Hamas is one of several Palestinian groups fighting Israel. They are just the most prominent, in part due to the Israeli government's long term funding of them. People 'rioting' are supporting military action against Israel, not any particular militant group. If Hamas wasn't there, you would be saying they are supporting a different group.
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As someone else pointed out all of those dietary restrictions can be due to allergies, I think it would be pretty fucked up to fund lunch for students but not allow those with allergies to get lunch at school. Even if only one student at the school has a specific diet that needs to be catered too, that wouldn't be different than having one student that was blind being given the same opportunities at the public school in my view, and whatever small cost it might increase to do this is worth it to properly feed children.
Someone already pointed out the IKEA parking lot sizes, but just for further reference the IKEA by me has a parking lot between 6 and 7 acres haha. Bless the US. That is a very large parking lot even here but there are several other parking lots around similar in size.
Well if 'pussy' is just really a vulgar fill-in for intimate or romantic connection, then I do think everyone deserves that, consensual of course, not any specific 'pussy' though but you know, love in general. Like the music they refer to will have lyrics like 'you ain't got no money you ain't get no pussy' which implies the artist would only have sex with them if they have money, which would be classist.
It's impressive the opportunities for any media to devolve into that sort of propaganda. I was reading about micro-studios around the world on some totally innocuous seeming home decor site. The first half had tiny but beautiful Japanese studios with luxury amenities, other similar ones, then the second half was all supposed warehouses of cages that poor people live in in China, in 6x8 metal wire framed boxes basically, and other horrible conditions like that, it was odd as the site was basically HGTV vibes up until that.
The more I learn about different parents, I really think I had a miracle up-bringing, my parents didn't even realize they raised me and my siblings nearly entirely on leftist revolutionary vibes, bless them <3
The 'war on terror' was such an incredibly successful PR move, it's so cool the US can just decide to strike wherever, whenever with massive force and as a tax-paying subject of this nation I didn't even know this was done until today. You'd think there would be a way for the people of a 'democratic nation' to have some say over the military action we take.
Somehow I forgot about the whole class of aircraft carriers used in WW2 haha and didn't read about the damage to those, only was really looking more into the modern Nimitz-class used by the US.
Thank you for helping elucidate this concept for me. I suppose the disagreement I had was just labeling anyone as such, in my view people are not their actions, while people have patterns of action and often can't break from that pattern, I don't believe anyone truly is anything and can change depending on their conditions, so it was more of a reaction to the phrasing. But arguing semantics is a waste of time, so I see now your original comment was a fine descriptor, I don't know much about Robinson though tbh. A nice thing about hexbear is that you can be more blunt with language, and generally around here people will know what you are getting at.
Very good point, I wasn't viewing the critique from a revolutionary/conflict lens, but more abstractly or theoretically. In the current climate I would argue there are many more worthwhile critiques to be made than those that are against Marxist states, so I do agree that it serves the motives of imperialists even if the critique might be accurate.
How is this different than a city saying "if we allow you to fly a flag for the Steelers, what's next, a Nazi German flag?" Any reasonable person can see that there is a clear line between something like a flag that supports an innocuous mainstream idea and a flag representing a terrorist organization, it's ridiculous and clearly motivated by bigotry. Cities and towns have been displaying rainbows in various forms for years during pride month and I haven't seen any inch of progression towards right-wing Islamic terror groups being supported also.