The leash also needs to be a lot longer.

Roid pig.

(You’d think Israel might care more about Nazis but I guess not)

Birds of a feather… and all that.

Hard yes from me, thank you.

It really amuses me that everybody in the US is obsessively frightened at the prospect of an incompetent capitalist nepobaby “bringing fascism to America” while being completely oblivious to all the taxpayer-funded fascism they can literally see stalking the very streets around them.

Nope. Not according to wikipedia, anyway.

Apparently, the people who criticized labelling Homan Square as a “black site” did so on the basis that what was going on there was actually business as usual for the CPD all over Chicago. Ie, it’s a shitton worse than just Homan Square.

It’s still anecdotal evidence which turns into common sense.

You mean how the “anecdotal evidence” that the earth is actually round turned into “common sense?”

Yeah, you’re completely right - none of that shit should be trusted until an overmoneyed dork with a fancy piece of tertiary education institution stationary shows up to prove how stupid we are for doing anything without his approval.

That which is easily observable is not “anecdotal.”

A lot of people legitimately think cats are loner sociopaths.

That says more about the people who think this than cats.

That’s the whole point of science, don’t trust common sense, prove it.

This has nothing to do with common sense - it’s easily observable behavior that any experienced pet owner could tell you about.

Guilt over WWII,

Please.

How on Earth is genocide moral?!?!

It’s been “moral” since (so-called) “western civilization” decided it was “moral.”

Surely the people who lied to us about Israel for the last sixty years won’t lie to us about another country, right?

Right?

Wow.

It’s almost like pathologically fetishized “growth” (perpetually fetishized by the rich and their trained sycophants in the media, that is) is completely disconnected from the socio-economic condition of the majority of people on this planet.

will go back on her word and support funding for Israel,

To be kind of honest, I’d say that’s still optimistic - I say they are going to raise the level of support to unprecedented levels. Of course, it would be the exact same thing if Trump won… the only difference being that (so-called) “progressives” wouldn’t be falling over themselves to make all kinds of excuses for it.

Kamala isn’t a Zionist.

Remind yourself about this conversation when you watch Harris redouble US support for that genocidal little white supremacist regime after November.

that “Israel has right to defend itself” that “it’s the only real democracy in the middle east”

And what about the people that have been lying to you about it since at least the 70s?

Nationalism is inherently concerned

Hey, don’t tell me… tell every African nationalist in history that they are doing nationalism wrong because you, an armchair genius, only ascribes to the meaning of the term nationalism as it was presented to you by white liberal western media. Go tell every nation-state in the (so-called) “3rd world” that the nationalists that helped free them from your country’s imperialist yoke cannot possibly be nationalists because you, still an armchair genius, have decided that they aren’t based on internet “definitions” written by people just like you.

Go on. I’ll wait here.

This idea that Imperialism and Nationalism are conflicting ideologies is just… so dumb

Again… don’t tell me - tell it to all the nation states that aren’t fundamentally imperialist, since, according to you (still just an armchair genius) nationalism cannot exist without imperialism.

Don’t worry… I’m still waiting right here.

Fine - it’s not yours.

Well, let’s have a look at this description of yours, shall we?

As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining its sovereignty (self-governance) over its perceived homeland to create a nation-state.

Oh yes… you are absolutely correct - I have no idea where I got the idea from that nationalization would be the most logical, direct and dependable method for a nationalist “to promote the interests of a particular nation” and “gaining and maintaining its sovereignty (self-governance) over its perceived homeland.” There is no way state control over resources and industries could ever “promote the interests of a particular nation,” could it?

Quick, somebody call Cuba - driving your citizens into abject poverty through privatized medical debt is how real nationalists do it.

that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity, and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power. It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity, based on a combination of shared social characteristics such as culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics (or the government), religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history, and to promote national unity or solidarity.

This is not descriptive - it’s just the pseudo-scientific gibberish used to justify nation sates which does absolutely no justifying whatsoever.

Naturally, what proposed benefit (if any) the existence of nation states offers to it’s citizens doesn’t form part of this description… which is telling.