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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • You are wrong. ‘We have to take care when it comes to genocide’. No you don’t. You have a right to be angry and a right to shout about it. You are engaging in genocidal apologism.

    To tolerate intolerance creates an intolerant society. To tolerate genocide is fucking disgusting.


  • This certainly appears to be true.

    My government, and Israel, have made it clear that my opposition to the genocide in Gaza makes me an antisemite. I have maybe only once read of a Jewish person or group opposing this view.

    So be it, I know which side of history I want to tell my young nieces and nephews I was on, so I have no problem whatsoever with any of legal issues this might cause me.

    Of course, the price for Israel (and silent Jewish people) making the judgement that I and most socially liberal people are antisemites, is Jewish people are on their own, other than the far right/nazi aligned groups who support their actions in Gaza, in terms of international support from people not governments.

    Edit - and as an aside, I think this new alignment indicates that a lot of the 20th century Western notions of political ‘left’ and ‘right’ are dead, ‘liberalism’ is a political double-speak (do you mean economic or social liberalism? Because they are at odds), and it isn’t Russia v. the USA, because American oligarchs and wannabe strongmen are in perfect alignment with their Russian counterparts.


  • The relevant context is first Bretton Woods, then Nixon abandoning the gold standard, and the petrodollar arrangement.

    Clearly the US dollar needed, and needs, international acceptance if it is to be global reserve currency. This is changing of course, and perhaps the US could abandon the late 20th century economic order entirely in one move as you suggest (more than they already are), but good luck buying stuff from other countries with dollars in that circumstance. What is North Korea’s currency worth these days?