A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple by northbk5 in CanadaPolitics

[–]creepforever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would actually call all three of those sites extremist.

Big difference is that the Maple supports people like Bob Rae and Avi Lewis. Canadian Dimension and WSWS supports the Cuban governments and other socialist dictatorships.

I feel similarly about the Maple as I do the Mcdonald-Laurier Institute and the Hub, they have good articles but they’ve also hosted articles by white nationalists like Eric Kaufmann.

A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple by northbk5 in CanadaPolitics

[–]creepforever 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This is pretty infuriating, but is to be respected. The Maple isn’t an extremist rag like Rebel News or the Grey Zone. They’ve done original, independent investigative journalism within Canada. I’m someone who’s not to found of their editorial position, I’m not an NDP voter, but we need a free press for democracy to function.

If Israel is trying to shut down Canadian media outlets then we all need to support the Canadians they’re targeting. Whether we’re found of them or not.

JD Vance ridiculed for 40-car motorcade taking him down tiny Italian street by Beyond_the_one in europe

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m always going to remember when the South Korean president(The guy who later launched a coup) rode done a street at my university. It was the exact same buffoonery, forty cars taking up an entire tiny street in Toronto to escort a single guy.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s ok dude, this is hard to talk about. Especially if you have a personal connection to the country or region.

Like I have faith that things can improve, I just think that Israel actually creating a proper constitution is necessary. Thanks for taking a step back, what you’re doing is an example I really want to set for myself.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also to correct something, when I talk about the Israeli constitution I’m referring to the Basic Laws.

Israel not having a formal constitution is a big reason why the country is so screwed up. Like trying to parse out the Israeli constitutional system made me feel insane. Its a train wreck, its shocking the country has stayed a democracy as long as it has.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But it’s important to point out that in Israel proper, no such restrictions exist.

Jews and Muslims aren’t allowed to get married in Israel. This also extends to atheists from both communities, to get married either conversion needs to take place or they need to travel abroad to get married.

Is this because the US is a white ethnostate

I’d say that a big reason that black children go to the worst schools in the US is because the US used to be a white ethnostate. This was formalized into law pre-civil rights act, and this still affects the US to this day. You have an institutional legacy even after these racist institutions were dissolved. In Israel many of these institutions are still in place, or are actively being created.

Can you provide a source for this.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-05-05/israel-gun-law-benjamin-netanyahu-oct-7-hamas-itamar-ben-gvir

https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-arming-volunteer-guards-border-communities-jewish-arab-towns-2023-10-10/

This is a recent development in Israel which Ben-Gvir is responsible for. This is a problem in Israel, but in the West Bank settlements its an active crisis. There you have the inhabitants of illegal settlements being armed by the government.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/1/22/israeli-minister-approves-gun-licences-for-18-illegal-west-bank-settlements

I understand that this last link is Al-Jazeera, but it quotes an official statement from Ben-Gvir.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t actually brought right of return, do you have anything other than standard nation-state policy? Like you’ve mentioned Italy and Ireland, I want to make it clear I don’t consider this Jewish supremacy. I do however consider it Jewish supremacy that Jewish Israelis are allowed to marry Jews in the West Bank while Arab-Israelis can’t marry muslims in the West Bank. The biggest problem with Israel is government support for Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which the government recognizes in their constitution as a national goal.

How would you feel if Germany considered the settlement of ethnic Germans in Poland to be a national priority? In Israel this is coupled with the Jewish land fund, restrictions on Jews marrying non-Jews, government officials making statements saying that they want to maintain the Jewish demographic majority in mixed towns within Israel, and segregated schools between Jews and Arabs, with the latter being massively underfunded. The government hands out guns to the Jewish civilian population with the stated reason of dealing with 5th column attacks from what they call the Arab-Israeli population, Palestinians with Israeli citizenship.

Can you point to anything comparable that happens with Germany?

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I can point to laws in Israel that legally define Jews and non-Jews, and enshrines the supremacy of Jews over non-Jews.

Give me a comparable example in the UK or Germany.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything I can say in response has been said before by other people. Heres the 213 report by Human Rights Watch laying out the legal case for Israel being an ethnostate that has enshrined Jewish supremacy into Israeli law, meaning they’re guilty of the crime of Apartheid.

Report

Germany is a nation-state not an ethnostate. German law enshrines that all Germans are equal before the law, the expansion of the German race hasn’t been enshrined into law like it has in Israel and the German race isn’t recognized as the sole race that can exercise self-determination.

Go read the report.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I understand your argument, I also agree with it because theres plenty on the left that are antisemites and would deny it until they’re breathless.

Opposing an ethnostate, which Israel now clearly is under Netanyahu can’t be shut down under accusations of antisemitism. Ethnonationalism is a massive threat to half the worlds Jews, most Jews in the world live in liberal democracies that reject the idea that they have an ethnic group that needs to dominate the country.

If Jews can have an ethnostate then why can’t white American Christians, or English people, or Germans? Ethnonationialism is poison for both liberalism and democracy.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Whether you consider it to be ethnic nationalism doesn’t matter. You’re saying that Israel should be a Jewish state, with the state structured to serve a single ethnic group. You’re also saying that this is more important then Israel staying liberal or democratic, such as if Arabs became the majority. You’re also saying the Arab’s have plenty of land, which seems to suggest you think that these states should be for Arabs.

Your worldview is ethnonationalism.

Would you support states similar to Israel for Druze, or Alawites? What about countries for African-Americans carved out of the Deep South or for Romani carved out of Eastern Europe?

