Hmm yes, all Israelis are fascists. That definitely isn’t dehumanizing an entire people or anything.

Lemmy users casually talking about wiping a country off the map:

Oh, they’re working, all right — but for who?

I assumed it was the equivalent of “dark enlightenment”.

Daily reminder:

I’m basing my POV less on anecdata and moreso on reading (Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, uh, comes to mind). With that said, I can certainly imagine that things have pulled in the direction you describe since Trump, so perhaps those sources don’t reflect the current reality quite as much.

No, because if they are worthy and pull hard enough on their bootstraps, they too with reach the apotheosis of wealth. Think of it as a trial, or perhaps a filter. If they don’t make it, they need to try harder. I’d maybe compare it to Darwinism, or even to military esprit de corps.

You’re being too literal. This is an ideology. They see having money as a proxy for responsibility and success, and redistribution of it as rewarding the unworthy. All practical manifestations of this, whether it’s schools or healthcare or whatever, stem from that ideology.

I’m using “they” more broadly here to include people who share that moral foundation. School vouchers slot into the same worldview as being anti-welfare and pro-private-healthcare, for example, which could be summed up as “I got mine, get your own”. I don’t subscribe to that personally, but it doesn’t help matters to completely misrepresent that position.

I think you’re ascribing much deeper thoughts and foresight to the average Republican voter than is warranted.

Yes, but they see it as their tax money being returned to them. The argument for vouchers is that without them, they’re paying for schools they don’t use.

I don’t think this comparison really works. These people are against their money going to other people, whether it’s to a public school or to pay off somebody else’s student loans. Agree with them or not, those things are logically consistent.

Sorry, i dont want to be rude, but do you actually have any arguments other than gesturing at the article & giving both-sides-isms?

Since this thread is about the article, no, I don’t.

I’m certainly not going to defend anything Israel is doing here. Both sides in this debacle are bloodthirsty maniacs.

It’s not only in the article, but in the excerpt posted by OP.

If preserving jobs regardless of technology were a criterion, we’d still have farriers in every town. Things change. Good on them for getting a pay raise, though. It’s hard and essential work.

This is what, 8% annually or so? Seems petty substantial to me.

What is this even in reference to?

Seriously? Did you just see the word “Israel” and start arguing without knowing the topic at hand?

Did they use it as a targeting reticle in 1938?