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The way I understood your point is that their foundational atrocity, the Nakba, makes majority-Jewish democracy impossible. I.e., it could have never at any point in its history have been a democratic country. Did I understand your point wrong?

To that point I responded that other ethnostate democracies exist in the region that also have foundational atrocities in their history but are now pretty democratic and pretty peaceful, …all things considered. But they had to learn the lesson the hard way. That’s my point, that Israelis need to at some point also face the harsh reality of the impossibility of their nationalist delusions. Just like the Greeks, the Turks, the Bulgarians etc.

I don’t see it. Same shit happened all over the Balkans, Anatolia and the Caucasus. Hell it’s not even the most recent example. Cyprus has been subjected to colonization by Anatolian Turks since the 1974 war, and that’s after the Yom Kippur War.

I don’t think so. In the context of the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, the Nakba is (sadly) not that unique.

And to imagine, people in QC sometimes drive to ON for emergency care because our wait times are even longer.

RoC: votes conservatives.

QC: BLOC MAJORITAIRE

See you at the next sovereignty debate.

The Israelis have been “creating facts on the ground” in the West Bank for thirty years.

These are now facts and Israel will have to reckon with what those facts mean.

It has always been a trilemma for them: Israel can be large, Jewish, democratic, pick two. They seem to have frozen the first variable, making the trilemma a dilemma: a Jewish state or a democratic one.

On Sunday, a group of 250 Iranian legislators introduced a motion that requires the administration to designate the Canadian Army and federal police forces as terrorist organizations.

Historically speaking, from an indigenous perspective, the characterization of the RCMP as terrorist is not too far off the mark.

Um, yes? Heat pump until -15C, baseboards for the relatively fewer days that go below that. Plus good insulation.

In Quebec we have cheap hydroelectric of course, but I mean, between nuclear power, renewables and hydro, that’s basically how.

Because of European asylum rules. Those migrants have to be processed in their country of entry.

Also, because they are racist fucks, who are paid to believe that Greece is being invaded.

Um, you’re describing Greece plus or minus some unemployment percentage points.

That’s exactly what tens if not hundreds of thousands of young Greeks have done in the last 15 years.

Greece has a brain drain problem. This ridiculous measure is actually sold by the government as an attempt to address the shortage of certain skilled worker categories. By … incentivizing the few that are left to pack up and leave. In practice, it’s just class warfare.

The Greek ruling class is a bunch of grifters, landlords, smugglers and gangsters (always have been, since 1830) and they are basically betting on a “recovery” based on cheap labour.

Poor people also care about not dying from the effects of climate change.

Poor people don’t care about the megaprofits of the oil, gas, and automotive industries.

Wait until PSPP wins the next election and the PQ sets up another independence referendum. Then suddenly the Rest of Canada will remember that no actually the do love french and they do value bilingualism and that actually french language and culture are super duper important for the Canadian national identity.

I don’t know about this particular piece of news, but the insane expansion of HSR for example is no fake news.

Don’t care. Also, please don’t use “low class” as a slur.

I don’t know. Vandalizing luxury cars finds me morally indifferent. I’m not going to argue for vandalizing them but I simply can’t get myself to care enough for the poor souls whose “cybetrucks” need a new paint job.

What’s actually fucked is that this kind of move only brings above board practices that have already been happening in the down low for large sectors of the economy.

The “Greek recovery” is being built on cheap labour, without any kind of productivity gains, technology development, or real diversification of the economy.

I was actually talking about things like the Entente, the WW2 Allies, the League of Three Emperors, the Holy Alliance, the Quintuple Alliance, the League of the North, etc.