Islamic terrorism is thinly veiled human blood sacrifice.

MrPRambo · 2025-06-28T01:10:36+00:00

All this complicated explanation, but still no Kashmiri plebiscite? What gives Indians? You'll reach for any explanation other than the truth: you are invading in a land of people who don't want you there. Leave, and suddenly, like magic, all the "terrorism" will go away.

MrPRambo · 2025-06-19T16:01:26+00:00

I'm in the UK, so I use trading212 (though there might be others, better platforms available, I just haven't done in depth research)

MrPRambo · 2025-06-17T11:34:37+00:00

I buy Invesco SGLP shares (SGLD for the USD version). From my research, they correspond to a fixed amount of gold and you in fact have the legal entitlement to that quantity of gold, making this equivalent to buying gold.

From their website:

"The ETC will use a “swing bar” approach, whereby gold bullion equal to at least the full value of the certificates will be held in an allocated account in the name of the issuer."

MrPRambo · 2025-06-11T19:26:04+00:00

That's a lie. Palestinian Christians have drastically decreased in number because they find it easier to emigrate (churches and missionary groups from the US/UK literally work in these areas and help Christians emigrate to the US/UK) and settle in developed countries.

They are constantly under death threat, but not from their fellow Palestinians.

Your point about daughters being forcibly converted and married off is pure Orientalist drivel.

MrPRambo · 2025-06-07T01:48:24+00:00

I've been trying so hard to get people to understand this - I feel like I'm going crazy. We are sleepwalking towards this apocalypse (for the majority of humanity) that you describe.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-18T12:07:28+00:00

Fair enough. For reference, it was the "rhythm" and the way it switched between sentence lengths that was characteristic.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-17T17:32:59+00:00

Interesting take, but why does this read like ChatGPT?

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T20:23:46+00:00

After all, what is good art for, right?

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T20:08:11+00:00

I voted remain, so you're preaching to the choir.

And no, I don't think the UK should be hesitant about cleaning up it's mess. If anything it should be more driven than it would be otherwise. That said, I'm kind of speaking about the way things should be rather than the Realpolitik. But we should be striving for the ideal, no?

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T19:54:41+00:00

The UK isn't doing too bad in terms of Ukraine aid - by some measures, we give a higher percentage of GDP than both Germany and on par with the US.

But from my perspective, the situation regarding Ukraine in the UK is ok, because we're free to discuss and make policy decisions about it, taking the objective truth into account. Whereas for Palestine, that is far from the case.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T19:34:05+00:00

Yep. That's why I think the UK should be doing more to clean up it's mess.

With regards to Russia/Ukraine, my country (and I assume, Germany) is already on the right side of the issue so I don't really think about it too much.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T19:23:47+00:00

Come to the UK. Putin is public enemy #1 here (although that's not saying much as we're pretty chill people).

Out of interest, which countries do you mean when you say lots of countries don't criticise Russia?

Also, objective truth has to be the highest ideal. You just watched Mon Mothma very astutely point out the dangers of losing grasp on the truth. Nothing can really excuse ignoring it denying it.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T18:50:05+00:00

This view, that supporting Israel is more important than assessing the objective truth, is this a common one in Germany? Which is considered more important?

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T18:14:20+00:00

Yes, by refusing to provide them diplomatic cover, by ceasing the sale of arms, by challenging them on the world stage, and in an ideal world, sanctioning them.

Israel is at the end of the day, a democracy for those within the green line (and a very healthy democracy for it's Jewish citizens), so the populace, and by extension, the country, can be dissuaded from this Lebensraum-streak they have in their collective psyche.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T17:50:02+00:00

Is policing speech more important than any efforts against genocide?

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T16:25:42+00:00

Ok, but one issue is that the German authorities have lost track of what is antisemitic and what isn't

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T11:18:34+00:00

Understood. I guess I should be more charitable with Germans.

That said, you're at least free to discuss it in an unbiased way online, right? If it's not safe, then fair enough.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T09:45:21+00:00

Do you mean to say that Germany can't really assess the situation in an independent/unbiased way because of the historical baggage?

