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I suppose I’m a left-of-center liberal who flirts w/ anarchism & libertarianism. Thr’s a lot of alt, electronic, exp’tal, & “world” music I like. I’m working on fan-fix-tion for The Handmaid’s Tale and Star Trek.

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Are they using helium?

If so then re-use the helium.

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Cutting aid to Israel might affect things.

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He didn’t say move it to Ukraine.

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It’d be harder for them to fight Russia.

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I figured they died because they protested in a Communist dictatorship.

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I just pulled this out from WP:

wp:Red August

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Red August (simplified Chinese: 红八月; traditional Chinese: 紅八月; pinyin: Hóng Bāyuè) is a term used to indicate a period of political violence and massacres in Beijing beginning in August 1966, during the Cultural Revolution.[1][2][3] According to official statistics published in 1980 after the end of the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards in Beijing killed a total of 1,772 people during Red August, while 33,695 homes were ransacked and 85,196 families were forcibly displaced.[1][4][5] However, according to official statistics published in November 1985, the number of deaths in Beijing during Red August was 10,275.[5][6][7]

This was back in Mao’s time.

It seems that Communism killed those Chinese people.

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Presumably,

Mao self-identified as a Communist (or something like it) and is today defended by such.

Deng self-identified as a Communist (or something like it) and is today defended by such (at least by many Chinese).

Palestinians, Gazans, and Jews were victims of the Crusaders.

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good point.

though I think they were a little bit more socialist in the earlier years.

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I don’t like any of them.

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might as well throw this in:

wp:Albanian–Chinese split

By the early 1970s, however, Albanian disagreements with certain aspects of Chinese policy deepened as the visit of Nixon to China along with the Chinese announcement of the “Three Worlds Theory” produced strong apprehension in Albania’s leadership under Enver Hoxha. Hoxha saw in these events an emerging Chinese alliance with American imperialism and abandonment of proletarian internationalism.

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The might have been the reasons, or some of the significant reasons, for the protest but I don’t think Mao would have tolerated them more than did Deng.

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😁

Your cynicism is both understandable and warranted.

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That said, a few Libertarians speak of pollution being a violation of the NAP.

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Would you recommend him to your Trump-supporting friends?

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(assuming you have Trump-supporting friends 😁)

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Are you American, and if so, are you voting for Biden? (maybe Trump?)

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Doesn’t Iran fund Hamas?

I’ll also grant that that Hamas probably killed a higher percentage of soldiers on Putin’s 71st birthday than Israel has Hamas members since then.

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Didn’t Nazi Germany ban vivisection?

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What do you think of George Galloway’s condemning Israel? He’s right, but he has a few flaws (though certainly not as bad as the Nazis—I was a little ticked at people citing him several hours ago, though).

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Trump bad, Israeli genocide of Palestinians bad.

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not all of Israel’s opponents are good; and this one funds Hamas.

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Comments like this do nothing but make the Pro-Palestinian anti-Genocide movement look pro-Hamas.

some of them are.

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Yes, IIUC the theory goes that they did it to split support for Fatah, and if so, it seems to have worked.

Arguably, Hamas has done much for the Israeli right.

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Maybe it’s just me, but while I support human rights for Palestinians, the right of Palestinians to be anywhere in Israel, and a right of return for those chased off going back not only to 1948, but earlier, say 1930, nonetheless, fwrick!, I find many of these protesters annoying, be they from Europe, that great shithole of antisemitism, California, where Indigenous were hunted for bounties, NYC where AFAIK, there is no record of the Indigenous in Manhattan getting those gilders for that prime real estate, and as for the leaders of the Muslim-majority countries, fuck Islam and their pedophile prophet (note: I’m not insulting Muslims, I’m insulting Islam).

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okay.

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Presumably you wouldn’t stand next to a Nazi who denounces Israel’s genocide.

Would you stand next to an Islamic fundamentalist doing the same?

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Is Ali Khamenei on the right side of history?

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That old fuck has been saying stuff like this for decades.

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Why do I have to agree with or work with Hamas to want a Palestinian State?

I’m not.

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Yeah.

Mosaddegh was overthrown in 1953 because of US and UK, and about 25 years later, Iran became an Islamic theocracy, which has lasted for about 45 years and seems will continue into its 6th decade.

Well done, America-haters.

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He’s not an ordinary old fuck.

He’s been helping pro-Isreal propaganda for decades—a little like George Galloway at times.

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not all who oppose Israel’s actions regarding Gaza—the mass murder, the genocide, if you will—are good.

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This evil man seems to be admired by some.

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mostly, presumably, though also some folks in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and maybe even a few Western Universities.

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and IIUC, some Mexican states are safer/more dangerous than others.

wp:List of Mexican states by homicides

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The world outside of US might be developing an immunity.

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Hopefully it won’t be after this year.

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so no Israeli draft-dodgers are allowed in the Maldives.

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As a Ukraine-supporter, I oppose most of the sanctions against Russia too.

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Send them back to Israel so they can murder more Gazans.

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The logic isn’t tortured.

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“Go back to Israel, draft-dodger. Murder more Gazans. Allāh be praised.”

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wp:Human rights in the Maldives

The constitution declares Islam as the state religion of the Maldives and states that all Maldivian nationals are required to be Sunni Muslims.[13] It is illegal in the country to proselytize any religion other than Islam, and advocate for secularism or the separation of church and state. Apostasy and atheism are also outlawed and those who identify as or accused of being apostates or atheists are punishable by death by Maldivian law (though unenforced) and are often subject to vigilante violence or attacks with little or no consequences for perpetrators by the authorities.

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Defamation and Speech “contrary to the tenets of Islam” is illegal.

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As the state partially practices Sharia law in some matters, homosexuality is illegal. The punishment for men is nine months to one year imprisonment, or 10 to 30 lashes. The punishment for women is nine months to one year of house arrest.[3]

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I support forcing their soldiers out.

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not if they stole it.

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not the ones who didn’t steal land or buy stolen land.

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Though that might apply to those in Manhattan, California, and Australia.

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This is Lemmy: the Shariah law as practiced by the Maldives doesn’t apply here,

nor did the Maldives fight a war for its very existence on the first day of its independence.

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Have you been there?

Have you been there, anon?

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wp:Maldives

Since the adoption of the 2008 constitution citizens and anyone wishing to become a citizens are required by law to nominally follow Sunni Islam[176] which would make Maldives a 100% Muslim country in theory.

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okay.

I hope you enjoyed your visit. 🙂

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The Jewish presence in Palestine is older than the Muslim.

For that matter, those in the Maldives were Buddhists before they became Muslim.

Instead of blaming the victims of European antisemitism which kind of necessitated Zionism, you might wag your finger at Europe too for this.

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Medvedev’s drinking again?

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