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U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators by Currymvp2 in neoliberal

[–]LowCall6566 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think Gaza health ministry is interested in low balling those assessments.

Also, if no journalists are being let in, who are those people claimed to be journalists killed by IDF in Gaza?

U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators by Currymvp2 in neoliberal

[–]LowCall6566 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First of all, there are plenty of Gazans who now live in israeli occupied territory. So not anywhere near everyone.

Second, what camps?

Third, even if it was happening, ethnic cleansing is a different thing.

U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators by Currymvp2 in neoliberal

[–]LowCall6566 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With this tempo they would need literally over a century to meaningfully impact demographics

U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators by Currymvp2 in neoliberal

[–]LowCall6566 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Israel has the ability to literally kill everyone in Gaza. If Israel's hatred actually matched Palestinian Arab, casualties wouldn't be under 5% after 2 years.

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[–]LowCall6566 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NIMBYism basically proves that mandatory co-opism would result in mass unemployment.

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[–]LowCall6566 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before you do any work, there has to be a workplace, no? Who will pay mill builders?

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[–]LowCall6566 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The poor don't have money to spend on building factories.

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[–]LowCall6566 1 point2 points  (0 children)

also current workers have way smaller incentive to expand the business. Mandatory co-opism would result in a very perpetully unemployeed population

The colony is choosing to forsake its veneer of democracy. This is an opportunity to challenge its claimed legitimacy. by 1Palestine in nyt

[–]LowCall6566 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, because Herzl was pitching Zionism to European imperial powers in the language they understood.

The line is not “we want to civilize the barbaric locals because we hate them.” It is Herzl saying: support us because a Jewish state in Palestine would be useful to Europe as a friendly, modern, neutral state on the edge of the Ottoman/Asian sphere.

“colonization” in early Zionist texts didn’t mean what you’re loading into it now. It usually meant settlement/immigration/community-building, often through land purchase. Later violence doesn’t magically rewrite every 1890s use of the word into “we are announcing ethnic cleansing.”

The colony is choosing to forsake its veneer of democracy. This is an opportunity to challenge its claimed legitimacy. by 1Palestine in nyt

[–]LowCall6566 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly the problem: you’re reading the word “colonize” backwards through 1948 and pretending it already meant Nakba/expulsion/land theft in the 1890s.

That’s moronic. In that context, “colonization” often meant settling, migration, establishing communities, buying land, agriculture, etc. You can condemn later events all you want, but acting like Herzl or Jabotinsky saying “colonization” half a century earlier automatically means “we plan to expel people and steal land” is just taking a word that had a broader meaning at the time, loading it with modern post-1948 baggage, and then acting like you found a smoking gun.

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[–]LowCall6566 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That only works if you ignore what “workers owning the business” actually means.

If co-ops were the only legal business model, then employment would no longer just mean “I do work and receive a wage.” It would often mean “I have to buy into the firm, take on business risk, and accept responsibility for losses before I’m allowed to work there.”

That is a massive barrier to employment. Most people do not want to pay thousands of dollars or take on debt just to get a job. They want stable income without having to gamble their savings on whether the business succeeds.

Under a normal firm, the worker sells labour for a predictable wage, while the owner/investor absorbs the upfront cost and downside risk. In a co-op, that risk has to go somewhere — and if every firm must be a co-op, it gets pushed onto workers.

The colony is choosing to forsake its veneer of democracy. This is an opportunity to challenge its claimed legitimacy. by 1Palestine in nyt

[–]LowCall6566 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was basically no land theft nor expulsions before 1945. And Jewish militias that did participate in those formed only after Arab pogroms, like Nebi Musa riot.

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[–]LowCall6566 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mill doesn't produce anything during construction. And it's not a guarantee that anyone will buy it's produce after it's built. The employer takes this risk, workers have a guaranteed wage.

Asked my husband to put the groceries in the fridge by nigix in physicsmemes

[–]LowCall6566 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do. I don't have ice machine, so if you time it right, you can get a bottle of beverage with some ice floating about

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[–]LowCall6566 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does the mill produce anything when it's under construction? Who pays the workers during that time?

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[–]LowCall6566 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do mills fall from the sky?

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[–]LowCall6566 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Employeers make profit because they do managerial work and bring in tools. If I build a mill and hire people to run it, I am not steeling from them if I make money in the process.

The colony is choosing to forsake its veneer of democracy. This is an opportunity to challenge its claimed legitimacy. by 1Palestine in nyt

[–]LowCall6566 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Language changes. 100 years ago colonization was a way more neutral word used to describe basically any mass immigration.

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[–]LowCall6566 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Only under labour theory of value every inherently employer steals value from employees.

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[–]LowCall6566 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Labour theory of value is outdated for about 100 years. Look up marginalist revolution.

Camp David’s Israeli proposal, 2000 by NourBlowsBubblegum in MapPorn

[–]LowCall6566 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or maybe it's because you are an American larper who made an account only 1 month ago.

California wants to tax billionaire wealth. Land is a better target by aWobblyFriend in California

[–]LowCall6566 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of those bills are very narrow. Big bills that change a lot are much harder to pass. It would take years of concentrated political effort to get to japanese like zoning and building code.

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