🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Just a reminder, Palestinians show 81% to 87% genetic heritage with natives who lived on the land from the time Ancient Israel existed. In other words, they literally have scientific proof they are natives from the land that continued to live in the area for over 4400 years.

To quote wikipedia:

Palestinians, among other Levantine groups, were found to derive 81–87% of their ancestry from Bronze age Levantines, relating to Canaanites as well as Kura–Araxes culture impact from before 2400 BCE (4400 years before present)

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30487-6

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

#Palestine #Israel

@Greengordon

Again you have it backwards, Billionairs dont result from an oligopoly, quite the opposite, they result from highly competitive markets. Though you are right an oligopoly often can form when rich people take advantage of the short comings of a society and use it to corrupt said society, just as the middle class in such a society also take advantage over the poor.

The problem is having a society with a flat that allows people with money to corrupt society, if thats the case you have an issue regardless of if billionaires exist. If you have a healthy society then you have no such issue even when billionaires do exist.

@chrismarkevich

@Greengordon @chrismarkevich

Only if there are fundemental problems inthe society to begin which is built to unfairly give advantage to the wealthy. If that exists the problem is severe at any level of wealth inequality, and in fact is **more** noticable at the divide between poor and middle class in such a scenario.

While you are right, that inequalities exist in that situation the solution isnt "dont let some people be more successful financially than others". The solution is to make sure society doesnt get built in a way that the rich have an advantage.

One simple example, if you have tickets taht are fixed rate fines (like $500), that gives the middle class power over the poor. However when the punishment isnt financial (like a week community service) then no matter how much money you have you arent at any advantage in that scenario. You dont fix the problem by preventing people from being financially successful, you fix the inequalities in society that allow the middle class to take advantage over the poor.

@chrismarkevich Wealth inequality is NOT a problem. A low quality of life for the poorest in society is. These are not the same thing. Other people having more money doesnt mean you have less, wealth is not a fixed quantity where you have to take from one for another to have, thats not how wealth works.

@AlphaKiloPapa @chris

I get that... chicken is a bit nasty to work with.

@chris I mean, there is no doubt with skin and bones you will get a juicier cut due to all the fat.. that said, not every meal needs a fatty cut. If im making, say blackened chicken the skin is a downgrade.

@dangillmor

There are certainly plenty of people who are going to be frauds and scammers and all that... But ti imply all hedge funds and private equity are all "economic looters" is just lunacy.

@splitshockvirus @theorytoe

Throw in a 1911 and some suspenders and it is a perfect likeness :)

@theorytoe

Every single in US history (8 in total 6 that actually count) where there was much of any significant movement to support a third party, they win, and the exiting primary parties in almost all cases never won another election since.

The problem is as long as people keep buying en masse the conspiracy theory its a two party system you will always have that outcome, because people are dumb enought o be manipulated by the lie en masse to begin with.

@splitshockvirus

Ha, a nice apocolypse theme to match the current ambiance I guess :)

Pretty much, they cant even vote third party they love the propaganda so much, cant expect them to do much more than this.

@customdesigned Huh? Most everyone was aware there were regular vaccine (non mRNA) and they were available since the very beginning. I avoided the mRNA myself because it was new tech, and had access to non-mRNA choices since the get go. the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was non-mRNA for example as were several others.

@customdesigned Nah thats complete BS for almost every antivaxer (though perhaps you are an exception)... When th antivaxer loons when full speed was during COVID and they were against **all** the covid-19 vacines despite the fact that several were not mRNA based, and they attacked those along side the others often citing nonsense statistics across all the vaccines.

@dick

I have never showed favoritism over either side in my life here, always laughed and scoffed when people call Nazi and all the other nonsense. This was the first time it all seemed very very real. Even radical countries like North Korea came across more mature than us in this meeting.

@xyfdi

@dick

Of course not, why would he have to, he won without needing to attack, thats how pathetic we are right now.

@xyfdi

@xyfdi

Atleast he fought back, unlike the USA, Putin owns our ass without firing a shot. Trump truely is a pathetic weak little man.

@dick

@xyfdi

I guess your right, Trump is just sucking putin's dick like a lollipop at this point.

It feels a lot like kids bullying on a playground, like I said, but really its putin doing the bullying, we are just the little dickless numbnut standing next to the bully going "yea! good one" every time the bully lands a blow.

@dick

@xyfdi

Russia cant even win against Ukraine, they havent even tested the whole of the EU. The smart move would be to stand against such an evil power that can barely win a war against a tiny little country.

Also my how far we have come since the heros that stood up against hitler, clearly the more powerful entity at the time. Now we (or at least you) are ready to kiss the invaders feet because they appear to have more teeth.