Net migration rate is 3 per 1000 people in the US and 3.2 in the UK. Germany has a net migration rate of 1.8 per 1000, France 1.1, and every other Western European country has at least 3.5. Also Germany and France both have a higher percentage of their population being immigrants than both the US and UK. So that’s definitively not it.
Conservative =/= Republican. Some of the perceptions in the US are skewed so far to the right that you don’t even realise how conservative the Democratic Party is. In a lot of other countries in the world, there are like 3-4 major parties left of where Obama stood, but only like 1, maybe 2, right of him.
Yeah no, the sling was considered a very very deadly weapon back then. That’s the thing. And that’s not what bible school would want to portray. But the sling as a weapon was pretty much the Magnum Revolver of those days.
I don’t know about ancient duel rules to say whether bringing a sling was permitted. The take is more along the lines of “David wasn’t an underdog. If anything, David was the clear favourite to win because of his weapon”. Because a sling at the time was a highly effective and deadly weapon which was still regularly used for centuries after the supposed events of that biblical story because of its effectiveness.
Not a cartoon, but number 1 most unhinged kids’ show has to be Boohbah. Everyone involved in the making of this show has to have been on drugs constantly, that’s the only explanation I can think of for why this show exists.
Youth worker here: How much fucking work it is to just keep things from falling apart constantly. People assume most of my work is planning and doing activities with teenagers. But a lot of the time I’m like 50% caretaker.
What the fuck is “Israel/US empire” supposed to be?
That moment when you unlock a new reference and put it everywhere regardless of if it fits because it’s new and exciting to you
A lot of deaths because of accidents and because nobody knows how to do medicine, but not a single more death because of war. And after 2-3 years of learning how to do most tasks with okay proficiency, I see a much fairer distribution of resources (food, shelter, etc.) which means less starvation deaths etc.
Also, anarchism overnight.
Bucatini?
“Did you hear about Pluto? That’s messed up”
Yes, Netanyahu is a far-right extremist and saying he only wants Hamas to surrender at this point is wild.
But Zionism itself is not the problem here. The problem is fascism. Zionism is only the idea that Israel as a Jewish state should exist. That could very well co-exist with a Palestinian state. That the Israeli government doesn’t want to allow that is because the government is fascist.