Quote from: Valmy on May 09, 2024, 05:31:33 PMI will need to see a bit more evidence than simply people being bothered by tens of thousands of dead civilians. But certainly the nature of some of those chants puts it on my radar.They were like that before the war in Gaza. Remember all the statements in favor of the Hamas attacks just after October 7th?
QuoteSwarthmore College's SJP chapter released a statement on October 10, justifying Hamas's violence by saying, "Since early Saturday morning, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have valiantly confronted the imperial apparatus that has constricted their livelihoods for the past seventy-five years." The statement also said that "decolonization is far from a metaphor confined to the classroom" and that "There exists only a colonizer and colonized, an oppressed and an oppressor. To resist is to survive, and it is our right."
National Students for Justice in Palestine released a toolkit for their "day of action", describing the murders of Israeli civilians as "a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, air, and sea, our people have broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity." The organization added, "This is what it means to Free Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors."
Quote from: Jacob on May 09, 2024, 08:12:03 PMPerhaps if China dominates energy generation and storage technology, they might use it to influence the international order in ways we don't like and harm Western economies.Yeah. Generation, storage and end use - and a strategy of establishing control of supply chain including raw materials.
Could be a risk.
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 09, 2024, 08:01:26 PMBut at the same time, China is doing it and making genuinely astonishing progress which might be good for the world but also building in dominance in key sectors that is bad for the West and our order.
Quote from: HVC on May 09, 2024, 07:49:17 PMJust because I don't trust China doesn't mean I don't think we shouldnt do something. In fact i think relying on the china's of the world is folly. Like you said While we need 3rd world nations to get on board looking to them gives the west an excuse not to do what it needs. On both sides of the coin, as in "they don't reduce emissions so us doing so isn't worth it" and "look, they're reducing emissions so we don't have to". So, from an internal policy prospective it's best to ignore them.I get that and I didn't mean you specifically or that you think all of them. As I say it's the responses I often get (off here too) to talking about China in the context of climate is: that it's borderline denialist/saying we should do nothing; that it's fatalist, as in China won't do anything so we're all doomed anyway; and, when I actually say I think China is doing stuff, scepticism bordering on disbelief. I think the outlines of those responses are also common responses to a lot of stories out of or about China: does it really matter, we're all doomed anyway and is it real anyway. I think all of those are slight traps or can be misleading.
QuoteA 2017 LifeWay poll conducted in United States found that 80% of evangelical Christians believed that the creation of Israel in 1948 was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would bring about Christ's return and more than 50% of Evangelical Christians believed that they support Israel because it is important for fulfilling the prophecy.[112
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