Why can’t they all be one state? Israel claims to the only democracy in the area.

Let the Palestinians be Israeli citizens and let them resettle back to their home areas. Get control of those vicious settler dogs and stop letting them steal every place they lay eyes on. Find somewhere for everyone to live in integrated multicultural nation like Israel is always claiming to already be.

There will never be a two state solution. Israel began with an inequitable to Arabs partition proposal and went downhill from there. Two states was always a pipe dream and a stall tactic.

IMHO it was unethical in any form anyway. European sins should have been atoned for with European real estate for a “homeland.” Germans are the one who tried to genocide them. The whole 20th century was a move toward decolonization except for England giving away Palestine to European and Asian Jews to begin colonizing like people didn’t already fucking live there The Nakba was a crime.

Last random thoughts, why do Jews uniquely deserve a “homeland”? Plenty of groups don’t have one and no one ever even suggests they should have one. Why do Jews of the world need Israel “to be safe”? Are they not safe in America? WTF does safe mean then? Are the rest of unsafe too? Israel seems to hide behind cuz jEwS but non-Israeli Jews are just fine. Not stealing houses. Not bombing kids. Not milking Uncle Sam for money. The PROBLEM IS NOT JEWS, it’s ISRAEL. And cuz jEwS is a transparent facade for a terrible government.

But it’s there now. So why not solve the problem their founding created? Why not stop making future terrorists and turning world opinion more against Israel? Why not one state? I bet non right wing Israelis would have already done it if they were ever in charge.

In 2023 every cell phone has a video camera and the internet. We see this war in real time. We see settlers in real time. We see your liberal citizens protesting the authoritarian slide of their government. We see many Jews all over the world rebuking what’s happening in Israel. Is there any other way forward besides one integrated state?

Enlighten me Reddit.

Edit: 🤩 So many helpful, thoughtful, detailed, nuanced answers. Thanks to all.

This is a discussion I'm increasingly interested in. At first I didn't care because I didn't think it would impact me but as time goes on I'm seeing that it's something that I should probably think about. The problem is that when trying to have any discussion about this it seems to me that it just relies on blindly accepting it to be true or being called a transphobe. Even when asking valid questions or bringing up things to consider it's often ignored. So please explain both sides A being that it's indoctirnation and B being that it's not

I’m kinda confused on why religious people even want in government god is all powerfull god is all knowing our world will turn into a utopia since that’s what he wants right

Whatever laws are passed should in one way or another cause a future utopia otherwise god wouldn’t let them pass

Y are any religions trying to get into government just let god do it ????

Edit: I’m not talking about direct input isn’t god like influencing weather diseases genetics etc isn’t he doing that stuff to make a future perfect world

What exactly are the policies and other selling points for each candidate?

I’m kind of leaning to Joe Biden because Trump started the insurrection on January 6th, 2021, mismanaged COVID-19, blocked the solution to climate change, ruined the relationship with Europe, and planned the Project 2025 to make himself a dictator by getting more power. But I also want to know what bad things these two guys did, and who’s worse.

It just doesn’t make sense to me. He was not a good person. He had a relatively extensive criminal record, one of which was putting a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly. Certainly police brutality is bad, but at the same time Floyd should not have been the role model to choose.

There are plenty of cases where the person shot was much more innocent than Floyd, looking at someone like Tamir Rice. Floyd was not deserving of death, but he also was not an angel and not someone that should be looked up to.

Also, why did BLM wait until Floyd’s death to have the explosive reaction of protests and riots? Why wait until then instead of doing so at an earlier time, because Floyd was definitely not the first death to police brutality.

I'm a female working in IT, with over 20 years experience... but quite often (literally every second day) clients and customers will disregard my advice. They will ask to be transferred to or defer to and ask (in front of me) one of my male colleagues - who will give the exact same advice/answer.

Serious question, why do female techs face more mistrust and are judged as less capable than male techs?

Btw, if any of my classmates see this, no I’m not cheating 😭

I don’t have enough information on Biden’s role in the Israel-Hamas war to make a decision about it. I need to hear both sides. Links to videos or articles about each side of this argument would also be appreciated. Thanks!

Obviously war is unavoidable I'd say I don't think war is a good thing but to say no war ever is ignorance.

So explain both sides reddit !

I was reading threads discussing what Africans thought of black panther and some responses said that the accents weren't really accurate, while others said that the black actors ability to play the character should matter more than if the actors is of the same race or ethnicity as the characters. This can apply to white American actors playing European characters or Asian and Latino roles being seen as interchangeable.

I wanted to hear both sides of this debate to try and get a better understanding of it and if it's a serious issue.

I hear a lot of arguments stating if the democrats werent ruling the major cities, detroit would have not have been as bad. How true is this?

My middle school aged niece told me about a classmate who identified as an animal. I am a progressive person and fully believe that people should identify as whatever they feel in their soul, but I never imagined that would include anything outside the scope of humans. Trans? Sure. NB? Absolutely. Raccoon? Ehhhhh.

