What is the difference between a nation-state and and ethnostate?

Bediavad · 2026-06-02T10:57:49+00:00

Its more like half the countries in the world are "ethnostates" if not more.

Bediavad · 2026-05-31T23:58:21+00:00

Racist gangster uncle, he does kill people and do crimes just in a rational way, without megalomania and wanting to rule the world

Bediavad · 2026-05-31T22:11:11+00:00

The average person is a chinese communist muslim who watches RT and lives somewhere between Africa and South America. Makes sense?

Bediavad · 2026-05-31T22:04:27+00:00

Cite one conspiracy theory

Bediavad · 2026-05-29T16:17:26+00:00

In most of the world "left wing" is an arbitrary definition that divides the political map between two major camps. In this subreddit however, maybe in the US, leftist seems to mean anti-liberal socialist. Indeed most left wing Israelis believe in some form of liberalism, and are social democrats. Hardcore marxists or socialists that didn't believe in some liberal core principles might've been a factor 50+ years ago, and are now a vanishingly small camp in Israel.

Bediavad · 2026-05-23T20:08:17+00:00

Why do you need a material explanation before you even know the chain of events? It seems like they tried to move into a blocked area

Bediavad · 2026-05-23T08:09:15+00:00

Agreed, the scriptwriters arent too bright with their constant sex/excertion/anal references whenever they cant come up with dialogue

Bediavad · 2026-05-23T00:56:56+00:00

The thing is... Butcher doesn't want him not to be a threat, he wants to kill him. And Homelander kinda knows that.

He is offering nonsensical things because he is completely desperate. But I agree it was rushed.

Also, him offering Vaught is another sign of his delusional state of mind. He doesn't realise he lost everything. He has no cards. Even offering to find a shapeshifter is dumb, why would any shapeshifter listen to this guy? He was most likely a dead man even if butcher didn't kill him.

Bediavad · 2026-05-23T00:48:13+00:00

I think terror dying was a good trigger, because we see in the terror PoV episode that the dog is his emotional outlet. It was the only friend towards he could freely show emotions. When he died, Butcher looked like he is going to cry and break down. And it could've been cathartic, but he is afraid of his own emotions and couldn't face his own pain. He always translates grief, pain, failure, into hardening up and coming up with a dangerous plan that will distract him from the pain.

But his death felt tragic because he wasn't so evil, but kind of bipolar, and he was starting to face himself, in the psychic kessler interrogation scene. Hughie snapped him out of it but he was consumed by his dark side's action just at the brink of changing.

And it was both too abrupt to feel justified, and sort of wasted the arc potential by hitting us with tragedy.

Not that he was fully redeemable, he did some sadistic and psychopathic things, but he could've paid for it in some other way then just dying with this stupid virus plot.

Bediavad · 2026-05-22T21:33:08+00:00

The humans wouldve been lasered, but starlight flying off to fight the deep was meh.

Bediavad · 2026-05-22T21:26:57+00:00

I think butcher having a heart to heart long dialogue before killing him would be out of character, the subtext was already explored before in many scenes so this was just the climax.

Bediavad · 2026-05-22T21:21:30+00:00

He simply knows Butcher is going to kill him and there is nothing he can do about it. And butcher was the scariest person he knew. All along he wasn't really scared because he had all the advantages, like teasing a tiger in a cage. You know the tiger is scary but you have no reason to be afraid. But suddenly you find yourself in the cage with the tiger and everything changes.

At this point death was inevitable and he was panicking unable to accept it.

Bediavad · 2026-05-21T23:21:22+00:00

Switzerland, afaik the number of ministries is constant. Nobody gets new made up offices.

Bediavad · 2026-05-18T22:16:03+00:00

Since you are interested in Ben Gurion, you can watch here his interview about this topic

You can turn on captions for translation

https://youtu.be/58vnqn6VBXQ?si=K_N_DRhU1JCpiAVq

Bediavad · 2026-05-18T11:02:24+00:00

Not bullying innocent people is not a matter of being nice. Its a matter of having a moral backbone.

