Macron really going out of his way to fuck over the French people, eh? Calls snap elections right after the far right wins big in eu elections, then refuses to follow the will of the people when said election backfires.
Part of my thinks the left will be better off in opposition, though.
I don’t know how to confirm this myself but I have read and heard that before anything else, after it was known Hamas fighters were inside Israeli territory, the IDF first move militarily was to start bombing Gaza. No one can argue honestly that the IDF defends Israelis - its literally just the most reactionary of religious Zionists that they serve.
Secular Jewish Israelis? Nah they can fend for themselves for a few hours, we’ve gotta attack Palestinian civilians, says the IDF. And that’s not even bringing up that 20% of Israeli citizens ARE ARABS, some of whom were also attacked in their homes in Southern Israel 10 days ago, but of course the same people calling Hamas human animals will go after them next (not to suggest they aren’t already, only that Gazans face more immediate extermination).
The impression I had gotten from interviews (Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Haaretz) was that Israeli civilian police were there and exchanged fire with Hamas but that it was HOURS before they came across any IDF personnel. I’ve been focusing on this less as the time goes on and the catastrophic situation in Gaza gets worse and worse, so maybe further sources have come out regarding the Nova Festival.
Regardless I would like to see consequences to the people who authorized a festival so close to Gaza in the first place…
Invading Russia = making political inroads into their historical sphere of influence. The “existential” threat to Russia is that it loses its historic colonial outposts.
If the rules of “secularism” disproportionately impact people only of certain religions then that is displaying favoritism, implicitly saying “this religion is approved, this religion is not”. That’s not very secular.
I get what you’re trying to say - historically “Muslim garb” was just “desert garb” suited to the dry heat but I do also think these terms have some religious connotation now.
What really grinds my gears in this is that actual Muslim feminists, not just white knight crusaders (and i pick that word deliberately) Europe are out there and people who claim to be worried about how Islam treats women could you know, listen to their perspectives instead of just assuming European “secular” values are objectively better.
So who then?
So now its “secularism is when some religions are better than others?”
No, secularism is when no hijab ./s
And who gets to decide?
It’s conveniently targeting one group and their religious expression. It’s different when they do it to themselves, like in Turkey before the AKP took power and started weakening secularism there.
Literally doing Gods work with comments like these. Thanks for the context and insight.
https://lemm.ee/comment/3033256
I had the same dire thought, but this comment really made me take a breath.
Hahaha epic
yeah same, only like half of the videos load or play.
And of course, the materials that go into solar panels and other renewable tech (lithium ion batteries) also appear out of thin air and isn’t extracted in environmentally degrading ways…
Well duh? Are they nationalizing all carbon emitting industries to begin a managed decline of the industry or are they hoping economic magic and wishful thinking will work?
He worked for the people who ran it. When people frame him as a human trafficker they’re falsely creating this image of a man who kept people in cages and shipped them over international boundaries but if you read the court documents it was nothing like that.
Important to know is that this is only possible because someone from a +19 Democrat district got elected, then flipped parties. So not only is this overriding a governor in order to Rule over their Betters, someone outright betrayed their constituents to do so.
American Evangelicals and Middle Eastern Islamists continue to align it seems
I was reading that the backlash in the town halls and elsewhere is providing room in the eyes of those with power to lose like CBS and politicians to be more forceful in their opposition to Trump’s dictatorship-in-the-making.