Big talk for someone who also isn’t about to throw their life away to take potshots at the local police station.

Government agitators: “God why are leftists such little babies! Oh you’re not a little baby? You don’t need a nappy? Well prove it! Commit a violent crime at a peaceful protest RIGHT NOW! Yeah, right into that camera. Great. That’s perfect. Thank you.”

Yeah that’s not even current slang is it? My 50 year old coworkers were saying no mamas 10 years ago.

Napoleon enforced freedom of religion and emancipated the Protestants and Jews of France and in countries under his sway. He set up formal representative bodies that they could elect to interface with the government and settle matters of religious law.

Before the reforms, preaching in a protestant church was a capital offense.

Can we replace him with an actual Italian American instead?

Everyone still likes Frank Sinatra, right?

Spoken like a true bigot. Good luck with that 👍

A predictive model is only as accurate as it’s underlying assumptions. Leftists are floundering on the Palestine issue because they don’t actually want to understand the opposing side. They’re just chasing the dopamine rush of feeling like they’re right, always - kind of like religious fundamentalists.

Ok but Hitler was literally mentally ill. Could he have been rehabilitated? With the methods available at the time? The methods of today? Would that be just? Safe? How much do you trust the science?

It’s not some crazy hypothetical. There are thousands of people walking around right now who have that same capacity and drive to do evil.

You’ve gone from “the Christian right only believes this because” to “quite a few weirdos I have met personally”, and I’m the one doing mental acrobatics?

You’re painting with the same broad brush right wingers do when they say all leftists are gay furry terrorists.

Do you want to understand your enemy, or just demonize them?

Do you think Adolf Hitler could be rehabilitated?

Maybe through empathy, or the power of prayer, a mosquito can be convinced to live a vegan lifestyle?

This gets parroted by left wingers a lot, but I’ve literally never met an American Christian who will come out and say this.

Have you?

Oh yeah how could I forget that after conspiring to help the Nazis exterminate the poles, the Russians turned around and conscripted millions of men from the countries they conquered (Poland, Ukraine, etc) and used them to fight off the Nazis that they allowed to invade in the first place! So heroic! So selfless!

As a Belarusian Jew, I can’t wait to hear your revisionist version of my history!

My history book says Hitler (Nazism) and Stalin (Marxism-Leninism) invaded Poland together, which is widely considered to be what began the second world war.

What part of that statement do you take issue with?

I got banned site wide for saying that democrats want to force everyone to get automatic transitions… In a car sub.

I guess I’m transphobic because I didn’t put a /s at the end. 🤷

ML = Marxism-Leninism

An ideology developed by Joseph Stalin to justify Russian Imperial ambition.

AKA, the people who aided the Nazis in their invasion of Poland.

The MLs allied with the original Nazis too.

Sudan? Haiti? Afghanistan?

I could name at least a dozen more actually.

Ogres watching The Great British Bake Off.

This is tankie cope ^

For the record, I think Bibi and most of his government belong in prison. Bibi is a fascist - but so are most Palestinians, for lack of a better word. I think Israel (as well as America, Europe and the Arab states) should pay reparations to all Palestinians who can demonstrate that they personally have been permanently displaced from land that Israelis have settled on, because it IS a humanitarian crisis - partly of their own creation.

But I’m also realistic about arab/islamic nationalism, and how those states treat their ethnic and religious minorities. I support Kurdish independence for the same reason. I support the Christians in Lebanon - I went to school with some in the early 2000’s who were forced from their homes by the same “freedom fighters” who make common cause with Hamas today. Being a non-arab, non-muslim in the Muslim/Arab world is a mortal danger.

There is no scenario where Israel doesn’t exist, and Jewish people in the middle east aren’t subjected to exactly the kind of genocide that you’re accusing Israelis of perpetrating and has been perpetrating against Jews and Christians in living memory, to say nothing of the last thousand years. Some might even call these accusations projection.

If that makes me literally Hitler, then we really don’t have anything to discuss. My side keeps winning. Total Israeli capitulation isn’t ever going to happen. Israel is here to stay. When certain parties finally accept that reality, maybe we can start making moves towards a lasting peace, but that peace will never include simply throwing open the gates and letting the barbarians sack Israel as they did in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Yemen, Sudan and elsewhere.

Now post this in the context of Israel-palestine and watch the vibe shift.

Strangely enough, none of the involved parties have anything to do with Calvinism.

Why don’t you mind your own fuckin business?