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As requested, a thread of threads on housing.
Thanks for all the engagement and thanks to all the new followers!
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This is disgusting, blatant antisemitism. The vitriol of Cenk and his nephew are going to cost us this seat. El-Sayed should disavow this ad!
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Just to state the obvious:
It’s entirely possible to oppose aid to Israel— whether on moral, foreign policy, or financial grounds — without promoting the fiction that such aid, or Israel itself, is responsible for what Americans pay for their groceries.
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Vucic is dead and Lula is alive
ALT Joe Biden in 2012 speaking at a lectern saying “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is Alive.”
I'm tired of the factional fighting. Let's win!
Real or nominal?
Flat or even declining real home prices is ok.
Assuming we keep our current monetary regime, 25 years of declining nominal home prices would only happen is there was a second great depression that was worse than the first one.
This is just stupid semantics. You could call them Zulus and it wouldn't give them a legal right to any part of an extant state without that state's consent.
What you call them is actually quite significant. By calling them Palestinians the implication is that all of Palestine is theirs by right. After all, who else would Palestine belong to if not Palestinians? So even parts owned by Jews, or empty desert or areas where Jews are a majority, are seen as belongung to them.
People are not pointing this out academically. They point out something which happens to be true to imply that the people we today call Palestinians are undeserving of self-determination.
It’s not “dehumanizing” to note the political term was invented 60 years ago as jordanian and Arab league geopolitical play. And that before that “Palestinian” mostly referred to Jews. Marx used the term around 1800, “Palestinian” to mean Jews for example, one of the first modern European refrences.
People who became refugees in the 1948 war have a strong claim of right of return, though any final settlement will likely negotiate it away.
Descendants of refugees have a considerably weaker claim to right of return, if they have one at all.
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No, national identity or historic connection to land does not convey either a right to sovereignty over it or a right to return to it.
If it did, the entire world map would need to be redrawn.
Cancelar el contrato por un tecnisimo es un desastre para Puerto Rico. El gobierno firmó el contrato y ahora platea que es nulo porque el gobierno no siguió sus propios requisitos al extenderlo en 2022.
Si eso te suena absurdo, es porque lo es.
“LUMA se va a ir de Puerto Rico y Puerto Rico va a seguir corriendo. No se va a acabar el mundo. El mundo no va a parar de girar porque LUMA se va”, expresó Jean Peña Payano.
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One of the stupidest "pro-Israel" arguments out there is that what you call Palestinians (Arab, Palestinian, Bedouin, ect) affects what rights they hold.
It's dehumanizing and it needs to stop.
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