Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.

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  • Enkrod@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•i want. DAY 69 [OC, brainmade]
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    12 days ago

    @Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

    I owe you an answer. In the meantime someone has given it for me. Here is the Israel I support: https://youtu.be/GYr3hYjHlx8

    I don’t support Israel how it is, but how it should be. A liberal democracy treating all its citizens equally good. In a two state solution Israel would still be ~73% ethnically jewish, and there is no reason to believe that would change or ever change to not being a safe space for jews.

    The current Israeli government should receive 0 support from any government, not even Germany, which doess have a special responsibility. But I feel that responsibility extends to a free, equal, non-apartheid Israel and not the current course. We can’t support the genocide of one people out of the responsibility for that of another.



  • Of course “Hi mates!” feels wrong, it needs to be either “g’day mates” or “ahoy mateys” or “oy mates”…

    Sorry.

    Btw. you have the same “problem” (imho, feature) of tone determining level of friendliness with dude, dude. And partly even with bro, though bro feels harder to turn unfriendly when adressing someone.

    For me, “Hi mates” or “oy mates” sounds completely okay, but I’m a non-native speaker.



  • Enkrod@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•i want. DAY 69 [OC, brainmade]
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    Uhh oh, no, I haven’t answered within 9 hours, please excuse me for having a job and sleeping.

    I’m thinking dude. Fitz has made some good points and I don’t want to brush that off, so now I’m thinking about his arguments, formulating my own opinion, formulating and double-checking my own arguments and all that while I’m at my day job. So PISS OFF with that crickets shit back to the .ml-Sever you crawled from!

    Demanding a quick answer is not the measure of a great intellect OR of a good argument. People need to take their time and think instead of just screaming at each other.

    Edit: Sorry I snapped. Just… give me some time dude, life’s happening at the same time.



  • Enkrod@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•i want. DAY 69 [OC, brainmade]
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    I think the topic attracted mainly feddit.org users and most of us still know what nuance means and how Israel and Zionism are discussed in the german speaking world. shrug

    But yes, I am glad too, because I have been heavily downvoted in the past on that topic. And while downvotes can be a good indicator of if one has a shittake, sometimes the purity-testing of my fellow lemmings just completely throws nuance out the window.



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    20 days ago

    Zionism has two different meanings in how Germans use the word.

    1. The state of Israel has a right to exist.
    2. Israel has the right to be a jewish apartheids-ethnostate that actively controls it’s non-jewish population.

    Habeck falls firmly in the first category and stands firmly against the second one. He called the “Settlers” terrorists and heavily criticized the Israeli government. He called out brutality and that the Netanyahu government has created a different Israel than the one Germany should support.

    He says the necessity exists for a state where jews can live in safety, that is a far cry from “Israel should be a jewish state”.


  • Yes, but… He was the best we had in higher political circles. Did he and Annalena crush the Fundis and move the Greens slightly to the right? Yes, they did and we should hold them accountable for that. We should also never fear to point out their failures, like you did here. But we should absolutely rally behind him when the alternative looks like Merz or even worse… like the Alt-Right-ernative.