In reality anti-semitism is still wide-spread, no one needs to turn those people. But for quite some time it wasn't acceptable to say that bullshit out loud. And now a lot of those people are even willing to support a terror organisation like Hamas implicitly or openly, because that gives them the chance to finally have a justification to express their anti-semitism openly again.
When an UN commissioner openly talks about all "media being controlled by the Jewish lobby" you don't need any made-up excuse like "they are critical about us, so they must be anti-semite" anymore. That guy is an actual anti-semite, shown by parroting a century old anti-semitic conspiracy about their secret world control.
And it's even worse. People like you are part of the problem. As long as there are easy to see anti-semites among Israel's critics, but you prefer to ignore them, it's actually easier for Israel to run with the bullshit story of how all criticism is anti-semitic and anti-Israel. Because the easiest way to lie is to hide it between some truths.
Get rid of obvious anti-semites among critics that anyone can clearly spot -unless you are a total moron or antisemite yourself- and suddenly your criticism seems so much more valid and is not vulnerable anymore to being attacked as antisemitsm, something Israel's propaganda departments will happily exploit. Fail to do so and you look just like a moron/anti-semite, actually helping Israel's bullshit PR by devaluating your own arguments.
I just don't understand why people are attached to it
Because words aren't racist, people and opinions and sentiments expressed by them are.
When the term ricing is used for so long and 95%+ of people don't know where it came from and have zero negative connotations associated with it, your argument (from their perspective) sounds like this:
"Don't use the term, by its obscure origin you didin't even know about it is racist"
"I've been saying it for years without any racism intended nor perceived"
"bro it's beenyou are being a fucking racist for years"
And then you are surprised by the negative reaction...
There is no legal definition or concept for a "wealth tax". You usually tax income or you tax property.
And while taxing property is the more obvious one, both can be a wealth tax depending on who is paying majorily by its design (for example a progressive income tax where low incomes barely pay anything reaching 90%+ over a certain limit -see 1950- is definitely a wealth tax).
So you are still at the "dead birds" part of the fairy tale retelling? It will get from shit show to clown show once they move on to try arguing with "science" like the imaginary health issues caused by infrasound.
Says the guy cheerleading genocide committed by an authoritarian regime.
Problem is I didn't. I called out bad journalism. Because bullshit narratives and tribalism make any actual discussion meaningless.
But then your see something that is seemingly criticising "your team" and instantly your delusions get triggered and you hallucinate how I "cheerlead for genocide" when I did actually not say anything other than that this report is polemic low quality bullshit.
There is a very clear and limit and number. It's zero. Zero people should be bombed. Zero people would be bombed without a despicable terror attack against Israel (oh, wait... as I just learned in this very thread here this never actually happened and it was a legitimate military attack against military targets somehow...). Zero people would be bombed without Hamas using the population as human shields. Also zero people should have been killed on October 7. Zero rockets should be fired each day at Israel. And zero neighbouring countries or factions should cheer for a newe excuse to attack Israel.
Do you want to know another relevance regarding that number? If you have no ability to argue without questioning the general right of Israel to exist, without questioning any right of self defense, without questionings if Israel was actually attacked, and without falling back to a "oh, the evil Jews are plotting together with corrupt world leaders again..."-narratives, then you have zero valid arguments, because you are a fucking anti-semite.
And then you have zero legitimacy to argue
So, again. Slowly this time because you -probably intentionally, but I'm an optimist by heart- seemed to have missed it: This pile of shit is not journalism. It would be low effort even for an opinion piece, which it isn't. It's full of polemics, lies and can't even manage too stay internally consistent (a "litany" of arguments is at the same time not existing, facts become claims when mentioned by Israel, while claims become facts when it's against them...) or free of anti-semite narratives.
I know... in this world where arguing about people killing each other has become a team sport and everything needs to be black and white it's nearly inconceivable but... Pause for a moment, take a deep breath and try to imagine just for one moment the following -nowadays neartly heretical- thought: Israel's government can be a clownshow of genocidal morons, Hamas is the exact same, and at the same time 70%+ of the people arguing against Israel are still doing so not based on facts but on anti-semitic narratives. And those people need to called out on their bullshit. Because not doing it devaluates the actual discussion. If I can't call out bullshit arguments as bullshit without being attacked for supporting a genocide, how is this or any discussion (or any court case) legitimate, if we all see clearly that it's not about the arguments but a popularity contest between two teams.
