You have strong arguments and I agree with a lot of your points.
However if elections were held right now in the West Bank, Hamas would easily win. A less internally brutal and less corrupt Hamas would always win.
If Israel pulls out, then we need to expect it's going to keep many of the settlements and it's also going to "mow the grass" in the WB like in Gaza and Lebanon.
It's deranged for the Palestinians to do this to themselves, but it always has been. If 20% of our country can believe Trump's obvious lies then it's reasonable for a higher percentage of them to believe they can win.
The real question is whether Israel going to war occasionally and doing to the WB what it's doing to Gaza is really a better solution than this corrosive settlement thing.
The purpose of schools is to help my kid(s) and make her life better. Ideally that means "reach their potential". I don't understand why other parents refuse to own that answer, it's clear and what a lot of us believe.
RE: there must be students who are at the bottom of the distribution – that is, bad at school
Not my kid. When I have had my kids start to fail at school and/or had the school system drop the ball, I've stepped in.
RE: “Should the best teachers teach the best-performing students or the worst?,”
They should teach my kid. If that's a bad match then we do something else.
RE: promote social justice while they’re young
I'm not opposed but it's not my problem so these efforts need to not get in the way of my kid.
RE: endless controversies like those concerning the SAT
The SAT is a messenger. Disliking the message doesn't change the reality.
RE: the key mechanism through which society moves people out of poverty and promotes equality
Having parents who focus on their kids success is a massive advantage that the school system can't equalize.
Chris: I don’t think the right of return requires that the people be scattered.
All of the serious players who would have to live with this strongly disagree with you.
No one there wants an non-ethnic state, they just disagree on whether it will be Jewish or Islamic.
Realistically if Israel becomes an Islamic republic, then it won't end well for the Jews. Just like it didn't end well for them in any of the surrounding states.
North: Compared to that the talk about rights of return is just that- talk. It’s useful only as an excuse to not resolve the West Bank.
Sure. We should sit down and give the Palestinians a chance to make peace again.
However they made it clear the Trump peace plan was totally unacceptable because it would have the Right of Return only to the Palestinian homeland and not destroy Israel.
So Israel would need to pull out without a peace deal like they did in Gaza (and maybe Lebanon) and run the risk that they'd instantly see terror camps set up.
So... we'd have to hope real hard that the PA would be corrupt enough to be bought off, be find being totally unpopular, and competent enough to put down Hamas (etc) without Israel's help.
There is an ethical difference between saying there will be no peace unless a country is destroyed and it's people scattered and there will be no peace unless that doesn't happen.
The problem isn't that the interviewer said it’d belong in the backpack of an extremist, the problem is it seems he was correct.
We have a best selling book by a "high level" author that said Israel doesn't have a right to be an ethnostate, i.e. to be Jewish. He seems to not know the Arab states are ethnostates nor that the Palestinians have constantly engaged in terrorism.
The narrative he's "giving a voice" to is that of the extremists. I.e. that Israel doesn't have a right to exist and all Palestinian violence is justified because Jews shouldn't be in the Middle East.
Yes, looks that way. The amount buzz words without enough research to justify a wiki page is strongly suggestive.
For someone who should be treated a lot more seriously, listen to Roland G. Fryer Jr. He's that Harvard Economist who collects data about things like DEI so he can point out where they're right and wrong.
Expert in...
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Google's AI says:...???
Oh. She has the exact same name as an actress. Amusingly Google's robot says she's a DEI professor, actress, and a dance instructor who started out as a law student.
Both of them have pictures so I can see they're different people.
It is much more likely that government forecasters got the storm and its devastating results wrong. Incompetence? Certainly.
I live in South Florida. I've been here for three hurricane predictions.
On the first two we didn't get a drop of water. This time we got some wind and rain and the schools closed on Thursday. The hurricane hit north of us by a 5 hour drive away and the impacted zone must be at least 15 hours away.
The margin of error in these predictions is very large. The area of effect is crazy big.
I'm reasonably sure the gov is doing what it can, however in a disaster this big there will be problems for weeks or months.
For what it's worth, I googled "israel's plans for gaza after the war wiki" and the AI came up with...
Israel's Post-War Gaza Plans
Based on the provided search results, here is a summary of Israel’s plans for Gaza after the war:
Temporary Administration: Israel plans to temporarily administer Gaza, establishing security, removing Hamas’ control of civil governance, and starting Gaza’s physical and social reconstruction.
Strategic Objectives: Any plan for post-war Gaza should:
Prevent future Hamas- and Gaza-based attacks by conventional, terrorist, or asymmetric means.
End the cycle of wars between Israelis and Gazans.
Security Control: Israel intends to maintain security control over Palestinian areas in Gaza, as outlined in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “day after” plan.
