International law is actually quite clear on this issue - forcible annexation of territory belonging to another sovereign power is entirely and always illegal, and therefore the final and only legitimate borders in the former Palestinian Mandate are the ones laid out in Resolution 181 in 1947.

It really is just that simple.

Spraking of cover-ups:

Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas

Weird that he spends all that time and effort arguing against a position I’ve never seen anyone take.

I mean… there are undoubtedly people who take it - if nobody else, the ones he cites - but still, I would think that if it was worth all of that effort, it would be common enough that I would’ve seen it.

Cynically, I have to say that it looks to me like an attempt to backhandedly support his own pet theory - that zoning regulations are to blame - through a false dichotomy.

Far and away, the most common position I’ve seen is not that there’s an oligopoly in home building, but in home ownership - that corporations and investors are outbidding other buyers, and thereby driving up prices, then holding onto and renting those homes, decreasing the available supply of homes for sale and thus further driving up prices.

And that’s not even addressed.

I don’t think they elected Trump because they have a death wish. I think they elected Trump because they’re angry morons.

You say it “doesn’t take a genius to know what Trump was gonna do,” and I’d agree. But two things:

1. Most Americans don’t even rise to “not a genius” level. They’re fucking morons, and they really are too stupid to figure it out.
2. Even the ones who manage to be unstupid enough to figure out what Trump was going to do are mostly still too fucking stupid and angry to figure out the consequences. So, for instance even if they grasp that Trump promised he was going to destroy environmental regulation and now is doing it, they’re too fucking stupid and angry to get why that’s a bad thing. To them, it’s just that “Them damned byoorocrats is all full a demselves n it’s 'bout time summun shut 'em a fuck up! 'N damn - it shor ’ iz hot today innit? Sumuddy oughta do sumpin bout that!”

I’m not yet convinced that it has a death wish.

I am convinced though that Trump and the Republicans and the billionaires want to kill it. It remains to be seen if the people will try to stop them.

Imagine that all of the instances existed first - before federation even existed.

So imagine dozens of little, independent message boards - this person created one at this address, and this other person created this other one at this other address and so on.

Okay - then imagine that federation came along, so then all of those individual bosrds started sharing content with all the other boards.

So you were on this one board called lemmy.world. You never moved - you still have the same account at the same board. But now you also see, for instance, content from some other board called lemmy.ml.

Now here’s the important bit - you aren’t actually looking at lemmy.ml. You’re looking at a mirror of it - literally, you’re looking at lemmy.ml@lemmy.world. So like this community we’re on right now - neither one of us is actually on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml. You’re on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml@lemmy.world and I’m on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml@sopuli.xyz. But every few seconds, all three of those actually separate communities sync up with each other, so it acts as if it’s just one community.

Does that help?

Of course not - it’s not meant to.

All it’s meant to do is provide Israel’s apologists with something to spin.

Oh… yeah. Okay. I get it.

Russia is afraid of losing their paper-thin excuse for invading a sovereign nation, so they’re already trying to astroturf the idea that any coming change in the government is just a sham.

Pretty good move really, though I guess that’s to be expected from one of the worlds most dedicated, professional and experienced propaganda machines.

There should just be one standard Supreme Court ruling headline studiously repeated over and over:

“U.S. Supreme Court says Trump can do whatever the fuck it is that he wants now.”

Yeaaaahhhh… no. I don’t think “stability” is really an accurate descriptor of what the Fed has done.

Their “stability” consists of following policies explicitly and deliberately designed to generate an ongoing transfer of wealth up the economic ladder, and using slanted and incomplete indicators like GDP to create the illusion that their policies are of benefit to the country as a whole.

I mean… yes, it is “stability” of a form- it’s akin to the stability necessary to build a house of cards.

But that stability is revealed to be a fleeting and ultimately ephemeral thing when the house of cards comes crashing down, as this one most assuredly will.

That said though, I do agree that this is theater.

This could get interesting.

Whether or not the Fed “operates successfully” is a matter of perspective - if you’re fabulously wealthy, and particularly if you’re a banker or investor or corporate executive, then yes, as a general rule it does. If you’re anything else, then not so much so.

And Trump’s relationship with bankers et al is difficult, since he’s never been able to browbeat them - he’s always had to lie and wheedle and beg to get money out of them, then when he doesn’t bother paying them back, they have the gall to come after him and try to force him to pay and even to drive him into bankruptcy. Again.

So on the one hand, he likely wants to stick it to them.

But on the other hand, when push comes to shove, they’re likely still more powerful than he is, even now.

It appears that every action is a reaction (or to use the more customary terminology, every action is an effect of some number of causes, and is in turn a cause for some number of effects).

However, it must either be the case that there was a first action, which would necessarily be an uncaused effect, or that time is either a loop or is infinite in extent, such that there is no beginning and thus no need for an uncaused effect.

And none of those possibilities is really intellectually satisfying, so it’s an open question (which doesn’t stop people from insisting on the nominal truth of one or another of them).

The web was here before greedy sacks of shit monetized everything and it’ll still be here after they go broke.

Yes.

Or as I prefer to phrase it, anyone who can look at what Israel is doing in Gaza without feeling horror, pity and revulsion is a monster.

So charged for describing Israel accurately.

Ironically, if one merely eliminates the common conception that whites are the master race and instead treats Nazism as a philosophy that can be held and exercised by any race that considers themselves the rightful master race, Israel is arguably the purest manifestation of Nazism ever.

…to protect children.

You can tell that that’s bullshit by the fact that they repeat it over and over.

Obviously they not only laid off the wrong people, but kept the wrong people.

US elections

Live action anime

McDonalds

truth-seeking

Musk’s company

Pick one.

Bullshit.

The thing that five day workweeks won’t fund is obscene pay packages for executives.