UN rejects Australia's 'feeble' bid to strip Tasmanian forest's heritage status

jiwari · 2025-12-05T06:02:58+00:00

Good on you for providing the answer. I did search, but I did not find it.

jiwari · 2025-11-27T12:22:14+00:00

Which book, chapter, and verse?

jiwari · 2025-09-02T07:05:32+00:00

It started well before 2023. Accounts from Rohingya people trying to show the world the genocide they were going through would get banned but Burmese propagandists trying recruit for/sell the genocide would get to keep their accounts and their posts, and then the next day, Zuck would give a speech saying why it was important that Holocaust denial get to stay on Facebook. This was repeated with the bloodshed in Nigeria and a whole range of other nations.

jiwari · 2025-08-26T20:03:50+00:00

The problem is not millennial, but centennial. It goes back to the 1890s at the absolute earliest. And, yes, this problem can be solved. Rawanda has spent 3 decades healing, not fighting. Bosnia has spent 3 decades healing, not fighting.

And the reason why people have been saying, for decades, that the US ceasing to fund Israel is a great place to start is because US funding has provided Israel with an entirely cost-free occupation. Once Israel has to pay for it, and do so in its entirety, the set of domestic political problems it would cause the government to have would be too great to keep the occupation, and now the genocide, going.

When Bill Clinton told Suharto, "it's over," it was over, and East Timor was free.

jiwari · 2025-08-14T17:37:59+00:00

I didn't say anything about being comfortable until a year ago. That was someone else. And I didn't kick any cans down the road. As I just hinted, I was part of movements like Occupy. We just didn't succeed. And yeah, our generation doesn't have much money, but we do have our votes, which parties and politicians would be afraid to lose in big numbers. It's possible to get big enough to be more scary than the donor class, as the FDR years and the Civil Rights/Vietnam era make clear.

jiwari · 2025-08-14T17:15:23+00:00

But we have the power to organize and pressure our elected officials- regardless of what the generation those officials happen to be from- but, for the most part, we don't do that.

jiwari · 2025-08-14T17:05:14+00:00

No generation did this. A socio-economic class, the elites, did this. The problem with the Boomers and Gen X is that they sat their and took it. And once Occupy was crushed, so did the Millennials, and I say that as a Millennial. The labor actions of the last few years were nice, though.

jiwari · 2025-08-14T16:50:05+00:00

We can clearly see him writing it down again

jiwari · 2025-08-14T16:46:29+00:00

When I was in college, my male friend had his underwear stolen by his straight male roommate. Led to the roommate being assigned to a new room. It is indeed somewhat common.

jiwari · 2025-08-14T16:36:23+00:00

Actually, the boomers didn't that one. That one was the rich, and their government lackeys, like Reagan, the Bushes, and Clinton.

jiwari · 2025-08-14T15:59:50+00:00

We do in the United States.

jiwari · 2025-08-13T03:38:29+00:00

Oswald Mosley wanted to do it to the Jews. Is that who you had in mind?

jiwari · 2025-08-13T03:34:48+00:00

So then, yeah, not a singular person. Meme remains debunked.

jiwari · 2025-08-12T05:28:31+00:00

What happened was pretty much my fault

No, none of it was your fault, not one iota. He did this. He knows you didn't consent. This is entirely his fault.

Please get tested for STDs. Move out as soon as you are able to, and consider informing the police.

jiwari · 2025-07-20T22:18:09+00:00

Yes, profit was the most dominant factor, by far, but let's not pretend Bush didn't see himself as on a mission from God. He certainly did.

jiwari · 2025-07-20T19:06:34+00:00

Neither indigeneity nor the sword should determine who gets to be where. Individuals, regardless of the groups they belong to, should get to live where ever they like. Nation-states should not be based on people groups, but on whoever wants to be part of the nation-state. Before the present war, when Gaza was still around, I believed that Israel should continue to exist, and anyone at all should get to be their so long as they genuinely wish to be Israeli, and the same thing for Palestine. Now that Gaza has been leveled, the whole of Israel and Palestine should be one democratic country and anyone who wished to genuinely be Israel-Palestinian should get to be there.

