“But it is foundational for Canada to stand up for people’s rights, for people’s safety, and for the rule of law. And that’s what we’re going to do.”

Except when the local Indigenous population tries to prevent resource extraction on their land, but nevermind that.

(also, for the record, the last residential school closed in 1997, not the 70s. Off topic, but I am not at all a fan of Canada.)

I didn’t say that Canada is immune to bigotry or genocide. I even made reference to the genocide that Canada committed, and I would talk at length about it, if it werent off topic.

But Canada is a moderate enough country that – again – I doubt a song with such dehumanizing lyrics against a group of people would ever be a hit in modern Canada. Nothing about my statement claims there is no bigotry or genocide in Canada. It is more of a statement of just how much bigotry and acceptance of genocide there must be in Israel for a song like “Charbu Darbu” to be a #1 hit.

What you are saying is the US vetoed it because they accept the false dichotomy in the Israeli narrative of the situation.

Hamas is nothing compared to Israel’s military. If Hamas’s goal is the destruction of Israel, then this has been their most effective campaign by far. I, too, didn’t think much about Israel one way or the other but this conflict has opened my eyes.

Boycotting Israeli products is one of the only things you can do, since the US government seems complicit.

https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott

Somebody mentioned that there are fight songs popular in my country as well. It seems like the post was deleted, and I only just got home, so I didn’t have a chance to look up more than one of the songs they listed, which was a White Stripes song, but the whole thing struck me as a false equivalence, since my country’s soldiers are not blowing the crap out of civilians and using those songs as a soundtrack for tiktok videos of them doing it. Also, I seriously doubt a song that contains such dehumanizing language about a specific group of people would become a hit in modern Canada. And finally, I have no love for Canada. They did their own genocide, but that’s not the current topic. So, calling false equivalence on a post that was deleted. Guess I’m ‘that guy’ 🤷

I dont know any of those songs.’

I’m sure Israeli Jews are taught about the Holocaust. As a public-school educated kid in Canada, I was from grade 6 onward. School trips to Holocaust museums, theatre performances of Diary of Ann Frank, watched Schindler’s List I don’t know how many times when the teacher wasn’t there. That or Jurassic Park or the Mask. Weird, I know. Took lots of notes so I could pass my tests.

I wonder if Israel’s right wing establishment was also taking notes when they studied the Holocaust, and why.

From the article: [Israeli soldiers] often use the Israeli hit song Charbu Darbu, which has lyrics such as “We’ve brought the whole army and I swear there will be no forgiveness,” and “every dog gets what he deserves in the end.”

That’s a hit song in Israel, is it? How dreadful.

So vote for the greater evil? I mean Trump’s stated position on Gaza is to “let it play out” so he’s for the genocide as well. He also promised to reject any refugees from Gaza.

He’s also a nihilist, on top of being as much of a lying sack-of-shit as any other politician you can name.

So if you’re voting for Trump, it’s certainly not because you care about Gaza.

Well, they’re sending Israel tank shells for the tanks that are blasting the crap out of Gaza and killing journalists, so yes they are very much activity supporting this shit.

If people want to tie their religious identity to a nation state and call me antisemetic when I criticize that nation state – the same as I criticize any other nation state – they are in fact trivializing the experience of those who experience actual antisemitism.

I’m sure they don’t see it that way, but it’s hard for me to see such an attitude as anything other than disrespectful of one’s own history.

An upvote from me is worth ten downvotes from them. Unfortunately this is not reflected in your numbers due to limitations of the platform.

Thank you so much for this. I had never even heard of tepache before now but, thanks to you, I must know! Cheers

I am happy to help you with your experiment, toxic though it is.

I’m migrating my personal Fedora 38 machines to Zorin. I want them to just work and I want my wife and parents to be comfortable using them. In that respect, it’s better than windows and macos.

It got eaten by ChatGPT and that other one

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