Oof. I kinda would too, but also... boy that'd be an uncomfortable read.
Pure guess? 30% would pick Hitler.... 15% would refuse to answer.
This is so, so fucked up.
It's hard to grieve effectively in the face of so many tragedies. Here is another one.
Yeah, and more importantly, Biden needs to learn the public component of diplomacy.
I read his interview in Time, and it's weird, because it at least gave me some aspect into what he's thinking.
He's old as fuck. He has learned decades of procedures and standard practice in diplomacy, and he does NOT understand that a lot of it happens in the open now. Biden thinks he's playing chess with all the diplomatic messages he sends along backchannels, and he has no idea that this is just an arm wrestling match now. People judge you by what you say and do transparently.
Biden legit thinks he and Bibi are like cousins who grew up together who are having a tough fight, and Bibi is all fucking politics. He'd slit any throat he has to get what he wants, and he will bury Biden in a heartbeat.
Biden should go to Israel, and in a public address announce that the country is turning a corner: it will be safer than ever, and America is going to assist with a long term peace process, which they won't lead but will provide security guarantees for. And don't tell Bibi any of this in advance. And when Bibi reacts, say that Bibi has lost his trust and that of the elected public, and they need to hold new elections before getting any new weapons. Get some 'nads, man!
I wouldn't mind a complete cut-off in weapons, but I also wouldn't mind if they continue to supply rocket defenses or something if its part of a pressure campaign to send Netanyahu packing. I want Israeli prosecutors and the Hague to argue over who gets to lock his ass up first.
Do you think the Atlantic is a lefty mag?
I think you're confusing it with some other magazine. The Atlantic is for neoliberal centrists. It's modestly liberal in the way The New Yorker is, but it's for old, wealthy New England investors.
They do it because they can.
Netanyahu in particular is famous for asserting that policy control flows from him to the US, not the other was around.
He believes that Israel controls the US, and he controls Israel. And for decades, that insane belief has been shown largely accurate.
To be fair to them, very few forums have 24 hour rapid response times. I don't know what country the mods are in. I think the bigger lesson is that there need to be safeguards to make this harder.
First, if a post has a score of -10, it needs to disappear. There's no reason for another fifty people to have to see disturbing content after 10 people already did.
Second, maybe place limits on accounts with no posts or comments or that were made today.
I just want to preempt any debate over whether these claims are credible by saying that they are fundamentally not relevant to the long-term needs of this situation.
Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel need to be afforded their human rights. Israelis need security, and will never get it from violence and ruthless persecution of this ethnic underclass they've created.
My point is that if you diagram out the best of course of action, all nodes on that diagram that are based on what Hamas has or hasn't done lead to no meaningful difference. Their violence is abhorrent. There is no point is debating over their tactics or location however, because none of it changes the harsh realities that only a negotiation that provides Palestinians access to safe homes, education, food, etc. is going to bring an end to the cycle of violence, and I feel compelled to point this out whenever these distractions pop up, as they do on a daily basis.
I genuinely don't understand what Musk considers his leverage here.
It seems like he has... none?
Honestly, this is nonsense.
They aren't fighting over Jerusalem or Bethlehem or Jericho. This is a war over grazing lands and a beach town.
If you look away from Gaza for a moment to the other Palestinian territory -- the occupied West Bank -- you'll see gangs of a hooligans in pickup trucks with ski masks smashing water wells and killing cattle in small desert towns like it's high noon at the O.K. Corral.
The whole religious component is largely a distraction. There are people living on real estate that other people who have much bigger guns want. The solution is the same as it's always been: give folks a fair deal.
It's not a coincidence that this latest conflict is in Gaza. Gaza isn't religiously significant. It's just the densest, most brutal concentration camp in Israel. This is not over religion.
This is really dark.
I'm honestly kind of shocked, Because I'm convinced that the two-state solution is dead, and the only two remaining options are the one-state solution -- Israel recognizes Palestinians as Israelis and affords them civil rights and political agency -- or the 'no-state' solution -- expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the territory.
I know that Netanyahu isn't alluding to the one state solution, so when he stops talking about a two-state solution it really makes it clear that he's going all in on the other one.
I'm a big fan of Sean Bodly's art, and think more people need to see it.
That sucks. Not surprising, though. I hope the NRLB will fix their broken complain process. Right now, enforcement takes so long it's a joke.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/884646
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I feel like this is a pretty crass joke to make.
A good friend of mine found a body a few months ago. It's a pretty shitty experience. And it's actually a lot like what OP describes. A sense of foreboding and suspicion combined with a conviction that these thoughts are foolish. And an uncertainty whether to check or to alert someone or to just try to forget it.
Op, I'd report it and ask them to please follow up with you and let you know. It's probably nothing, and you'll feel better once you know it was nothing, and that you did the responsible thing in having it dealt with.