Call him daddy again, Rutte.

Someone finally listend to their lawyers

What are we supposed to get them for a welcoming gift? Was it beans or something?

If you haven’t yet, you should absolutely read “The Question of Palestine” by Edward Said. Its like 200 pages and he covers Hertzl, and a bunch of other early zionists, as well as prominent post-founding zionists like Ben Gurion. They honestly just say the quiet part out loud shamelessly. It’s completely indefensible if you read it. The only reason that we can even have “debate” about the nature of the state of Israel is because your average person “debating” Israel is totally ignorant of the history.

“after the [Second World| war the question of the land of Israel and the question of the Jews would be raised beyond the framework of “development”; amongst ourselves. it must be clear that there is no room for hoth peoples inthis country. No “development” will bring us closer to our aim. to be an independent people in this small country. If the Arabs leave the country, it will be broad and wide-open for us. And if the Arabs stay, the country will remain narrow and miserable. When the War is over and the English have won, and when the judges sit on the throne of Law, our people must bring their petitions and their claim before them; and the only solution is Eretz Israel, or at least Western Eretz Israel, without Arabs. There is no room for compromise on this point! The Zionist enterprise so far, in terms of preparing the ground and paving the way for the creation of the Hebrew State in the land of Israel, has been fine and good in its own time, and could do with ‘‘land-buying ’— but this will not bring about the State of Israel; that must come all at once, in the manner of a Salvation (this is the secret of the Messianic idea); and there is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, to transfer them all: except maybe for Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem, we must not leave a single village, not a single tribe. And the transfer must be directed to Iraq, to Syria, and even to Transjordan. For that purpose we’ll find money, and a lot of money. And only with such a transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers, and the Jewish question shall be solved, once and for all. There is no other way out. [Emphases added]" ~Joesph Weitz

“There are 40% non-Jews in the areas allocated to the Jewish state. This composition is not a solid basis for a Jewish state. And we have to face this new reality with all its severity and distinctness. Such a demographic balance questions our ability to maintain Jewish sovereignty… Only a state with at least 80% Jews is a viable and stable state.” ~David Ben Gurion

“Possible Twin detected. Please send verified lab results of your DNA’s methylation pattern to unlock your computer”

Yeah. It’ll solve itself when the habitability of the planet declines enough to prevent the continuation of a high-tech global economy.

Elections are handled at the state level, and congresspeople on their way out are required to be voted back in. The alternative isn’t “the old rep stays”, its “your state doesn’t get representation until you have an election”. there is no mechanism available to the federal government which can stop the state level votes, and any state level governments who go along with it will lose power (famously something congress people are okay with /s). I really wouldn’t worry about there not being an election on behalf of the duck-shaped cast iron weight tied to leg of the republic party.

Honestly, even considering however true your assessment is, I’m still here for any prominent political figures who are will to speak unambiguously against war. There are far too few of them.

I have always heard politicians talking about oil in the context of “national security”. “We need oil to be secure”. It’s incredible to me how infrequently I’ve heard people talk about how dependence on fossil fuels is the security threat. If we had a majority-renewable energy economy right now, most Americans still wouldn’t be able to find the Strait of Hormuz on a map.

That would be super fucking stupid. No better way to make sure Iran mines the strait. Right now they still need it to export oil. You know the orange one’s advisors explained this to him because they didn’t target the oil infrastructure on the first bombardment, but he’s like Chekov’s dumbass: Any bad idea put in his head in the first act must be acted upon by the third.

Great. Normal, Normal, and Normal Poison. When we said we wanted new Starter types this is not what we meant, Gamefreak.

Didn’t y’all already fuck up your water like this?

Unfortunately we’ve lumped a bunch of agencies under DHS, notably FEMA, but also some other things like cybersecurity, customs, and WMD mitigation agencies. So, while I would love for ICE, and a bunch of other fascist-ass agencies to be deleted, thia particular route to doing that also shuts down some agencies that are undeniably important.

Yeah, but the trend has been significant revision downward for months now. Anyone who’s been watching was expecting this.

I mean, for clarity, I’d be here for socialized housing. My point is more that paying one month of mortgage (in this scenario) would not materially change anyone’s situation with the whole “can’t afford the mortgage” thing. It just happened to be a good metaphor.

My point is more that, I hear a lot of people talking about bailing out OpenAI, and I would just like for people to stop and realize that the situation is different and a (one time) bailout isn’t an option. The government would have to continuously subsidize them.

I have a growing suspicion that the NATO crowd is planning on using this to “keep America in”.

Lets also not forget that Nuremberg was woefully inadequate and failed to push Nazi collaborators out of power.

“The Nuremberg trials could try only a small sampling of major Nazi war criminals. German restitution negotiations were bound to have an unhappy ending, since no payments could possibly erase the harm or painful memories. No problems related to the Holocaust could be resolved quickly or adequately. Nor could they be swept under the carpet and be expected to disappear.” ~Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the US Army for the Einsatzgruppen Trial"

This will be a great ThinkPad upgrade in 5 years when they start finding their way onto EBay for sub 500 bucks.

If the choice is “be poor” and “sign up to be on call to murder brown people”, surely we can agree that “be poor” is the better choice.

I don’t think you can really bail OpenAI out tho. The bailout worked in 2008 because the government could just buy the 700 billion of “toxic assets” and the financial institutions would return to a self-sustaining state of affairs, like they had been before making a bunch of really risky bets on mortgages. If you gave OpenAI 700 billion they would burn it at an unfathomable rate and still lose money because their underlying business model isn’t functional - they only lose money. OpenAI is the toxic asset here. A bailout of them would be more like if the government had paid all of the delinquent home-owners’ mortgages for one month; Next month they would be unable to pay again.