RubberDuck @ Badeendje @lemmy.world

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Not for members of congres and Senate.

Yes, but from '95 to '01 the Taliban also had a burqa mandate. It stems from the period the types like bin laden roamed Afghanistan free and used it as their training base. It attracted all the joyous spokes people for radical islam from around the world.

During this period they also blew up those ancient statues because depictions of humans are haram.

Or here is an insider tip and make bank

It's not as if it was a beacon of prosperity and joy before the US came in. I'm not sure it arguably got better/worse during the time... It was different for the US occupation, and now it's back where it started. Lives lost, people traumatized, money thrown away, but at least some corpos got rich and PMC's had their babtism of fire... Onto the next one.

For sure.

It does not help that her town hall tone was very.. very .. I don't know.. pleading/worrying/low energy. I almost had Hillary feelings at some points.

She had fire, spirit.. her campaign has toned down a lot since the DNC... Which is unfortunate.

Edit! For the Down voters, I never said trump good.. he's horrible. I was merely pointing out that her messaging changed, probably under the directions of the DNC. Cookie cutter plain answers.. everything focus grouped.

I hope they all get bricked up

Just like real estate tax? If a portfolio can be used as collateral then it should be taxed. The percentage at which it should be taxed is open for conversation but keep in mind there are people holding billions in assets like this.

Edit: this is also an easy way to exclude stuff like Roth ira's and other retirement plans. Just don't allow them to be leveraged/used as collateral... If this was at all possible. This protects normal pension savings etc.

Your house is taxed.. why are stock portfolios not taxed each year against their value on Jan 1st? Or median value over the year or something?

Probably script writers, people to keep up with the latest narrative (I refuse to call them researchers), some people to handle the business side to get in money, some people to handle pr and comments and lastly some people to handle the publishing side like takedown requests etc etc.

Party, not just leader

Ah, tx.. and please don't vote 3rd party. Trump would be really bad for the whole world. So this is a time to solidly oppose him. The whole fascism thing would be bad if it happened in the US.

Be glad, I'd say.

But the tankies on Lemmy are just bootlickers of a different kind of boot. They prefer the authoritarian and totalitarian version.

Why the down votes?

Yeah, I think Palestinians should have the self governance. 2 state solution should be done properly. I don't think the neighboring countries will allow it, but we will see.

But then many worry (including me) if the Palestinians end up putting the same type of people in charge that will preach revenge and hatred only to drag them into another war we will be back here again. It's not as if that is unprecedented.

Israël holds the power and they have the responsibility to be better to the Palestinians than they are and help them become a proper state and self govern.

They don't have to leave perse.. but they could use these borders to trade and travel.. but these borders are also shut.. for the good of the Palestinians or something...

And yeah, leave them in the west bank and Gaza.

Antisemitism because of Israel.. some yeah, most "just because"... Bit silly to ascribe it all to that.

And hating Jews because the israeli government you associate them with, is doing wrong shit, leads to more violence..maybe even Jews that take their stuff and move to Israel. These will not be the most open minded well adjusted people.

And yes they should stop killing people. But how do we make the peace structural and not just a reprieve until the next flare up.

Unfortunately the spoiler tags didn't work, but I appreciate the attempt to keep it readable and split the wall of text.

I admit it's a shit show and the last decades have done nothing but further radicalize both sides. The unconditional support Israël seems to get is also bullshit.. they need to be toned down.

The settlements in the west bank will get no defense from me, even the Olso accords that made this possible are bullshit.. Israel should not be there or at least have no civilians there. 3 zones.. ppppffff...

The Gaza Strip should have an open border with at least the sea, but if Gaza again sparks violence like in the 90s and October last year, they will be at war again. And bad faith proposals like the Oct 8th swap by Hamas can be ignored.. with dire consequences.

Hezbollah is just an Iranian vanity project to fuck with Israël and the US for minimal cost, same as the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Edit: the graph seems disingenuous. As a single attack with 62 missiles by Hezbollah is 1 attack, an f35 throwing a bomb on Hezbollah is 1 attack..

And the Golan heights will never be returned as it's too important a deterrence against Syria.

So why don't Jordan and Egypt have open borders with Gaza and the west bank then? What's the deal there? Why have the Palestinians never been a sorbed I to the populations of the other regions countries, like the Jews kicked out of these countries where in Israël?

And about not letting Palestinians in.. this is not me saying it, it's what the other Arab countries are actively doing.. while saying they care for the faith of their brethren.

And yeah, Hezbollah and Israel have been shooting at each other for decades. Fascist state government vs antisemitic terrorist organisations.

Israël is filled with people that left where they lived be cause of either anti semitism or the pull to the settler colonial project. An easy solution there is not.

That's not what I'm saying, I'm just pointing to a double standard that you seem to apply.

Ah, responding to the tone.. got it.

Probably more because there is plenty of agreement between our stances and there is also plenty to weig. But as I said elsewhere, priorities matter and there are plenty of things to be said about Palestinians and the people that claim to help them, the list of countries and organisations that could have helped them for real is almost endless but includes the Palestinians themselves, especially in the form of Hamas, plo and the people that voted them into power.