Linux Is BestFeb 5, 2025

Technically, as a territory, Gaza's citizens would become Us Citizens.

I guess, welcome, our fellow Palestine Americans is in order.

#Gaza #Palestine #UnitedStates #Citizenship

Show threadColin Cogle Feb 5, 2025
@Linux Yeah, but they'd be like Puerto Rico and be forced into taxation without representation. For all the talk about making Canada/Greenland/Gaza/Mexico/whatever the fifty-first state, I don't see this Congress welcoming in a new overseas state full of brown people who don't speak English. #uspol
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@colin

Unfortunately, true.

Still, while this move is widely surprising and unpopular, I can see this possibly working. -- Lots of pushback, but I can still see this working.

When Gaza's footprint is overlaid onto New York City, it covers an area roughly the size of Manhattan, the Bronx and Hoboken, New Jersey, combined (see photo). The population of Gaza was only 2 million before the war, and imagine it is less now.

#Gaza #Palestine #Territory #UsTerritory

Show threadSnowFeb 5, 2025
@Linux @colin The US needs to stay out of stuff it has no business being in. I'm sick and tired of the president threatening of taking over sovereign nations all because he wants it at this rate it feels like he's trying to be Nazi Germany and wants to take over the world
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@snow @colin

You'll get no argument out of me, as I truly agree with you.

But unlike his other land grabs, which were only "talk", this time it is real. Israel seems to be onboard and more than happy to give America, Gaza. That means, this is actually happening.

Show threadFishtiksFeb 5, 2025
@Linux
But why do we want Gaza?
@snow @colin
Show threadColin Cogle Feb 5, 2025
@Fishtiks @Linux @snow Because Trump’s sons’ business can redevelop it into profitable gentrified housing and leave room for plenty of military bases targeting the Middle East.
Show threadFishtiksFeb 5, 2025
@colin
I'm not for listening to the UN, but UN law has made changing borders very difficult, in spite of the UN supposedly being for self-determination, which is why I'm not for listening to the UN. Why is there no Kurdistan? What does the UN do? So, whatever makes people able to settle.
@Linux @snow
Show threadSnow
@Fishtiks @colin @Linux This is the problem with states and countries and territories. Everybody wants everything they want to fight they want to declare war and they just want to project power
Feb 5, 2025 at 5:30amWeb
Show threadFishtiksFeb 5, 2025
@snow
And then the UN puts them in the Security Council. It's not a position of praise.
@colin @Linux