This is the best thing I have read this month, and I did not see the twist coming!

I would be fine with that if it was free and didn’t reply the ads if I stop and resume.

If I am paying money, then ads are unacceptable.

It is a four door and not significantly smaller than other compact pickups like a Maverick or Ridgeline.

Satirizing requires doing the thing being satirized, in this case racists being racist.

All the grownups that downvoted you for being objectively wrong?

I really wish two seat utility vehicle format in the spirit of the El Camino would be a thing again. Basically a station wagon size, but with an open bed. These could easily have bed covers in the same shape as a wagon as well, but removable to allow for taller items and a bed that can be hosed out.

The market shifting all in to four door cabs sucks.

I think it is more about the fear of receiving harm from “others” outside their local group and placing the blame on those outsiders. Like blaming Gypsies/Travelers and other nomadic groups for things when they are around, or the antisemetic hatred based on myths of being society manipulated by Jews.

Pandemics remind people that there is a world out there that could affect them negatively and they want a group to be a part of and people outside that group to blame.

Obviously not universally true for all people, but a significant portion.

That flesh colored scarf makes the thumbnail humorous.

We could also learn something from that and the other genocides and not force the conflict to escalate in the hope that the future survivors work things out.

Ok tankie.

Yeah I’m just really confused by how you’re at the same time able to oppose colonialism as a concept but also not willing to acknowledge that whatever happened to other people is happening in the exact same way to Palestinians.

You are confused because you keep ignoring my statements that the same thing is happening to Palestinians, apparently because I don’t agree that the solution is wiping a country off a map.

Instead, they should stop being a colonial state which was the solution to all of the other colonial states.

If Serbs and Muslims can coexist in Bosnia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide

Forcing them to live together would be creating the same conditions that led to the genocide! Do you think they will just skip past the genocide this time?

Rolling coal is this exact mindeset in transportation form.

The current mess is a knot that can only be solved by a single state solution. And if that is the case, and we agree that either side “cleansing” the other is completely unacceptable, then universal equality from the river to the sea, a democratic country, is the only game left.

We disagree on whether a two state solution is possible but do agree that either side committing genocide on the other is unacceptable.

I disagree that a single state solution is possible, even if we named it Peaceland because the same conflict you say prevents the two state solution will still exist and the conflict will continue within the single state. Forcing two opposing cultures into a single state against their will is how we get ethnic cleansing, aka genocide.

Germany should recognize Palestine!

But the fact that they don’t doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be actively opposing antisemitism in Germany. Opposing Israel’s actions is different than “Israel shouldn’t exist” because in the context of Germany and the neo mazid, not existing is literal and includes the people of Israel.

I favor a two state solution myself, as it is my understanding that is the desire of the majority of Palestinians.

I have no idea what you are trying to get at, but I have repeatedly said colonizing is wrong and countries can stop doing wrong things without needing to stop existing so if that isn’t clear enough I don’t know what to tell you.

So funny story, South Africa was able to end apartheid without not existing.

Imagine that!

The populations of Africa and the Americas had all kinds of states! The Mayan culture was a state or a collection of city states. Although most media about Native Americans focus on the tribes that were more nomadic, there were tons of tribes that had established cities and locations that were their territory all throughout the two continents Hell, even nomadic cultures tend to occupy a space even though they move a lot within it.

Africa and Australia had a lot too, I just don’t know them off the top of my head. Colonizers destroyed as much of their cultures as possible to erase their identity as a culture and state.

You have fallen for the colonizer’s myths of unorganized native populations, which they used to justify conquering so that they could “civilize” those populations. The colonizers were absolutely wrong.

I think you have confused the structure and implementation of a state as a culture with a collective identity of people located within a rough geographic area.

A state’s right to exist is not the right to act a certain way, but the right to not be wiped off the map. A colonial state colonizing is only wrong because they are conquering other states that had their own right to exist. Otherwise there would be no reason to say that Palestine should exist, and Palestine should absolutely exist.