Amoxtli

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[–] Amoxtli -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Israel is not a liberal democracy. The “State of Israel” is an ethnic-state. That was the purpose since the beginning. People can assume it is a liberal democracy, then those people would lack common sense. Israel is a country for the Jews to control. An ethnocracy can be totally secular and not be religious. The article uses Western terms that does not fully capture the mindset. The Israeli elites are not ultra-orthodox. If the Israeli lobby is any indication, these Israelis who are moving due to security situation, are still partial to the state of Israel. The state of Israel is one of those priorities that many Jews, even non-Jews, think is important. And that is why Israel has such a powerful lobby within the US. It is basically the 51st state of the US while being autonomous. A liberal democracy is equality under the law and suffrage for all. Israel isn't that, and if these people value liberal democracy over the ethnic homeland, there are plenty of Western countries for that.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 5 months ago

Israel is the 51st state of the US. It is a rogue, autonomous US state with its own national budget and military. That is the best way to think of Israel's relationship with the US.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The reason people vote for Trump and Bernie Sanders is because Americans felt stupid voting for people like Micheal Steele over the years. I wonder if he does not understand this, or he does know this, and just wants to insult people into not voting for an anti-establishment candidate.

[–] Amoxtli -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There were many streams of Judaism in ancient times, and they were not as closed off as they are today. Jews converted other people. The major distinction between Judaism and that of Christianity and Islam is the sense of universalism. The concerns of Jews are mostly toward Jews. Not outwardly toward non-Jews. It is a covenant with God. Christianity and Islam proselytize for universal reasons. For Christians, to save the souls of people against the eternal damnation of the original sin and to seek eternal existence with God. For Islam, it is to expand the community of Muslims, and in a similar Abrahamic eschatology, to prepare mankind for the end times, which strangely involve Jesus. In belligerent times, more Muslim recruits for war.

Christianity was a religion for the lower strata of society. In a world, where poverty was considered normal, and frowned upon. Poverty, disease, and oppression were considered a deserved affliction. It was a world without compassion. Entire economies were run by slavery and a Roman, saw it as his duty, without any doubt, to discipline his rebelling slave, because of what is at stake. Since there were more poor people and downtrodden people, Christianity spread like wildfire. It was not a religion just for the elites and the rich, whose gods were only concerned with superior things, even pettiness. This type of morality is the basis for Marxism, feminism, communism, etc., because the New Testament is about Jesus being against oppression, regressive taxes against the poor, and treating people equally, and against corruption. The poor in Christianity have a special purchase on the rich. For the Romans, who were looking for a religion to unify the empire, saw Christianity as the most marketed religion, and made it a state religion for that purpose.

I think Islam started as a war booty army that expanded control of ceded territory by the bankrupt Eastern Romans, who sacrificed much to lay a technical defeat on the Sasanian Empire. The Saracens, who were anti-Roman as pagans, and even as Christianized tribes afterward, they were known as thieves who robbed the caravans of the Eastern Romans. That culture was palpable to the Turks. It is important to note that the evolution of Islam involved different factions of people. For the example, the Turks, the Saracens, the Persians, etc. The Qur'an is a collection of heretical literature and theologies that are not mainstream Christianity today, but were in significant communities under the thumb of the Eastern Roman rule, who had a policy of orthodoxy. What was to become Islam, was originally anti-Trinitarian Christianity. The Qur'an contains mostly a Christological polemic against other Christians. If you were anti-Roman, how fitting it is to be against Trinitarian Romans by being non-Trinitarian. I digress.

For the Jews not having any type of universal mission for mankind in general, this was a disposition of being dominated by those religions that were universal.

[–] Amoxtli -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It is a transmission line that is part of the overall national strategy to increase reliability and connectivity. The ERCOT market is different from the rest of the country, which is a federal jurisdiction. Different rules that make electrical trade illegal/incompatible. For the ERCOT market, it means it can, under emergency request, draw energy from MISO-S region, instead of burning coal & oil emergency stockpiles. While the same line provides additional reliability and throughput for the MISO-S region.

[–] Amoxtli -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How about Venezuela do better? Nobody personally owes these people anything. When there is a need, then she will be hired. How about you hire these people instead of just badmouthing other people because you think you are morally superior? Talk is more than cheap, it is free. There are many illegal immigrants in the US who earn money, they pay their own rent, and they are illegal. What this says about this woman, in particular, is she has no reputable job skills in a country saturated with job skills. She had the wrong impression if she thought earning money in America was easy. The clues as to why these migrants come from abject poverty are found in this anecdotal story. Including clues why Latin America constantly votes in leftist governments.

[–] Amoxtli -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you read the article, you would have answered your own question.

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