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  It also drove a wedge between the far left and the center left. No it didn't. The people the Nazis were making deals with were squarely on the right of the German political spectrum. We're talking monarchists, rightwing nationalists and the like. A good proxy for this would be seeing which parties voted for the Enabling Act of 1933, and as you'll notice immediately if you're familiar with German politics from this period they're all rightwing. Hell, most of them weren'...

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  Context: In Islam people must be identified by their paternal lineage, meaning one's patronym/last name/however their culture identifies paternal ancestry must tie to their father. This is because the Quran says "call them by the names of their fathers" (Quran 33:5), and while the verse was talking about adoption the principle is unanimously interpreted to apply in general.

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  Yeah most people aren't that privileged.

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  Explanation: During Muhammed's lifetime, in the early Muslim polity that would later become the Rashidun Caliphate jihad was obligatory for all able (edit: Muslim) men who didn't have a valid excuse. Therefore, people who didn't want to go would make up excuses to get permission to stay home. This is one such story reported in a Hadith: The Messenger of Allah said to Al-Jadd bin Qays from Bani Salimah, "Would you like to fight the yellow ones (Romans) this year?*&quot...

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  Explanation: The Mexican Revolution erupted in 1910 when Francisco Madero published the Plan of San Luis Potosi calling for an uprising to overthrow longtime Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz and bring democracy to Mexico. Well this worked out relatively quickly, but while the whole thing almost instantly devolved into a massive clusterfuck one thing remained constant: Agrarian revolutionaries demanding land reform in Morelos, Mexico's second smallest state, would be a near-permanent thorn in...

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  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mie

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  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mier

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  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mie

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  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mier

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  I would strongly contest the idea that tankies are durther left than anarchists. This only make since if you're a shitlib.

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  I mean Chinese and Mexican people have been in America for almost two centuries. I'm usually the first one to shit on Americans, but at this point Chinese-American stuff and Tex-Mex are theirs.

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  Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor). I've seen it said somewhere that, with the advent of AI, society has to embrace UBI or perish, and while that's an exaggeration it does basically get the point across.

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  Nah those guys hate AI because it's AI.

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  If this is sarcasm, hats off for pissing off so many people while being right. If it's not, then... uh... I'll refrain from speaking my mind so my comment doesn't get deleted.

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  Cautious bet on number 2 from me.

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  I won't respond to that, because now you're moving the goalposts. That is not what we're talking about here.

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  Not really, no. The US is heavily gerrymandered and there's plenty of disenfranchisement to go around, but fundamentally Republicans don't control general elections the same way Democrats control their primaries, and centrist Democrats have many tools (rhetorical and otherwise) to get primary votes that Republicans don't in general elections. And, as I said, people don't vote in primaries. Besides, this theory has already been tested in practice; according to election polling Ber...

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  Getting leftists on Dem ballots and winning an election against Republicans are completely different affairs, not the least because most people don't vote in primaries (not to mention all the manipulation). If anything why do you think beating centrists in primaries is a prerequisite for being able to beat Republicans in elections? You need to justify that assumption.

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  and that they're going to make a bad decision for the Gazans in the midterms because of their anger. There is no good decision to be made for Palestinians in most American elections. No, not even comparatively. Even Trump did no more or less than Biden already was. That aside, though, Trump would've won even if every single Jill Stein vote went to Harris.

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  That's a non-sequitur.