Communist_Synthesizer @ Communist_Synthesizer @lemmy.world

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Israel has the equivalent of Donald Trump at the helm right now. And Hamas staged the equivalent of ten 9/11s, handing a deeply unpopular conservative PM an extension on his political power for the foreseeable future.

Netanyahu and Hamas both want this conflict to go on as long as possible. Netanyahu because it lets him keep power, Hamas because they want to use the 2 million people in Gaza as a pawn to shift the world against Israel. Their end goal is to wipe out the 20 million people living in Israel, and their own founders have stated that that's not where it ends. They're not going to stop until the whole world is under an Islamic Caliphate.

Hamas absolutely does not give a damn about anyone living in Gaza. And they'll continue to brainwash and sacrifice the children, either as meat shields when they're young, or as soldiers when they get older. Israel grants asylum to gay Palestinians that escape from Gaza or the West Bank. Sometimes their families will kidnap them, bring them back and behead them.

I don't think it's pure coincidence they go looking for Pride Parades.

Terrorists do terrorist things. If we want this to ever end, realistically the only way to do it would be to kill the Hamas leadership in any way possible and somehow undo 20 years of brainwashing they inflicted on the Gaza population. As for Israel, think how racist the average American living in a border state is. How much worse do you think they'd be if Mexico was shooting rockets at our border towns every few days? Even without the rockets, we've been messing with South America for a hundred years, making sure we'd never have competition on this side of the pond.

Are they racist? Absolutely. We'd be way worse under similar circumstances. Can you imagine what we'd do if Mexico invaded Texas and killed 20,000 people and kidnapped another 4000 and took them as hostages?

The US claimed everything from California to Texas after a war with Mexico. Technically they were here before we were. Should we all pack up and leave too? Why are we expecting folks to do things we'd never do ourselves?

Okay bud. Good luck out there.

The restaurant isn't selling shrimp, bud. I don't know what to tell ya.

You're not 5 years old. Pick what you want to eat, and stop complaining about it. It's chicken or beef, what do you want? I mean, there's ways around it? You could have cooked at home, there's a reason people tell you to vote down ballot, pay attention to local races, bring up people through the system etc.

All that is work. It takes time. And you have to do the dishes afterwards. You didn't want to do any of that, (Honestly I don't either) so we're both eating at the same restaurant.

And unfortunately, that means we get to eat what the restaurant is selling. Chicken or beef.

Voting is the lowest possible effort you can make when participating in the political process. And not voting is as much a choice as voting for the options others present to you. You just chose to do whatever the group decides.

You're doing the equivalent of showing up at the end of a group project you skipped out on and expecting everyone to redo all their work because you don't like either of the options presented.

No amount of whining and moaning is going to change the fact that you're still getting the same grade everyone else is getting. You are getting on everyone's nerves though. Nobody likes a lazy entitled dude that 'thinks' he should be in charge but isn't willing to actually do any work.

You can choose not to vote. But if things go wrong, don't claim you're somehow above it all.

It's frankly ridiculous.

Look, you can do what you want, but you should stop pretending you somehow aren't partly responsible for a Trump presidency because you went third party. If a restaurant offers chicken or beef, and you say "whatever everyone is having", and they gave you chicken?

You did choose. You chose chicken.

You said, "I don't really care what I get, let other people decide." Letting other people decide for you is still a choice.

I mean, wasn't it?

The only people that can claim that are folks that voted for Hillary. Not voting or voting third party, you're still participating, you're just pulling the lever that reads, "I'll go with whoever the majority is".

That year it turned out to be Trump. You did choose, a passive choice is still a choice.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-mike-lindells-new-undercover-look-dnc-1942686

If you scroll down a bit, you can see his 'disguise'. It's definitely him.

That used to be the case until 2017. Highest bracket was 39%, but they had a weird system where it went UP until about 350Kish, (Income between 100K~350K) and then the variable rate started dropping again for income past that, back down to 35%. Would have been fair to assume any fortune 500 company not doing shady shit would have paid an effective rate of 35%.

Trump's tax cuts drastically decreased that, down to 21% flat for everyone. 28% would still be a tax cut over what it was up til 2017.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905

Is this acceptable?