Yeah, it is a prohibition on willingly eating pork. But to Islamaphobes this gets twisted into some belief that any presence, contact, or image of pork products hurts and condemns Muslims (I have heard this referred to as “Christian Ham Magic”, which I think is a good term for it). Like how soldiers were claiming they dip their bullets in bacon grease so that if they kill a Muslim with them, they would, by “Muslim” belief, go to hell.
Eh, that is one explanation, but pigs are only slightly worse than other domestic animals, which also have parasites and whose meat would spoil. The other and I think more likely explanation is formalizing differences between themselves from other ethnic groups in the region and making that division explicit. The early precursors to Israelites and Judeans were inland in the hills and shepherds, and were defining themselves against the more urban and coastal Philistines and other Phoenecian peoples. Pigs are preferred by more dense populations since they can be kept in a pen and don’t have to move around to graze, and the coastal element is why there is also prohibitions against shellfish.
Obama ran on closing Guantanamo and black sites but closed very few and maintained Guantanamo and its torture program. He expanded the war on terror resolutions, including allowing extrajudicial executions of US citizens in his expansion of the drone program. The expansion of deportations is not a right-wing meme, it is true. Obama has been the deporter-in-chief, with only Trumps second term probably finally topping Obama’s record there. NSA surveillance expanded under Obama, he was an expansion not just “Didn’t completely end everything and bring it to 0”. Sure, maybe Romney or McCain might have expanded it even more, but that is the only justification for Democrats, that they didn’t maximize the evil as much as possible, so should have uncritical support for that reason.
All the analogies of people to lobsters was projection.
It isn’t that they didn’t “Completely remove law enforcement” or whatever. But that even when they run on these expansions of state violence and repression being bad, they immediately walk that back, make it bipartisan and even expand this very authoritarian repression apparatuses, like Obama running on opposition of Bush era anti-terrorism and opposition to ICE, but then expanding and empowering both once in power.
Liberals are more ideological aligned with Trump than leftists. Both Biden and Harris’ campaigns were supporting genocide and making Trump term 1 bipartisan (“Actually, we fill out the paperwork and are more competent. So if you hate immigrants, you should vote Democrat because we will build the Wall faster and have ICE working more efficiently”). The centrists equivocation of the Left and fascists is just the equivalent of saying “Both the left and the right got mad at me shitting my pants in the middle of the room. So they must both be the same!”
“the problem is that people don’t fully support the Democrats unconditionally. Not that the Democrats only run on being ‘Republican Lite’ and Republican voters wont support the Lite option when full calorie is on the menu”
The entire point of the Biden and Biden/Harris campaign was to make Trump term 1 bipartisan. “No, if you hate immigrants, you should vote for me. Because Democrats fill out the paperwork properly and like bureaucracy, so ICE will work more efficiently and the Wall will be built better, faster and cheaper” - Both Biden and Harris campaigns
Lets just say, they protested and did direct action. Which is more meaningful and has a greater positive effect than some kayfabe like voting.
This has really been the obvious problem with the Democrats and their voice-pieces. “We just need a liberal Joe Rogan” or “We just need to get as good at messaging as Mamdani”. All of the Democratic consultants and proponents think that what you believe or stand for doesn’t matter, as long as you focus group the exact phrasing or pitch right or find a more convincing mouthpiece.
Maybe the problem is that the Democrats believe in nothing, will fight for nothing, nor want to accomplish anything. They just think that they can be vacuous empty suites and as long as they can accurately focus group their phrasing they will be able to win. And actually having beliefs and principles hurt you, because maybe not 100% of people would agree with them.
She’s literally a genocide supporter. “Hitler was mildly imperfect, at least he wasn’t as bad as Himmler”
Thank God. The only way a Republican could actually win in a normal election has been averted.
I am not too active here, but much thanks! I really like your administration and site!
For example, many say this about the Israeli/Arab conflict. However, this conflict is thousands of years old. The Israelis solidly lost a war to keep their land in the BC era
This is incredibly historically illiterate on multiple fronts. The Israeli/Palestine conflict only dates back to 1948, with precursors in 1930s. First, Israel wasn’t lost to “Arabs” in “the BC”. The Babylonians were not Arab and the exile of Jews in the 6th century BC were cultural elites and not the broader population. It was part of an attempt to assimilate Judah into the broader Babylon empire. That was defeated by the Persian empire and Judeans were allowed to return to Judea (now Southern Israel). The traditional idea of the beginning of the Diaspora was the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD and the violent expulsion of parts of Jerusalem by the Romans. Though the vast majority of the real diaspora was from immigrants to major Roman cities predating the destruction of the Second Temple and not Jerusalem exiles.
The majority of people that were living in what is now considered Israel were not Arab invaders, but the native peoples that have always lived there that, after the Arab conquest of the 8th century, started to speak Arabic and convert to Islam. The difference between a Mizrahi Jew and a Palestinian is most likely whether one of their ancestors converted to Islam in the last 13 centuries.
Not that Iron Age Philistines, Samaritans, Canaanites, etc. were secret proto-muslims secretly waiting for the Romans to purge Jews so that two millennia later “real Arabs” could occupy the “promised land”.
I don’t speak Japanese, but it is a combination of slang and lack of formal addresses, conjugations, or cases. Like Romance languages having formal and informal versions of “you” and using terms like monsieur.
Red Son was just a confession!
They should have been Rage For The Machine!
Exactly, combining chronological and lexicographic order perfectly.