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Ironically, people who wank are usually less of a wanker than people who spend all day talking about not wanking.

Wankers. The lot of them.

Yes. They're exactly the same.

People like to complain about boomers, but let's be real here: are the zoomers that much better?

Housing which is shit and often unsuitable for habitation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dregproject

And to be clear, they've built a lot of infrastructure, but it's often underbuilt. Eg. they'll build huge projects or even residential districts, but save money by not ensuring there's sufficient drainage. Result: fancy stadium, looks better than many a western stadium, cost less to build, fancier, looks higher quality, what you see may even be better quality, built in record time, but when it rains everyone's walking in poo water.

Oh, it's you again.

am I imagining things here?

Oh, no. I assume you're just being ignorant (again) and think some of them just have a bit of a tan. If you actually google them, you'll find plenty are also of middle-eastern or North African origin. Here's a few of them, I've included a few ministers who were active till 2023:

Uriel Menachem Buso is an Israeli politician who serves as Minister of Health .... His mother Heftziba is the daughter of the Moroccan-born Mayor

Amichai Chikli ... serves as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and the Minister for Social Equality. ... Chikli was born in Jerusalem in 1981 to a Tunisian Jewish family.

May Golan ... is an Israeli politician and activist ... In 2023, a group of former Israeli ambassadors said they were “shocked” by the appointment of Golan as Israel's new women's advancement minister, saying that “Golan’s appointment is outrageous as she is a racist and divisive figure .... She is the child of a single Orthodox Jewish mother ... from Iraq

Shlomo Karhi ... is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and serving as the Minister of Communications in the thirty-seventh government ... Karhi was born .... to mother Mazal and father Rabbi David Karhi, an Israeli-born Sabra of Tunisian Jewish heritage from Djerba

Makhlouf "Miki" Zohar ... currently serves as the Minister of Culture and Sports in the thirty-seventh government. ... His father Eli was an immigrant from Morocco and his mother Dina was from Tunisia.

David "Dudi" Amsalem ... previously held the posts of Minister of Communications ... His parents, Avraham and Sultana Amsalem, were immigrants from Morocco

Ofir Sofer ... is currently the Minister of Aliyah and Integration ... He is of Tunisian-Jewish descent.

Galit Distel-Atbaryan ... was formerly the Minister of Information. ... Distel-Atbaryan was born in Jerusalem to Iranian Jewish immigrants

Ya'akov Margi ... currently serves as the Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services. ... Margi was born in Rabat in Morocco and brought to Israel during Operation Yachin

Itamar Ben-Gvir ... is an Israeli lawyer and far-right extremist... who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022 ... His father was born in Jerusalem to Iraqi Jewish immigrants. He worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing. His mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant

Yifat Shasha-Biton ... was appointed Minister of Education in June 2021 ... Yifat Shasha-Biton was born ... to Rachel, a nurse born in Morocco and Moshe David ... born in Iraq.

Don't bother responding.

You've embarassed yourself enough.

I admire your confidence.

Nitpick, but a storage tank isn't the best target.

IRC it's the distillation tower. Those can take months to get running again, especially now that Russia is under sanctions and can't easily source some specialised parts.

A storage tank is relatively easy to manufacture and replace.

these people are white and European

More than half of Israelis have Middle Eastern or North African heritage.

If you're transposing relatively binary American notions of race (invariably based on skin colour) on a conflict half way around the world, you're entirely out of your depth when it comes to Israeli politics and the current conflict.

Eg. Netenyahu may be 'white' but Likud and right wing voters are overwhelmingly of middle-eastern or north african heritage. IRC Ben-Gvir, the far right minister of National security, is of Iraqi and Kurdish origin.

Given your comment was upvoted significantly, that's a damning indictment on how uneducated people are here too and how outdated their views on Israel are. Seriously people, go read about Israeli politics. Tiktok videos aren't enough. Hell, here's a website which has been previously accused of being pro-Hamas/Muslim brotherhood:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-why-right-wing-mizrahi-vote-misunderstood

Don't think Trump's chronically constipated. If anything, quite likely the opposite.

Reddit too, tbh. One of the main reasons I left.

I've provided further sources here:

https://kbin.social/m/world@lemmy.world/t/809321/-/comment/4963666

And another user has provided sources here:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/6965014

Please note that Biden not liking Netenyahu or his government, is different to Biden being supportive of the current war cabinet or Israel itself.

There are legitimate reasons to be critical of the US stance on that.

Have you ever considered that you don't know that much, which is why you think what the democrats are doing is easy to understand and simple, and seem to think Israel, Netenyahu and his government are all the same thing?

Here's an article from before the Hamas attacks:

The White House has finally invited Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the US after months of snubbing the Israeli prime minister over his government’s creeping annexation of the West Bank and deepening oppression of the Palestinians.