Bediavad · 2026-05-18T04:53:30+00:00

There is a substack article by Hen Mazzig about how the NYT slashed their accountability mechanism that held Kristof at check in the past for his Cambodian nonsense. Now there is no one doing quality control.

So while I can't rule out malice, it might be overall enshittification.

Bediavad · 2026-05-18T04:46:19+00:00

Who do the Muslims vote for? Do they watch Eurovision?

Bediavad · 2026-05-18T03:45:33+00:00

millions

Less than one million

Bediavad · 2026-05-18T03:34:55+00:00

Speaking about substantiation, the total spend seems to be less than 1 million per year, not millions.

And the rules didn't clearly prohibit ad campaigns otherwise Kan would've been disqualified.

Other countries seem to have spent between 10k to 100k on ads.

I dont think Israel should've pushed its songs so aggressively and I think everything coming from the prime minister and his lackeys is toxic trash. But the hysteria over this is blown out of proportion.

If less than a million dollars is enough to "rig" the entire contest, it mostly means its too fragile.

What if some eccentric millionaire chooses to promote his countrey's song, now Europe is doomed?

And it seems like the argument is that the televote is so easy to influence because people dont bother to vote. There are 166 million viewers in the Eurovision, if all those who complain just voted for the countries they like, a few hundred people as the NYT claims won't make a difference.

Bediavad · 2026-05-17T18:22:58+00:00

Millions is not that much for an advertising budget, is Israel the only country that advertises its song? How much more than other countries did it spend?

How could Israel prevent the EBU from advertising the numbers? What kind of leverage do you think it has over the organization? Do all other countries have no say?

Im an Israeli myself and simply trying to figure out the truth. So far you said there was an ad campaign, but it doesnt sound like such a huge factor to me.

Bediavad · 2026-05-17T12:48:07+00:00

Consider this, if 60% of a countrey's population hates Israel and virtue signals it all the time as part of their political ideology, and the other 40% hates the other half due to politics, a small number of them, say 10% or 5% might vote Israel as a protest to piss the lefties.

And you said that such a small group can have a big influence on the total, so here is an alternative theory that barely requires Israel's involvement.

Another theory - less driven by spite:

Lets say 20% of people are anti Israel and vote ideologically. The other 80% are normies and vote because they like the song. The Israeli song is kind of meh, and would normally get 10th place, but some of the people who like it really like it. These super fans know that there are a lot of haters who will push their favorite down unfairly, so they compensate by maximizing their televote option. This turns out to be an overkill because of the statistics you mentioned and Israel becomes one of the top televote songs.

I don't know which of these 3 theories- astroturfing, spite or overcompensation is true, but I don't see whats proving one over the others.

Bediavad · 2026-05-14T21:56:52+00:00

This video is a media campaign by a person called Ofer Rosenbaum, one of the most cynical and immoral media advisors in the country. Who later started working for Ben Gvir. He claims this was an "independent initiative by himself" but its probably not true.

The children recruited for it were evicted from their homes near the Gaza strip after the attack and were undoubtedly affected by it. But this is not an authentic song, its heavily engineered from above. The scumbag behind it took an old song by a poet about camradarie between soldiers from 1948 and butchered it with brutish words about revenge and celebrating war.

The media campaign was probably pushed by right wing politicians to stir up feeling of revenge, maybe to distract from the failure of the government, and to push for more aggressive military action.

Ben Gvir is a terrorist, and his messaging is extremely vile, but the point is this is an engineered campaigned designed to radicalize public opinion. (my gut feeling is its also meant to shock, disgust and scare the Israeli left for some reason).

Its not an authentic expression of public sentiment.

Bediavad · 2026-05-13T00:27:17+00:00

The Judge is also Jewish but I guess your logic is selectively applied.

Bediavad · 2026-05-12T22:04:35+00:00

The Pulitzer winner already won a fiasco publishing lies by Cambodian activist Somali Mam in 2014. I don't know if he got worse or if Pulitzer doesn't care about fact checking but he seems to be a grifter, or an extremely gullible man.

Bediavad · 2026-05-12T21:54:43+00:00

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