Demilitarization: Reconstruction efforts in Gaza will be dependent on demilitarization, implying that Israel will insist on the disarming of Hamas and other militant groups.
Transition to Local Governance: The ultimate goal is to transition to local Palestinian governance and security responsibility once conditions are met, allowing for a more stable and secure environment.
It is essential to note that these plans are subject to change and may be influenced by various factors, including international pressure, diplomatic efforts, and the evolving situation on the ground.
I think we're in "part of the human condition" territory here and not "mental illness". There are too many people who think irrationally about politics, religion, and their combo.
Some of her legal drama suggests we can add "unethical" to her list which might be the real problem. She tried some illegal stuff (maybe in the heat of the moment, maybe not), got caught, and is now trying to drama her way through it.
Holy books explain very little about the culture. The books are flexible enough to be on every side of every issue. Ergo the Christians can reasonably claim OT is cruel by quoting selectively and the Jews can claim the opposite also by quoting selectively.
If you want to counter claim with the NT then everything about torturing his son to death up on the cross is fair game.
Big picture your culture is for helping your people. Part of that is a degree of isolation so you don't assimilate so there's that.
RE: Polish Citizenship
My kids got Polish citizenship when they were babies. Their mother insisted.
That's worked out really well, most don't speak enough Polish to get it now. Two of them live in the EU.
Chris: That level of forced ethnic cleansing should be rectified.
I can't think of anywhere this has been attempted much less made things better. The creation of every country is a crime. The land was always owned by someone else.
Normally we forgive countries the crime of their creation because it requires a war to move the borders back and because countries are good things.
Further, we're not talking about rectifying all ethnic cleansing. The countries that kicked out their Jews won't make it up to them. The Jews are expected to always be on the losing side.
The crimes of the father don't transfer onto his children. My children shouldn't be compensated for anything that happened to their grandparents and they shouldn't be expected to pay for anything their grandparents did. If it happened 70 years ago then it's a settled issue.
Chris: the best way to get them to stop killing each other is for Israel to end the Occupation, blockade, and siege...
And what happens on day two when the various terror groups continue attempting to terrorize Jews into fleeing the Middle East?
Those groups mean what they say. The state of Israel has the duty to protect it's citizens from terror groups. These groups are not fighting to become minorities in a Jewish state.
Chip: We know what the consequences of not dealing with them are and they are much much worse.
No, it's not more expensive to do nothing because doing nothing is free and most of them will muddle through on their own. For every 1 we send to prison there are another 30x plus that we don't.
You'll get a budget to help them. It won't be enough. Some will get helped. A lot won't. Most of the ones helped will be kids that respond/want to be helped.
We don't have the budget to spend unlimited amounts of money on kids that don't respond to help.
It is better for society if the money that we could spend on helping them fail less bad was spent making the high achievers go further.
Giving me (& my clan) the tools we need to force the administration to serve children better help everyone.
Ideally the school improves. At a minimum I'm not forced to flee the school district.
Although the source of a lot of school inequality, my clan also creates enriching activities. The baseball coach does it to help his kid but there are 8+ other kids on the team.
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/7/2024”
You have strong arguments and I agree with a lot of your points.
However if elections were held right now in the West Bank, Hamas would easily win. A less internally brutal and less corrupt Hamas would always win.
If Israel pulls out, then we need to expect it's going to keep many of the settlements and it's also going to "mow the grass" in the WB like in Gaza and Lebanon.
It's deranged for the Palestinians to do this to themselves, but it always has been. If 20% of our country can believe Trump's obvious lies then it's reasonable for a higher percentage of them to believe they can win.
The real question is whether Israel going to war occasionally and doing to the WB what it's doing to Gaza is really a better solution than this corrosive settlement thing.
On “From Freddie: The Basics: School Reform”
The purpose of schools is to help my kid(s) and make her life better. Ideally that means "reach their potential". I don't understand why other parents refuse to own that answer, it's clear and what a lot of us believe.
RE: there must be students who are at the bottom of the distribution – that is, bad at school
Not my kid. When I have had my kids start to fail at school and/or had the school system drop the ball, I've stepped in.
RE: “Should the best teachers teach the best-performing students or the worst?,”
They should teach my kid. If that's a bad match then we do something else.
RE: promote social justice while they’re young
I'm not opposed but it's not my problem so these efforts need to not get in the way of my kid.
RE: endless controversies like those concerning the SAT
The SAT is a messenger. Disliking the message doesn't change the reality.
RE: the key mechanism through which society moves people out of poverty and promotes equality
Having parents who focus on their kids success is a massive advantage that the school system can't equalize.
On “Hurricane Milton: Live Stream, Updates, and Discussion”
I can see the trees dance in the wind. I'm also 120 miles South and East from the expected ground zero.
