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  • I was criticising Germany and Israel. You’re talking about what people supporting Palestine supposedly want. So that’s already off-topic.

    Palestine is the same thing. It’s a state for a certain ethnicity - Palestinians.

    That would be correct, if I was advocating for a palestinian state, or a two-state-solution. I’m in fact in favour of the no-state solution for Palestine. If there has to be a state, then it clearly should be multi-national one (like Switzerland, or Lebanon).

    Wanting Palestine to be free does not automatically mean that you want there to be a different state to brutalize the people.

    Also, palestinians were already at least multi-religious. There are palestinian muslims, jews and christians. Israel binds it’s ethnic program to judaism.

    And they too call for Palestinians to return to it.

    Refugees have a right to have a historic wrong made right again. They mustn’t be kept from returning if they want.

    But when it’s Palestine people call it national liberation.

    You can (and should) also call for antinational liberation. Or even a global intifada (internationalist movemet). Both aren’t nationalist.

    I simply think it’s somewhat stupid to criticise Israel for something (ethnostate = bad) when Palestine is basically doing the same thing.

    What? Please tell me about the genocide Palestine is supposedly carrying out at the moment. You’re embarrassing yourself with that “both sides bad” platitude.

    You get me?

    Yeah. Cringe take, as I was afraid it would turn out to be.





  • If I’m understanding this sentence correctly, you are saying that modern state could exist without discriminating people regarding of their ethnicity.

    No, I said that they state that this is what they do. I said that this was their claim. I didn’t claim that this was correct.

    their [sic] is no scientific differences between nations, ethnicities or races.

    That’s true. But the concept doesn’t have to be scientifically valid to be a reason for discrimination or privilege. Jim Crow and the Nuremberg race laws simply referred to what was considered race science at the time.

    Nations are social construct,

    True, but that doesn’t negate anything

    usually based on genocide.

    that’s sure as shit not how states present themselves, though.

    Let’s take Germany as an example: There is a high percentage of german mitizens of Turkish decent who have been living in Germany for generations. Many of those people have German citizenship. Sure, there’s still racist discrimination going on, but these people are german, as far as the state is concerned. It’s actually illegal in Germany to discriminate people based on ethnicity, so technically, only the passport should be taken into consideration.

    The meme is mainly based on how Germany presents itself.


  • States can have different aims of the structuie their peoples should have. Liberal capitalist states currently state that they ignore ethnicity in the makeup of their peoples, as long as they can help the nation in the international competition.

    Nazi-Germany had a strong focus on having some sort of ethnic monoculture in the makeup of the German people.

    Israel strait up states that it doesn’t value arabic lives and favours ashkenazi jews. They claim to be “the one jewish state” and actively draw jewish people to settle there.







  • Then get creative with the sensor data. Look at the time it’s open when you shower compared to when you’re cleaning.

    Or add a door sensor to the cleaning cabinet.

    You can get a lot more out of a sensor than a boolean on/off, if you’re willing to analyse the data a bit. (Who needs a smart washing machine, if they can analyse the power usage?)

    Or add an override button for when you don’t want the moodlight. Make the most common usage the default and use manual intervention when it’s not the usual occasion.

    EDIT:
    You’ll want to be able to easily override anything like that, anyways. When there’s some kind of reason to respond quickly (some emergency for example). You don’t want to be stuck with mood light, when you accidently slip and get injured (when you’re also naked and wet).