I’m a German guy from Berlin, next year I’ll be 50. My dad was born in 1944 and it’s pretty safe to say he survived being cut off from food supplies by the Soviets only because Americans pulled off the Berlin Airlift. These brave pilots helped save the lives of people they had considered enemies not much earlier.

So I would not be alive were it not for Americans. Am I indebted to America? Fuck yes, of course I am.

Having said all that, it’s so painful to see America turn to fascism - the very thing those GIs you mention fought against. A country I love, people I love, losing their minds and their hearts. Literally turning evil, led by a criminal lunatic who so obviously follows the demagogue playbook…

I’m a fucking snob so I spend way too much money on expensive single malts and gyokuro green tea.

A rule that asks users to post before they leave seems arbitrary, that’s why it’s confusing to me. If people only post because it’s rule, I thought a logical consequence would be tons of posts of low quality.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does “leave” mean in this context? Before I leave what?

I got banned on Lefty Memes for asking for evidence. :)

I’m here for over a year and I still don’t get much of what’s going on here.

For example, why posts are titled “rule”.

Well well well.

Suppose a normal violin has strings of ~33cm length. The E-string would have a frequency of ~660 Hz. Let’s shrink that down to tardigrade dimensions (according to Google, it’s about 400μm).

I’m just going to assume the tardigrade violin has a string length of 60μm.

The frequency of strings also depends on tensile stress and mass density - let’s just assume that these scale proportionally.

So we can use the formula: f∝1/L (basically means, half the size means double the frequency).

Let’s calculate the scale factor s for the frequency:

L(real) = 330mm, f(real) = 660 Hz L(tardi) = 60μm.

s = L(real) / L(tardi) = 0.33 / 6 * 10⁻⁵ = 5500.

This means that the frequency of the tardigrade E-string would be:

f(tardi) = f(real) * s = f(real) * 5500 = 660Hz * 5500 = 3,630,000Hz = 3.63 megahertz, which is 181.5 times above than the human limit of 20kHz.

Difference in octaves… log2(3.63 Mhz / 660 Hz) = 15.7

That means the tardigade E-string is almost 16 octaves above the human one.

But only bad music.

Yeah, that’s the kind of toxic family that one should cut off as soon as possible.

I always cringe when I see native speakers confuse “it’s” and “its”, “their”, “they’re” and “there” and all the other subtleties of their language. But then again, I’m a pedantic German and maybe Americans are so anti-education already that they’re cool with that.

I know, Godwin’s law, yada yada.

But I still feel I can compare Trump to Hitler, I’m German after all. Trump is a demagogue, Hitler was a demagogue. Both check all the boxes (see this list).

And to me, this message sounds just as bizarre as “Dear Führer, we love you and support you, but we think the war you wage on the world will ultimately destroy us all.”

It’s a call to examine your assumptions.

Nope, it translated to me to “you don’t come from a background of resistance in your country, your opinions automatically don’t matter as much.”

What absolute position? I wrote a whole paragraph after the bit that you quote exactly on why it is not an absolute position.

Okay, I admit I didn’t pay enough attention to what you wrote. Probably because I don’t like being lectured about history.

But in that case, even better! They tried working on a two-state solution. It was shot down, but you gotta try again. And again. And again.

Everything Israel and the Palestinians are doing at the moment is the exact opposite. They create more violence, hatred, death, destruction and desire for vengeance, which in turn will be the fuel for more decades of war.

But that’s the point: if it is not just, it will not be enduring. I don’t understand what is confusing about “no justice no peace”.

Nothing about it is confusing, it is very clear. And it is an absolute position that will make this conflict go on forever. Why? Because in an asymmetric conflict like this, there will always be injustice.

You have to find a way to end this injustice with peaceful means. I refuse to accept that only violence can solve this. That’s all I am saying.

Partially incorrect, since the vast majority of Israelis clearly support the actions of their current government and army.

I actually agree with this and nothing I said is in contradiction with this fact. There are still some Israelis, albeit far too few, who want peace.

No justice? No peace. As simple as that.

And here’s another thought on this: It seems as if quite a lot of arab people (not only the Palestinians) view the mere existence of Israel as an injustice.

Logical conclusion? Obvious…

I know nothing about you but I wouldn’t be surprised if you come from a cultural background that doesn’t have a history of resistance and struggle for freedom.

Is this some kind of attempt to dispute my right to an opinion? Or an attempt to devalue it? I know nothing about you, but come on. I’m sure you can find better arguments for your positions than thinly veiled ad hominems.

Hamas is not Palestine and Palestine is not Hamas.

I acknowledged that when I said “If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.”.

The victims of genocide, apartheid, occupation do not have the same level of culpability as the perpetrators.

No, they don’t. There are many blameless Palestinians. And there are Israelis who voted for the current government, they surely carry more guilt in this war than Palestinian victims.

that they should just grow up and accept the fait accompli of the occupation and the defeat, well sorry but that says more about you

Firstly, I never said they have to accept it. If you think war is the only means of not accepting and trying to change it, it says a lot about you. Secondly, someone else in this comment section said: “what will lead to an enduring peace is actually more important than what is just.”

No justice? No peace. As simple as that.

This is why this will never end.

So here’s a comment which will probably be downvoted to hell, but I can deal with that.

I’m almost 50 years old. Israel and Palestine (plus other surrounding countries) have never been at peace as long as I can think.

There’s always some asshole who thinks fighting a war is the better option. If an Israeli prime minister wants to make peace, they fucking shoot him. If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.

In the meantime, there are at least some people on both sides who wish for nothing more than peace. Yes, we can debate on which side has more of them and it’s damn certain there aren’t enough of them by far.

But can we maybe just stop taking a side? This conflict is not about Israel or Palestine having to be deradicalized, OP, it’s about the all the warmongers and religious fundamentalists and radicals on both sides who need to be deradicalized.

There will never be an end to this as long as I live if we continue to blame either Israel or the Palestinians. Both is wrong, both of them haven’t done nearly enough to stop this insanity.

(But yeah, I totally agree, the current right wing Israeli government is a hopeless case if you want peace.)

“Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Schach und Billard?” - “Beim Schach hat man den Kö nich.”

“What’s the difference between chess and billiards?” - Answer is a pun, can mean both “In chess, you have the king.” and “In chess, you don’t have the cue.” Doesn’t translate at all.