@TheGreeneBJ@__Vegapunk__@Skellyton6 Putin does not care about Finland joining NATO because the security concerns are a pretext. This is blood and soil, and he says as much openly.
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@OG_09er@hutchinson@ryancbeard I don't think I did, but I'd broadly be in favor of dismantling ethnostates in so far as it means ending the discrimination which defines an ethnostate.
If the hypothetical refugees all want to go to Latvia I guess that's fine? (ignoring the logistical problems)
@king_ofdior@hutchinson No that's what I mean. Israel rejects the existence of an "Israeli" nationality. The state explicitly says that some of their citizens do not belong to the nation, and that this is a fundamental principle. Makes it a bit different than the usual discrimination we see elsewhere.
@king_ofdior@hutchinson Maybe too that Israel separates citizenship and nationality? There are plenty of non-Jewish citizens of Israel but none of them can belong to the nation for which the state exists. There's no "Israeli" nationality, just Jews, Arabs, and others.
@hutchinson@ryancbeard Obviously a distinction should be made between states that happen to be predominantly occupied by one ethnicity and states that deny rights based on ethnicity. When people say ethnostates are bad they usually mean the latter.
@grievus92@grain99806254@hutchinson Is there a potential candidate in 2028 that you think would be willing to lead an effort to boycott Israel and that would also be capable of convincing Israel's other major trading partners (China) to do the same?
@grain99806254@hutchinson I think you're underestimating your enemy by assuming them all to be either stupid or cowardly, which may set you up for disappointment. But I guess we'll have to wait and see.
@cafeconalan@JournalistFact1 Ok, but it seems like they weren't forced to leave the Falklands. Roxa dying of cancer in 1869 reduced her demographic on the island, but that's nobody's fault.
@cafeconalan@JournalistFact1 Ctrl+f "1853" for the book gives 1 result and seems unrelated to any expulsions. Do you have a page number or chapter?
What's the point of the Roxa example? She wasn't expelled and she became a successful businesswoman under British administration. I'm confused.
@Plubius5@Shane00 He'd come off the bench, hit 10 3's over a confused 90's defense, and any coach that stopped giving him minutes would be fired. The team would inevitably be built around him, even if it takes a few seasons