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  1. ⬆️ @paraw @benroyce

    >> In #US, we swing like a pendulum — former is in vogue when #Republicans are in power, latter when #Democrats.

    This is captured succinctly in the twin hashtags #SocietiesAreNotStatic and #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous.

    Examples abound from US to #Israel, to #Palestine, to #British monarchs, and more.

  2. Down memory lane — New hashtags were born:

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic
    #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous

    Societies are not static. Times change. People change. Countries change. Their attitudes & policies change. Holding a grudge against perceived wrong done to one decades ago will not get one anywhere, especially if the world has changed so much as to be unrecognizable.

    mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

  3. ⬆️ @DropBear @galad @serge @palestine @israel

    I asked my friend #Google, “How is the form of #Zionism that spawned #Israel characterised by #racism and #bloodlust?”

    It suggested I look here ➡️ ajc.org/translatehate/Zionism-

    You are either spewing #Soviet #propaganda or you disagree with this characterization. The only way you can remove any doubt is by citing your own reliable source(s) from where you got this idea.

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic
    What happened in 1947 is not “evinced” by CURRENT prima facie

  4. ⬆️ @ayoubabedrabbo

    >> You have some motif about the kindness of Americans. I'm not sure why

    IDK if you are an #American but you surely have doubts about our kindness

    >> but how can you give over 200 million people who are "Americans" a trait when you don't know them?

    Click through hashtags #SocietiesAreNotStatic and #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous. I created those specifically to not have to repeat these oft-discussed points

    I too treated you as a clean slate without judging when I gave you links

  5. ⬆️ @olireiv

    >> Biden is the one who allows the US Navy to do this exercise, coordinating with a far-right government

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic. #Milei was not in power last Oct and won't be in power forever (I hope)

    #Argentina is a #MajorNonNATOally #MNNA ➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_no

    Relations with allies can't be modulated quickly with each change in power.

    This is exactly the problem #Biden is also facing with #Israel's #FarRight govt.

    As I said, if you detest Milei, you should love Biden 🙂

  6. ⬆️ @olireiv

    >> Biden is the one who allows the US Navy to do this exercise, coordinating with a far-right government

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic. #Milei was not in power last Oct and won't be in power forever (I hope)

    #Argentina is a #MajorNonNATOally #MNNA ➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_no

    Relations with allies can't be modulated quickly with each change in power.

    This is exactly the problem #Biden is also facing with #Israel's #FarRight govt.

    As I said, if you detest Milei, you should love Biden 🙂

  7. ⬆️ @olireiv

    >> Biden is the one who allows the US Navy to do this exercise, coordinating with a far-right government

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic. #Milei was not in power last Oct and won't be in power forever (I hope)

    #Argentina is a #MajorNonNATOally #MNNA ➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_no

    Relations with allies can't be modulated quickly with each change in power.

    This is exactly the problem #Biden is also facing with #Israel's #FarRight govt.

    As I said, if you detest Milei, you should love Biden 🙂

  8. ⬆️ @vidyarthi

    I didn't bring up "shaming". You did

    #Muslims have lived in India since 10th c. Can't call them foreign.

    You keep missing that what some invaders did centuries ago (even if reprehensible) CANNOT be corrected today by other reprehensible means. See #SocietiesAreNotStatic.

    You don't need a Time Machine. You need hindsight ability. Use that to project into the future

    This is #DragonTeeth because this will grow AGAIN and AGAIN no matter how many times you break it

    @SteveThompson

  9. ⬆️ @vidyarthi

    I didn't bring up "shaming". You did

    #Muslims have lived in India since 10th c. Can't call them foreign.

    You keep missing that what some invaders did centuries ago (even if reprehensible) CANNOT be corrected today by other reprehensible means. See #SocietiesAreNotStatic.

    You don't need a Time Machine. You need hindsight ability. Use that to project into the future

    This is #DragonTeeth because this will grow AGAIN and AGAIN no matter how many times you break it

    @SteveThompson

  10. ⬆️ @vidyarthi

    I didn't bring up "shaming". You did

    #Muslims have lived in India since 10th c. Can't call them foreign.

    You keep missing that what some invaders did centuries ago (even if reprehensible) CANNOT be corrected today by other reprehensible means. See #SocietiesAreNotStatic.