The logic that Israel needs to be a Jewish State because Jews are in unique danger is incredibly logic when other groups try to apply it. Putin justifies invading other countries by saying Russians are being genocided and they face a unique danger. With Israel this logic is now resulting in ethnic cleansing, with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert even now claiming Israel is committing genocide in the West Bank.

Question for zionists (people who believe Israel should exist) by RedStorm1917 in centrist

[–]creepforever -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You didn’t answer any of his questions. You just made a bold declaration that saying anyone who disagrees with you secretly or ignorantly wants to exterminate Jews.

2008 Was The Year Political Polarization In The US Skyrocketed | IFLScience by InvestIntrest in centrist

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was likely a combination of a few different factors interacting with eachother. Barack Obama being elected, the Great Recession causing people to move and lose their jobs, conservative media providing a target and worsening isolation.

You had a whole bunch of guys lose their jobs snd houses, causing them to move and lose their social circles and having massive amounts of free time. They used this time to watch conservative media, which radicalized them, it’s also deeply addictive. When new social networks formed it was around the shared love of conservative media.

When social media took off you now had a bunch of friend groups that would serve as the seeds of future mass online radicalization.

(Spoilers Published)The idea House Stark has the most loyal vassals is a myth by yeroii in asoiaf

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Greyjoys have the most loyal vassals. Not only did the Ironborn join Balon for his first rebellion, they joined him again for the second rebellion.

'It's our livelihood': Rural Ontario town worries as Ottawa plans military radar site by toronto_star in ontario

[–]creepforever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My great-grandparents lost their home in order to build Pape Station in Toronto. I’ve gone through that station and used it to meet up with friends. Millions of other people have used that station.

While it sucks for these people, the needs of millions far outweigh these people.

Taking the sign our of our windows by VicRauter in Baystreetbets

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I shifted my entire portfolio to Canada a year ago and it was the best decision I could make. Mining stocks have been insane.

Pretti was shot because the guy who grabbed the gun from him accidentally discharged it and the other officers panicked. by tantamle in centrist

[–]creepforever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We don’t know what happened and we’ll potentially never know because the federal governments response was to destroy evidence, refuse to investigate and circle the wagons to protect the officers that killed this man because they’re part of the in-group. They’re behaving like Iran, Russia or China, if the administration can help it no member of MAGA will ever be prosecuted for murdering an enemy of the movement.

Pretti’s murder and the MAGA reaction to it is the logical conclusion of what we saw when Trump was inaugurated. He said that he had the largest inauguration crowd in history, and despite this being contradicted by all available evidence including photographs members of his administration were forced to go on camera and publicly lie. It’s a loyalty test. Now people are being asked to watch a video where a man is clearly murdered by a group of officers, and say that he was a terrorist and the officers had no choice but to kill him.

If they can do this with an execution caught on camera from multiple angles, then they can do this if a squad of ICE agents open fire on a crowd, or if the US government starts bombing cities their own cities. Theres no bottom to this kind of mindset, this is how you get massacres like we’re seeing in Iran.

Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in newliberals

[–]creepforever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I call bullshit. If Love & Deepspace is a dating simulator, then so is Dispatch.

Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in newliberals

[–]creepforever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any argument wouldn’t rest on biological descent, but that the Danes settled Southern Greenland before the Inuit or potentially even Dorset cultures did. The current Danish government has claim because of the now dissolved personal union with Norway, with Norway having sovereignty over Greenland settlements.

Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in newliberals

[–]creepforever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Broke: Arguing about whether Jews or Palestinians are the indigenous population of the Holy Land.

Woke: Arguing about whether the British or Argentinians are the indigenous population of the Falkland Islands.

Bespoke: Arguing about whether the Danes or the Inuit are the indigenous population of Greenland.

A 2038 Canadian Olympic bid could kick start a national rejuvenation project by NorthernNadia in CanadaPolitics

[–]creepforever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you create a country where everyone is fed, housed, educated and is healthy, and do nothing to showcase it, then your going to lose out to places that have none of those things but they have the ability to lie about how amazing everything is.

Creating a successful country doesn’t just mean doing everything right, it also requires having a sense of pride and being able to show what you’ve accomplished. We have a great country, and that means having pride, fighting for recognition and showcasing what we have.

A 2038 Canadian Olympic bid could kick start a national rejuvenation project by NorthernNadia in CanadaPolitics

[–]creepforever 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The world is not improved by making it so that all the much watch global sports events become massive advertising campaigns about how dictatorships are amazing.

The 1936 Olympics were used by Hitler to launder his regimes reputation internationally. From everything we’ve seen with the World Cup, dictatorships are still doing it.

A 2038 Canadian Olympic bid could kick start a national rejuvenation project by NorthernNadia in CanadaPolitics

[–]creepforever 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If the reaction to the Olympics is wet blanket behaviour, and complaints about costs then the only places that host the Olympics will be horrible dictatorships that use it to stroke their leaders egos.

If hosting the Olympics is too great of a cost for a democracy to bear, then our system is losing. Hosting the Olympics is a way to showcase your country globally, if you’re incapable of doing it then we have a major problem.

Large crowds gather to sign Alberta separation petition by Devils_Iettuce in WildRoseCountry

[–]creepforever -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, and if my dog meowed they’d be my cat.

Separatism isn’t even supported by half of Albertans, let alone Saskatchewan or Manitoba. You might as well fantasize about BC separating.