Canada should quietly offer political asylum.

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John Kerry of all people warned of this in 2016:

here is a fundamental reality: if the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic – it cannot be both – and it won’t ever really be at peace

Israelis have made the choice, election after election for the last 2-3 decades to elect governments that expanded the settlements, derailed the figleaf of Oslo and destroyed the practicality of a Palestinian state. The choice for One State has been made and implemented. So now they are faced with Kerry’s stark dilemma: Jewish or democratic.

People’s response to this reality falls I think into one of four positions:

1. Accept that Palestinians should be destroyed as a people in their historic homeland.
2. Pretend that the two state solution is still viable.
3. Imagine some kind of apocalyptic establishment of a Palestinian-only state with the expulsion of the Israeli Jews.
4. Fight for a South Africa-style binational reconciliation on the basis of equal rights and democracy.

Option 3 sounds “anticolonial” and “revolutionary” but it is delusional as it ignores the facts on the ground. It is also unjust. Just like any other settler-colonial state from Canada, to Brazil, to the US, to Australia, there is no reset button that can be pressed to undo history. We have to live with the legacy of settler colonialism. There are Israeli jewish babies being born today that are third, fourth or fifth generation “sabras”. You can play the pseudofanonist edgelord and imagine some kind of Pied-noir style “the suitcase or the coffin” expulsion, but even the Pieds-noirs were only about 1 million and 10% of Algeria’s population, as opposed to about 7 million and 50% of the population of the land of historic Palestine. Those people aren’t going anywhere. The 7 million Palestinians are also not going anywhere unless the Israelis are allowed to complete the genocide.

The only path forward that is not (further) genocide or slavery is the extremely difficult path to decolonization. Reparations, truth and reconciliation, democracy, human rights for both communities. From the goddamn river to the goddamn sea.

Note: this is not hate speech in Germany and other jurisdictions.

They haven’t been manipulated by the AfD though. They’ve been manipulated by mainstream media.

Yup. If you’re serious about it, and not just an upset customer, support hospitality workers’ unions.

Iran has a right to defend itself.

Each place has its peculiarities. Bagging groceries and sorting garbage in Germany. Avoiding giving offense when ordering food or coffee in Italy. Etc.

What I’m saying is just take the existing price, add the sales tax, add a 15% tip, and show the resulting price to the tourists. Same result, less head math for the tourists.

If you want proper wages for workers, you need unionization.

A very simple solution is for restaurants to offer a second all-inclusive version of the menu with taxes and suggested tipping included in the prices. Can’t cost more than a half hour of work and the price of ten printed pieces of paper.

Take a load of these idiots that haven’t figured out that social democracy and democratic socialism can and usually do coexist in centre left parties.

Founding Daddy Issues.

This means that safety from extreme heat is a privilege not a right.

Access to A/C for everyone is a progressive measure.

Also many of them don’t want social programs if it means non-whites benefit.

The wages of goddamn whiteness.

“Give 'em Hell 54th!”

Reminder: https://youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

This isn’t some game of political points. The world’s preeminent genocide scholars via their international body, the UN independent commission of inquiry, and a whole host of credible human rights organizations are calling it a genocide. Either a politician accepts overwhelming evidence or they live in post-truth lalaland, the same space as antivaxxers and climate deniers.

Here is the report by the way: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session62/a-hrc-62-crp-2.pdf

And here is the UN Human Rights Council press release that links to it: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/06/israel-continues-commit-genocide-and-other-atrocity-crimes-deliberately?sub-site=HRC

Here are the people who make up the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel : https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/coiopt-israel/commissioners

Not that you care, seeing your inflammatory trollish behaviour here and the fact that you moderate a community that has as Rule 1 “No Further Gaza/Israel war posts”.

But if anyone stumbles upon this, here are the actual receipts.

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We’re talking human economic policy bro. 36 years is an era.