• @[email protected]
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          106 months ago

          British financiers who turned reasonable banking practices into speculative stock market bullshit, which created our “endless growth” economy and basically necessitated the natural resources colonialism brought in

  • @[email protected]
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    Well too be fair, Lawrence of Arabia tapped into existing resentment up forment his revolt

    There’s always been differing interests in the middle east, whether it’s religious, ethnic or something else. To say otherwise takes away from the agency of the people living there

  • @[email protected]
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    We kind of did create israel in utah. But for people who thought Jesus came over to America with the pilgrims and that they have magic underwear that will shield them from harm rather than for the people who thought that their God told them to cut part of their kids’ penises off, they couldn’t eat shellfish, and used to commit genocides on the reg but has inexplicably stopped for the last couple thousand years or so.

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    106 months ago

    It would be nice to see the genocidal religions being squarely blamed rather than the nations that are infested with them.

  • @[email protected]
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    166 months ago

    Utah? We should have created it in Germany. We were already partitioning the country, they started the Holocaust which necessitated a Jewish homeland, and most of the people who would move to Israel were from Europe and used to its climate.

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      The genocidal foreskin cult started it. Even Hitler was influenced by a branch of that death cult. Just read the Old Testament and you’ll see why they were hated with verses like Deut 21 11-13. -And why things are the way they are now.

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      Yep, shoulda just done this

      That said the zionist movement predates WW2, and the balfour declaration is one of the major culprits, so carving out half of england would’ve also been a solution.

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        Jokes aside if it was only about having a safe space for the jewish they would have taken the Jewish Autonomous Oblast but they wanted that specific region for historical reasons and that is why they would have rejected the South German State of Israel the same way they ultimately rejected the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and by shrinking the German State (East and West combined compared to the Weimar Republic) to 1/3 of their previous size you would effectively end up with some hybrid form of the Palestine problem and the Donbass problem.

        Personally I would have chosen an island like Sardegna where random invasions from your neighbours are unlikely but I think at the end they’d still have resettled Palestine even if you gave them the whole of Britain.

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        Half is maybe too much, but a portion of Bavaria bordering Austria and Czechoslovakia would make sense. With a piece of Danube too. Looks nice and useful for transportation of goods.

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      46 months ago

      US is not free of blame of course but it was the colonial powers that ruled the region who intentionally started the fire.

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        36 months ago

        That area has been the subject of war and destruction since it was first settled thousands of years ago. The colonial powers and later the US didn’t help but let’s not act like that area was ever anything but an ongoing war.

  • davel [he/him]
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    126 months ago

    Judging by the downvotes, a lot of Lemmitors have no idea how the world works. Just living in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—must be nice.

    • trainsaresexy
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      76 months ago

      Counter productive and hypocritical to put people into convenient groups like that to shield your opinions against any form of criticism. Well done, you’ve earned a block.

  • @[email protected]
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    26 months ago

    At one point, Grand Island (NY) was proposed as a Jewish homeland. Definitely not enough room.

    Definitely way too many people in Utah. The environment here is stressed. Not even talking about the political environment. Already way too many religious extremists.