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- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
I think he is making a joke that OP is, in fact, the Chinese bot
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 6 days ago:
You’re just flat out lying at this point lol. 21-23% of the entire Israeli Jewish population is first-generation immigrants; 30-35% is second-generation, direct offspring of immigrants; 30-35% is third-generation; 10-15% is fourth-generation; under 5% is fifth generation or beyond. These are numbers are from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. There’s also statistics that rather say 40-45% are third-generation with much less being fourth-generation or beyond, but with around the same amount or slightly less being first and second generation – I find the former estimates far more reasonable though. It’s estimated around 90-97% of Israeli Jews are descended from immigrants in the past century.
A majority of Israeli Jews are descended from immigrants of several Aliyah (immigration to “Zion” from outside of the lands of Palestine/Israel, practically starting from 1882 but mostly ramping up around the start of the British/Israeli oppression of Palestinians in the region in the early and mid 1900s). The most conservative estimates say that around 50-70% of Israel’s Jewish population growth since 1900 came from immigration, with most of the rest of the population growth coming from recent immigrants having children.
A significant portion of Israeli Jews came from immigration in the 90s, especially from the Soviet Union after its collapse – 1.4-1.6 million Jews (compared to Israel’s total current Jewish population of around 7.4 million) immigrated to Israel following the collapse of the USSR. Over a fifth of the entire Israeli Jewish population in just the span of one generation.
It’s crazy for you to try to state that modern Israelis aren’t primarily (nearly exclusively) descended from relatively recent immigrants.
- Comment on It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem 1 week ago:
Yes, the whole meme is read in full, what is the problem?
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 1 week ago:
Even worse, because the Kingdom of Israel stopped existing 3000 years ago. Modern Israelis have zero connection to ancient Israel
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 1 week ago:
Considering after 15 seconds of looking at your profile, there’s this…
yeah I think it’s pretty obvious
The only ones to concern troll about their targets to that extent and complain about everything that doesn’t align with their political views being “too political” are conservatives. You aren’t concerned about the wellbeing of anyone, you want to exterminate the “others” and think you’re smart by using the most basic manipulation tactic of conservatives – feigning concern for the welfare of the people you want to get rid of.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
It is a nuanced topic that requires understanding of certain history. There is no TL;DR
- Comment on :D 1 week ago:
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 1 month ago:
i find it funny how the animals more related to humans are the more ruthlessly violent ones. apparently bonobos are much more violent than chimps, and orangutans are less violent than gorillas
- Comment on Vit K 1 month ago:
and that’s why you have your appendix
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 month ago:
Yeah this is a reason I think this is dumb. Who decides what a woman is here? Australia doesn’t even have bathroom laws discriminating against trans people as far as I know. How do they enforce this, by just telling people who they think look too much like a man to leave? By asking for their ID and only allowing in people who legally changed their gender?
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 month ago:
aktschually mercury is the sun’s moon
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I don’t like explicitly stating “cherry-picking”/“strawman”/“ad hominem”/other fallacies because people seem to have a visceral reaction to seeing those words, probably are confused as to what they actually are and are assuming you’re just throwing out random fallacies to conveniently discredit any arguments with no basis, and will refuse to consider the rest of the stuff they read
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
The same reason people hate leftists, feminists, etc. An image the right cultivated of the group, out of convenient easily-hateable annoying people in it that they could use to create a generalization/stereotype out of.
I’ll make a comparison. Conservative/“anti-sjw” thumbnails often have a picture of some angry-looking rainbow haired woman, usually the same few, in order to be like “look how irrational and crazy these feminazis are, she must hate men so much” and like 4 out of 5 of those times it’s a picture of a woman that was protesting a literal neo-nazi gathering or something. Same kind of thing happens with vegans, you have the same 10 or so internet vegans people use to portray veganism, and when they’re confronted about it they say “I don’t hate veganism, I just hate the annoying vegans” then they go onto Twitter to complain about the vegans and how they’re irrational for not eating meat and their brains must be de-evolving or something
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
You don’t have to be a techie to see it. There’s a button right below the email text box saying “Add a user without a Microsoft account”. Sure if you don’t care about privacy then you might not notice it, but it’s pretty hard to miss if you actually don’t want to use an email. Microsoft sucks but don’t spread misinformation.
- Comment on 40-year-old delivers for DoorDash to help pay down her $100,000 student loan debt—on top of her full-time job 1 month ago:
Most 4-year universities in the US average around $15k after federal aid, plus rent in a city like Boston or Atlanta will probably cost you a lot more than $15k per year, not including cost of living. Interest rates for student loans can range between 4% and 17% monthly. $100,000 is a little high but very realistic.
- Comment on 40-year-old delivers for DoorDash to help pay down her $100,000 student loan debt—on top of her full-time job 1 month ago:
Be sure not to say that out loud before you do it though… taking out loans with the intention of jumping the country and never repaying them could end up with you wanted for fraud. Unlikely it’ll matter if you never come back, but it could bite you in the ass.
- Comment on 40-year-old delivers for DoorDash to help pay down her $100,000 student loan debt—on top of her full-time job 1 month ago:
In Norway, student loans are interest-free until you’re out of college.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 1 month ago:
Yep, even a lot of people who were progressives in their time period end up thinking this way. Like Ruth Bader.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 1 month ago:
This is how a majority of extremely old people think. To them, what was true in their childhood is always true.
- Comment on arthropods 1 month ago:
anomalocaris anomalocaris anomalocaris
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 1 month ago:
Physics, chemistry, biology, whatever other physical sciences are all the same thing when you get down to it, just a different applications of it for describing different things…
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 1 month ago:
… complicated?
- Comment on A universal basic income to the ultra wealthy would be perceived by them as being given a couple pennies every month 2 months ago:
“left propaganda” BAHAHAHA that’s like complaining about seeing people use science in their daily lives and calling it science propoganda
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 2 months ago:
twitter has fomo?