Palestinian Territory - Israel continues to ignore orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including the Court’s most recent ruling. This ruling requires Israel to halt its military assault on the Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip and reopen the Rafah border crossing to facilitate the movement of...
I'll vote for the candidate that deserves my vote.
If that's "none of the above" like from Brewster's Millions, well, that would make sense considering both candidates are running for president like the last thing they want is to be president, they just can't drop out of the election.
If the DNC wants more votes next election, maybe they shouldn't run an 82 year old conservative who went around Congress to fund a genocide then blamed peaceful protestors when zionists and cops attack them?
Seems kind of common sense, the left wing part should be left wing...
But it is what it is.
If you don't like it, why try to convince 100s if millions of people to vote for someone they disagree with rather than the handful of people at the DNC that decide who the candidate is, to pick a better candidate to push thru the primary next time?
I would have said convince Biden to do anything, but we all know he's going to do whatever the fuck he wants. He's 82 years old, and that's what that generation thinks a leader is. Just like trump.
The problem is the majority of voters are half their age and we're just not into that shit.
If your lifespan was an hour, every generation that witnessed a sunrise or sunset would freak the fuck out and think the world was ending.
I've always thought of entropy like that, it seems one direction, but only because we're on a comparativly tiny timescale.
Used to subscribe to the "big crunch" theory that it'll just all start over. But the more Penrose and Hawking I read, the more I think the Big Bang just isn't that unique.
There's a lot of signs that the vast majority of existence is dark matter, and with how it interacts with regular matter, I don't think we have sequential big bangs like a single light slowly flashing. I think it's more like fireworks in the sky.
There's probably not anyway to travel through the dark matter to get to another "bubble", and even if we did, that bubbles laws of physics could be drastically incompatible with us.
Like, if you remember the Narnia books it's like that "main world" where it was just an infinite number of ponds and jumping into one shoots you out to some world world everything works better. I think The Magicians kind of ripped off the idea, and by now more people may be familiar with that then one of the least popular (but underrated) books in a children's series from ww2.
Entropy is functionally persistent, but only because everything we can see and interact isnt all there is. There could be multiple other bubbles of matter happening right now, it's just about what frame of reference we have.
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole....
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, testifying Thursday before a U.S. congressional hearing into the protests, said his school should have been prepared to immediately remove the protest encampment "if and when the safety of our community was put at risk."
The violence took place two days after a pro-Israel group, the Israeli American Council, held a rally next to the UCLA encampment, with the council's leader, Elan Carr, urging his supporters to “take back our campuses" from pro-Palestinian protesters. Scuffles broke out between the two sides.
So zionists showed up, said people should attack peaceful protesters, then attacked the peaceful protestors, and days later came back with weapons for a coordinated early morning attack...
So the cops then raid the peaceful protesters?
And the schools take away was "we should have had the cops attack earlier"
Fucking insane.
This is what happens when foreign countries buy both parties and take over our education system. It's no coincidence all these schools are siding with the genociders.
I mean sure, she's a music nepo baby and wouldn't be famous if her dad wasn't a music producer. But Huddy was good, and that song where she used that old Juvenile beat slaps.
It's not like anyone says she's great, but she gets shit on so much when she's just middle of the pack average.
People could submit random social media comments/posts that were critical of Israel, and if you went to that site and commented, you got "points" that could be redeemed for gift cards.
Not much money, but it was all online so people from a lower income country could make decent money off it compared to local employment.
It's good people are finally talking about all the propaganda Israel puts out tho. But it's not a new development. They're just switching from humans in poverty to AI.
Hell, we're probably better off if they think AI can do as good of a job at this as humans.
Quick edit:
Mentioning the act.il app on Reddit used to get you banned from a lot of the major news/politics subs
Unpopular opinion: “the other side is just bots” is the new “the other side is just paid protestors.”
That's literally what's happening here...
They use to pay people thru an app to do this, now they use bots...
Like, I got called a racist once for telling another white employee that if they wanted the admin leave for an office holiday party, they had to stay at work till it started.
That obviously doesn't make me a racist, but if you put on an Obama mask and started making monkey noises... That's still racist, even tho that old guy called me racist for not letting him leave before the holiday party started.
