Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship

What legal citizens have been deported?

that’s an antizionist gesture. Some fascists like to pretend antisemitism = antizionism.

never succeeded therefore don’t try

This is fucking insane. I think I’m going to go hyperventilate for a while.

don’t do a nazi salute, you’ll just end up making it socially acceptable. Middle finger instead.

Hm, Netenyahu saying palestinians made the nazis into the nazis we know today doesn’t seem like nazi apologism, it sounds like more anti-palestinian propaganda to me.

No – nazi salutes are not acceptable in Israeli culture. Nazi salutes are the ultimate anti-semitic gesture. Why would those be “expected”?

I think most teenagers are not nearly so self-aware. Most people see things as in-group/out-group, simple as that. Doing a nazi salute was probably meant as am (ignorant) way to defy authority; teen most likely was not thinking about palestine at all.

Touch grass, man. When people call zionists nazis, they mean they are genocidal ethno(-religious) fascists. They don’t literally mean they speak german, sport swastikas, heil hitler, and hate jews. Zionists despise literal nazis. I can’t believe this actually has to be explained.

My point is that a teen’s behaviour doesn’t reinforce the criminality of his government, but is mostly orthogonal to it. I can see perhaps there’s a monkey-see monkey-do argument that does link a teen’s behaviour to his society’s, but Israelis are not fond of literal Nazi iconography, so I don’t think that applies here.

If you try to use sketchy arguments like this to reinforce your opinions about Zionism, it only opens you to attack. Please, try to keep a level head, or we’ll all look stupid. Rather than trying to guess if somebody is an apologist based on the consequence of their argument, maybe check if the premise is sound instead like a rational person.

(Aside: I also disagree with you about teens and self-understanding – I do think a lot of teenagers are mature and self-aware; my point is that it’s a high-variance distribution really.)

wha? No, I agree with you about Netenyahu etc.

Basically any way of making an income has risk, but we don’t consider most such things gambling. Even a fixed-income investment is gambling, since the value of the dollar can fluctuate randomly. What concerns me about the stock market is not its randomness but rather its reliability in outpacing inflation. It seems from a bird’s-eye view like a mechanism which is almost guaranteed to concentrate wealth into those who already have it. Surely that wealth must come from somewhere?

I think I need to learn macroeconomics.

Don’t really want to engage with an obvious troll, but yeah when the head of state says something like that, it should tell you all you need to know. I’ve seen idiotic teenagers from all over the world say idiotic things enough to know not to judge a society by their teenagers.

Ah such a sad anecdote. I’m a fan of Hamilton.

network effects

As I understand it, he doesn’t tend to delete posts.

I dislike this.

(Edit: I downvoted, but I felt that wasn’t enough.)

It’s such a shame. I feel like programmers were way more left only a decade or so ago.

Interesting. Literally all my friends like Rome and especially Greece. They’re big into e.g. percy jackson (or at least were when they read YA novels), hades, and so on.

search engines hardly index lemmy unfortunately. Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.