It took a turn at the end there....
anarchotoothbrushist
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Best way to incentivize the major parties to introduce ranked choice voting is to vote third party anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did the people downvoting this post even watch the video?
It's been a while since I watched it, but I think it'd be accurate to say the TL;DW is basically that we shouldn't care about 'left unity' if that means abandoning vulnerable people and reliquishing our deepest values. Essentially, if 'the left' doesn't deliver safety for us and the people we love, then 'the left' can suck it.
I would have thought people on an anarchism community could appreciate that, and if they don't, then they need to do some thinking, and maybe learn some history to see how anarchists have responded to demands of 'unity' and been persecuted in its name.
You probably just want to get on the email lists of local organisations (activist groups, minor political parties, union councils, etc.).
They will often cross-promote each other so you'll be made aware of other organisations through them.
It doesn't says by who until the 4th paragraph, information that should be in the headline
It's not both sides doing the same thing. Israel has been displacing, brutalising and killing Palestinians for 70 years. Israel has a modern army, a modern air force, nuclear weapons and a functional economy.
Since 1948, Israel has taken the vast majority of the land and continues to chip away at what little remains to Palestinians through illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Gaza is an open air prison that Israel constantly surveils and bombs, controls who and what gets in and out and even regulates how many calories per day Gazans are allowed.
It's not both sides doing the same thing. It's a settler colonial apartheid state brutalising an indigenous people who are holding on for dear life.
It’s just a war about a magical sky God, and his magical holy land
No it's not. It's about settler colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
Many states in the U.S. have 'proof of surgery' requirements before they will legally recognize people's trans people's gender identity: https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/identity_document_laws
A surprisingly large number of countries: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/09/01/why-transgender-people-are-being-sterilised-in-some-european-countries (paywall jumping archive link: https://archive.is/K336g)
Switzerland, Greece and 18 other, mostly eastern European, countries have a final hurdle: sterilisation.
In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you're describing is 'settler colonialism'. It differs from 'exploitation colonialism' in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.