The US did overthrow most of the others to install religious extremists because it's easier to bribe a few people into cheap oil than an entire country of democratic voters...
It's like popping the tires of a coworker you like on the night shift so you're their only option for a ride home. It's true, but you're the reason you're her only option, and she really shouldn't get in your car.
I think every single species is active, at least on Oahu.
There's "B52s" that live outside in dumpster/trash. They're big enough that if you see one on the ground you immediately think it's fake. And when they're flying at night you can't see them in the air, but you can fucking hear them which is even more terrifying. They're technically just American cockroaches, but because the island life (especially Waikiki) is pretty much perfect for them, they just keep getting bigger and bigger on the island.
Plus with all the people around, they're not really scared of humans. These aren't the roaches in movies that scatter when a light comes on or they see a person. They're used to us by now.
And with so many people riding scooters...
Getting hit with a giant flying cockroach in the face at 40mph isn't exactly fun, but it's definitely memorable.
All the hotels, restaurants, and buildings are infested with the smaller breeds. There's just nothing to do when conditions are fine for them to live outside all year. Even if you somehow killed every one in your building, more are just going to come in from outside to fill the void.
Or what Hillary said Dems would have done for the 06 Palestinian election:
Regarding the election, in which Hamas beat Fatah by 74 to 45 seats, Clinton said "I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win."
Even after the party told a judge they can't be guilty of bias because a primary is nonbinding and the party can just ignore the results?
NH was doing that, then they got told they could either break their state election laws or not have their votes counted.
That's not a rhetorical question, how do we move the Overton window when the party seizes power from the party and flat out says they'll ignore results they don't like if their cheating still prevents those results...
How are voters supposed to have any say in their candidates let alone moving the Overton window?
Hell, the party called this primary after what, five states held a primary?
And one of those literally didn't count, but the party and Biden still spent a bunch of money to win a "write in campaign" and tried to make it sound like an underdog victory.
So we can get the presidency, the House, and the Senate?
We've done that, it doesn't work out as well as you'd think...
We can't just keep adding Dems, because lots of them are waaaay more "moderate" then their constituents. Because they've held office for decades.
For a healthy party, we need fair primaries. And we don't get them anymore.
A few rotten apples spoil the bunch. We can't just leave the rotten ones in there and try to outnumber the rotten ones. We need to get them the fuck out of the barrel.
Biden's really willing to fuck around and let trump win...
All he has do is chill out for 6 fucking months and keep his hands clean, but this is how he's always responded to people challenging him.
What sank his 88 run wasn't the plagiarism, it was how he treated reporters that would ask him about.
The more people that protest for him to stop funding a genocide, the more he's going to lash out like this, and the more voters will equate him to trump.
Which is incredibly dangerous when the most common reason for voting Biden is:
Biden can't save him, because we wouldn't agree to the Rome act because we thought that somehow meant we couldn't be charged at the Hauge for our war crimes. That's not true tho, we don't have to agree to it.
Israel and the United States are not members of the ICC. However, the ICC claims to have jurisdiction over Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank after Palestinian leaders formally agreed to be bound by the court’s founding principles in 2015.
And if Netenyahu even lets Israel have elections. Before 10/7 he was already in the process of getting kicked out of office, the only reason he's still in power is 10/7.
By your logic the nazis shouldn't have been tried at the Hauge...
Is that what youre intentionally saying? Or did you not think it through?
Like even this bit:
And the United States has a law that says it will militarily invade The Hague if any US service member is arrested and held by the court. It came about along with all the other legislative bullshit in the years after 9/11/01. The US had previously been a founding member of the ICC, but withdrew for reasons of sovereignty.
If no US service member could be tried at the Hauge because the US didn't sign the Rome agreement...
Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like "oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great" I was like "Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good..."...
They can also point out code violations (and I’m not sure how expensive that can get… they may mandate you fix it
That's a reason not to get it tho...
My Mom sold without an inspection because of little things like putting a ceiling fan on a dimmer to control the speed of the fan.
Everything was done by licensed contractors, just small town bullshit where people do what they want. Especially when a house hasn't been sold for 50 years, small stuff like that adds up until a sale happens.
Could she have updated everything that was like that before the sale? Sure, but it would have been a huge hassle and in today's market she could just sell "as is" with no hit to price.
Now, as a buyer would I trust a seller I didn't know?
