More Comments on the Current Thing

People didn't acquiesce to leftist demands because they agree that the Left was on the right side of history; they acquiesced to leftists demands because they figured the Left was a bunch of pathetic losers not worth resisting. That has changed.

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As far as I can tell, the pro-Hamas demonstrations are much smaller and less violent than the BLM and Antifa demonstrations of 2020.

In other words, the fact that the enemy is inside the gates has nothing to do with open borders. It's simply the same old bulshytt we've seen for decades.

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If the US had open borders in the 1940s, the Palestinians would be long since assimilated by now.

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The first nationalist immigration restriction was of a model minority. Conservatives may say they only want the best immigrants but revealed preference…

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According to immigration restrictionists, the pro-Hamas demonstrations are due to open borders.

On the other hand, when we finally got a look at some of the protestors, they did not look like recent immigrants.

I suspect many of the people at the demonstrations were simply professional leftists.

The problem isn't immigration; the problem is that enemy is already inside the gates and was created by public-school teachers. It has been building ever since 1913.

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Does Israel have a right to exist? No. Only persons can have rights. In a related story, Palestine has no right to exist.

Israelis (or settlers in general) have the right to exist.

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There'a a common claim that Palestinians are semites, so they cannot be anti-semitic.

I still can't figure out what antiquarians have against quarians.

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Israel had a saner reaction to the Current Unpleasantness than we did to the 911 attack.

We should have armed all airline passengers. We did the opposite.

Israel reacted by letting people get to their guns.

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I haven't heard much about suicide bombs in the current war.

Maybe it's just too hard to recruit experienced suicide bombers.

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Should Hamas supporters be deplatformed? A possibly relevant quote from a science-fiction novel:

“Indeed, since it is always valuable to know what your opponents are doing, the League is a very useful institution. Should it ever get into financial difficulties I might even have to subsidize it.”–Karellen in "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke