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The letter makes the following claims: "The Israeli response to protests and attacks from Gaza has targeted residential areas, basic infrastructure, buildings housing the international media as well as medical clinics and hospitals. The Israeli claim that Hamas militants are using these targets as human shields for their operations does not justify their targeting under relevant laws of warfare that demand civilians be protected from harm."

In the letter, "indiscriminate" is defined, or rather redefined, as targeting buildings that have civilian uses. Yet the letter admits that the Israeli strikes are aimed at hostile Hamas terrorist operations and operatives. The Israeli targeting is the opposite of "indiscriminate"; it carefully discriminates between Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians, directing its attacks on the former only. It is also true that Hamas was shooting rockets into Israel in the hopes of killing Jewish Israelis, non-combatants, which was not "indiscriminate," but intentional. In contrast, Israel undertakes heroic efforts to avoid civilian casualties by targeting only Hamas and Islamic Jihadist operatives. Israel notifies non-combatants of strikes ahead of time by means of texts, phone calls, and non-explosive signal bombs.

Keep in mind that it is Hamas that places their operations in the midst of their own citizenry, whom they use as human shields. For Hamas, dead Palestinian non-combatants are good publicity, as Europeans and others will blame Israel, as we see in this naive letter.

#redefining words #indiscriminate #apartheid #disproportionate #israel #hamas #gaza #science for peace

Ngl this silhouette is horrifying. Why are her arms like that?

#crap #skeletal #disjointed #disproportionate #in other words

“ Junction between worlds ” (see english version below)

Le but ici était de jouer avec les perspectives. Je me suis inspirée du monde du jeu “Little Nightmares” pour l’environnement disproportionné par rapport au personnage principal ainsi que pour la gamme de couleurs qui fait d’autant plus ressortir les personnages et éléments importants. J’ai voulu composer la scène de manière à immerger le spectateur dans plusieurs perspectives à la fois qui montrent des mondes interconnectés.

English version :

The goal here was to play with perspective. I was inspired by the world of the game "Little Nightmares" for the disproportionate environment as well as for the color palette which makes the characters and important elements stand out even more. I wanted to compose the scene in such a way as to immerse the spectator in several perspectives at a time that are interconnecting multiple worlds.

#perspective #mushrooms #little nightmares #magic world #tunnel #watercolour art #creepy #disproportionate

From 1790 to 1910 the House of Representatives expanded after every census to keep up with population. In 1920 though, the rural states noticed that urban states were growing faster and would therefore win more seats, so in 1929 a “compromise” was agreed upon where the number of Representatives would remain stuck at 435 forever. As with all compromises in American history, this was the conservative minority strong-arming their way into power over the majority.

The Senate is disproportional because small states wanted to have more votes than big states. The electoral college exists so that the small states have more say in picking the president. Black people counted as 3/5 of a person because small states wanted more representation in the House. The House has 435 because the small states didn’t want to be eclipsed as America entered the most industrialized century in history. It’s all one big crock!

Why do we have to keep appeasing conservatives? Why do we keep giving more power to fewer people? If we live in a functional democracy, everyone should be counted the same. It shouldn’t be a controversial statement to say that more people means more votes; bigger numbers are bigger than smaller numbers. When a lot of people live in one area, that one area should get more representation than an area where NO ONE lives.

If the Democrats take back the Senate, they need to expand the House ahead of the redistricting.

The first census was held in 1790. Then, the US had a population of 3,929,214 people, and 105 seats in the House; that’s 37,421 people per seat. In 1910 the population was 92,228,496 with 433 seats (2 were added in 1913 when New Mexico and Arizona were admitted). That’s 212,999 people per seat, not nearly as representative as 1790, but artificially deflated for practicality. If the number of seats had kept track with the first census, 1910 would have had 2,465 seats! That is TOO MANY SEATS, so it makes sense for the number of people per seat to increase with time, but the key is that it should only increase slowly. In 2010 though, the population had expanded to 308,745,538 people, or 709,760 per seat. From 1790 to 1910 the population grew by over 23 times, and the number of seats grew by 4 times. From 1910 to 2010, the population grew by 3 times, and the number of seats has stayed exactly the same. The House should have increased at least by half since then, closer to 650 seats.

If I were president, and if my party took both Houses, I would expand the number of seats to more directly mirror the population. I would say that for every 500,000 people we would add 1 extra seat. In 2020, when the population is close to 330,000,000 this would give us 660 seats, though the exact value would vary depending on how each state was rounded up or down.

California has 39,747,267 people, so they would get 79.494534 seats, rounded down to 79.

Texas has 29,087,070 people, 58.17414 seats, rounded down to 58.

Florida has 21,646,155 people, 43.29231 seats, rounded down to 43

North Carolina has 10,497,741 people, 20.995482 seats, so this would be rounded UP to 21

If we rounded every state up, then we would balloon from 660 to 710, so rounding some of them down would help balance it from census to census. That’s still a form of “compromise,” but it’s much more agreeable than the one we currently have, where people from Wyoming and Vermont have more of a say than people from California and Texas.

Also, we should give DC and the territories representation; they are unequivocally part of the United States, pay American taxes, follow American laws, and have American citizenship, so they should have a voice in American politics. We should hold referendums on self-determination, giving each territory the chance to vote on whether or not to become a state and be admitted on equal footing. Puerto Rico and DC are the big two every talks about, but Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and especially American Samoa deserve better than what they currently get; BUPKIS

We need a constitutional convention to completely change how our system works. It is old and full of holes which we have been hesitant to fill in because the majority doesn’t want to upset the minority. We are a functional democracy, we are the United States, not Apartheid South Africa. The minority should not have say over the majority! (for those of you who don’t study history, South Africa had segregation until the late 1980s, called Apartheid, where the majority black population was treated as lesser than the minority white population; when Apartheid ended, the whites feared the blacks would retaliate against them for centuries of mistreatment, but Nelson Mandela knew that bloodshed wasn’t the answer, so called for reconciliation. I clarify this because when I say that the “minority” in “South Africa” should listen to the majority, it sounds like a very reductive, backwards, racist American way of saying blacks should listen to whites when that’s the exact opposite of what I mean. And in the United States, I don’t mean minority as in racial or ethnic minority, I mean specifically political minority; voting blocs, coalitions, parties, etc. This entire paragraph is just my way of appeasing my own ADHD mind; gotta make sure my point is understood, even if I’m drastically overthinking it)

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