I’ve always found the best people at foodnotbombs, which has local chapters in most cities. Start there.

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I mean, I get the point, but it’s not like rewriting the 1917-1945 history is uncommon in Europe.

The anti Soviet museum in Lithuania doesn’t talk about the Holocaust of Jewish people at all, for example.

There was a well organized campaign to promote revisionist history on the Croatian Wikipedia.

And Poland codified denialism into law.

The Jewish population of the region that used to be the Western Russian Empire remembers the violence as starting in 1917, not in 1939 when the Germans showed up. This had been a recurring thing, but nobody seems to remember that.

a variety of independent news sources.

Wikipedia is notoriously susceptible to bias when it comes to history and politics and has a noted left center bias (according to researchers at Harvard, not my words).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia

I’m not saying it’s a terrible sources but it definitely should not be the last stop and anything controversial (or the lack thereof) isn’t a meaningful indicator of whether or not something is actually true. Note the numerous examples of historical revisionism in the linked article.

You can install Plex on your mobile device and toggle the “share media from this device” setting. Otherwise, a steam deck would have everything an RPI has plus a GPU and a touch screen. Since there are two radios (2 and 5Ghz) on the device, you should be able to set it up as a bridge device, but I’ve not tried this personally.

This is a shrine to (among others) recognized war criminals

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and what is “what they asked for”

I’m definitely not confused. Perhaps we have irreconcilable philosophical differences, but I’m certainly not confused by percentages.

Personally, I would a 30% voter turnout as a damning indictment of the system, particularly when Switzerland was one of the last countries in Europe to legalize women’s right to vote and the right to gay marriage.

For most of the US’s history, most people were simply not allowed to participate in that system and twice this century the winner lost the popular vote. How is it do hard to believe that someone would feel legitimately disenfranchised and frustrated by that system?

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“both sides bad” has won almost every US election, according to this chart.

It’s literally the most popular position when you consider voter turnout and % of votes for each main party.

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For the young ones:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_comments_on_George_W._Bush

Wild that you’re getting down voted for wanting to comply with international humanitarian law.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/hamtramck-donald-trump-arab-american-muslim?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Detroit has a large Muslim population and stopping the wars in Gaza/Lebanon could be enough to make Michigan solidly blue. Biden won it by 140k votes in 2020 and there’s 241k Muslims in Michigan. There’s definitely a world in which benefits the Dems electorally.

That’s not remotely a reliable source. I’m no fan of European colonies in the middle east either, but any source that uses the word “Jewry” in the first sentence raises some eyebrows. This article also dances around the persistent anti-Semitic trope that a global Jewish conspiracy exists and does little to mention the (mostly) leftist Jewish Diaspora or the enthusiastic Yiddish speakers in the red army. It seems to collapse all Jewish people into the category of Zionist even while acknowledging internally that there many languages, cultures, and politics involved.

I am also fully aware of how horrible the nakba was, so I’m not apologizing for the atrocities committed by the state of Israel then or now.

This source also provides 0 references and the author is someone who calls themselves “Comrade Katsfoter”.

Personally, I like my history sources to be vetted by peers and published in journals or books written by authors who are vetted by their peers via similar processes. You can and should do better than this.

Yeah, the panel that stuck with me most was that the US had been escalating sanctions against Japan for their 3 decade long occupation of Manchuria and invasion of Indochina. Admittedly, there were certainly valid complaints against Western imperialism and racism, but the panel said

The United States with its biggest potential influence was hamstrung by isolationism. From 1935 to 1937, Congress passed three “Neutrality Acts”. President Roosevelt, deeply concerned with developments in Europe and Asia, gave the “quarantine speech” on October 5, 1937, in which he urged that it was necessary to deal with international “lawlessness,” implicitly criticizing Japan. The public opinion and Congress gradually supported strengthening sanctions against Japan, such as the abrogation of the U.S.-Japan Trade and Navigation Treaty and finally the oil-embargo, which triggered the war.

which is a bizarre way to justify Pearl Harbor.

That’s gross, and I didn’t know that. That’s certainly not something I saw at the Holocaust memorial or in Dachau. It’s widely reported, however, that German schooling teaches the Holocaust thouroughly while Japan ignores the Asian Holocaust entirely. I can’t speak for the German tank museum in particular, but every museum I’ve been to in Germany made it clear that the 1928-1945 period of German History was unequivocally evil.

The article I linked in the OP mentions how this has caused persistent political divisions between Japan and it’s formerly occupied neighbors.

I thought more about this and realized the Us presents the Enola Gay without context and that’s gross too.. Though the US does have museums on the genocide of Native Americans, Japanese internment camps during world war 2, a national slavery museum and memorial, and there’s been a lot of public controversy around racist statues, so that also feels categorically different than enshrining war criminals as saints in your imperial shrine.