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/7/2024”
Chris: I don’t think the right of return requires that the people be scattered.
All of the serious players who would have to live with this strongly disagree with you.
No one there wants an non-ethnic state, they just disagree on whether it will be Jewish or Islamic.
Realistically if Israel becomes an Islamic republic, then it won't end well for the Jews. Just like it didn't end well for them in any of the surrounding states.
"
North: Compared to that the talk about rights of return is just that- talk. It’s useful only as an excuse to not resolve the West Bank.
Sure. We should sit down and give the Palestinians a chance to make peace again.
However they made it clear the Trump peace plan was totally unacceptable because it would have the Right of Return only to the Palestinian homeland and not destroy Israel.
So Israel would need to pull out without a peace deal like they did in Gaza (and maybe Lebanon) and run the risk that they'd instantly see terror camps set up.
So... we'd have to hope real hard that the PA would be corrupt enough to be bought off, be find being totally unpopular, and competent enough to put down Hamas (etc) without Israel's help.
"
There is an ethical difference between saying there will be no peace unless a country is destroyed and it's people scattered and there will be no peace unless that doesn't happen.
"
Judge sentences defiant Tina Peters to 9 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXqkOM5Vbbw
"
There is a massive contradiction between "we demand a robust Right of Return and refuse peace without it" and "we don't want a massive war".
However both of those things are correct.
The problem is when you say "we need a robust RoR" you are also saying "Israel needs to be gone" (what Lee said).
Various groups hide that from themselves and/or others. Others try to live the reality and destroy Israel.
"
Agreed.
"
It's a fringe in the American Further Left.
If we're talking about the Arab street in the surrounding countries much less Gaza/WB, then it's pretty mainstream.
"
The problem isn't that the interviewer said it’d belong in the backpack of an extremist, the problem is it seems he was correct.
We have a best selling book by a "high level" author that said Israel doesn't have a right to be an ethnostate, i.e. to be Jewish. He seems to not know the Arab states are ethnostates nor that the Palestinians have constantly engaged in terrorism.
The narrative he's "giving a voice" to is that of the extremists. I.e. that Israel doesn't have a right to exist and all Palestinian violence is justified because Jews shouldn't be in the Middle East.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
Yes, looks that way. The amount buzz words without enough research to justify a wiki page is strongly suggestive.
For someone who should be treated a lot more seriously, listen to Roland G. Fryer Jr. He's that Harvard Economist who collects data about things like DEI so he can point out where they're right and wrong.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/roland-fryer-refuses-to-lie-to-black-america/
I found this to be a very good listen.
"
Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui
Expert in...
Islamophobia, Race and ethnicity, Ethno-religious identity, Immigration, Social Justice, Gender, Mental health, Media representation, Politics, Refugees, Extremism, Radicalisation, Community engagement, Public speaking, Leadership
Dr. Ghaffar-Siddiqui is a globally recognized multiple award-winning public-speaker, media pundit, researcher, and a passionate social justice advocate. As well as being a professor of sociology, criminology, and criminal-psychology, she is currently directing one of Canada’s largest government-funded Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives at Colleges and Institutes Canada’s National EDI Knowledge Mobilization Centre hosted at Sheridan College...
As a postcolonial scholar, her intersectional research concentrates on the impacts of colonialism and imperialism on the lives of diasporic peoples in the West. Focusing in the areas of migration, race/ethnicity and ethno-religio identity,...
Dr Ghaffar-Siddiqui’s ongoing contribution to knowledge building around anti-racism and decolonization studies includes many academic, legislative, and editorial publications. ...
Google's AI says:...???
Oh. She has the exact same name as an actress. Amusingly Google's robot says she's a DEI professor, actress, and a dance instructor who started out as a law student.
Both of them have pictures so I can see they're different people.
"
I don't understand what her point even is. That post reads like it's a conclusion where I'm missing ten pages of introduction and 30 pages of body.
What "colonies", what "freedom", what "empire", what "tools".
"
Israel's plans at the moment are "win the war and take over".
That's pretty normal and should be expected since the alternative is "leave Hamas in charge and wait for the next mass terror attack".
Hamas doesn't care about it's people, isn't going to surrender, and intends to win by dragging the war on.
This could drag on for months or even years.
If various people insist on a "cease fire", then we should expect that Israel is going to prevent Hamas from rearming and digging more tunnels.
Which would mean no rebuilding infrastructure and Gaza is going to be kept in poverty.
On “Of Conspiracy Theories and Helene”
It is much more likely that government forecasters got the storm and its devastating results wrong. Incompetence? Certainly.
I live in South Florida. I've been here for three hurricane predictions.