Am I being judgy? Is this something that will be common 50 years from now? Will I be the grandma yelling at a cloud when I say I don’t think humans should identify as anything other than human?

Please help a girl understand.

Edit: for those responding “Humans are animals.” Yes, I understand this. If you read my post, you’ll see I mean humans relating as non-human animals. Thank you for exhibiting your infinite wisdom.

I’m pretty torn because on one hand, virtually every other country in the world enforces it’s immigration laws and detains and deports illegal immigrants, but on the other hand most illegal immigrants into the US are Hispanic people so that would be racist. Also, a lot of them try to cross the border illegally with their children so that means if we don’t let them go, we have to detain their kids also. I actually heard of a compromise Obama did where anybody who shows up with a kid, we just let them go and hope they show up for court. I dunno I heard that worked really well when I watched CNN talk about it.

Merriam-Webster defines healthcare as: efforts made to maintain, restore, or promote someone's physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially when performed by trained and licensed professionals.

They define abortion as: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus.

The arguments I've seen for Side A are that the fetus is a parasite and removing it from the womb is healthcare, or an abortion improves the well-being of the mother.

The arguments I've seen for Side B are that the baby is murdered, not being treated, so it does not qualify as healthcare.

Is it just a matter of perspective (i.e. from the mother's perspective it is healthcare, but from the unborn child's perspective it is murder)?

Note: I'm only looking at the terms used to describe abortion, and how Side A terms it "healthcare" and Side B terms it "murder"

some people find others repulsive for having a high body count aka a plethora of sexual partners, while others are 'meh' about someone with a high body count. what are each sides perspective the other side doesn't see?

I know I’m late to this, but I’m trying to understand the controversy about Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” because I just heard on the radio for the first time. What is all the controversy for that song about?

I personally live in a small town and think that that song relates. Basically if you try to pull some bad shit in a small town you won’t get far and that what I think the song means.

Please just explain why there’s so much controversy about that song because I don’t think it’s that bad and please be nice about it.

The traditional pronouns are he/she/they and serve the function of giving more information about the how the person using those than the subject being talked about views the gender of the subject. Pronouns exist only in the people around the subject about how the subject projects into the constellation of gender norms we find correlates to biological gender.

Within that framework how do neo pronouns work and how are they justified?

i'm an Australian who's noticed this in some cases, just from stupid videos on social media/talking to strangers online from the states.
I wonder how common it is for white people to use that word, particularly in a violent/aggressive manner. Why do some white/latin people use this word and what do black people think of this when it happens? To me as an Australian it just makes no sense at all.

Since I am not from USA and wasn't interested in politics, I don't get why people hate/love Trump so much. For example, I saw many comments against trump and some people like Elon,who supports him. I am just little curious now.

Edit: after elections, that makes me worried.

I understand that both are likely true, but I wonder how stark supporters of either side defend the point

I was told to put my question here. There are multiple incidents recently that make me ask this question:

1. A few weeks ago there was a lawsuit from a few immigrants against Japan police force, accused them of discrimination due to them allegedly racial profiling people with darker skin (link: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/podcast/2024/03/08/deep-dive/racial-profiling/#:~:text=Three%20residents%20with%20foreign%20roots,target%20visible%20minorities%20with%20searches.). It was brought by an African-American man who lives in Japan.

2. Last Wednesday there was a Chinese film released domestically, but some screenshots from that film shows actors with black face. From what is reported, they were acting as international police disguised themselves as local to avoid detection to rescue hostage. It got a lot of backlashes on Twitter, people are trying to cancel the actors (even though it is not even showing outside of China)

3. Today, CNN reported that Biden complained about Japan, China, India for being "xenophobic", not welcoming immigrants.

Here is my point of view:

1. Asian countries, especially East Asia, has never been a multicultural society, so it never experiences the same issues that the West had with racial discrimination. Therefore, they don't see "stop and frisks" or blackface as an issue, or at least not at the level that the West saw it.

2. Asian ideology is much closer to traditional conservative ideology (family-value, pull yourself up by the boots-strap kind of thing). A lot of their views on immigration are also similar (unwelcome, prefer strict immigration law or close border).

3. People in Asia, don't consume Western media so the majority will not be awared of the requirements and changes that were made due to racial discrimination.

Based on thoses points, I think that it would be unfair to judge something, or trying to cancel people, or calling countries xenophobic based on how and what Westerners are doing, but I want to ask what your opinions on this is.

Both sides say the other distorts facts. Both sides present an upsetting narrative that explicitly denies the other side. Both sides, also, call the most insane and outspoken fringe groups "Nazis." Please explain to me, from your point of view, whether the news supporting Trump or the news calling for him to be stopped have a better take on reality.

I have very strong beliefs, myself, but I'm pretending to be neutral for this post. I am, however, skeptical of most mainstream news outlets. Please let me have it, I'm eager to hear a walkthrough of both sides. :)

Within all the schools that believe some version of, "with God as our father, we love one another and brothers all are we," there are those that have a basic stooge who must take the rap for everyone, before a final restitution. Supposing there are also those who don't, explain both sides.