God forbid the word “framers” also included the badasses who abolished slavery and kicked white supremacy in the teeth.

OO Impress

The US political system is antidemocratic (Madison) and should be replaced.

With respect, whether it’s different for the rest of the world, that’s not for you Americans to decide, it’s for the rest of the world.

Fwiw, I actually agree that it is different.

It was actually the fascist policies enacted by the trumpist extremists in power.

Microsoft

Stunningly shallow.

Fascists don’t solve problems. They just blame then on vulnerable demographics. Once the immigrants are gone and the problems stay, they will find someone else to blame until there. There is no bottom.

Best kind of Portlandia vibes.

Russia is a genocidal gangster petro-state, led by a criminal wanted by the ICC, that should be kicked out of Ukraine, but credit where credit is due: the most recent era of great power military adventurism started when the US ignored the UN and international law to invade Iraq in 2003. So if we want to talk about who drove the world in this shit, the answer is clearly the USA.

The United States of America after the Cold War.

The shtetls are subjected to regular pogroms.

Here is what mainstream Israeli press thinks of the term:

“Settler” is not a neutral descriptor. In English, the word entered common use in the early 17th century to describe people establishing permanent communities in sparsely inhabited areas. At first, the term evoked ideas of pioneering and self-reliance. But during and after the age of European colonialism, it grew heavier with meaning, often associated with conquest, displacement, and injustice.

In today’s activist and postcolonial discourse, “settler” frequently implies illegitimacy, occupation, and even violence. That shift in meaning has colored its modern use, especially in contested areas like the West Bank.

For Palestinians, the term “settler” is almost always pejorative. The settlements are seen as encroachments on land designated for a future Palestinian state, and the continuing expansion—especially under the current Israeli government—has been viewed as a major obstacle to any viable two-state solution.

So, no, those fuckers don’t consider “settler” to be anodyne.

Does the word “settler” have connotations of innocence in your culture?

Apartheid state doing apartheid things.

According to Vlad Vexler, in Russian political/bureaucratic culture this is not to be understood as real analysis and more to be understood as functionaries pitching themselves as useful to Putin: https://youtu.be/ZJryUKULZ_E

This is complicity in genocide.

The Empire will strike back folks. Brace yourselves and don’t self-congratulate too much, the real fight starts now. Good luck, American friends!

Independence doesn’t mean no bias. Also what outlet has no bias?

I would assume the author focuses on them because they are retail facing and therefore somewhat vulnerable to consumer behaviour.

But for sure, any company profitting off of apartheid and genocide should be shamed.