Notices by djr (djr@union.place)

@fu

That was why the #electionresult in #karnataka last month was so important!

@Geri

This is absolutely right. Furthermore in 1932 - even before #hitler came to power but after #japan invaded #manchuria - #nevillechamberlain abandoned the 'ten year rule' - under which no major war was expected for ten years - shortly after becoming #chancelloroftheexchequer . A previous #chancellor had brought in the rule in during the second #Baldwin government - a chap called #WinstonChurchill !

@appassionato @palestine

That is #ethniccleansing . It is not quite #genocide but comes close. A lot of it happened in #europe in the 1940s when millions were displaced - including #jews who had survived the #holocaust . During world war two #germany did quite a lot of #ethniccleansing of #poles and #slovenes in particular.

@appassionato @palestine

More recently #ethniccleansing seems to have been regarded as less acceptable - advocates and practitioners in the former #yugoslavia in the 1990s tended to end up in the dock at #thehague !

@appassionato @palestine

The allies meeting at #potsdam in 1945 licensed #ethniccleansing of #sudetengermans - the 'Benes decrees' - and of #germans living east of the Oder/Neisse line. However #saxons in #romania do not seem to have been affected.

@appassionato @palestine

However a seemingly voluntary movement of roughly a hundred thousand people did take place earlier this year - 2023 - from #artsakh / #NagornoKarabakh westwards. So it is not impossible under some circumstances. Not at all sure how wise it will turn out to be for #israel and its supporters to put it back on the agenda. Moving up to two hundred thousand settlers out of the West Bank in order to render a two state solution viable is worth talking about. in this context.

@ryanhoulihan
From a server if you wish but not the entire system.

@ryanhoulihan

Of course not but because the system had to be maintained as open and as tolerant as possible, however unpalatable this might be. There has to be caution and reluctance to set boundaries - which not at all the same as "free speech absolutism".

@ryanhoulihan

That is why it was right for the #bbc to be accepted in the #fediverse.

@OhNoSheTwitnt
Usage in #Britain is slightly different. Obviously no references to Coastal elites, New York values or Hollywood liberals and American Jews.

Instead references to #NorthLondon, #cosmopolitans and #citizensofnowhere. But approach otherwise very similar.