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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • That’s pretty much true when it comes to Palestine as a country, but none of that excuses Israel claiming families homes they’ve been living in for generations. There was no such thing as a country of Palestine when Israel was created, but that doesn’t mean it was empty of people. Maybe they don’t have a good claim to a state of their own, but they do have strong claims on their own farms and homes. Those people rightfully don’t recognize Israel’s authority, especially when Israel is denying them basic human rights that they grant to Jews, i.e. apartheid



  • Palestinians did nothing to deserve their land being stolen. It was European fascism that persecuted the Jews and caused the creation of Israel. Zionism was pushed by European antisemites to get the Jews out. The Palestinians had nothing to do with it and rightfully see Israel as a European colonial project rather than any kind of legitimate state


  • Countries do not have a right to exist, particularly not if they want to exist on some other people’s land. Furthermore, why doesn’t this apply to a state for Palestinians having a right to exist? Not that I want that, it is doomed to fail like Pakistan and India. They all need to learn to get along and give people equal rights










  • As a former software engineer turned product owner turned manager, thank you for including other perspectives. When complaining on the internet, engineers typically think other people should be doing all the specification work and they just implement it, without realizing that in the pre-agile days, the bureaucracy was soul-crushing. We need engineers to discuss all these technical details like permissions and whatnot, they’re the best people for the task! But at parties, engineers talk about this as if management is stupid for not working it out for them. No, software engineers shouldn’t try to reduce themselves to code monkeys. You’re problem solvers, you’re engineers.