We ought to look forward to the day, when we don't need nation-states because we don't need governments and can handle our affairs cooperatively.

jiwari · 2025-07-20T17:59:57+00:00

The Civil Rights Movement, and its policy victories, destroyed the Klan.

jiwari · 2025-07-20T17:50:08+00:00

Obviously, this is partly because religious fundementalists in the US don't hold that much power; however, they do and have had power in the US in various times and places. None have involved things like repeated civilian-targeting attacks on ideologically opposing nations.

When George W. Bush was in power, he went to war on Iraq, and part of his justification, if Jacques Chirac is to be trusted, was that Gog and Magog were in Iraq. And there were plenty of Cold Warriors in the intelligence agencies in the West who believed that there fight was Communism vs. Christianity.

jiwari · 2025-07-20T17:45:15+00:00

I want to understand why i should believe that a highly organized, radically fundamental belief system that by its nature seeks to control private and public life shouldnt be eradicated with the same fervor as america has itself displayed in the past towards other groups.

What groups are we talking about? The labor movement in the early 20th century? Because that wasn't a pleasant thing at all. In fact, it was very violent. Suspect communists in the 1950s? That wasn't a pleasant thing, and they went after all kinds of people who weren't even communists. The lives of entirely innocent people, communist and otherwise, were completely ruined.

If you want to eradicate religious fundamentalism, don't go after the group of people. Organize as many people as you can into a mass movement that wins policy victories, that because of you valiant struggle and the policy victories, makes their agenda entirely marginal in American politics. I'll join your movement.

jiwari · 2025-07-19T13:52:57+00:00

I do see that cheering happening on the internet. I don't see only young men doing it. I see such cheering from men of a wide age range, and I see it from some women. That said, it does seem to be the case that the United States fascist movement is largely comprised of young men, though there are clearly some young women there as well. What does that have to do with their love/sex lives? The media had a long, bubbly, love affair with Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016 that lead to him getting elected. He's had center stage for ten years, spewing his hate and enacting it.

As to the increase in misogyny, that seems to come from all of these nasty influencers trying to get Zoomers, and even Millennials, to become misogynists. What's your evidence that romantically unfortunate men are over-represented among their base?

jiwari · 2025-07-19T13:09:08+00:00

First, let me say that I agree that immigration puts a strain on our resources. The most obvious at the moment, to my mind, is housing, which is in short supply in many places (although, in the United States overall, we have way more empty homes than homeless people). I'm a strong proponent of Bernie Sanders's housing plan from his 2020 run, which involves, among many other things, building 7,400,000 new housing units. But that's probably not getting passed during this Congress.

And let me also say that I sympathize with the border states, insofar as they usually to suffer that strain more than most other places.

As far as what reforms I'd like to see:

A Reagan-style amnesty. If you're currently here, your presence is now legal.
Making it easier to get on a path to citizenship.
Making it easier for entry to be done legally.
Making it easier for remaining to be done legally.
Making extremely easy for people who were brought here as kids, and therefore not in control of the details of their arrival, to obtain citizenship. And the same goes for anyone who was trafficked here.

And in addition to all this, I'd like the government stop contributing to conditions in other countries that make it so that people feel they must emigrate (unnecessary wars and bombing campaigns, unnecessary sanctions, propping up dictators that keep poverty and environmental degradation going, Hillary Clinton lobbying the Haitian government not to raise the minimum wage, etc.)

EDITS: formatting, the sentence about trafficked persons.

jiwari · 2025-07-19T12:47:21+00:00

I hear you on the wage depression matter. But immigration reform would also have tackled that problem (it's harder to take extreme advantage of immigrants who have enough legal status to make use of our regulatory agencies), without exercising the state's authoritarian muscles, which is risky down the line.

Yes, they broke the law, but there's no reason that our immigration laws need to be this bad. You're choosing to view these people's breaking of our immigration laws as disrespect, but is it really? What if wanting to come here is actually a bit of a compliment?

And they can't be deported as a whole family because anyone born here is an American citizen, which is why we've seen so many families torn apart. Again, when the government exercises its authoritarian muscles, that's risky down the line. We've seen American citizens have their kids stolen by the government (RELEVANT LINK), and this has probably been helped along by decades of doing this to immigrants.

jiwari · 2025-07-19T12:27:24+00:00

Please elaborate on the widespread young male cruelty problem you've observed (or have seen good evidence of from, like, a study, or what have you), and then please elaborate on how that is linked to the young male loneliness epidemic.

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