Odd thing about the urbanism debate:

-Progressives are associated with the walkable urbanism humans have locally used for 5,000 years

-'Trads' advocate a radical, untested suburban automobility invented in 1950 by UltraModernist Highway Communists in the federal government

If we reported gun violence/gun deaths as ratio of shots fired, which is how we report driver violence/deaths as a ratio of miles driven:

'Another 45,000 Americans were killed by guns this year, but gun owners shot 10 billion bullets -- meaning only 0.0000045 deaths per bullet!'

Greentexts The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for…

This is precisely why I never warmed to Star Wars. Just a bunch of angry terrorists vs dictators. The reasoned statism of Star Trek was more appealing & realistic from the western perspective. Israel is the Federation, not the Galactic Empire, which is Syria, YMN, LY, IQ, IRN, AF

This video. Watch it.

If what's happening in Israel was happening anywhere else nobody would care

Several hundred thousand people recently died in an Ethiopian war nobody's ever heard of and Pakistan just expelled 1.7 million Afghans with no international protests

I tend to be honest while also playing devil's advocate. Considering their mixed history and my personal history with them, defending Ukraine, Israel, and Azerbaijan is already somewhat heartbreaking, but I did not need to see this video.

'All nation-states are similar to Lebensraum.'

Who are these people?

Absolutely wild. Yes, let's redefine politics as applying only to the things that I define as political.

The Jewish Departure and Expulsion Memorial From Arab Lands and Iran reads

'With the birth of the State of Israel, over 850,000 Jews were forced from Arab Lands and Iran. The desperate refugees were welcomed by Israel.'

Here are their populations over time:

Geneticists have had access to ancient DNA whole genome sequences from Canaanites, Israelites, Judahites for some time now.

First genetic distances to modern people below. I will be providing lots of information in this thread

exoren22 timesofisrael.com/abbas-admits-h…

This is worse than I thought. Arabs leaders need to get to work, Uganda style.

Fucking hell...

Sickening lies. Perverted economics. Pure evil. Richard Bailey voiceofsandiego.org/2023/10/09/cor…

Personal Thoughts:
(not for everyone, feel free to skip)

For the longest time, I struggled with my identity.

A Palestinian kid born inside Israel. Like…wtf.

Many of my friends refuse to this day to say the word “Israel” and call themselves “Palestinian” only.

But since I…

As a Salvadoran with Palestinian ancestry, I'm sure the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear.

Those savage beasts do not represent the Palestinians.

Anyone who supports the Palestinian cause would make a great mistake…

Democracy is when you haven't had a national election since 2006 and human rights are when you rape and murder a German tourist who supports your cause