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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Starting at 2000 overstates the initial US share, after the dotcom crash the US doesn’t reach that export amount again until 2007. Additionally, the infographic manages to understate the growth in exports of both China and Chinese Taipei because the sector has grown in real terms. I wasn’t able to find an unpaid version of the original data (even though the source is from the UN via McKinsey), so I couldn’t do more of an analysis than that.







  • Let’s go over the poll and how bias the questions are.

    ISR4: Do you think it’s true that Hamas terrorists killed 1200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies or is that a false story?

    This of course ignores the large number of military personnel killed by calling them civilians while also repeating the blood libel claim about babies.

    ISR5: Do you think Hamas fighters are more appropriately called militants or terrorists?

    Both of these words have a negative connotation in English normally you would use a neutral or positive word to gauge sentiment also the question above already calls them terrorists.

    ISR7: Do you think Hamas is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. government or is that not the case?

    This is literally just a knowledge question but in the slides is presented as opinion. Bringing up the official designation just seems like an intentional attempt to bias any subsequent answers.

    ISR15: Do you think the recent attack on Israel shows there is widespread antisemitism and hatred of Jews among Palestinians or does the attack reflect the actions of only terrorists and fundamentalists and not the will of Palestinian people?

    These are the only two possibilities it couldn’t have anything to do with fighting occupiers.



  • I just view it the same way as any type of injurious manual labor. They are workers who are in part selling their bodily well-being for money, so the goals should be harm reduction, alternative employment, and demand reduction. I’m not sure if it is possible to eliminate completely at this stage of development, but carceral policies should not be used. Also, there are plenty of trafficked sex workers who aren’t doing it consensually.



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    What do you mean by participating? Is just living on stolen land enough to deserve death? Even just visiting as well?

    Yes moving or visiting stolen land is putting yourself in harms way because occupied peoples have a right to violently resist occupation. Obviously, a non violent solution would be preferable but the lives lost during armed resistance are largely due to the existence of the occupation.

    That is just the human shield argument, but applied to Isreal.

    The pattern is typically settlers move in, settlers get into a conflict with the native population, and the settler state uses this conflict as justification for further expansion. Settlers are completely complicit in this.


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    What do you mean? Settlers aren’t civilians they are actively participating in an armed occupation. This applies to tourists of colonial states too. Colonial states hide behind their noncombatant population to justify their atrocities.

    Edit: This is in no way advocating for large scale murder of settlers just a dismissal of their right to be free from conflict.