I’m surprised it got the first bullet point wrong, considering how spot in the second one is

My memory was that we knew this at the time?

I was just stirring the pot, and I love this response

Fewer*

Oop, and you need to have the last word too, checking that off the bingo card

Edited to add: they just couldn’t help themselves

“Loser” still fits nicely in that caricature.

Um actually

I am not a Nazi, but you are a caricature of an internet argument

Ah yes, calling a stranger a Nazi on the Internet. A compelling point

I don’t want to sound like a contrarian, but I’m struggling to figure out how this relates to the previous comments.

I will say, as much as I am being argued with for saying that the history of Germany’s history with Israel is complex, and the history of Zionism is complex, no one is really responding in a way that doesn’t sound like the Charlie Day red string board meme.

When I look at the current state of Israel and Palestine, I see a lot of people backed into corners. Netanyahu knows that if he loses power, he’ll be arrested for corruption, so will do anything to support his base, who are the worst of the Zionists this thread is about, so he only has an incentive to continue butchering Palestinians.

I see the US not wanting a nuclear armed Israel to feel that they are out of defensive options against their neighboring countries, and as such feels a need to keep supplying weapons and intelligence so that Israel is only, merely, butchering Palestinians, instead of something worse.

I see the Palestinians being sacrificed, which is causing some of them to need to fight back, so they’re radicalized, and join Hezbollah.

And I see the rest of the region wanting to punish Israel for their heinous actions.

And looking at this as a US citizen, my experience is that the people who want to make it look like the solution to solving this is easy, are also usually trying to get you to vote for Jill Stein, and I’m not convinced that it isn’t an astro-turfed movement to push for spoiler votes to get Trump in office.

I would like it if we could say the situation is nuanced, and then talk about the nuance, rather than scream that it’s cut and dry

I think you’re conflating being Jewish with Judaism. His religious beliefs aren’t really what’s in question here, @[email protected]’s comment sums the idea up well. Herzl was, with no ambiguity, a member of the Jewish community.

So, your argument that it’s not complicated is that Israel was founded by antisemitic Jews? I’m not even saying that you’re factually wrong, but you keep insisting that this isn’t complicated. It is complicated, and the more you insist that it’s simple, while giving increasing amounts of fine details is not particularly convincing

You see, many of the original Zionists were Jewish, it’s literally not so cut and dry.

Everything is black and white, gray is for apologists, then?

Well, Germany does have some history there

Agreed that I’m having a hard time deciding where I am on this one. They could use the test to do that kind of thing, but not making it a requirement for graduation takes away the teeth, and I’m not sure how its going to be enforced going forward. The prop just kind of implies that the particulars would be decided after the vote, but I would feel better about it if the question of “How do we prevent harm to under privileged students who have been historically neglected” wasn’t an afterthought. It feels a bit… Well… Neglectful.

You can try to look for Myrtle, but you’re gonna get 80 Sea Bass first

I am very curious how MA is going to deal with the disparity between school districts if this passes.

I know No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds get a lot of flack for requiring teachers to teach the test, which hamstrings good teachers, and that’s a problem. But the problem they were trying to solve was that schools that are ill equipped to deal with ELL, disabled, or impoverished students have a history of giving those students a diploma with no education.

The tests were to give insight into when and where that was happening, and to hold anyone accountable (infamously, no child left behind would remove funding from underfunded districts for failing their students, which… Yeah, but ESSA fixed a lot of that). This prop looks like it glosses over what it’s going to do about those protections, and that makes me uncomfortable with this.

Who are you calling an amateur, buddy? I can argue you under the table!

It’d feel good