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31·5 days agoHey thanks for doing that critical investigation. Although I posted propaganda and that wasn’t smart of me, It’s good to know those numbers are likely a misrepresentation and Israelis may not be as thoroughly extreme as that report makes them look.
On the other hand the responses of Israelis in opinion polls are not encouraging. From last July:
Personal response to the reports from Gaza: From examining the conduct of the state, we moved to a more personal question, asking: “To what extent are you personally troubled or not troubled by the reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza?” A very large majority of Jewish respondents reported that they are not so troubled or not at all troubled personally by events in Gaza (79%), while the majority of Arabs said that they are very troubled or somewhat troubled (86%).
In the Jewish sample, we found no difference by gender (with 80% of women and 78% of men not troubled), while in the Arab sample we found that women are more troubled than men by the situation in Gaza (women, 92%; men, 80%).
Don’t start negotiating until you have a deal ready to go: that’s how you get the USA to bomb you.
When has Trump ever realized he’s being played?
Rigging an election you also cancel seems like a bit of a waste of effort.
How about cutting off USAID and thereby causing the deaths of about 10 million people by 2030, or accelerating the pace of climate change beyond what anyone thought possible, and thereby killing life all over the planet? Those are also big achievements.
31·12 days agoOverregulation and underregulation are both problematic, so it’s not an easy thing to get right. But sometimes you get the impression a regulation is all agenda and very little thought (e.g. this one in California, and the FCC’s recent banning of foreign-made home routers).
I suspect it just indicates the excessive power of corporate lobbyists.
“The worst of the worst”, “dangerous criminals” - Donald Trump
Trump wouldn’t be capable of that, either intellectually or psychologically.
That’s why Trump never wins at 4D chess.
There’s also a strain of fascist eugenics in the Trump regime, which believes only those who are “superior” deserve to live. Harming everyone else is, in their mind, a way to encourage inferior people to die off. Many of their policy decisions make more sense when you recognize that they think most people dying would be a good thing.
Why would you help the USA when it has shown repeatedly how ready it is to completely screw you as soon as you have helped it out of a predicament of its own making?
He was annoyed that Iran might make money from charging ships to pass through. So he made sure they can’t. In the process he gets himself into a trap he can’t get out of, but he is unable to think that far ahead.
It’s possible he also wants to be paid for letting ships pass, but who would pay him for that when Iran will stop the ships anyway? He might pretend the USA can give them safe passage, but the USA’s inability to win militarily has already shown the world that it can’t.
So the world’s economy gets tanked and more people everywhere suffer and starve. Maybe he thinks this will pressure the USA’s “allies” to come and help the USA fight Iran, but who would help a country that demonstrates upfront that it’s this willing to fuck you over?
I haven’t seen the movie, but was Palpatine a Grade A Fucking Moron?
Once again the whole world has to suffer because of Trump’s insatiable ego and greed, and his bottomless stupidity. May he be gone soon.
For anyone unfamiliar:
Netanyahu is a liar and a danger to the world. “Most moral army” is a sick joke. The IDF are villains, not heroes.
Spain’s government actually seems to have some principles and speak the truth about Israel and the other fascist powers spreading death and destruction.
Ardour is also good.