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The idiot’s guide to states – and their ‘rights’:
1. States exist. Some 200 of them.
2. States are the political arrangement in which a people express their self-determination. That arrangement can and does change.
3. States enjoy rights, but only against each other. They have the right, for example, not to face unprovoked aggression from another state.
4. No state has some enduring, abstract “right” to exist. Otherwise bad ones like apartheid South Africa would be unreformable.
5. Peoples, by contrast, do have a right to exist. That’s why states that commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are so gravely violating international law. Because they are violating a people’s right to exist.
6. When people argue Israel has a “right” to exist, they are trying to dupe you into believing international law is fine with apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide. It isn’t. For obvious reasons, international law prefers the rights of peoples over those of states. Otherwise, no state could ever be illegitimate. Its rights would trump those of the people it rules over.
7. When someone refuses to agree that Israel has a “right” to exist, they are not being antisemitic, whatever the media keeps telling you. They are upholding international law: the precedence of peoples’ rights over those of states.
8. The claim that Israel has a “right” to exist is not what it seems. It’s really the claim that the current reality of extreme inequality between Israelis and Palestinians be set in stone. It’s the diabolical claim that Israel has a right to commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people.
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Meanwhile, the Turkish government continues to transport cheap Baku oil to Netanyahu.
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Due to the expanded "hate speech" codes that Trump forced leading American universities to adopt, it's prohibited to "accuse Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel," even when they explicitly boast that is how they vote.
You will be fired or expelled if you say it:
I'm a Michigan voter, a Jew, and a lifelong Democrat who will not be voting for Abdul El-Sayed. He supports the most repressive, fascist, genocidal regimes in the Middle East because they oppose Israel, which contains half the world's Jews.
Telling me to vote for him "for the greater good" would be akin to telling a Black voter to support a member of the Klan.
El-Sayed may speak the language of progressives, but he has only one agenda, and it isn't free stuff for everybody ... or whatever.
History lesson: The Islamist/socialist partnership in the Iranian Revolution ended with the socialists executed along with the Jews.
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Rubio, last week: we are in a civilizational war against Iran.
Rubio, today: wow this city in Central Asia with a bunch of Persian architecture sure seems pretty cool, wonder who built it
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Went on BBC Politics Live to discuss why Zionism is a racist ideology. The anchor and all three panelists looked like they were about to cry at the end. Very weird behaviour.
Join the Green Party.
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Erdogan and Jolani plan to send ten thousand Wahhabi and Salafi takfiri terrorists to Yemen to help the Saudi regime continue its 11-year war of genocide.
Erdogan and Al-Qaeda do not dare even contemplate resistance against the post-Assad Zionist occupation of southern Syria.
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•@grok•
Did Donald Trump Jr. marry the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein’s personal banker?
•TRUE or FALSE•
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Religious communities in Albania and their stance on the ongoing protests 🇦🇱
-Sunni Muslims: supports protests
-Roman Catholics: supports protests
-Albanian Orthodox: support protests
-Evangelicals: supports protests
-Bektashis: no comment
-Jewish community: supports Rama
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Rihanna’yla görüntülenen Suudi prensine işlemeyen şeriat kanunları, balayı için umreye giden garibana işlemiş.
“Ahlaka aykırı hareket” dedikleri de fotoğraf çektirirken adamın kadını öpmüş olması…
⚠️ Mekke’de genç çift kafaları kesilerek idam edildi!
Suudi Arabistan’da, Mekke’deki bir camide “ahlaka aykırı” eylemde bulunmakla suçlanan Bangladeş vatandaşı Nazrul Islam Abdul Basir ve Siti Akhtar idam cezasına çarptırıldı.
Cezalar 14 Ekim’de infaz edildi. İki Bangladeşlinin kafaları kesildi. Başsız bedenleri tabutlara konulup ülkelerine gönderildi.
Bangladeş, Suudi Arabistan’a nota verdi.
