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"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is not a call for genocide.

For someone to think it is a call to genocide, they have to make some heavy assumptions.... making an ass out of you and me.

They have to assume that in order for the entire region to become a free Palestine, a genocide needs to occur. But it doesn't. A genocide requires one of five acts: killing, serious bodily harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. At least one of those needs to occur with the intent of to destroy a national/ethnical/racial or religious group. The phrase does not specify how the area becomes Palestine. Maybe Palestine fights a war of independence, capturing all of that territory, assimilating it's people. Russia did not commit genocide when it annexed Crimea.

One also has to neglect it's power as a negotiating position. Likud wants all the land from the Sea to the Jordan river to be under the control of Israel (see their 1973 charter, this is long established fact). Is that a call to genocide? If Israel wants the whole place with no Palestine, then Palestine can (as a negotiation starting point) call for control of the whole place with no Israel. Why should they voluntarily weaken their negotiating position when offered nothing in return?

So the moral thing to do is to chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and wave those flags and give the finger to any assholes who lie about who you are and what you believe.

Putin says the Ukrainians are engaged in genocide of the Russian population, but this is not true. Zelensky says Russians are to blame for the genocide of Ukrainians. But the point is that it's hard to genocide someone who is your complete copy and when a Russian turns out to be Ukrainian and a Ukrainian turns out to be Russian. Here of course we can remember the Holodomor, except that at the same time my ancestors also starved, and they were not Ukrainians.

It is easier to use this term when we have two different sides. But how does it help? It doesn't help.

This is often seen at presentations of Chinese smartphones, where the manufacturer compares its product with the IPhone.

На релей почему-то ломанулись китайские боты. Прописал лимиты всякие, вроде отстали (по крайней мере перестали гадить в базу). Но могло кого-то и задеть 😃 Пособираю статистику и потом уже выясним что там с кем стало.

I still don't believe in the new GTA and the ability of modern Rockstar to release, something good.

Judging by the local press, I get the impression that Russia is in a state of war against gays.

воронки-то? Отличаются. Timemore B75 очень быстро проливается потому что у неё нет дна, а между фильтром и стенками воронки отверстия для байпаса (естественные "волны" на фильтре которые для байпаса и созданы, на примере той же Kalita Wave, здесь не задействованы так как используются для фиксации фильтра).

С другой стороны, какая-нибудь там Kono Meimon проливается очень долго. Но сейчас мода на быстрые воронки.

#coffee in Timemore B75

If you are a Proton VPN user, you can connect to their TOR-enabled servers

You can't trust #Nostr. Especially considering that most sources will be without NIP-05

Torrent has proven that it doesn't help much. No, just enough of a country that will answer "no" to most requests from authorities of other countries.