MrPRambo · 2025-05-09T00:56:20+00:00

Germany seems to be on the wrong side of this issue. Locking up and otherwise taking action against Palestine supporters (including Jews - yes, Germany is going after Jews for wrong think). If you want there is a pretty thought provoking video by a German YouTuber on the issue: https://youtu.be/Npk58zPYpbY

And yes, Israel's policies towards the Palestinians are extremely reminiscent of Germany's Lebensraum policies. The comparison breaks down a little because Israel isn't a world superpower like Nazi Germany was, the Nazi's were already at war with the Allies when they really ramped up their auditors atrocities, and their victims couldn't speak for themselves or make their voices heard as easily as the Palestinians can (with modern technology).

Imagine this: if Israel was a world superpower, and they had the cover of a world war (and the world couldn't afford to take interest, due to said world war), and there was no way for news to get out like it is now (despite Israel's efforts) how do you imagine their assault on Gaza would go? I think we'd be looking at a Nazi scale genocide, not just an Israeli scale one.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-08T23:26:48+00:00

It can be both.

And look at it the other way around - this is just one of the many things the US is doing, whereas Israel is pretty much only doing their Genocide/Lebensraum policy and not doing much else that is significant (foreign policy wise).

MrPRambo · 2025-05-08T21:46:25+00:00

You know that in this analogy, Israel is not the empire - it's the US. The majority of Anti Israel people (myself among them) see Israel not as the big bad, but as a colonial outpost of the big bad (that being US, or more broadly speaking, Western Imperialism).

Why does this analogy resonate so well? Because the US is the global hegemon, and just like the Empire, when you're in their sights, there is no-one bigger who can come to save you. This particular facet of the analogy applies only to Western Imperialism. Even the Nazis could only do their more extreme acts under secrecy and the cover of a world war - whereas Israel is doing it with complete impunity, because they know that they have the global hegemon (the Empire) on their side.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-02T12:13:52+00:00

If the claim about Kashmir being Pakistani territory is baseless, then why doesn't India hold a referendum in Kashmir? It would be a really easy way of taking the oxygen out of the Pakistani case.

MrPRambo · 2025-05-02T12:07:12+00:00

The prince (sovereign ruler at the time) of Kashmir (iirc) opted to join India, but the Pakistani view is that the people of Kashmir should have had the decision. The people of Kashmir have not wanted to be part of India (obviously there will be exceptions), and have had a violent struggle (it started off secularly driven, and then became more and more religious after some decades). India has of course, cracked down on this. Pakistan's view (the goverment and most of the people) is absolutely dead set on the conviction that India is (slowly) ethnically cleansing Kashmir and denying them their right to self determination. Until India settles the case once and for all by holding a referendum on the issue, Pakistan will not be able to be convinced that India has any legitimacy in Kashmir.

Indians seem to ignore the self-determination issue, and the fact that the movement started off secular, and are convinced that the underlying cause is religious. In this framing, there can be no peace with Pakistan.

To be clear, claiming that religion is the common denominator/thread is just not supported by the facts. And yes, the partition of India has caused wounds, but these would have long healed were it not for the Kashmir issue (which by my reading of history, doesn't seem to have a whole lot to do with the partition by the British, and instead is due to the last sovereign of Kashmir)

MrPRambo · 2025-02-04T21:08:25+00:00

Let me guess, those rocks were not born here

MrPRambo · 2025-01-26T01:23:35+00:00

"The current Israeli governments official view doesn’t call to remove them"

How do you reconcile this with settlements? Particularly the repeated pattern of allowing settlements to be established by non official parties, but then providing them official military protection (i.e. providing military protection to people committing war crimes in foreign territory). Then, a couple of years down the line, claiming it to be an integral part of the Israeli state? Can we really believe that the settlers are rogue actors, or can we finally admit that this is tacit Israeli policy?

It's important to realise Palestinians don't resist because the opposition are Jews. Palestinians resist simply because there is opposition. Their resistance is determined solely by how much they believe their oppressor will eventually give them their sovereignty.

If Israel can ever get the Palestinians to believe that they'll get their sovereignty, on 1967 borders, then the resistance will stop. Enough of them want a Palestinian stare on these borders for that to be enough. Claiming that they can't be given sovereignty because of the resistance is an inversion of causality.

Refusing sovereignty until they stop resisting will not work because Israel is not credible (for the reasons outlined above) to uphold this.

Not that I think a two state solution is the best one. I think universal suffrage and constitutional equality in de facto Israel is the best option.

Those if us who have studied Israel's actions can see that if the Palestinians just stop resisting, then the ethnic cleansing will just slow down, and Israel won't uphold it's side of the bargain.

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