And another one:

President Biden bluntly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he “cannot continue down this road” ... he touched off the kind of response usually expressed by America’s adversaries rather than its allies. ... “Israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad, including from the best of friends,” Mr. Netanyahu said on Wednesday, accusing the U.S. president of meddling in another country’s politics — which is exactly what Mr. Biden was intending to do. It was a remarkably public outbreak of the kind of disagreement that usually takes place in private. But there were other factors at work that had been brewing for many years.

And here's another relevant article:

Biden understands that Netanyahu’s position is a precarious one. His governing coalition received just 48.4 percent of the vote, and took power only because of a quirk of the Israeli electoral system. The coalition relies on an alliance of unpopular far-right parties to stay afloat, whom Netanyahu must appease to remain in office. Biden has exploited this weakness and repeatedly poked at it. Rather than directly confronting Netanyahu, he has called out his extremist partners and in this way heightened the contradictions within Netanyahu’s coalition, undermining its stability and gradually eroding its support in the polls. In July, Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that Netanyahu’s government has “the most extremist members of cabinets that I’ve seen” in Israel ... This was Biden’s approach in action: criticizing Israel during wartime in front of a pro-Israel crowd, and doing so in a way that nonetheless denied Netanyahu any opening. As long as it’s Biden versus Ben-Gvir, rather than Biden versus Bibi, the president holds the upper hand. ... Biden has brought the same strategy to bear on the issue of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, which has accelerated under the cover of Israel’s campaign in Gaza. Netanyahu’s coalition is unable to clamp down on these extremists and their terrorism because it is beholden to these extremists. But most Israelis have no desire to mortgage the security of Israel and its indispensable relationship to the United States in favor of some far-flung hilltop settlers in West Bank regions that few Israelis could locate on a map. Knowing this, Biden has begun unrolling a series of unilateral measures intended to raise the price of settler violence and pit Netanyahu and his allies against the Israeli public.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/biden-netanyahu-geopolitics-israel-hamas-war/676357/

Proper nasty politics, keep your enemies closer, and backstabbing basically.

People think Biden's this old incompetent coot, but there's a reason he's been around for decades. He's a piece of work, for better or for worse, and knows how the game is played.

Obviously plenty of people on social media have been shitting on Biden for a while now, perhaps understandably.

But this is why he has to play a delicate and balanced role. He obviously hates Netenyahu and dislikes Israel's government, but he can't push too hard, because it would only help Netenyahu cling on to power a while longer. For example:

After cautious criticism by Biden, Netanyahu rallies Israel’s right wing ... The spat was cheered by Netanyahu’s supporters, who dismiss any calls from Biden or other leaders to pull back from the military assault on Gaza until Hamas has been wiped out as a fighting force.

So although he initially publicly backed Israel 100%, the reason he's now being relatively muted in his criticism of their government, is almost certainly because he wants Netenyahu gone or wants Netenyahu to be forced to create a new coalition with more moderate parties. You know, get rid of those smug thunder cunts Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

Meanwhile, the US is clearly pushing the two state solution hard behind the scenes. Don't think it's an accident that little America's David Cameron said the UK might recognise Palestine and apparently the US is considering it too, all while doing an intensive tour of the middle-east and negotiating with Israel's neighbours for normalisation.

Maybe something like: "I've had a bit of a bad day, but I'm really glad to see you. Let's have fun together." or at the end of the day "I was having a bit of a bad day, but you really helped me take my mind off it. Thank you."

You'll feel heard. By the end of the date, they'll feel like they helped you feel better, which will also make them feel good.

It's not just that.

It's that a lot of (young) guys rarely get to talk about their emotions. So when they meet someone who seems to care about them, whether it be a prospective partner or a friend, they overshare. It all comes out in one big trauma/emotional dump.

Which is fair enough. It has to come out some time, but it's not particular fun, sexy or fair on the other person. Especially if it's some young girl who has no clue how to deal with the twenty problems you just listed.

Better to see a therapist, work on yourself, or talk to someone who's prepared for it. Not on a third date at the theme park. Certainly not the entire story from childhood and all the stuff that they can't easily solve anyway. Better to have fun together, maybe mention you were having a bit of a bad day, and thank them for making you feel better.

Obviously, this is advice I should have followed when I was younger. It's hard. We're all human.

Nein, aber Ersatz ist auch ein englisches Wort und Freud hätte es gefallen.

Depends on what they hit. From what I've gathered, if they damaged the distillation tower that likely is more of an issue. Potentially months. Storage tanks? Not such a big deal. Days or even hours.

Don't forget that Russia is under sanctions, so can't import some parts as easily.

You're joking, but a pro-tip: don't talk (too much) about this kind of stuff when you're romantically interested in someone. Make the first dates or ecounters with someone a positive experience, rather than ersatz therapy.

It's a mistake too many (lonely) men fall into when they feel a connection to someone new or also in longterm relationships.