you base this on?

    It’s like china calling itself communist right now.

    Yes there was rhetoric in the USSR that suggested they were but it was an instrument to legitimate the horrible things that they did to their people.

    From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society

    A communist society is characterized by common ownership of the means of production with free access[1][2] to the articles of consumption and is classless, stateless, and moneyless,[3][4][5][6] implying the end of the exploitation of labour.[7][8]

    That was not the case. It was state owned, as the transition from whatever system was there before to socialism plans. Communism is supposed to be something different.

    I am not arguing that it would be good or better than anything we have today but am saying that we never saw communism in the modern world.

    Change my mind with arguments and not down votes.