This made me realize that Canadian political parties stick to their conventional colours more than US ones do. Republicans, like Trump, are conventionally red - Democrats are blue. But Trump's election signs do seem to have blue background in most cases based on a quick internet search. Could you imagine a Conservative, Liberal, or NDP sign in Canada not being blue, red, or orange respectively lol?
According to Professor David Scott Kastan of Yale University, writing in The Conversation, the system’s origins lie in the spread of colour TV in the late 1960s, when colour-coded maps were first used on election TV broadcasts.
The red and blue colouring was a nod to the British system, The Verge reports, but initially there was no permanent colour association for either party.
TV networks changed the map coding from election to election, with Prof Kastan explaining: “In Cold War America, networks couldn’t consistently identify one party as “red” – the color of communists and, in particular, the Soviet Union – without being accused of bias.”
Though red and blue have often been used to stand in for opposing sides in U.S. political history, it's only since the 2000 election that red and blue have been assigned to the political parties consistently.
That year, The New York Times and USA Today published full-color electoral maps for the first time, and according to The Verge, they assigned the colors fairly arbitrarily.
"[R]ed begins with r, Republican begins with r," senior graphics editor Archie Tse told The Verge. "It was a more natural association."
Unfortunately there is very little dedicated antifascists left. And they have been villified and persecuted by mainstream politics and society since forever. The "center" of German politics was deeply apathic and subconsciously racist (which it still is very much is).
We are just at the beginning and it is entirely unclear, if this starts to make a change.
Pretty sure they’re called “The Dixie Chicks” and not just “The Chicks”, though maybe that’s a fan name or something. Should still give the full name for those who maybe never heard of them.
The IDF initialize phone calls, text messages and send leaflets before
targeting military targets across the Gaza Strip to dismantle the Hamas terrorist organisation.
Hamas has maybe a few million dollars worth of weapons and military hardware and some dumb rockets they aim in the general direction of Israel ... they're also capable of launching a minor military invasion that can kill 1,200 Israelis ... compared to Israel which has nuclear weapons, the support of the world's largest military, the support of the world's military corporations and billions of dollars of funding support that lead to the deaths of 17,000 people (and counting).
Israel can spend a few decades steadily terrorizing Palestinians by penning them up in an open prison and limiting their resources and killing them on a regular basis .... about 3,000 Palestinians over the past 15 years ... compared to 200 Israelis in the same time period.
This is like saying someone took revenge for the killing of their sister ... by slaughtering the family of the murderer, his neighbours, and a few extended family members as retaliation.
There are bad actors on both sides ... a third party should step in to cease hostilities ... negotiate everything and stop the death and killing. This isn't medieval Europe ... the world can figure out how to resolve a modern dispute no matter how complicated, deadly or difficult it is ... it's just a matter of convincing world leaders to stand up, take responsibility, hold everyone accountable and do something to resolve all this.
Continued bombing, shooting, killing and indiscriminate violence will not resolve anything and will only make the situation worse for everyone on all sides.
and some dumb rockets they aim in the general direction of Israel
So because the rockets are dumb, this is fine to aim in the general Israel direction? well, no.
minor military invasion that can kill 1,200 Israelis
By latest count, the attacks by Hamas—the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement—killed more than 1,300 Israelis and third-country nationals, including at least 29 Americans, in a country whose population is less than 10 million. In America, that would be equivalent to killing nearly 40,000—13 times more than the number of Al Qaeda victims on 9/11. Minor, well, no. Source: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/why-107-was-worse-israel-911-was-america
penning them up in an open prison
I hope that you will be able to lead your people on the path of democracy and maintenance of law and order, until the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who withdraw IDF from Gaza Strip. Source: https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/speech080205
There are bad actors on both sides … a third party should step in to cease hostilities … negotiate everything and stop the death and killing.
Now, I agree. However, 3rd party negotiation doesn't work, because this is what was done until today, and as you can see, it's not resolved.
Continued bombing, shooting, killing and indiscriminate violence will not resolve anything and will only make the situation worse for everyone on all sides.
I also agree, however, unfortunately bombing shooting and killing is the way terrorist organizations (i.e. Hamas) operates. And, unfortunately terrorism can be only treated by force (e.g. ISIS, al-Qaida, and hopefully Hamas).
The problem is that Hamas terrorists are necessarily Palestinians, but Palestinians are not necessarily terrorists.
There are a lot of people who are afraid to say they support Hamas, because they know that this is something to be ashamed of, and might be illegal in their area.
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