- Most victims of the holocaust weren't Jewish.
- Of course there are plenty of Jewish holocaust survivors who are opposed to war crimes in Gaza. They've been criticising the Israeli government for longer than you've even been aware of this conflict. For example.
- You don't seem to understand what it's like to survive the holocaust. These are deeply deeply traumatised people who are now being confronted with war again. Plenty of them want to die. Plenty are suffering severe PTSD and flashbacks.
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Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
I used to work in the building industry. Removing asbestos, lead pipes, lead paint, replacing the electrics, replacing windows and insulation, etc. isn't going to cost you 10k. It's obviously also not going to cost you half a million. Just saying that the past wasn't all peaches and cream. You're comparing apples with oranges.
But as I said, it's not 1950. We're richer and more technologically advanced. (Safe) housing should be relatively affordable, and it's a choice that it isn't. Example off the top of my head: Vienna, Austria. Beautiful city in a rich country. Government owns over half the housing stock, so rental prices stay relatively affordable. AFAIK it doesn't cost them much, if anything it makes them money. Not that it matters. Like public transport or roads, they don't need to be profitable.
e: also, it's a huge waste that so much capital is stuck in housing for decades, rather than being used to fund other stuff.
In this case, it's a semi-successful youtuber who does phone reviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marques_Brownlee
But I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you.
Average wage in 1950 was something like 5k. So that 20k house is four years wage.
Average wage now is over 50k. Would you be happy to buy a house for four years wage at 200k? Of course you would.
But would you be happy to buy a typical 1950s house with lead pipes, lead paint, asbestos insulation, no central heating and perhaps not even warm water? Questionable. It's the same thing as with cars. 1950s cars were far more affordable. They were also death traps and a recent diesel VW golf can easily outperform many an 80s ferrari.
Of course, it's not 1950. The world is far richer and more technologically advanced. Anyone should be able to afford a small home and the basics on a minimum wage job. If that's not possible anymore, then society (and the government) is failing.
The Death toll during King Leopold's reign over the Congo Free State is estimated at up to 13 million. Historians and experts generally agree that according to the 1948 UN definition of genocide, what happened in the Congo Free State wasn't genocide. The intent wasn't to wipe out a people.
Given Gaza is tiny, the blast radius of a bomb doesn't stop at the windows, and Hamas likely has tunnels and infrastructure everywhere, Israel can quite easily claim they were simply targetting Hamas when they accidentally blew up a school, hospital or journalist. Unlike in Hollywood movies this kind of thing happens in war constantly. Whether it's Mosul, Bahkmut, or Gaza. For example: the US openly admits they deliberately bombed a hospital in Mosul and IRC, despite what coverage on CNN would lead you to believe, supposedly strategic precision airstrikes during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq killed something like 60,000 innocent civilians.
Obviously, here on lemmy a lot of people will disagree with this assessment, but this is one of the reasons I'm not too optimistic about the International Court of Justice ultimately ruling Israel is guilty of genocide.
Cheer up.
Today will be better than tomorrow.
You do have to factor in race, that a lot of what you see on tv was idealised even at the time, and that we now also have unimaginable luxuries that we take for granted. Proper insulation, phones, computers, unlimited music, etc.
In 1950 you could buy a median US house for $20k. A fridge/freezer cost $400, a tv cost $300 and a washer and dryer would cost $500.
Now a median house costs $400k. If the cost of household appliances and electronics had risen as much as houses had, a freezer would cost $8000, a tv would cost $6000 and a washer + dryer would set you back $10000.
I know Biden gets a lot of shit for it, but I suspect this is also one of the reasons why the Biden administration has delayed criticising Netenyahu and been very cautious in doing so.
They know Netenyahu would ignore them anyway, that it would damage their alliance with Israel, and have probably come to the conclusion that being too strong wouldn't help remove him from power.
Articles like this seem to back up my theory:
After cautious criticism by Biden, Netanyahu rallies Israel’s right wing
Not that I agree with the logic, but that might partly explain it.
Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood
Bit of a tangent, but from what I can tell the language barrier (and cold war history) really doesn't do Russia any favours. Because so many Russians speak poor English, they're effectively cut off from the English speaking world.
Obviously, the Anglosphere has more than enough weird conspiracies, and there is some bleed through, but Russia has surprisingly popular stuff like Fomenko's New Chronology. For those wondering:
Invasion of privacy. Not cool, even if reddit is a public forum, but shit happens, just don't mention it.
I often used to lie about small details on reddit, obfuscating for privacy reasons. This being said, it sounds like she's not over her ex and not that into you.
Relationships take work, and it sounds like you aren't communicating enough with each other. Be honest that you're worried. Something like "I love you a lot, so if you have doubts about this relationship or don't feel you really love me as much as your ex, I want to know now so it hurts less."