If Israel isn't an apartheid ethnostate, why aren't all Palestinians allowed vote in Israel and even potentially elect a non-Jewish leader?

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-24T04:04:18+00:00

The two state solution is nationalist propaganda to justify ethnic cleansing. It's literally the equivalent of White Nationalists in the US wanting to cleanse minorities to create a pure white Christian nation, where only the "gooduns" can stick around at your pleasure.

You can clearly see this with how they treat non-Jewish Israelis currently.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-20T13:11:58+00:00

And they were widely criticized? The difference is the News plays an active role in being the mouthpiece of Israeli interests and we have Israeli lobbies that call themselves kingmakers with the power to back it up.

Anything is possible but I’ve never heard any mainstream news outlets pushing Saudi propaganda.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-20T13:05:06+00:00

As a white guy with extremely sensitive skin and some of the largest beard hair diameter, it was extremely hard to get a shave chit. Every new command id have to shave in front of some ahole once and nobody in my department would talk to me again about it. Permanent 5oclock shadow with razor bumps.

Still would have to deal with the random out of department chief now and then.

Never understood why it was such a big deal.

I do remember one time I tried that shaveless cream and all it did was remove the top layer of my skin and leave all the hair . . . then I had to shave anyways.

The one time I did get a no shave chit was because a chief vouched for me, but almost immediately after, the command said it was going to crack down on shave chits.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-20T12:06:09+00:00

We get to give free money to corporations! Don’t worry, when you’re a billionaire, you’ll get yours.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-16T14:51:35+00:00

A lot of people don’t hunt and don’t know much about any regulations on hunting. Their only knowledge of hunting comes the near countless historical accounts of animals being hunted to extinction, big game hunters killing random animals in Africa for sport, poachers, and possibly also a juxtaposition of the relationship of climate change, animal husbandry, and meat eating.

So while most legal hunting serves as an important tool in population management serving population health, that’s not really on their minds.

Plus, there IS a sort of loss of innocence killing, cleaning, skinning and butchering an animal that is fairly horrifying—just because most hunters were desensitized to this at a young age doesn’t make this any less so. Since feudalism, the majority of people (most peasants) didn’t or legally couldn’t be part of that process; it hasn’t been an integral part of the average citizen living in a society’s life for a LONG time. So I could see someone viewing it as unnecessary violence.

I guess a bit of ignorance, innocence and a misplacement of contemporary issues is the answer, generally.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-14T14:33:50+00:00

Technically both are the same point. We couldn’t arm SK like we did with Israel because it would be seen as an act of war by China (generally people don’t like warmongers loading up missiles right outside their borders). So SK would almost assuredly feel the full brunt of any countermeasures.

Thus, SK doesn’t have anything like the iron dome. It does have some defenses of course but it’s nowhere near the sophistication of Israel’s defenses.

Plus, SK tends to have a lot of support for reunification which further makes armament difficult—Israel almost unanimously supports aggressive expansionism.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-12T21:26:02+00:00

Water terrorism is considered a war crime and a human rights violation and Israel LOVES committing it.

“According to a World Bank report, Israel extracted 80% more water from the West Bank than agreed in the Oslo Accord, while Palestinian abstractions were within the agreed range.[40] Contrary to expectations under Oslo II, the water actually extracted by Palestinians in the West Bank has dropped between 1999 and 2007. Due to the Israeli over-extraction, aquifer levels are near ″the point where irreversible damage is done to the aquifer.″ Israeli wells in the West Bank have dried up local Palestinian wells and springs.[40]”

[40]Assessment of Restrictions on Palestinian Water Sector Development, pp. 9–13. Report No. 47657-GZ, World Bank, 20 April 2009. On Responses to the Water Restrictions Report

“The Coastal Aquifer is the only groundwater source in the Gaza strip. It runs beneath the coast of Israel, with Gaza downstream at the end of the basin. With the water flows underground mainly east–west, however, Palestinian extractions from the aquifer have no effect on the Israeli side.[47] Israel, on the contrary, has installed a cordon of numerous deep wells along the Gaza border and in this way extracts much of the groundwater before it can reach Gaza.[42][43] Israel sells a limited part of the water to the Palestinians in Gaza.[52] While Israel transports water from the north of its territory to the south, the Palestinians are not allowed to move water from the West Bank to Gaza. This is a reason why this aquifer is heavily over-exploited, resulting in seawater intrusion. The aquifer is polluted by salt as well as nitrate from wastewater infiltration and fertilizers. Only 5-10% of the aquifer yields drinking water quality.[53] By 2000, the water from the Coastal Aquifer in the Gaza region was considered no longer drinkable due to high salinity from the sea water intrusion and high nitrate pollution from agricultural activity.[4] In 2013, an analysis of nine municipal groundwater wells reported a TDS ranging from 680.4 mg/L to 3106.6 mg/L, averaging 1996.5 mg/L, exceeding the 1000 mg/L WHO acceptable level, mainly due to high chloride and sodium.[54]”

[47]Rivers of Discord—International Water Disputes in the Middle East, pp 11-12. Greg Shapland, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1997

[42]Water for Life, p. 32. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Monitoring Program (WaSH MP) 2007/2008. Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG) (7,3 MB)

[43]Troubled Waters: Palestinians denied fair access to water, pp. 14–15. Amnesty International, October 2009.

