That’s disrespectful to tupac

Capitalism personified

The Israeli Occupying Force is a more accurate description

Yes, Knowing Better has done a great analysis on such

17:52 for the book

Israel is just a new face on conflict that is ancient.

No, that’s a bullshit and an insidious myth used to justify and normalize the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

• The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities - Simha Flapan

The Zionists not only sought to colonize Palestine but, as Pappe shows, “…it also hoped to secularize the Jewish people, to invent the ‘new Jew’ in antithesis to the religious Orthodox Jews of Europe… The Orthodox Jew was ridiculed by the Zionists, and was viewed as someone who could only be redeemed through hard work in Palestine… The role of the Bible within Jewish life offered one further clear difference between Judaism and Zionism… the Bible provided ‘the myth for our right over the land.’ It was in the Bible that they read stories about Hebrew farmers, shepherds, kings, and wars, which they appropriated as describing the ancient golden era of their nation’s birth. Returning to the land meant coming back to become farmers , shepherds and kings. Thus, they found themselves faced with a challenging paradox, for they wanted both to secularize Jewish life and to use the Bible as a publication for colonizing Palestine. In other words, though they did not believe in God, He had nonetheless promised them Palestine.”

In reality, Pappe believes, “…the takeover of the West Bank in particular, with its ancient biblical sights, was a Zionist aim even before 1948 and it fitted the logic of the Zionist project as a whole. This logic can be summarized as the wish to take over as much of Palestine as possible with as few Palestinians as possible… After the occupation, the new ruler confined the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in an impossible limbo: they were neither refugees nor citizens—they were, and still are, citizenless inhabitants. They were inmates, and in many respects still are, of a huge prison in which they have no civil, and human rights and no impact on their future. The world tolerates this situation because Israel claims —and the claim was never challenged until recently—that the situation is temporary…Israel is still incarcerating a third generation of Palestinians…and depicting these mega-prisons as temporary…”

• 10 myths of Israel by Ilan Pappe, summerized and full book

This is the best solution.

Zionism is a fascist ideology. There is nothing to gain from hosting in a country where people feel compelled to suppress opposition to and liberation against that fascist ideology out of fear of incarceration and police brutality

Free Palestine

ACAB

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I think addiction is a key aspect. Like with gambling there is of course that aspect of responsibility, but regulation to minimize harm is also important.

All the major social media apps being designed to exploit that dopamine response is kind of like junk foods being the most common due to being subsidized; of course people just shouldn’t eat junk food, but we should make healthy options the most prevalent and common instead.

Of course that would require a government that would actually force corporations to implement harm reductive measures, instead of one bought by and working for corporations…

FOSS alternatives like Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Loops should be much healthier due to no algorithm working to maximize engagement. I also think social isolation is a big part of the addiction aspect, at least in America

With defunding fire fighters and climate change, you never know. Thank God we have that space lazer to control the weather, otherwise I’d be worried

Best way to play it imo, I only wish the psi solders leveled up with the same kind of tree as the regular lwotc soldiers

Nice

I was looking at Tuta after the whole proton CEO thing, but these look really interesting. Thanks

Deaths in wars/conflicts between Apartheid Israel and Occupied Palestine*

Not everywhere is equal in Europe, while homelessness is lower across the board because Europe overall has better social services available, Finland is far ahead because of it’s implementation of Housing First.

You also need to look at the definition of homelessness. Finland counts first-stage homelessness, known as couch surfing (which leads to car-camping and eventually the late-stage homelessness of living on the streets) in that calculation. The US ignores 1st and 2nd stage and only calculates homelessness with the late-stage. If the US uses the same calculation as Finland or other European countries, our homelessness rate would be even higher.

Drug addiction is a symptom of late-stage homelessness, not a cause. The cause is almost always the private housing market pricing people out of affording even rent. In the US, housing is first and foremost an investment, not a necessity.

• Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness - CBC

• Here’s how Finland solved its homelessness problem - WEF

The studies and examples in America are small because they are only done on a State level with no to little federal funding. You’ll need to look into how Housing First has been put in practice in European countries to get a better idea about how they can function with federal funding and support.

Access to mental health and addiction services is an important part, yes. Both are important and both help homeless people. I’d say Housing First is more important, since you need a stable living situation in order to stabilize the rest of your life.

I’m an advocate for both Housing First and Socialized Medicine

Housing First is the correct way to reduce homelessness. The main cause of homelessness is being priced out of the housing market, because the vast majority of housing in America is entirely privatized. Plus most public housing in America is not done nor funded well, until our European counterparts

Numerous studies show that housing first participants experience higher levels of housing retention and use fewer emergency and criminal justice services, which produces cost savings in emergency department use, inpatient hospitalizations, and criminal justice system use.

• 75% and 91% of households remain housed a year after being rapidly re-housed, according to multiple studies.
• $31,545 in cost savings per person housed, according to one study.
• Another study showed that a Housing First program could cost up to $23,000 less per consumer per year than a shelter program.

https://www.pdx.edu/homelessness/housing-first

This has worked famously in Finland

Yes, although I do find that the penal labor in the Federation prisons are a bit concerning for a utopia

I don’t know too much about it, but from what I understand the metric the World Bank uses to define the global poverty line is very flawed and doesn’t accurately represent the amount of people in extreme poverty.

Considering how the World Bank is used for Neocolonialism, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case, but I haven’t looked into enough sources to know for sure.

Here are a few points to keep in mind. Using the $1.90 line shows that only 700 million people live in poverty. But note that the UN’s FAO says that 815 million people do not have enough calories to sustain even “minimal” human activity. 1.5 billion are food insecure, and do not have enough calories to sustain “normal” human activity. And 2.1 billion suffer from malnutrition. How can there be fewer poor people than hungry and malnourished people? If $1.90 is inadequate to achieve basic nutrition and sustain normal human activity, then it’s too low – period. It’s time for you and Gates to stop using it. Lifting people above this line doesn’t mean lifting them out of poverty, “extreme” or otherwise.

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty

Old articles are outside the scope of the politics communities since they’re about recent ones. Maybe there should be a political discussion community that can discuss old articles and relate them to the current political climate.

Edit: looks like the politics community doesn’t have that rule about recent articles like the news communities, seems like a valid post to me