The United States of America after the Cold War.

At this point: sure whatever, leave me alone.

“Everytime I drive on the highway there is always some random male driver that tailgates me.”

When you read that, do you understand that “all men tailgate”?

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. You’re in a memes community and you’re demanding an empirical study with statistical significance.

judgment about a whole nation

Repeat: there is a difference between exists and forall. I’m not judging “all Germans”.

(I do have however very strong opinions about the German state, media, and political class, and its despicable laws, positions, and biases, but German official genocide denialism is a different discussion.)

In logic, there is a huge difference between existential and universal quantification.

Now, if you find reason to self identify as the “random German” that’s your own choice.

That’s… Buddhist philosophy. Holy shit.

No, this is strictly shit posting and subtooting to vent frustration. I’m not going to make a bunch of random Germans into targets. I usually try to engage in good faith and help change perspective. Targeting people like that would be counter to that.

I hear you! Wish I had been more careful with the phrasing

The earliest opposition to Zionism by necessity were Jews because that community is where those original discussions happened.

And Jews still are the biggest critics of Zionism! There is nothing inevitable about Zionism becoming the expression of Jewish self-identity. Zionism became the dominant model for Jewish self-conception because the other models, such as Bundist Doikayt, were exterminated in the Holocaust. In that sense, Jews rediscovering extra-Zionist Jewishnesses is a reaffirmation of the breadth of the Jewish experience that was stolen by the Nazis!

My meme is an expression of my own experience that a bit too often when Israeli apartheid and genocide come up on lemmy, invariably some German user pops up and starts shifting the discourse to victim blaming the Palestinians. That’s not “all Germans bad”, just like when we criticize American users for making every single topic be about Democrats and Republicans, we are not saying “all Americans bad”. I complain about a tendency, not condemning an ethnic group.

If condemnation of apartheid and genocide is divisive, then maybe that’s a useful division to bring to the foreground. I don’t understand what it is that you see as the problem here. Can you explain?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/video/2024/01/18/video-investigation-israel-s-mistreatment-of-palestinians-detained-in-gaza_6444572_4.html

Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?

I like you ask in hypotheticals.

Resist now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_fascism,_freedom_to_the_people

All 30 if us who play it agree.

Steven Universe too!

Yup. It should not be a thing.

Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.

Here is a fact: an authoritarian non-democracy is doing a lot for securing the future of humanity, while the “leader of the free world” are vandalizing the climate and accelerating apocalyptic climate catastrophe.

In 2025, China is a net positive for the future of humanity, while the USA is a net negative.

If that makes you uncomfortable about what our political and economic systems in the West that brought us here, well, you know the meme: “facts don’t care about your feelings”.

If you, like me, care about the future of democracy, we have to do a LOT of digging.

Vodka 25 years ago.