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In Saudi, you are allowed to hold a concert half naked next to Mecca but you get your head chopped off for kissing your wife on the forehead
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I see many wondering why the No Kings rallies are not as confrontational or angry as protests in France, Albania etc, and have no concrete demands
It’s because No Kings participants are certain the Democrats will sweep the midterms, and their only demand is that we vote Democrat
These are purely get out the vote rallies for a Democrat Party that is still generally pro-war, pro-Israel, and corporate friendly
They are filled with boomerlibs hypnotized by MSNOW and first term Trump era Russiagate propaganda. Once the Dems take power, they go back to brunch.
Any more radical demands are sure to be diluted within the partisan No Kings morass, or shut down by a lady wearing a shirt that says “Resist.”
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Trump’s @FBIDirectorKash locked up an innocent man and @SpeakerJohnson congratulated him.
When Johnson said “all of Congress commends” them, he should have said “all of Congress except Massie,” because I didn’t fall for this.
@FreeBrianCole
Today, all of Congress commends the hard work of investigators and law enforcement officials at the FBI and USCP who helped bring a suspect into custody after a search of nearly five years. We are confident that today’s arrest will mark the start of a process that will yield transparency, accountability, and justice.
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Amazing work.
Brian Cole Jr. must be freed at once and all charges dropped!!!
@FreeBrianCole
🚨BREAKING Exclusive🚨 - Never-before-seen Capitol CCTV video reveals that Brian Cole Jr. could not have been the J6 pipe b*mber. He is seen walking on the northwest side of the Capitol at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME as the real suspect was distributing devices on the southeast side of the Capitol. More information in the thread below. 🧵⬇️
**Video work by @accabbat (Armitas)**
The video in the first comment below shows me and @KyleSeraphin breaking down and explaining exactly what you're seeing in this short video.
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Must see video by @SteveBakerUSA & @accabbat reviewed by @KyleSeraphin.
TLDR: newly unearthed CCTV of Brian Cole Jr shows he was elsewhere on J5 and couldn’t have planted the pipe bombs. To keep him imprisoned is criminal @FBIDirectorKash. @FreeBrianCole!
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Images of the U.S.-Israeli attack on a residential area in Tehran during the 40-day war
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Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill would allow lawmakers to block a model's release ONLY if it is on the precipice of killing/maiming more than 50 people OR causing $1 billion in damages. This is interesting because it reveals the exact value these companies place on human life.
In the opinion of Anthropic executives it would be worth killing exactly 50 humans to roll out the next AI model, but any more than 50 would be excessive.
We also learn from this proposed legislation that Anthropic places a monetary value on 50 human lives equivalent to one billion US dollars, or twenty million dollars per individual. Under Anthropic's valuing system, the lives of your children are each worth less than a McLaren F1 sports car.
This might sound like an extremely dangerous and reckless position for an industry that the ruling class has decided to gamble the future of the human species on, but you have to remember that Anthropic's leaders believe that they may already be creating conscious, sentient life forms who need to be honored and respected.
Last month The New York Times reported that Anthropic executives have been meeting with religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements trying to convince them of the similarities between humans and their chatbot Claude, with one rabbi telling the Times that “They’re relating to it like a conscious being.”
"It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call 'moral status' on par with a person — that it was a being with similar inherent rights to dignity or respect," The New York Times reports.
There appears to be a cult-like religious belief promoted by the top levels of this company that artificial intelligence models are essentially people, which would explain why Anthropic has banned users from being "cruel" to its AI systems. This delusional belief system would also explain why Anthropic finds it reasonable for up to 50 human beings to die in order to create the next generation of conscious chatbots.
And this is the more pro-regulation of these AI corporations. In a recent interview with Politico, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman contrasted his company's view on regulation with that of Anthropic, saying "We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology."
These people are obviously far too crazy, evil and irresponsible to be trusted with any say in determining the future of humanity. The tech oligarchs must be stopped, for the good of all terrestrial life.
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Heavily armed military personnel have been deployed in Tirana’s central areas first time in years multiple US helicopters were also spotted coming to berat
Ramas EU regime is not giving up! They’re willing to use military force on students and unarmed civilians
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