This is my favorite argument.
In Hiroshima, roughly 140k people died due to the nuclear bomb out of 350k. That’s 40% of the city.
In Nagasaki, 80k people died out of 263k. That’s 30% of the city.
In Gaza, 73k people have died (according to GHM) out of 2.3 million. That’s about 3% of the population. A substantial percentage of that are terrorists.
So Israel has dropped an amount of bombs on Gaza that exceeds the power of the nuclear bombs we dropped on Japan and yet the death toll is far lower both proportionally and on a raw numbers basis.
How is that possible if Israel is committing genocide? Maybe it’s because they’re not.
@abdulafandii@rani_floats@Rabbi_Mizrachi Rebecca’s age is not stated but she was physically capable of carrying around a jug of water.
Anyway it doesn’t matter because Jews don’t believe Issac was a perfect example for the rest of time like you people believe about Muhammad.
@AmusedCynic1982@JordanGuatqui@ourkidgeorge@mattyglesias Firstly 170k is still too high secondly reducing the number doesn’t magically undo the damage done by several years of net immigration rates of nearly a million. It’s too little too late.
@AmusedCynic1982@JordanGuatqui@ourkidgeorge@mattyglesias Yes I blame a housing crisis on mass immigration. You think net immigration rates of almost a million won’t affect demand for housing?
At no point as you falsely claimed did I blame immigration or other races for low birth rates.
@AmusedCynic1982@JordanGuatqui@ourkidgeorge@mattyglesias wtf does this have to do with race? It’s been repeatedly shown that things like tax breaks and subsidies have minimal impact on fertility levels.
You are just ignorant and belligerent.
@kylegolsen@mattyglesias This is a fair point. But even if we had it at the all time peak of above 400k, until the last year this still would have been lower than the net immigration rate.
@JordanGuatqui@ourkidgeorge@mattyglesias Supply isn’t the only factor. We build loads of new houses. More than after WW2. The problems are mass immigration and quantitative easing.
@BBobbity16@mattyglesias Why? Not every single resident of the UK needs to live in a house built in the past year.
For context we’re building more houses now than we were during the rebuilding phase after WW2 which is insane.
@MangoLemoonn@Fishythefox2 Yes I’m aware of the distinction and I’m also aware that houses are capital and from a Marxist view fall under the category of private property.