    You don't need a Time Machine. You need hindsight ability. Use that to project into the future

    This is #DragonTeeth because this will grow AGAIN and AGAIN no matter how many times you break it

    @SteveThompson

  11. Pay heed to political shifts and evolving #InternationalDynamics - Part 9

    #Britain once #colonized & ruled #India

    Now #UK & #India are forging security ties as UK plans to send high-readiness #LittoralResponse Group to #IndianOcean region in 2024 and #CarrierStrike Group in 2025 for joint training.

    Deployment of their most advanced naval capabilities portends conflict in the region that is strategically located between #MiddleEast and #FarEast

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic

    thestatesman.com/world/uk-plan

  12. @HeavenlyPossum

    >> it remains a #moralRequirement to distinguish between the rulers and the ruled

    There used to be separation before. See hashtags #SocietiesAreNotStatic & #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous

    That separation is no more since reports came out that 90% of ALL Palestinians support #Hamas

    18000 #Palestinians died because 90% of Palestinians support Hamas, while supreme Hamas leader #Haniyeh remains #ensconced in #safetyAndLuxury in #Doha ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    #inTheirName

    @geomant

  13. @HeavenlyPossum

    >> it remains a #moralRequirement to distinguish between the rulers and the ruled

    There used to be separation before. See hashtags #SocietiesAreNotStatic & #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous

    That separation is no more since reports came out that 90% of ALL Palestinians support #Hamas

    18000 #Palestinians died because 90% of Palestinians support Hamas, while supreme Hamas leader #Haniyeh remains #ensconced in #safetyAndLuxury in #Doha ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    #inTheirName

    @geomant

  14. @HeavenlyPossum

    >> it remains a #moralRequirement to distinguish between the rulers and the ruled

    There used to be separation before. See hashtags #SocietiesAreNotStatic & #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous

    That separation is no more since reports came out that 90% of ALL Palestinians support #Hamas

    18000 #Palestinians died because 90% of Palestinians support Hamas, while supreme Hamas leader #Haniyeh remains #ensconced in #safetyAndLuxury in #Doha ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    #inTheirName

    @geomant

  15. #SocietiesAreNotStatic —There are no #permanentEnemies, nor #permanentAllies.

    There was a time when #Puritan #America (#English #Protestant, with a disdain toward #monarchy) and #Catholic #France (with an absolute monarchy) were #mortalEnemies.

    That changed in Feb 1778 when #US and France agreed to a #perpetualAlliance.

    In 2003, #GeorgeWBush threw France under the bus, repudiating #French intelligence regarding absence of #WMDs in #Iraq, and lied his way into an unnecessary & illegal war.

  16. #NorthKorean leader #KimJongUn calls for women to have more children.

    If a government can prevent you from #takingItOut, it can force you to put it in.

    In a different era, North Korea had forced its people from #puttingItIn.

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic

    In the 1970-80s North Korea had implemented #birthControl programs to slow a postwar population growth.

    #abortion #abortionRights #reproductiveCare #reproductiveRights

    apnews.com/article/north-korea

  17. ⬆️

    >> US, Canada, Mexico, … all are built on stolen land

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic

    #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous

    Wars of conquest were the norm at some point, but they are not any more.

    >> ideal for Israelis with #Kahanist leanings

    Gratuitously dredging up #Kahanism, that is not on anybody’s radar

    ⬇️

  18. ⬆️

    >> US, Canada, Mexico, … all are built on stolen land

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic

    #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous

    Wars of conquest were the norm at some point, but they are not any more.

    >> ideal for Israelis with #Kahanist leanings

    Gratuitously dredging up #Kahanism, that is not on anybody’s radar

    ⬇️

  19. ⬆️

    >> US, Canada, Mexico, … all are built on stolen land

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic

    #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous

    Wars of conquest were the norm at some point, but they are not any more.

    >> ideal for Israelis with #Kahanist leanings

    Gratuitously dredging up #Kahanism, that is not on anybody’s radar

    ⬇️

  20. Societies are not static. Times change. People change. Countries change. Their attitudes & policies change. Holding a grudge against perceived wrong done to one decades ago will not get one anywhere, especially if the world has changed so much as to be unrecognizable.

    Societies are not homogenous. Not all of #USA thinks the same way. Not all of #Israel either. And not all of #Palestine same way.

    #SocietiesAreNotStatic
    #SocietiesAreNotHomogenous