u/Cultural-Gas2246

While an imperialist power like Britain is strengthened by being in a bloc like the EU, smaller economies like Iceland are often victimised. Good to see common sense prevail over there.

There's no such thing as destiny or fate or anything like that. And two people aren't "meant to be together". Romantic ideas like this can be a lot of fun, and they do feel nice when you do meet that 'special someone', we've all been there. Even Marx was a bit of a romantic when it came to his wife.

But this ideal of everyone having a "the one" and that being imposed on kids by an industry who profits from a lot of these overly romantic ideas, it can and does cause a lot of harm. As does an industry and society that imposes allo-normative ideals about sex and relationships and the supposed human need to find some sort of permanent sexual/romantic partner. And here it is also mixing with a lot of very reactionary ideas - misogynistic/patriarchal ones. Ofc reactionary rhetoric has always mixed well with the romantic and the mystical - the "destiny" of certain nations and so on.

A kid like this should not be hung-up the imaginary rather than the actual existing material conditions and how one can work within them to satisfy their needs, and that includes building meaningful social relationships, romantic/sexual or otherwise.

Although the significance of the figures and opinion polls is limited, it is noteworthy that a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 72% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza oppose Hamas disarming before Israel withdraws from Gaza, even though only 24% of them support Hamas and only 20% believe it emerged victorious.

In other words, most of those who support neither Hamas nor the Al-Aqsa Flood recognize that weapons constitute a source of strength for the Palestinian people in the face of their enemy. And three years of propaganda claiming, “What good have our weapons done us?”, even in the face of genocide, have failed to distort the Palestinian people’s consciousness.

Link to the poll: https://pcpsr.org/en/node/1014

Code pink ftw

The country with all the oil (also gold ultimately) was aggressively pressured by usa to try to generate more western influence in the area, what a shock

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https://www.declassifieduk.org/exclusive-uk-funded-therapy-for-israeli-soldiers/