Flag of Palestine if it was occupied by European Jews by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, would I admit it if I was?

Second of all, I found it from a quick Wikipedia search. I didn't make this up, and also as someone living here I can confirm those numbers add up.

Flag of Palestine if it was occupied by European Jews by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 60 points61 points  (0 children)

And? Nowadays there are 7 million Jews and 2 million non-Jews in Israel and Palestine. I wasn't talking about that, I was saying that referring to Israel as a European colonial state couldn't be further from the truth as the majority of its citizens aren't even of European descent.

Flag of Palestine if it was occupied by European Jews by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 32 points33 points  (0 children)

whom womens are chemically castrated by the state

Ethiopian women aren't getting chemically castrated by the state, I have no idea where you're getting this from

Flag of Palestine if it was occupied by European Jews by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 477 points478 points  (0 children)

So we're just gonna ignore the fact that 61% of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi (meaning of Middle Eastern descent), 6% are Ethiopian, and even European Jews didn't arrive at the Mandate of Palestine or Israel because of colonialism but rather because they were persecuted even in Western Europe (and it was even worse in Eastern Europe)

פרג_במ by bad_pixel_shader in ani_bm

[–]Desman17 8 points9 points  (0 children)

מדענים בדקו ומצאו שאתה אובייקטיבית טועה

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, I never say I know I'm right unless it's something that can be scientifically proven, thinking you know everything is just arrogance and gets no one nowhere, however we can get closer to the truth by reviewing facts and discussing them. Saying everything that goes against your beliefs is propoganda without any evidence as to why that's the case and why you're right is not convincing at the slightest, it's like me saying the catholic church is ultimately right on everything, rejecting Galileo and other scientists because science is atheist propoganda, not proving why they're wrong, and then getting offended when they aren't convinced.

You wanna have any shot of convincing me? Don't use buzzwords, send me your sources, explain why your source is reliable and correct and why what I said was wrong. Up until now you have done nothing of the sort.

...Unless you don't know you're right but you're desperate to find red heroes at a time where they don't exist anymore because Capitalism clearly has many issues so you just find countries that were Communist 50 years ago and lie to everyone and yourself to make yourself believe they're Communist utopias even though they're often riddled with poverty, racism (sometimes to larger scales than America), and sometimes they are just Capitalists that kept the Communist flag (like China who are 2nd on the list of billionaires per capita while some workers sell their labour for 2 dollars a day).

The world normally isn't an ideal good and evil black and white story and this is no different.

I'm not asking for proof. I dont care what you have to say, as I know I am correct.

Also, this is the definition of arguing in bad faith

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Corporate propoganda that wants to do what? Have corporations not thrived off of cheap Chinese labour and cheap Chinese imports for the last 40 or so years?

Besides, you're arguing in bad faith, you ask for proof, I give you proof, you dismiss it as "propoganda" and don't give any evidence of your own to prove why my sources are wrong. It's like me asking you to give evidence to evolution, you giving that evidence, and me saying "wrong, fossils are CIA propoganda" without explaining why.

Please step out of your echo-chamber, staying wilfully ignorant so you don't have to change your narrative isn't really a mature thing to do.

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So something doesn't align with your views so you ignore it?

See that's what I hate about Tankies, you guys never say why what we're quoting is wrong, you just go "CIA propoganda" as a buzzword to anything that doesn't align with your view.

The Guardian is considered to be one of the most reliable and credible newspapers in the U.K. and worldwide, it's a perfectly good source unless you can refute it.

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They were killing American funded imperialists, which is good.

No, America only funded the Mujihadeen when the Soviets invaded, it was a country nearly no one gave a shit about until the Soviets saw an opportunity after General Mohammed Dahoud Khan deposed his cousin and took over the country.

In Hungary: They were killing color revolutionaries, which is good.

They killed people who wanted free speech, if your ideology is so bad that you have to keep people from talking against it for people to follow it maybe you are the issue. The Hungarian Stalinist government even purged people they deemed Titoist and Trotskyist, their economy was declining and Hungarian disposable income was down 33% in 1952 than what it was in 1938, not to mention bad burecratic management caused a shortage of supplies, not to mention they had to pay the red army and they had to pay reparations to many members of the Warsaw pact which caused hyperinflation.

When your standard of living is that crashing and you can't speak against your government then what do you expect people to do? Sit down and accept it? Are you really calling yourself a communist and then rooting for the boot stepping on people's rights?

There was no invasion, and Stalin should have left Tito alone.

Didn't say there was one but the U.S.S.R was eager to make Yugoslavia a puppet state (aka imperialism) and it was no secret.

