[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[AmericanHero40 203]

22 minutes ago, NearPup said:

America was founded on a big chunk of empty land that was uninhabited, right.

 

And hey, my ancestors moved to North America well over a hundred years before America was founded. Always tickled me a little that I immigrated to a country where some of my ancestors lived before the country even existed.

That's definitely an interesting time, 100 years before George Washington

[AmericanHero40 203]

10 hours ago, NearPup said:

The whole "homeland" talk (which both Israelis and Palestinians engage in) always bothers me because of how incredibly stupid it is.

 

As a random example, I am Acadian. So where is my "homeland"?

Is it Quebec, the "French" area in North America?

Is it New Brunswick, where my ancestors fled to after being deported?

It it Louisiana, which was set asside for them as a place to live by the British after they were deported?

It is Nova Scotia, where the Acadians settled before being conquered and deported?

Is it Normandy, where my ancestors lived in Europe before settling in Nova Scotia?

Is it Denmark, where my ancestors lived before conquering Normandy?

Or do I go back further? Or maybe I should live in Great Britain since my ancestors were forced to become subjects of the Crown? And I'm Roman-Catholic, so maybe Italy is my homeland?

 

Especially stupid because for every single one of those places, some other group has a better claim as it being their "homeland" than I do, because it turns out it isn't that rare for multiple ethnic groups to have competing legitimate claims over the same area.

 

Anyway, I ended up moving to Washington State, which is objectively not "my homeland" but, hey, weather's nice here.

 

 

The U.N assigned the Land of Israel as the country of Israel, country for jews, who wanted to leave peacefully with arabs, but were constantly attacked, starting in 1948, just like this time, we are the one being attacked and yet they are the one screaming "look at those jews"

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22 minutes ago, AmericanHero40 said:

That's definitely an interesting time, 100 years before George Washington

Ya, my family settled in North America before John Washington was born. We’ve been here a while.