Dean
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Dean
Flairless
8d ago
Side A:
This patch of desert is ancient Moroccan land, stolen by infidel colonizers and justly returned. The people living there are Moroccans, who are thanking God every day that they were reunited with their homeland. Everything is fine, everyone except gaggle of grumpy terrorists is happy, no reason for anyone to complain.
This position is hold by Morocco, US and Israel, all alone against the world.
This is certainly an interesting framing, given that 120 countries reportedly supported Morocco's proposal of the western sahara under Moroccon sovereign control in the distant long past of... current year.
Truly, a mere 60% of the nations of the Untied Nations on board during contemporarily international negotiations is such lonely, and jewish, company.
Side B:
This patch of desert is country of Western Sahara, the people living there are ancient Western Saharan nation, dialect they are speaking is separate language. The country is illegally occupied by Morocco, and deserves their self determination.
This position is hold by UN and the whole international community.
This is also an interesting framing, given not just the aforementioned UN nations apparently outside the international community, but African nations supporting Morocco in nparticular.
Normally I'd be inclined to snark about Europeans conflating European diplomatic consensus with the world, except the recent Morocco proposal is backed by such notable American vassals / puppet states / your pejorative of choice, as France and Spain.
Instead, I'm inclined to note the historical context that the historical high point of UN and international community support for Western Sahara was back during the Cold War, with a relative silence in the two and a half decades since then. This not so coincidentally coincided with how Morocco's chief opponent on the Western Sahara issue, Algeria, was a major beneficiary of Soviet sponsorship, while Morocco generally aligned with the western block. In turn, Soviet sponsorship included much of the sort of military aid that Algeria provided to the Polisario Front, one of the major western saharan freedom fighter groups you refer to. As was normal in those time, as the Soviet Union freedom fighter aid went, so did the diplomatic votes of the soviet block, especially in the global south where the pro-Algerian position was the anti-imperialist / anti-western thematic vote as well.
Once the Soviet sponsorship and anti-capitalist politics faded with the Soviet Union, so to did international support for Algeria and western sahara as a cold war proxy issue. Which might be why more than half of the UN states had withdrawn their recognition of the Sarhawi Arab Democratic Republic during the 2000s and 2010s.
Which is not normally something the whole of the international community does... if you consider 80-odd states (which is 40 less than 120, I might add) 'the whole international community.'
Dean
Flairless
21d ago
'Uncharacteristic' stumble?
Mamdani hasn't had any fatal mistakes, but since election he's definitely gotten into unnecessary tiffs with members of the local and state Democratic party interest groups. Some of that may be catnip to some of his base, but I'd not peg him as someone above theatrics that cause inevitable discomfort down the line when political reality hits the road.
Dean
Flairless
26d ago
The data under the timespan does support his point. The timespan itself does not undercut his point because it does not ommit relevant data that would disprove his point.
Which returns to the point that the data span limit you are quibbling about doesn't actually change whether it supports the point being made- not least because if it did, you'd be raising the data implications under the different boundary, as opposed to fixating on the boundary rather than the data
Complaining that the not-even-arbitrary stopping point of a data set is at a particular part of an event cycle is dumb if the conclusion isn't based on the end point of the data itself. It would only be a meaningful objection of cutting off too early if the subsequent data disproves the thesis- but this is not the claim you have made, and it was not the basis of the claim you are critizing.
'as an effort to' or 'a consequence of'?
I've definitely known some people who felt they had to overcome the diversity hire stigma, but can't say I've met anyone who felt DEI was developed to undercut them.
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