Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸

People’s lawyer. Mostly here to engage with smart libertarians and dumb libertarians. Building my manifesto in public:

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

The argument: https://t.co/dzvRDcCt9T

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

In a way, supply and demand determine prices. But in another, more accurate way, bargaining power determines prices.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

Exactly.

[Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف @ofercass]

The Palestinians are the new Jews - discriminated against, oppressed, persecuted and slaughtered in front of an indifferent and silent world, if not jubilant.

Paraphrasing Nordeau: the Palestinians are not hated because of their bad qualities, but bad qualities are attributed to them because they are hated.

Fighting racism, in all its manifestations, is a must!

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

Schelling point. Same reason every demonized race is demonized.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

Why are Muslims so demonized in the West, genuine question? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@aziz0nomics @ibrahimibnyusuf An offer based on a secret map, presented as Olmert was on his way out. This was more likely to lead to buried treasure than to a peace deal.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@aziz0nomics @ibrahimibnyusuf But it looks like every other part of the picture: Israel rejects a Palestinian state.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@Lieboisout What hatred of the state and the elites?

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@academic_la Armchair amateur psychology: People who repress a disposition to authoritarianism act out in pedantic ways and have a bias toward interpreting the actions of those they despise as coercive or pedantic.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@RepStefanik Yes! An exchange of civilian captives and a ceasefire. They should exchange soldier captives too.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@BriannaWu Being right wing is all about dehumanizing others. Why would you think that your fellow Zionists would limit their irrational hatred to the Palestinians?

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

The German soccer team was met with jeers in the 30s?

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Israel’s players were booed and whistled during their warm-up for last night’s Nations League match against France, and the national anthem was met with jeers. It’s hard not to feel like we’re back in 1930s Europe.

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

A multibillionaire drooling at the prospect of a multibillionaire President-elect appointing two other billionaires to cut government services for everyone else is so on the nose you'd almost think it was a Marxist parody if it wasn't real.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@checkmatestate Collectively-owned property is consistent with libertarianism, no? It follows from property rights + free association. See Widerquist. Violence against people based on where they were born and where they went is perfectly libertarian. It’s not consistent with communism, though.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

One useful thing that Biden can easily do before leaving office, and which Trump could not easily undo, is to recognize the state of Palestine.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

The “Israel-Palestine conflict” is the simplest of them all.

A European settler colony establishes itself on indigenous people’s land using ethnic cleansing and terror then spends 76 years massacring them in the two prisons they warehoused them in.

It really is that simple.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

Economic dogmatism undermines Democrat messaging.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

The most effective anti-Trump message among *swing voters*: A federal price gouging law for food.

But Harris stopped talking about it after being ridiculed by economists (with just a couple of “unreal” ones coming to her defense).

They call it the “dismal science” for a reason.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

My prediction is that Harris wins.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@1864Memes Usually a dogmatist who claims to be against coercion but is unwilling to process the fact that private property requires it, hates the state but can’t identify it or coherently explain why, and believes in all sorts of economic nonsense.

[Recognize Palestine now! 🇵🇸 @uristra]

@_ZachFoster Well… several of the world’s great powers went to war with Germany. That saved some of my ancestors from the gas chambers. In this case, the greatest powers are participants. It’s more like the genocides of the colonial age.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Would you vote for Harris if she had funded the killing of 200,000 Jews?

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@johncusack @briebriejoy @aja_monet I prefer Cornel West but he’s been pretty invisible.