On the first two we didn't get a drop of water. This time we got some wind and rain and the schools closed on Thursday. The hurricane hit north of us by a 5 hour drive away and the impacted zone must be at least 15 hours away.
The margin of error in these predictions is very large. The area of effect is crazy big.
I'm reasonably sure the gov is doing what it can, however in a disaster this big there will be problems for weeks or months.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
For what it's worth, I googled "israel's plans for gaza after the war wiki" and the AI came up with...
Israel's Post-War Gaza Plans
Based on the provided search results, here is a summary of Israel’s plans for Gaza after the war:
Temporary Administration: Israel plans to temporarily administer Gaza, establishing security, removing Hamas’ control of civil governance, and starting Gaza’s physical and social reconstruction.
Strategic Objectives: Any plan for post-war Gaza should:
Prevent future Hamas- and Gaza-based attacks by conventional, terrorist, or asymmetric means.
End the cycle of wars between Israelis and Gazans.
Security Control: Israel intends to maintain security control over Palestinian areas in Gaza, as outlined in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “day after” plan.
Demilitarization: Reconstruction efforts in Gaza will be dependent on demilitarization, implying that Israel will insist on the disarming of Hamas and other militant groups.
Transition to Local Governance: The ultimate goal is to transition to local Palestinian governance and security responsibility once conditions are met, allowing for a more stable and secure environment.
It is essential to note that these plans are subject to change and may be influenced by various factors, including international pressure, diplomatic efforts, and the evolving situation on the ground.
"
I think we're in "part of the human condition" territory here and not "mental illness". There are too many people who think irrationally about politics, religion, and their combo.
Some of her legal drama suggests we can add "unethical" to her list which might be the real problem. She tried some illegal stuff (maybe in the heat of the moment, maybe not), got caught, and is now trying to drama her way through it.
"
Her wiki has a massive amount of drama and interactions with the law. I'd say we're in mental illness territory but it seems deliberate.
She seems like someone who should be in prison for her various crimes so good going legal system.
"
Oh, and Hell is a NT thing. That raises "cruel" to infinity.
"
Holy books explain very little about the culture. The books are flexible enough to be on every side of every issue. Ergo the Christians can reasonably claim OT is cruel by quoting selectively and the Jews can claim the opposite also by quoting selectively.
If you want to counter claim with the NT then everything about torturing his son to death up on the cross is fair game.
Big picture your culture is for helping your people. Part of that is a degree of isolation so you don't assimilate so there's that.
"
RE: Polish Citizenship
My kids got Polish citizenship when they were babies. Their mother insisted.
That's worked out really well, most don't speak enough Polish to get it now. Two of them live in the EU.
Chris: That level of forced ethnic cleansing should be rectified.
I can't think of anywhere this has been attempted much less made things better. The creation of every country is a crime. The land was always owned by someone else.
Normally we forgive countries the crime of their creation because it requires a war to move the borders back and because countries are good things.
Further, we're not talking about rectifying all ethnic cleansing. The countries that kicked out their Jews won't make it up to them. The Jews are expected to always be on the losing side.
The crimes of the father don't transfer onto his children. My children shouldn't be compensated for anything that happened to their grandparents and they shouldn't be expected to pay for anything their grandparents did. If it happened 70 years ago then it's a settled issue.
Chris: the best way to get them to stop killing each other is for Israel to end the Occupation, blockade, and siege...
And what happens on day two when the various terror groups continue attempting to terrorize Jews into fleeing the Middle East?
Those groups mean what they say. The state of Israel has the duty to protect it's citizens from terror groups. These groups are not fighting to become minorities in a Jewish state.
"
Chip: We know what the consequences of not dealing with them are and they are much much worse.
No, it's not more expensive to do nothing because doing nothing is free and most of them will muddle through on their own. For every 1 we send to prison there are another 30x plus that we don't.
You'll get a budget to help them. It won't be enough. Some will get helped. A lot won't. Most of the ones helped will be kids that respond/want to be helped.
We don't have the budget to spend unlimited amounts of money on kids that don't respond to help.
It is better for society if the money that we could spend on helping them fail less bad was spent making the high achievers go further.
"
Chip: School choice has nothing to offer them.
Giving me (& my clan) the tools we need to force the administration to serve children better help everyone.
Ideally the school improves. At a minimum I'm not forced to flee the school district.
Although the source of a lot of school inequality, my clan also creates enriching activities. The baseball coach does it to help his kid but there are 8+ other kids on the team.
On “Let’s face it: We knew that Harris would win back in August”
Trumpism is Obama-ism. There is one guy and his followers buy into him emotionally to the point where they ignore they don't have a good reason.
Difference is Obama was far more ethical, saner, stayed inside the guard rails, and didn't want to be a cult leader past the election.
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