So there’s people keeping pet dogs also in the middle east, which are very cute if you’re a dog person.

It’s more difficult to keep dogs than e.g. in most of Europe, because outside of winter you can’t really take them on walks during the day at temperatures of up to 40-50°C and most cities are incredibly car centered due to the high temperatures and the lack of public transportation.

Therefore it’s sadly not really a recreational activity unless you live in the countryside. That’s why people can’t really build positive associations with dogs.

Of course if there’d be funding to bring the strays to shelters, vaccinate & track them, do birth control, build and maintain dog parks etc. people would lose the association over time and see only the good boys being cute. In that sense I don’t think it matters how we got to this point or wonder whether it’s always been like that.

But all of that has nothing to do with religion, and my point was that the Iranian regime is just doing extremist stuff (to the surprise of no one).

Yeah I don’t think you understood my comment.

That’s a bit wild. I’m from the Middle East and there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

There are rules about not keeping dogs where you pray but it’s a pretty extremist stance to forbid keeping dogs. I have some pretty religious family and even some of those have dogs.

If you search on google for Islam rules you’re gonna find a lot of Westboro Baptist Church kinda sources that have nothing to do with how normal people live.

Yeah I’m very worried about the future of Europe. With trump & MAGA the US may be going crazy but they’re still a military super power and they’re at the forefront of tech, especially AI & crypto, so they’re gonna be fine.

We on the other hand boast about our culture and history and Blabla but what does that help us if we become economically irrelevant because there’s kinda 0 innovation coming from us. We don’t really have any answers and we’re drifting deeper into fascism ourselves in light speed.

One of them did a nazi salute in public, twice. The other staged a coup because he didn’t want to accept the election results and proclaimed himself king of America and said that with him people don’t need elections anymore.

If you don’t know what a fascist is, frankly, that’s on you and you should go look it up on Wikipedia, because you don’t seem to understand. Because if you did, you wouldn’t make such stupid claims.

We’re to the left of the US but if you look around Europe, our parliaments and governments are full with right wing extremists. The so-called centrists are politically and rhetorically where today’s Nazis were 10-15 years ago (at least that’s how the Nazis presented themselves to the public while they still had to).

Otherwise I do think your explanation makes sense.

Those people are irredeemable anyway, I don’t think Palestinians deserve such a punishment as having to deal with Antideutsch people additionally

Yeah you would. It depends on the exact implementation and luckily with so many countries involved there’s a lot less possibility to get consensus on privacy invasions, but from a technical perspective there’s nothing that stops the EU from later changing what they agreed upon now.

So what this means is that you’ll have to trust the EU that

1. they implement this how they say they will
2. they won’t later change the system to use it for mass surveillance

A proper replacement for cash is Monero. I know blockchain useless and crypto bad and all but that’s a real private digital currency where you’d have to be wanted by the CIA or Mossad to even face the threat of having your payments tracked.

You can say anything you want but it doesn’t mean that what you’re saying makes any sense.

South Africa was a nuclear power backed by the same countries that now back the genocide. It was hard to imagine back then that the apartheid would end, but it happened.

Yeah as I said, I’m against violence so I advocate for the boycott solution and not for the Nazi Germany treatment even though some might feel like the Zionists would deserve that…

Why would Europeans care?

Because we have empathy and care about other human beings? I know this is tough for you to wrap around your neckbeard, but most of us humans have the ability to empathize with others

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany and all the colonies of the empire didn’t dismantle themselves because people asked them to do so. This has to happen through boycott, divestment, sanctions because I don’t think more war would be the answer, and I am against violence in any form.

Make Israel collapse by putting so much pressure on them that they just can’t anymore. Our governments won’t just do this, so we have to do it ourselves. It’s a slow process, but it’s a process and with every escalation by them it speeds up.

Unfortunately it doesn’t help the Gazans who are being annihilated right now, but the future I outlined is the only future Palestinians deserve.

So your solution is annihilation, let me guess you’re a liberal Zionist or something like that?

There’s only one solution, free Palestine, from the river to the sea. Palestine needs to be decolonized and Palestinians need to be given back what rightfully belongs to them.

Israel as a state should have never been established and this apartheid genocide state just needs to stop existing. All the rabid Zionists who can’t accept that Palestinians are human beings with equal rights can make use of their dual citizenship and leave. Or move to Germany or Hungary or something who seem to love them anyway.

There needs to be Nuremberg process to try all the war criminals and put them behind bars.

As for those who are willing to coexist with Palestinians can stay, but if they live on stolen land or in stolen property they can’t stay there and have to return that to their owners and move somewhere worse.

That’s (5) and what humanity has to strive for.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-drones-gaza

Unfortunately that’s already a reality in Gaza. They use AI powered quadcopters murdering civilians there. There have been reports that they would even play recordings of cries for help etc. to lure people out and then shoot them.

Now imagine where this is headed. Genocide drones will be equipped with heat sensors and trained to enter flats through windows and they’ll be instructed to kill any human they can find. It’s only a matter of time at this point because what we are afraid of is already in use, we’re just not at the receiving end of it (yet).

Yeah like why would former colonial powers who both had the ambition once to conquer all of Europe be untrustworthy? I’m sure they won’t ever get drunk on power and start bullying their smaller neighbors, oh wait…

No that was my personal take, and Germans can downvote me as much as they want but they’re a shitty neighbor and I don’t need them to show up as a “strong leader”. It seems to me that even the progressives there are mostly ignorant as to how seriously bad the current trajectory is, and they expect us to trust them?

IMO centralized power is always bad but especially bad in a country that has a terrible fascist history and that seems to be repeating its mistakes while being offended by anyone who warns them about it because they still believe they learned their lesson and are now the main moral instance on combatting fascism.

Yeah agree, Germany arming up and wanting to be strong leaders again is something we should fear, not cheer at.

It’s just pathetic. We’ve been on the streets for the last 20 months and we’ve said as early as October 2023 that this is genocide. We’ve been cancelled, beaten up by the police, harassed, threatened, lost jobs, been called extremists, delusional, Nazis, antisemites, terrorist supporters by the likes of Piers Morgan and unfortunately by most liberal journalists and politicians as well.

There’s no coming around and there’s nothing to applaud when people are taking a stance against genocide. It should have never been controversial and all of these people "waking up“ now are deeply complicit in this and they will be deeply complicit in the next thing where consent will be manufactured to commit other atrocities in the name of democracy and Western values.

Yeah and while they were busy telling us the last 20 months that we’re Nazis or antisemtimes or whatever for being anti-genocide now that they’re "waking up“ they’re pretending that they’re already aware and tell others that they "can’t look away anymore"as if they’d be some kind of martyrs who break some taboo. It’s pathetic, really.

Maybe, but I haven’t read this stuff a couple years ago and media seems more right wing now than ever, I actually don’t even want to be right here so I hope I’m just panicking