I’m talking about the government. The Greek people have a strong anti-imperialist tradition and deep sympathy for the Palestinians. But there is a shift in the more conservative sections who start seeing Israel as a security partner.

I don’t know about the rest, but I know very well why Greece and Cyprus do: Turkish sabre rattling and occupation. So we think Israel can counterbalance Turkey. It’s a misguided policy for sure, but not unexplainable.

Why not?

I don’t think the point is to say “we live in the same circumstances”. I think it’s more to emphasize, in the words of never-trumpers of the Lincoln Project: “Don’t Fuck it Up”.

Are you white? If so, would you call Clarence Thomas the N word?

I think you are going to get all sorts of comments, there is no single voice for the community, right?

That said, I think so long as you follow the actual licenses and give an explicit shout-out, it would be malevolent of people to actually go after you.

Love the political defeat of this fascist.

Don’t love the rampant sexism and slut shaming in the comments here.

It was the biggest step that could have happened and it was a small first step.

I don’t know about WASPs, but Greek Americans might pick fights about what a proper baklava is. Call it inter-communal tensions if you will.

Exactly. Your archaic anti-democratic system concentrates too much power to very few people whose elections get cosmic-level significance. Your political culture reveres the supposed wisdom of your founding daddies as if political thought peaked in the late 1700s. This structurally produces chaotic outcomes and an inability to adapt. Mind you it’s not a matter of codifying the conventions Trump broke. It’s about rethinking what you mean by democracy. Hardening the conventions does not solve the problem. Since American political thought loves comparisons to ancient Rome: hardening the conventions is what Sulla did. It did not save the Republic, it just ossified its inability to reform and defined the rules of the antirepublican game that people like Pompey and Caesar had to play in the road to Empire.

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