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@argals I once shocked a right wing person who was whining to me about how liberals wanted to pay for health care for poor people and foreigners, by explaining I would rather my children did not get untreatable TB from someone who he was too short sighted to pay a few pennies in tax to treat.

@Geri@mastodon.online Who made those complaints? People who object to fake history. The word "Palestine" was used by Roman (European) imperialists for what was left over after their genocide in Israel/Judea. There is no evidence of prior use.

@atomicpoet so close

@capnthommo@c.im @Geri@mastodon.online The imposition of imperial names for conquered territories and the suppression of indigenous names - e.g. substituting "Palestine" for "Phillistine" is a common process, but that doesn't make it accurate.

@Gargron@mastodon.social seems useful for machine translation.

@Gargron@mastodon.social there is a great essay on translation by Simon Leys