I'm referring more to the behaviour of the Israelis mirroring the behaviour of the colonists. Deliberately pushing out the natives, leading to the natives fighting back, leading to the colonists using overwhelming force in 'self defence', leading to more colonists pushing out the natives.

Take the settlements in the West Bank for example. The settlers show up, build their houses, kick out the local Palestinians and treat them like shit. The Palestinians retaliate, so the settlers call in the IDF to kill the Palestinians. The US colonists did the exact same thing, and even went to war with Britain (at least partially) because Britain demanded that they not push west of the Appalachians because it was (to the British), native territory. Granted Spain had also stolen a load of land to the west, effectively sandwiching the natives between two colonial powers, but Britain had just got out of the Seven Years War (instigated by the colonists) and wasn't keen to get back into one.

The closest thing to flowers I ever received was a cactus. It died.

I'm not gonna congratulate Canada on not completely shitting the bed. The Canadians were going to vote in a Trump-like conservative until Trump started banging on about Canada being the 51st state. If Trump kept his mouth shut, it would have been curtains for the Liberal party.

Canadians did not vote for the Liberals based on their record or policies, they voted to tell Trump to fuck off. The moment Trump is no longer a threat, the unity dies and everything swings back to the Conservatives, which isn't a good thing.

Poverty is a social construct, starvation is not. Also wealth hoarding has been a thing since... Well, since agriculture got started, so it's not unique to the post-industrial world. Kings didn't become Kings because they were nice and shared their wealth equitably.

Sounds familiar. No wonder the Americans love Israel, they're basically carbon copies of eachother. What America did to the Native Americans, the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians. Push 'em out, keep pushing until they get violent, use the violence as an excuse to keep pushing, rinse and repeat until they're all dead.

Well obviously Fuentes thinks the Trump admin has gone too far. Trump is deporting people for being critical of Israel, and Fuentes really fucking hates Jews. He hates Muslims too, but he hates Jews waaaay more.

So if they're using a ChatGPT wrapper to teach me languages, why do I need Duolingo? Copilot is free.

They had those massive tubes of sweets like Notch had in his mansion. They tend to melt into eachother over time, especially if exposed to the sun.

Sweet shop right next to my old college. Never once saw anyone go in, it was never open, yet always fully stocked.

Makes sense when you consider that Yandex is owned by a Russian oligarch, and Google has been fined more money than exists in Russia.

Didn't the Puritans leave England because they really hated the Catholics and wanted to change the Church of England to not be as Catholic but the government of the day told them to fuck off?

Or when you've finished about 80% of your task, but the remaining 20% might as well be millions of miles away because it's almost impossible to finish anything.

I will actively go and do other people's work for them, just to avoid the remaining 20% of the work I need to do. It isn't even hard work! I could get it done in an hour if I put my mind to it! My brain will simply not turn towards what needs doing!

You don't need to tell me twice. I only have nostalgia for the original Harry Potter movies and games because it has a lot of super popular British actors, and I was about 6-years-old when they came out.

I have no nostalgia for the books, and I have no interest in watching the same story again but HBO-ified.

I had to avoid looking at this topic elsewhere because it made me so fucking angry. My best friend in the entire world is trans, and she's coming for Christmas this year. I'm not sure what I'd do if someone harassed her for using the toilet, but I get the feeling my mugshot would be in the paper afterwards.

Should have DONE it, not tried it. What does Yoda always say?

Do or do not, there is no try.

I wouldn't say casualties really matter when it comes to genocide, what matters is the intent. The US were quite happy to wipe out the Native Americans and didn't exactly cry any tears as they did it, to the point where wiping out the Native Americans was such a sticking point to them that Britain demanding they not expand into Native American territory was actually a contributing factor to the Revolutionary War.

The Israelis pretend they aren't interested in wiping out the Palestinians, but they aren't exactly stopping the settlements driving out the remaining Palestinians and they're certainly pretty keen on ensuring no Palestinian returns to Gaza when they inevitably annex the place. The intent is there, it's just obfuscated.

I'd say they're pretty similar, at least in terms of intent. Both nations want to expand because they believe it's their god-given right to have that land, and the natives to that land need to either accept it or be 'removed'.

Definitely 2.

If your only job is to go home at night, clock in, go home, clock out again later. If you think about it, by deliberately not doing your job as a cop, fewer people are getting killed.

The self-checkout at Aldi is a godsend. Way too many times I've been on my lunch break trying to buy a sandwich and snack, only for some old git to be using the time at the till to have a chinwag with the cashier!

By all means, have a chat with the cashier, but not when there's a massive queue of people waiting behind you! Also, you know those shelves near the window with the sign saying "Pack here"? That's not a suggestion. Pack your shopping away from the tills so people can keep buying stuff.

The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don't really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going "Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!" and anime fans going "Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!" on Bluesky.

Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 5% memes about politics, 5% memes about Lemmy being better than Reddit, and 10% Linux.