Philipp

Tate talking about the enslavement of the populus, as if he is a communist

A question to all, which is not about moralizing or taking sides, just about predicting. What do you think will be the future of the Palestine/Israel conflict? 1) Israel control over entirety of Palestine and most Palestinians end up leaving to other countries. 2) Israel control over entirety of Palestine, and Palestinians stop resisting and continue to live there under very poor conditions. 3) Israel control over entirety of Palestine, and Palestinians stop resisting and continue to live there under good conditions 4) Israel control over entirety of Palestine, but Palestinians keep violantly resisting and war continues for the next 20+ years. 5) 2 autonomous, independant, peacefull states. 6) 2 autonomous, peacefull states, but Palestine is not allowed to have a military. 7) 2 autonomous, independant, peacefull states, but with completly different borders. 8) unification of Israel and Palestine, under a secular constitution. 9) Israel anexation of Palestine, but Palestinians gain full citizenship. 10) Israel anexation of Palestine, and most Palestinians are forced to leave. 11) Israel dissolution and Israelis gain full citizenship in Palestine. 12) Israel dissolution and Israelis have to flee.

In the interview with Piers Morgan he said that all his bank accounts were frozen and that his possession were taken. He seemed to have worried a lot about his financial situation, whilst in jail. I highly doubt this man donated that amount of money. Is there any trust worthy proof that he donated so much money. This man is a grifter and will say whatever he wants to gather support online.

@BlueOak I am sorry but FOX news is not as radical as those internet spaces including twitter, etc. FOX news still has a liberal voice in their pannels. OAN is more radical BUT STILL. OAN is also not as blatlantly promoting racism and conspiracy theories as you see it happening online. This crazy to say but they are still better. @hoodrow trillson True! It is actually quite interesting why the internet radicalizes us. The common explanation was echo chambers, but it turns out that your real life is a bigger echo chamber than your online life. Online you are way more confronted with differing views. Even if you are watching people with similar views, you are often watching them react to opposing views. Whereas in real life you just did not really care about the others. The people around you was what you cared for and those have usually similar thoughts than you. But the confrontation with opposing views is not the only driver of radicalisation in my opinion. A big factor has to be the attention grabbing mechanism at play and the underlying attention industry, the cognitive stage of capitalism.

Radicalization is crazy nowadays. It really kickstarted during the Covid pandemic. Trust in academia, media and institutions erroded, we now live in the reign of idiots. Conspiracy theories, ideologies, anything that feeds the ego, is spreading fast. And Idiots don't have to feel ashamed anymore. They have gained a critical mass to self validate and all moderating barriers (academia, conventional media, institutions) are extremly weakened. When the left goes left, the right goes right. Who knows where this will end. But some amount of violance is almost guaranteed. My hope is that the left gets rid of stupid ideologies and starts convincing some of the moderate idiots.

Has anyone else seen this interview with roman finkenstein?

The things that shocks me, is that israelis are fine with creating an ethno state. Imagine the US or any developed country came out and said "we will from now on give special priviledges to christians". This would be crazy. But if Israel does it, it is somewhat okey and I don't know why. Every developed country needs to seperate State and Religion and so should Israel. There should not be an exception for Israel.

@Gennadiy1981 what's interesting, is that you say palestinians don't allow israel to exist, but you don't allow Palestine to exist either. You basicly said that the entire region including Gaza and the west bank should belong to the jewish population. Does not seem like you are very different from one another in this regard.

I wonder when politicians will have the courage to call Israel out. Everyone seems too afraid to do it. Scared of being smired as an antesemite.

@Leo Gura hmm but there is an important discussion to be held what should be owned and operated by the state and what shouldn't. Liberalism wants almost everything privatized (even firefighters right?) and socialism (or social democracy) is interested in owning and operating a lot of goods and services.

That's not true. Public Housing (50% of buildings in Vienna are publicly owned). Public Healthcare. Railway. Public transport. Public baths.

What do you count even as socialism? In my books, a road is socialism already. Where do you draw the line?

@StarStruck bro you are taking "blame the victim" to astronomical heights I agree however the people who organized this festival were irresponsible. The threat of a terrorist of any kind was definitly to high to create a festival there.

here is a quick video on the history of the jewish people. Judaism is as old as people believing in Zeus. Unfortunate that we don't have any Zeus worshippers anymore. It is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding this conflict. The border are already skewed so much in the favor of Israel. I am not sure if Palestinians will ever be fine that.

what games did you play?