Which is what I did. I called this trashy piece of non-journalism out. And for this I now have been called insane, toxic and a supporter of genocide. Because you are brain-washed into believing this is a team sport, so you happily accept anti-semites on your team that is obviously better than the enemy.... Guess what. It's not. You are both wrong.
Sorry to tell you, but team "I accept anti-semitism, lies and bullshit and ignore Hamas, because I'm pro-Palestine" is just as insane as team "Every crticism is anti-semitism, "targeted area bombing" and deportation plans aren't crazy".
On that "wrong" side: Germany, most Western countries, the people that basically spend decades writing the books and international laws on genocide and preventing another holocaust
On the "right" side: Generation TikTok parroting Hamas, 3rd world countries cuddling with Russia, morons telling us how everything is "just like the holcaust" (exactly like they have spend the last decades calling everyone "a nazi" -or if you from the US "a socialist"-, to deprive the words of their actual meaning...)
The argument here is always that EVs need to solve a problem to become viable. No, they don't. They don't need to develop EVs with insane ranges to adapt to a non-existent infrastructure.
That's just diversion. Fix the infrastructure instead of pretending that EVs need fixing imaginary problems first.
How, by couping a country with a lot of lithium like Bolivia?
For starters... by getting rid of lithium. Alternatives might have a lower energy density in theory but also not the thermal issues of lithium-ion batteries. Which means you can pack them more densely without issues, or -even better- produce bigger cells instead of stacking small ones. So in practice they will perform on a similiar level but cheaper, making lithium-based batteries a niche product for high-end luxury items where you pay much more for a little bit of extra performance.
Next Step: You have batteries that don't run hot or might explode when damaged anymore? Stop putting them insinde the car but make the battery an integral part of the frame.
And that's just the theoretical side. The economic reality is that a lot of the benefits of lithium batteries are not based on the tech itself but coming from a decade of experience (and optimizations) in manufacturing. A lot of that experience is partly applicable to alternatives so they will reach a similiar maturity in a fraction of the time (= just a few years).
If your conscience and your religion lead you to an idiotic, misogynic and xenophobic fraud with obvious delusions, you don't actually have the former and the latter is irrepairably broken.
No. Media bullshit is sitting at the core of a lot of today's problems and the massive polarisation on basically any topic.
Anger at low level journalism rags and even more at outlets trying to look respectable while actually having a similiar quality (and that definitely includes Business Insider ever since they were bought by the shithole of journalism that is Axel Springer SE) cannot be misplaced at all.
Sadly I'm still pretty sure the most damage here has been done by Ukraine itself:
Yes, of course there are some nazis in Ukraine. Sadly every country seem to have some fringe right-wing morons. And using them to fight Russia, especially in a time when the offcial army wasn't up to the task yet, was understandable.
But that's not the main problem. The main problem is doubt that Ukraine will be able to handle them at some point when it's necessary. And when -to paraphrase Ukraine's then ambassador to Germany for example in 2015- the answer to the question if they realize that this can become a problem down the road is: "No, you are lying to help Russian propaganda! There are and never in history were any right-wing groups in Ukraine!" that's a pretty big indicator that they won't manage that problem ever. Because acknowledging it exists would have been the required first step instead of spewing insane rants.
Yes, that's a funny tale. And polemic bullshit...
In reality anti-semitism is still wide-spread, no one needs to turn those people. But for quite some time it wasn't acceptable to say that bullshit out loud. And now a lot of those people are even willing to support a terror organisation like Hamas implicitly or openly, because that gives them the chance to finally have a justification to express their anti-semitism openly again.
When an UN commissioner openly talks about all "media being controlled by the Jewish lobby" you don't need any made-up excuse like "they are critical about us, so they must be anti-semite" anymore. That guy is an actual anti-semite, shown by parroting a century old anti-semitic conspiracy about their secret world control.
And it's even worse. People like you are part of the problem. As long as there are easy to see anti-semites among Israel's critics, but you prefer to ignore them, it's actually easier for Israel to run with the bullshit story of how all criticism is anti-semitic and anti-Israel. Because the easiest way to lie is to hide it between some truths.
Get rid of obvious anti-semites among critics that anyone can clearly spot -unless you are a total moron or antisemite yourself- and suddenly your criticism seems so much more valid and is not vulnerable anymore to being attacked as antisemitsm, something Israel's propaganda departments will happily exploit. Fail to do so and you look just like a moron/anti-semite, actually helping Israel's bullshit PR by devaluating your own arguments.