Kuba Adamów

Jake, couldn’t agree more that Israel, in general is a more ideal place to live in terms of freedoms and democracies, if you are a mostly white Jewish person, than neighbouring countries (if you are anything else). I certainly admire what they have accomplished all things considered. But then, Israel wasn’t colonised by western powers. A massive…[Read more]

Yes antisemitism is a massive problem, yes politically Palestine is responsible for atrocious behaviour, no, none of this justifies the mountain of bullshit that comes out every day from Israel.

Jake you would not be washing over these decades of injustice from Istael and expect such brutal compromise from any other people in the world in any…[Read more]

Robert this is an overly simplistic description of the Israeli/Palestinian situation. The occupied territories can see year upon year of relative peace, and yet the status quo never changes. Israel, even during the best of behaviour from Palestine keeps encroaching on their meagre territory and resources and applying brutal policies. At this…[Read more]

Here is a slightly different kind of trauma therapy – Gestalt Therapy.

It is recommended by a psychotherapist from New York I respect and have had beneficial dealings with: Dr Elinor Greenberg.

Dr Greenberg writes a column on Quora called Bits of Wisdom.  If you contact her via quora.com, or e-mail, I am sure she would love to help you out with…[Read more]

There has to be accountability within Gaza for what Hamas does. They are elected (even if it is done, to some extent with anti-democratic measures). There are ways to resist Hamas. Survey after survey shows majority support for militant crimes against innocents and a majority support for Hamas in Gaza (over half the populace has a positive view of…[Read more]

Regardless of which side we might have some sympathies towards, it is absolutely ridiculous to excuse crimes against humanity. If you are a militant, guerrilla fighter etc. you always have the option to target combatants and military infrastructure (and should). Massacring civilians (especially those as far from combatant capabilities/age as…[Read more]

Time and time again, we think of nations as having some kind of national agency. In other words, if there is a national will, then there is a clear way forward. When you are dealing with at least one government made of coalitions of parties with various electoral strategies, party structures, donors and power structures, decisions are made on what…[Read more]

Innocents, of course, are fair game in war

So says every war lord who perpetrates pointless horrific war crimes. If terrorising civilians goes to achieve your aim, then so is justifiable China’s crimes against the Uighurs, the Myanmar campaign against the Rohingya, British soldiers randomly shooting N. Ireland Catholics who gave them a funny look…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:
But if the means of doing this are adequate for their needs there may be no pressure for them to adopt more complex behaviours (e.g. making more sophisticated tools or cultivating termites). This is one facet of human behaviour that is a bit difficult to explain.

I think that what is adequate for their needs is the level of…[Read more]

Autumn pretty much sums it up. Switzerland has a very high number of guns (partly due to high level of reservist soldiers). And yet with their VERY reasonable controls:

• background checks
• mandatory training
• gun safes
• potential inspections
• periodic target practice
• mental health checks
• licensing

Avoidable gun related casualties are…[Read more]

Gun control advocates are hardly freaks. To support regulating extremely dangerous weapons is not freakish. It is utterly reasonable. I have lived in numerous countries where there are controls on guns. Surprise surprise, the number of accidents, avoidable last-minute suicides and gun homicides are extremely low. Keep in mind that all other forms…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:
But in this case I think it’s an issue of why people flip.

Good point.  It’s like choosing to be either sane or insane.

Autumn wrote:
Some might consider it odd that if someone doesn’t like the rain that they’d vote for the hurricane to get out of it. I can understand why many are apathetic, disenchanted with, or disapproving of Biden and the contemporary Democratic party,

I think a big part of it is tribalism, one group versus another.  It appears to me that Repu…[Read more]

What Autumn said.

You have to protect yourself.

Good to see Reg that, at least in 2019, stabbing rates were fairly identical in the US and the UK. Gun homicides in the US were all, ON TOP of the equal level of stabbings in both countries. Huh. It’s almost as though, having an enormous pile of guns and very little regulation is, at the very least, problematic. Once again, glad I don’t live in a…[Read more]

I am gratified Enco you are somewhat capable of conceding a point. I don’t know Enco, I don’t know enough about US states to comment on any of this. I wouldn’t want to live in a place that doesn’t have gun control and I wouldn’t want to live in a place where the majority prefer it. It is entirely sensible to put reasonable controls on extremely…[Read more]