You make a fair point but the sticking point for me is that if it’s voluntary then it’s not ethnic cleansing. Unless these Palestinian refugees are being deceived, which doesn’t appear to be the case (happy to be proven wrong though). No ethnic cleansing has ever been voluntary as far as I’m aware.

If russia wins the war against Ukraine i also don’t think those Ukranians would be able to go back, or it would be dangerous for them to do so. And I think they know that. They’ve lived in the UK for so long, I expect russia would consider them not welcome after spending so much time in an “enemy country”.

Actually I think something that would convince me the Gaza situation is ethnic cleansing is if a significant number of the Palestinians accepting the offer consider it to be that. If they say they’re leaving because they are being forced to then fair enough, I’d be happy to concede it. The impression I get from reading articles like this though is those that want to leave don’t see it that way.

Got it, I’ll tell my mum she’s a Nazi too and she’s committing a holocaust.

It doesn’t shock me at all. I expect that these palestinian refugees are well aware they likely won’t be able to return and they factor that into their decision of whether or not to leave. Personally if I was in their place I’d be OK with that since Gaza’s government seems committed to endless war anyway.

I don’t think the situation is normal or ordinary though. Not sure what you think I said that.

I will be going back for christmas again this year so I can let my mum know she’s a war criminal for “openly encouraging” others of a given (ukranian) ethnicity to emigrate and stay at her house.

When I went back home for christmas the other year my mum had taken in two Ukranian refugees. Was she facilitating a “voluntary genocide” by doing that? Or was she just engaging in ethnic cleansing. Clearly she coerced them with the offer of food and shelter so it couldn’t have been voluntary?

Israel-based human rights organisations and lawyers have warned that the conditions Israel has imposed on Gaza mean no departure can be considered voluntary

So Palestinians who actually want to leave should be forced, against their will, to remain in a warzone because they don’t know what’s good for them? Do we support Gaza being an “open air prison” now?

Babbel is a lot better than Duolingo.

I found that Duolingo just gives you phrases to repeat and memorize but Babbel actually teaches you the rules of the language and is structured more like real lessons. Definitely worth the switch.

will make UK military bases, assets, and personnel, valid military targets for Iran

Iran is already treating them like valid military targets though.

They recently announced they’re working on support for hardware from other manufacturers:

https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/

Until China starts openly threatening canada’s sovreignty, they will be a better friend than the US.

This will last until interference becomes so egregious and corrosive that it’s impossible to ignore.

The US government has been meeting with Canadian seperatists and that is already impossible to ignore. Is Chinese interference going to be more profound than that?

the CCP is directing espionage and foreign interference operations throughout western democracies, and Canada is a particular target

The US government has been spying on it’s allies for decades. At least china doesn’t pretend to be our friend while they do it.

“the Party’s weapon that it uses to expand control and influence without force.”

Sounds preferable to open threats of military invasion.

The name “Palestine” for the region has been in use for over 1000 years.

But from this article this is relating to:

Information boards in the museum’s ancient Middle East galleries, covering the period from 1500BC to 1700BC.

The change doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. It wouldn’t make sense to refer to Ancient Rome as “Italy” or Ancient Persia as “Iran” either.

I have no idea. The only article I’ve seen claiming it so far is from a media outlet with about the same amount of credibility as a monkey with a typewriter.

presstv.ir has some of the worst ratings I’ve ever seen on mediabiasfactcheck:

Questionable Reasoning: Propaganda, Conspiracy, Poor Sourcing, Fake News, Antisemitism

Bias Rating: RIGHT

MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank:TOTAL OPPRESSION

Factual Reporting: LOW

Well, his domestic policies seemed decent if not overambitious and I really disliked the Tories. I’d lived under their government all my adult life and I was ready for anything else.

And back then I was one of many people who thought Corbyn was being unfairly treated by his own party and a lot of the media. I thought, why won’t they just give the guy a chance instead of undermining him all the time? I felt like, it’s less that he’s bad organiser and more that his party won’t let him organise them.

In hindsight I would say that he probably did get a lot of undeserved criticism and misrepresentation in the media and that made me more sympathetic to him at the time.

I was a younger and more naïve person back then.

I voted for Corbyn twice but my opinion of him has changed a lot since then. To be in any kind of leadership position you have to have some level of organisational and decision making ability and he doesn’t have those at all. If he’d won the election and become PM I think it would have been an embarrassing shit show like this party he’s founded.

I think Europe really needs to come up with an open source publicly funded alternative to the Google and Microsoft ecosystems.

I ended up blocking them both because lemmy.ml is full of tankies and lemmy.world is America centric despite the name.

a ceasefile might be closer than ever but so is the heat death of the universe.

I’d love to use it but for some reason it can’t find my location. Other apps can though.