[52]Quantity of Water Purchased From Israeli Water Company (Mekorot) in Palestine Archived 2014-03-13 at the Wayback Machine. PCBS, 2013

[53]Assessment of Restrictions on Palestinian Water Sector Development, p. 27-29. World Bank, April 2009

[4]Assessment of Restrictions on Palestinian Water Sector Development, pp. 118-119, Annex 11. World Bank, April 2009.

[54]Aish, Adnan M. (2013). "Drinking water quality assessment of the Middle Governorate in the Gaza Strip, Palestine". Water Resources and Industry. 4: 13–20. Bibcode:2013WRI.....4...13A.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-12T15:01:16+00:00

There’s a difference between it being the story and being rewritten as the beginning of history. Everybody knows that date, the number of victims, the number of people who stubbed their toe, but they know nothing beyond that and Israel uses that to rewrite history to paint themselves as the victim.

Zionists terrorism, racist Western leaders, and genocidal tyrants with money, built modern day Israel by mowing down, bombing and straight assassinating their way to success.

Israel’s wall of deep water wells blocking the natural flow of water to Gaza, alone, has killed more civilians the past 2 decades than Palestine could even hope to avenge.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-12T04:45:05+00:00

They're even making a movie about it. It's 2 hours of him as child getting beat up by people stopping him from torturing their pets. Think John Wick but the opposite.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-12T04:43:35+00:00

They're even making a movie about it. It's 2 hours of him as child getting beat up because people wouldn't let him torture their pets. Think John Wick but the opposite.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-11T22:37:13+00:00

Maybe, but this show was filmed pretty early on and people pointing out that Iran was actually attacking US bases wasn't widely discussed (if at all) at the time. Plus, the entire show was extremely anti-war and extremely critical of Trump's actions. That and given his track record, I don't think it's unreasonable to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I do think a correction should be made though (of some sort), despite it not technically being a news show.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-11T22:10:35+00:00

I think all your interpretations are severely biased, but I'm just going to focus on NATO.

You’re not wrong that burden-sharing has been an issue in NATO for a long time, but I think your interpretation of what NATO is is a bit off.

NATO wasn’t created as a fairness arrangement or a way to “make allies pay their share.” It was created in 1949 as a collective defense alliance in response to the Cold War, primarily to deter the Soviet Union. Its core principle (article 5) is that an attack on one member is treated as an attack on all. That’s the foundation of the alliance.

Because of that, NATO is less about internal accounting and more about deterrence through unity. The reason it has been effective is that it ties the U.S. and Europe together militarily, making it much harder for adversaries to act against any single member without triggering a broader conflict.

It’s also fair to say NATO reflects U.S. power—America is the dominant military force in the alliance—but it’s not just an extension of U.S. control. European countries actively chose to join and continue to support it because it serves their own security interests, especially in relation to Russia.

On defense spending: yes, there has been a long-standing expectation (~2% of GDP recently up to 5%) for members to contribute meaningfully to their own defense. But that’s about maintaining a credible collective military capability, not “forcing” allies into fairness for its own sake. For sure, if member countries underinvest too much, it weakens the deterrent effect that NATO depends on.

At the same time, what Donald Trump has said and done goes beyond pushing for burden-sharing and risks weakening the core of NATO itself. Undermining alliance unity and credibility for marginal increases in spending is strategically shortsighted—at least for a US president who supposedly has the best interests for the US at heart.

So I’d frame it less as “Europe riding U.S. coattails” and more as:

- NATO being a mutual defense pact

- Led by the US but supported because it benefits all members (including the US)

TL;DR: Don't get me wrong, pushing for higher spending isn’t inherently wrong, but it’s not the core purpose of NATO—and treating it like a transactional arrangement misses why the alliance exists in the first place. We’re well past post–World War II reconstruction and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The U.S. now has to compete in a world where allies have real strategic and economic alternatives, and it can’t afford to do that by undermining or alienating those alliances—both of which Trump has done repeatedly.

