Tourism often doesn’t benefit the people living in these towns. The hotels and Airbnbs are usually owned by outsiders and big companies. The people living and working in a tourist town often don’t see much benefits, besides that their town is now very expensive, regular people are forced to move out, making it harder to have a regular store, because all your customers are now tourists. If too much of a town serves tourism it’s typically bad for the regular inhabitants.

“If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I’m sorry, my friends, there would be no Canada the next day,”

Palestine is Buffalo in this analogy, right?

Not improving your political stances, but just benefiting from a popular artist? It’s the Democrats wildest dreams!

The “fuck immigrants over” party is not popular with immigrants. Big surprise.

Republicans fuck over so many people, then they have to resort to crazy schemes like gerrymandering and voter suppression to not lose all the time. If they want to win, maybe do more popular things! This also goes for Joe Biden: all this complaining about leftist not voting for him, but he does nothing to convince them either.

Why would this analogy hold? Why can nations control who comes in and not cities, counties, or any other set of borders we’ve come up with?

On top of that, the US doesn’t seem to respect other borders as much either, when it sends troops to whatever place, usually without getting invited.

According to Wikipedia:

Settler colonialism occurs when colonizers invade and occupy territory to permanently replace the existing society with the society of the colonizers.

Being anti-colonialist is forbidden? Is it antisemitism because this time the colonizers claim to do it in the name of Judaism?

People here seem to think that the parties that want unification are pro-CCP. Taiwan (until now) thinks they are the rightful rulers of China. A decent part of three Taiwanese still want reunification. I’m happy that they don’t have that delusion anymore, and I hope China follows suit, but let’s not see the situation here too black and white.

This comment got to me really late, probably to Lemmy’s distributed nature.

But I still want to add: of course business will make more money if you allow more practices, but selling personal data just has too many negative consequences.

Also low quality advertising? You mean like billboards and in the newspaper? You mean regular advertising?

No, just ban the collection of user data and selling to 3rd parties. Enormous fines for anyone still doing it. Destroy this entire industry please.

Exactly, it’s the whole “black lives matter” vs “all lives matter” thing all over again.

First by the Ottoman Empire, then by the British empire, now by Israel

You haven’t been to the USA or to any European country before the 80s to see that Christianity can be just as political and just as conservative.

If you give the situation a little more context, you can see the west’s hands in this as well, similar to Palestine and other former colonies. After being brutally exploited by western powers, there were many secular and moderate resistance movements. Because they were socialist and considered a threat to the western dominance they were either ruthlessly bombed, like Laos and Vietnam, or the west supported dictators like Suharto, because they promised to kill all the communists for them. Even though the dictator is gone now, it will take many years for a moderate generation to grow again.

The exact same is happening in Palestine. The west supports Israel’s ethnic cleansing, meaning that the only resistance that is left is groups like Hamas.

You don’t see the irony in asking for deportations for the people that are protesting being deported from their homes?

People like you are the problem.

What an incredibly one-sided argument. Any conservative, no matter the religion is against LGTBQ. Look at America, or any conservative christian political party in Europe. Heck, even conservative atheists are often against LGTBQ.

But separate from that, even conservative muslims deserve to defend themselves against colonialism and genocide.