Fuck no.
But I grew up in that house, I know what happened.
In the US, the estimated net price (after rebates) of Wegovy is $809 per month. In Denmark, the price is $186 per month. A study by researchers at Yale estimated that drugs like Wegovy can be profitably manufactured for less than $5 per month.
My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....
I've been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama's first term in 2008 more wasn't accomplished. Shouldn't that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but outside...
Republicans do stuff then Democrats challenge it thru the courts.
Dems challenge their own stuff first, and if they think it's right after a year or two, they start talking about if they should do it. And Republicans will still challenge it thru the courts.
You can argue over which path is morally the right one.
But no one has a legitimate argument that says republicans aren't more effective.
They're skipping steps that take us years to complete.
I mean, Biden talked about all types of shit he would do when elected. And his first day he said he'd start looking into if he was allowed to do any of it.
trump ain't waiting to ask anyone if he can do something. He's just going to do shit, and we're going to have to try and fight a bunch of battles at once, all the while his policies are in effect.
It's not that they're fighting dirty and we're fighting clean.
It's that when the gun goes off to start the race, we start stretching so we won't cramp up.
Doesn't matter how slow Republicans are if we give them a 10 minute head start on a 100m sprint.
I've tried scrubbing it several times with bar keepers friend soft cleanser and although it improves, it never goes away completely and it always comes back....
You can even fill a ziplock bag and tie it on a faucet.
If your water is really hard, pour vinegar into that little tube in your toilet too, the jets get clogged easily and that flushes them out and prevents them from blocking up. If they are blocked, the vinegar will eventually open them up if you don't regularly.
Obviously water softener if you don't have one, but depending what your waters like you may have to do more.
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The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday....
Can you explain to me rationally why you think Hamas doesn’t deserve to be wiped out after Oct 7th?
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You want me to explain why a foreign government shouldn't be "wiped out" for a war crime?
By that logic, why shouldn't Israel's government be "wiped out" for the attacks on civilians leading up to it?
Or at least for their actions after it where they killed 10x more civilians and destroyed billions in infrastructure?
And that's not even getting into how Israels government draws no distinction from someone who lives and Gaza and belongs to Hamas.
Your logic just doesn't seem to be consistent, and you're focusing on the one time Hamas did anything comparable to how Israel has treated Palestinian civilians over 70 years...
But you keep saying you have no knowledge on this subject at all...
You shouldn't be asking for random social media accounts to explain shit like this.
Like, is this really how you think it's best to learn about geopolitics?
Asking strangers online?
It's not like this is some crazy niche.
It's just hard for me to believe you're sincerely asking these questions and are so opinionated that Israel is in the right. I'm not responding anymore.
Gaza: After ICJ order to halt attacks on Rafah, Israel launches over 60 air raids on the city in 48 hours ( euromedmonitor.org )
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Beyond the established symmetries of physics - Charge, Spin, Color, Time, etc. - is there any such thing as symmetry of Information?
UCLA police make first arrest in mob attack on pro-Palestinian encampment ( www.reuters.com )
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole....
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Israeli officials seize AP equipment and take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law ( apnews.com )
How cockroaches spread around the globe to become the pest we know today ( apnews.com )
They’re six-legged, hairy home invaders that just won’t die, no matter how hard you try....
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Statement from President Joe Biden on the Warrant Applications by the International Criminal Court ( www.whitehouse.gov )
Full statement:...
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4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?
Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like "oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great" I was like "Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good..."...
“Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care ( arstechnica.com )
What band or music group would you not have minded if they didn't have a certain band member? ( kbin.social )
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Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?
I've been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama's first term in 2008 more wasn't accomplished. Shouldn't that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but outside...
Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel ( www.bbc.com )
How do I permanently get rid of this discolouration in my bathtub? (I have hard water) ( sh.itjust.works )
I've tried scrubbing it several times with bar keepers friend soft cleanser and although it improves, it never goes away completely and it always comes back....
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Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons, ammo to Israel, congressional aides say ( apnews.com )
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday....
If life never emerged on Earth, would the continents still be more or less the same today? In other words, does life affect the formation and movement of continents significantly?
NYPD gropes and unbuttons the shirt of a handcuffed woman at Pro Palestine student protest ( streamable.com )
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