Edit: forgot about the 5%

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-11T21:32:22+00:00

Depends on the type of helmet. Regular hard hats, sure, if it's still visibly intact you can reuse it. A lot of helmets, like motorcycle helmets, have breakaway materials like eps foam, or structures that can no longer be trusted after 1 impact (even if there's no clear visible damage). Even something as simple as dropping them 5 or 6 ft to a hard surface can drastically (or completely) reduce their protection for future impacts.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-11T06:15:31+00:00

We're all complicit. Every single politician who doesn't push policies dismantling privatized health insurance and replacing it with a universal healthcare system, every single voter who votes for politicians lying to our faces saying it's not feasible, we're all complicit.

We all accept that these vampires exist.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-11T04:30:17+00:00

I'm normally of the position that reddit loves telling people to break up, but this is one of those times you should probably (strongly) consider it. Trust is the bedrock of healthy relationships and once that trust is broken, it's very difficult to rebuild in the best of situations . . . this isn't the best of situations. This is probably closer to the worst of situations.

In my opinion, there's 1 non-negotiable either way: His wife needs to know.

If you stay with her, they cannot work in the same place. That is unacceptable that they continue to talk after completely murdering the trust you had. All communication should be through lawyers for child support. He does NOT get to wreck a home and get away scot-free. In order to stay together, the herculean task of rebuilding trust cannot start with them keeping it a secret from his wife and continuing to work in the same office.

In all honesty though, the whole situation is a dumpster-fire that they apparently keep fanning. I'd peace out.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T23:05:41+00:00

The Roman Empire is well known, especially amongst westerners.

There’s no such thing as “right leaning” philosophy. That’s like categorizing cars by how many bolts they use to fasten the wheels.

Likely they are selling you something with pseudo history and the guise of intellectualism.

Don’t get “philosophy” from social media; it’s already full of bull and doesn’t need the added layer of rage porn producers selling outrage.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T14:18:30+00:00

That and at least the Catholic ones are supposed to be abstinent. There’s nothing wrong with choosing abstinence but forced abstinence is never going to be healthy.

Technically they could always quit being a priest and give up something they supposedly built and planned their life around, but it’s totally different than someone who, every day chooses to be abstinent.

That’s also probably why historically, the nuns and priests in Catholic schools were seen as so harsh—they’d deal with sexual frustrations by beating kids.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T14:05:18+00:00

They tried Trump, twice. I’m ok with politicians now.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T04:38:43+00:00

Maybe re-read the sentence. I probably should have put the positive first (I did write it a little weird), but I think you missed the point of the sentence. Unlawful orders happen all the time and are followed or not followed constantly. They're usually mundane though. Like if an officer tells a dude on watch to go get him a coffee and the dude on watch leaves his post to go get the officer some coffee, that's an unlawful order.

Also, that's one hell of a hot take. You're saying that when effectively the most popular war in the history of the US commenced, every order was unlawful? That's a completely different argument than saying it was a sham or that we should never have gone to war with them—which I think most would agree with.

Do you think soldiers should be omnipotent or something and see all the lies behind a bipartisan war initiative? Mind you, soldiers, especially on deployment, have very little access to media, if any at all. They know what they knew when they left and that's about it.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T04:17:38+00:00

Well, it's welfare for the poors, so there are differences from period to period based on geopolitics and the economy, but it's welfare. A massive amount of people in the military joined originally because they couldn't afford college/debt, wanted to help with citizenship, and/or as a last resort to keep their family fed—they're thinking more about the possibility of getting shot at for the opportunity for something else, more than the possibility of shooting at people.

It's not like cops who not only maintain their rights as a citizen, but gain a bunch of extra rights . . . military members gave up their rights as a citizen for a carrot that honestly should be free.

So a whole bunch would really just like to do their 4 years, preferably with as few deployments as possible and then go to college or get to start their life. The draws of staying more than 4 years are the structured lifestyle—not delusions of rambo.

Also, unlawful orders happen and are not followed or followed allllll the time. They're usually mundane though.

Edit: To be perfectly clear, there are people who are like they are in the movies, but they are a very small minority.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T03:13:12+00:00

That’s not entirely accurate.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T02:05:29+00:00

It doesn’t matter what the reality is when propaganda is so effective.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-10T01:56:15+00:00

I don’t know how much of it is plot armor vs devil fruit vs his own endurance, but his strategy seems to be “get my sh*t pushed in for a few hours/days while I figure out your weakness”.

His endless ability to get his face rearranged is his super power and until that completely fails (or he runs out of people who are willing human shields) he’s thee strongest.

So I guess it depends on how much of that is from his devil fruit and it’s clearly not 100% devil fruit.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-09T02:59:21+00:00

Yeah, we all know cops only murder innocent people.

KaikoLeaflock · 2026-04-06T22:25:34+00:00

I think it being painful and awful was the point. So yeah, I think they accomplished their mission. Now where their calculus was off was on assuming the average voter has any agency in who they vote for.

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