I broadly agree with Zack Polanski here. I’m glad he’s taken a stance.
I’m not sure about “no state has the right to exist”, but whatever.
Why does he always do this.
I agree with what he says up to a point, but then he always says something else and I’m like, no I don’t agree with that bit, that bit is stupid.
It’s like every time.
It just seems to be the green parties MO, it’s like the stupid argument around nuclear power stations, with the green saying you can power everything with renewables, no you can’t, of course you can’t, stop saying that, it gives ammunition to the opposition when you say stupid things like that.
You threw me there, what can’t be powered by renewables?
It’s not about what can’t be powered by renewables it’s that everything can’t be powered by renewables all of the time.
The big advantage of nuclear power is that it works 24/7, it doesn’t produce pollution, it’s wasted by product is something that can be dealt with and doesn’t have any environmental impacts, and it’s well understood technology that has worked for nearly 100 years now and we’ll still be reliable into the future. It gives us a nice stable based work from.
People are so scared of nuclear power because they don’t understand it, and so the Greens have taken the stands that there against it too. Not only does that risk our energy security but it’s pandering to ignorance something no party should be doing let of all the greens that are supposed to be progressive.
it doesn’t produce pollution, it’s wasted by product is something that can be dealt with and doesn’t have any environmental impacts,
Germany would like a word about that. We do not know how to deal with the waste, we don’t even know how to properly store it until we figure out what to do with it.
Also: obviously mining uranium comes with a lot of pollution with massive environmental impact.
What in particular are you opposed to for this?
Jesus…if only our American politicians had balls enough to say this.
States have no rights. People have rights.
I had a hard time watching Falcon and Winter soldier because i agreed with the bad guys too much. Borders are dumb and exist to promote violence and nothing else.
“borders are dumb”
But you keep borders yourself. We all do.
Why you doing something so dumb? Or, can I just climb into your bed and take a shit?
For pretty much the entireity of our existence, we didn’t have borders. The modren notion of borders is intrinsically linked with the nation state.
And you are conflating borders with boundaries in your later sentence.
Disagreed. Animals have teritories, which are essentially borders. We just evolved the means to make them somewhat permanent.
Doesn’t mean we have to keep it that way for the rest of our existance as a species.I can’t decide whether or not you actually believe that or you’re just being pseudo intellectual for the bit.
In nature animals have territories but it’s extremely common for those two shift and flow with the seasons.
But also animals don’t have internal plumbing or electricity yet we have those things, so I don’t really see why “what animals do” as being particularly relevant.
If you need to sleep in my house, be a polite guest and you are welcome. Otherwise i will remove you. That is all.
That’s a bit extremist. Jump straight to the hoards of invaders waiting to shit in your bed (let’s not talk about how suspiciously specific that is). That’s the type of fear mongering being evoked by certain cults purporting propaganda, currently.
Why not instead imagine your boarders are just bigger, and there’s just more people in your community, to work as a community together, pooling resources and looking after each other.
People are all just people, one pool of people on the other side of boarders, aren’t magically malicious, just because they’re on the other side. People aren’t born evil and out to get you (as long as you don’t count the 1%).
If people are desperate for a bed to shit in (seriously, wtf are you up to in your spare time…wait, actually, don’t tell me) why not give them one. Maybe hoarding resources was never a good idea, and if we all have enough beds to shit in, we can get on to doing the good work, parties.
"Asked by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg whether he thought Zionism was racist, Polanski said: “I don’t think this is actually controversial.
“What’s controversial is that 75,000 Palestinians have been murdered in the last few years, including more child amputees than ever in modern history. So when you take that to account, the fact that they’re being murdered because they’re Palestinian – that’s very obviously a racist ideology.”
He added: “I think Zionism is racism in the practical application of it. Now the conference had a debate about the motion, about the word. I said I think debates about words are unhelpful, and I still think that.”
“Asked whether he believed Israel had a right to exist, Polanski, who is Jewish, said: “I don’t think any state has a right to exist under international law,” adding that the idea of a two-state solution was “for the birds” given Israel’s opposition to it.”
I think it’s a classic conflation of a Nation and a State. I believe all Nations have a right to exist - that a people with a common cultural identity have a right to that identity and to express that identity through their other rights, such as Speech and Assembly.
There has been a Jewish Nation for hundreds of years, before there was a Jewish State.
I don’t think it’s controversial that Jews (or even those who consider themselves Israelis in particular) have the right to form a government, that can democratically pass laws to apply to those who willingly submit to that nation.
The controversial part is that Government’s formation of a State that expresses sovereignty over territory it has no right to; territory that has been held for hundreds of years by people who are not members of the Jewish Nation, and who the Israelis have no desire to include nor enfranchise.
Ah, I should have posted a summary, I forgot, thanks.
You can edit rhe titles, images and text of posts if you need to add more context after posting.
Yes, but now that this person had done it I didn’t want to duplicate their work and have people see it all twice.
It’s your call. If someone points out in the comments something that will improve a post I will edit it in, while thanking and crediting the commentor. More people will see the post text that any particular comment. Anyway, I only mentioned it in case you didn’t know about post editing.
Artificial nonhuman entities don’t have inherent rights.
holy based
States are made up. Borders are violence
Keep it up Mr Polanski
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