Harris promised to do everything in her power to end the war in Gaza.

“This year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, it is devastating. And as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure, and ensure the Palestinian people can realise their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination,” Harris said to applause during a rally in East Lansing city of Michigan, home to 200,000 Arab Americans.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/4/harris-says-will-end-gaza-war-in-final-election-appeal-to-arab-americans

No, prevent as in stop Israel from finishing.

When it comes to Iran I think it’s a case of Israel would if they could. But Iran is out of their reach.

It looks like the response was limited this time. That’s not to say that there won’t be a next time where they go overboard.

To be fair, Adventure Time is set a 1000 years after the apocalypse, so they’ve had a lot time to build.

Fuck me. I just came in from yard work. “I was touching grass.” It’s not any better.

100% I have no confidence in Israel’s ability to comply with international law or humanitarian norms. As a jew, I am less safe because of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. There is no interest in self-defense or defeating terrorists. Netanyahu wants to prolong the war to stay out of prison and to create a greater Israel. Israel attacking the UN troops has really ticked me off too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

France is one of the five “Nuclear Weapons States” under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.[4][5] France is the only member of the European Union to possess independent (non-NATO) nuclear weapons. France was the fourth country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon, doing so in 1960 under the government of Charles de Gaulle. The French military is currently thought to retain a weapons stockpile of around 300[6] operational (deployed) nuclear warheads, making it the fourth-largest in the world, speaking in terms of warheads, not megatons.[7] The weapons are part of the country’s Force de dissuasion, developed in the late 1950s and 1960s to give France the ability to distance itself from NATO while having a means of nuclear deterrence under sovereign control.

We should value the Earth more than art. If vandalism of paintings bothers people more than the destruction of the Earth then they should reexamine their priorities. No to mention, the vandalism of the art is imagined, the painting is undamaged, but the damage to the planet is real. On top of that, if we do nothing to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions then the damage to the planet will continue to worsen.

🌍 > 🖼️

If Hitler and the Nazis are anything to go by then there is no line.

One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.

Unless. We have to spread these ideas to as many people as possible. We can’t afford to call it early.

I think you are correct. To spec made me think spec was being used as a verb. But it’s definitely to specification as in used as intended. My bad. edit: typo

spec

Sorry, what do you mean by spec? Spec ops was the closest I could find.

Can’t they see that the majority of the population here, and the government, agree with them that burning Qurans is a mean thing to do, and that we don’t agree with the message being sent? They should be angry at the people burning Qurans, not the entire country…

No, I think the people who protest individuals burning the Quran are religious fundamentalists who may in fact live in countries where religion is built into the law. They are mad at the people burning the Quran. They are also mad at the governments of Sweden and Denmark for not publicly executing the people burning the Quran. They are also mad at the people who live in Sweden and Denmark for not overthrowing their democratic governments and forming islamist theocracies that will then execute people who burn the Quran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_of_Sharia_by_country#:~:text=24][29]-,Map,-[edit]

What surprises me most of all about the whole thing is peoples inability to respect the fact that other countries are not subject to their laws.

Islamists don’t respect international laws, national borders, or personal freedoms. They thankfully do not represent most muslims.

I think this is a case of some christian extremists angering some muslim extremists and the rest of us being stuck in the middle. We are trying to argue in good faith for our freedoms, while right wing extremists of varying religions try to pit us against each other in order to take those freedoms away and establish their respective theocracies.

I’m against the banning and burning of books and I’m against the banning of burning books. We need to instill the value of our freedoms in each generation, even when we disagree with what an individual expresses with those freedoms. Because religious fundamentalists have nothing better to do than teach future generations that their religion and only their religion, be it Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, or some other religion, is the only good thing worth living for. Once a person thinks their religion is the source of all that is good it becomes trivial for them to decry exercising a freedom as ‘an act of utter hatred and unreason’.