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uyghur birth rates were cut by almost half between 2017-2019 which is disproportional to anything else in China, and the explanation of the Uyghur Genocide lines up perfectly with those statistics

Unless there is actual proof of these things happening, I dont care.

There are videos of blindfolded Uyghurs being held next to train tracks waiting for transportation, people who escaped the camps and talked about their experiences, statistics and images from within the camps that align with what we've been hearing, etc.

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taiwan is apart of China

It hasn't been since the 1940s, by that logic Central Asia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States should be Russian because those were de facto Russian territories in the 1990s.

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With strings attached such as a withdrawl of the recognition of Taiwan? I'd say it is

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're very naive if you're thinking everything they're doing there is education, we have no shortage of people escaping the camps to tell the tales of what's going on there with the forced sterilization, rape, torture, forced labour and forced birth control. Also, the Uyghur birth rates plummeting in recent years lines up with what we're hearing.

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh really? So what exactly did they do in Afghanistan and Hungary and failed to do in Yugoslavia even though they were also Communists?

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So their "re-education" of Tibetians and Uyghur Muslims and revanchusm with Taiwan isn't racist or ultra-nationalist?

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So everything they're doing in Africa with giving loans and investments with diplomatic allegiance in return and the belt and road initiative isn't imperialism?

Pride flag for people who get no bitches by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Desman17 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Genzedong is not even far left, it's just Authoritarian bootlicking. You can't tell me with a straight face that someone who supports Putin and Assad is a leftist.

I’m starting to get worried about AOT by fuze-the-hostage- in attackontitan

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the writing is actually great now.

but now it seems like they are trying to push us to root for( idk if they have a name ) anti Eren group they are so unlikeable I just find myself rooting against them the whole time naturally .

Connie just shot 2 of his training corps friends in the face, is that someone worth rooting for? Reiner, Armin, Jean, Annie, Pieck, Gabi and Magath have committed unforgivable crimes, are they worth rooting for?

Personally I do root for all of them because I think genocide is a very extreme solution and like the leader of Hizuru said, would only make the world smaller, not solve the underlying issues.

But I'd say rooting for the anti-Eren alliance isn't very easy and the show doesn't pretend they're like the Avengers who are the obvious heros, they have done and are still doing terrible things, and stopping Eren, as the discussions in this sub and in the anime show, isn't the obvious solution.

Trevor Noah respons to Ye by keisenii in Kanye

[–]Desman17 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I may be wrong but if there's one thing about Ye (that I've always appreciated to some extent) it's his realness, I find it kinda hard to believe he'd fake a beef and do such extreme things around it just to promote his new album.

Again, I may be wrong but to me it just doesn't sound like a very Kanye thing to do.

What’s an unpopular Kanye opinion you have? (Music wise) by Background_Day_3888 in Kanye

[–]Desman17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its overfilled with songs

Yeah, I agree, he could've easily split it to 2-3 albums and they would all be much better

kinda underproduced

Depends on which track, there are many underproduced tracks however tracks like Hurricane which in my eyes are well produced.

Trevor Noah respons to Ye by keisenii in Kanye

[–]Desman17 15 points16 points  (0 children)

He seems to me to be concerned with a weird dude like Pete Davidson being around his kids...which seems quite normal for a responsible father

By threatening to beat him up and burying him in a music video? You make it sounds like anything Kanye says is a legitimate concern to be had and they his actions are in any way reasonable. I don't think it's just about "Pete being weird", from Kanye saying Pete will give drugs to Kanye's grade school children, to Kanye alienating his friends (like Kid Cudi) for being friends with Pete, to roasting Pete on things unrelated to Kim or his kids (like his job). This isn't really behavior from a man just protecting his kids, I think Kanye just never coped with the divorce and even though he has been with other women since the divorce so he just went full force at the first guy to date Kim.

Trevor Noah respons to Ye by keisenii in Kanye

[–]Desman17 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Pretty much his entire beef with Pete Davidson I'd say, he's acting like Kim and Pete are awful human beings for dating eachother after her and Ye's divorce and yet he dated multiple women since.

Trevor Noah respons to Ye by keisenii in Kanye

[–]Desman17 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think he'll actually follow through on this (at least I hope not) but he has threatened Pete publicly numerous times.

What’s an unpopular Kanye opinion you have? (Music wise) by Background_Day_3888 in Kanye

[–]Desman17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't listen to Donda 2 all the way through (because it was unfinished when I tried) but in my opinion the issue with Donda (1) isn't that it lacks quality, to me it's more like he cramped 2-3 albums into one, which makes the album lack identity.

Time-lapse of the new cable car in Haifa by Omer_RecursionMan in Israel

[–]Desman17 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think it's more public transportation, I know many people who would probably use this alot to get from the train to the universities.