It’s a very good morning. Nice to have a little bit of hope that things can get better.

I’m not really sure what that adds.

When you declare war, as Hamas did on October 7th, you don’t get to set the terms of your own surrender.

I wasn’t aware of that link.

Very grim…

The majority of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi Jews who fled to Israel after almost all of them, some 850,000 in total, were expelled or pressured out of Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries from 1948 through the 1950s. About 72% (650,000) settled in Israel.

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

The notion that Jewish Israelis are just Europeans is a profoundly racist and ignorant belief.

Blaming Jews for the antisemitism they experience is antisemitism 101, buddy.

That’s is a blind ideological position, with a very poor evidence base, that frankly is wearing pretty thin across the entire continent.

Sweden is currently dealing with its capital city turned into the gun-murder capital of Europe by drug-trafficking gangs who are migrants and ‘refugees’. France and Germany have both suffered numerous appalling mass terrorist atrocities in recent years. You had an Algerian-born man go into a school in Ireland and stab a bunch of children just last year.

Antisemitism is skyrocketing with appalling hate crimes against Jews, and it’s largely coming from Muslim communities who’ve done nothing to address the frightening levels of antisemitism within their communities.

These are issues that need to be addressed. The levels of extremism among immigrant communities are a threat to many European countries, and there has to be a way to fix the problems that exist in that respect. If you’re just going to ignore these problems, other people are going to point them out and begin to address them, and you’re going to lose the argument in the real world, not just online.

I think suggesting they’re proposing killing is a wild overstatement, but the prospect of mass deportations of German citizens – people born in Germany – is really disturbing.

I’m so sorry. I’m keeping your friend and all the other hostages in my prayers.

There’s no evidence this was Israel. Iran has plenty of enemies in the Middle East.

Anything to add beside a snide comment?

I’m not a libertarian, I’m a social democrat.

The last century has been a total and unmitigated disaster for Argentina. The two options Argentinians had in this election were:

1. More of the same by the guy who oversaw inflation reaching 160% (100% chance of things getting worse)
2. A total wild card (99.9% chance of things getting worse)

Unsurprisingly, they went for the latter. I don’t think anti-libertarians get to gloat in this context, given it’s the Argentinian establishment which has overseen one of the most remarkable examples of total state-collapse and economic failure in modern history.

Also Threads is just incredibly corporate. There’s zero discoverability which means it’s all just celebrities and major news organisations, which isn’t a fun place to be for most people.