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Hard pass on anything from CTH

Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs living in Israel and Israel-occupied and/or -controlled Palestine are treated as, at best, second class citizens

You went to all the effort to cite Tutu and yet provide no evidence for this, because they're not, and they literally have representation in Israel's government.

Truly a bizarre story and person. Thanks for pointing me toward the article.

Here it is for anyone else interested

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/14/eric-adams-profile

Yes, it is indeed an opinion that committing atrocities is a bad thing to do. Well done on finally getting something right.

You're not dumb. You know that people disagree with you on the atrocities you claim.

For instance, it's impossible to have an apartheid system against another country. Israel is, by definition, not an apartheid state.

It's hilarious to me that you'll try to bring up the definitions of words after that - perhaps this is why your opinion is so extreme.

She stepped down because she refused to denounce calls on her campus for genocide of Jews. No one at Harvard cared about her bad citations, and she was investigated by them and found that her dissertation did not rise to the level of punishable content.

The entire reason she is stepping down is that there is violent rhetoric going around on her campus that she is not only doing nothing about, but rather went before Congress and wouldn't condemn.

It's also worth noting that no one is forcing her resignation. She thinks it will be the best thing for the school to put these events in the rear view mirror.

This article is incredibly misleading. Here's a much more factual one

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/claudine-gay-resigns-harvard-university-president-letter/

Inflation happens because the government puts more money into circulation.

No. The government is constantly putting more.money into circulation without inflationary effects. We literally had suboptimal inflation for almost a decade.

Inflation is a measurement of price increases over time. Inflation happened this time due to COVID causing pent up demand, a glut of credit and cash on hand, and supply chain issues across the board.

Companies making more profits is hardly surprising given that people wanted to go buy a ton of shit because they finally could.

If you’re asserting that companies have not been raising prices beyond inflationary rate

Again this is literally impossible because whatever they raise prices to is where we derive the inflation rate from

Even if the pro-IDF propaganda piece you linked to had successfully demonstrated that, yes it would still be whataboutism since what Americans believe has no bearing on whether the Israeli government should be allowed to systematically slaughter and demolish their way through Palestinians, including children, at a rate completely unheard of anywhere in the world in recent years.

You do understand that you are literally expressing a thing that some Americans believe, yes? Like, you get that your position is an opinion, right?

Anyone who has been following this guy have a link for me on how the fuck this dude got elected when everyone seems to hate everything he does, especially given his employment history?

I don't get it at all.

The USPS is currently the only government agency that pays for itself outright, and with prices that are still on the absolute floor of what is necessary.

The USPS does not need "propping up" - that is some conspiracy theory nonsense.

Worth noting that this initiative still only protects the right to abortions up to fetal viability.

It's still a conservative take on abortion rights - literally the former conservative position.

It's not whataboutism to demonstrate that an election-significant number of Democrats believe Hamas bullshit over reality, and that the number of people who believe that is enough to change Dem support from strong majority agreement with the President to disagreement.

It's also not whataboutism to point out that nearly a third of people polled have generally no opinion on such basic things as "did the Holocaust happen" or "was the Hamas terror attack a big deal" or "does Hamas target civilians."

War does indeed suck and you're allowed to not like it and even use your irresponsibly inflammatory language, but it's absurd to suggest these comments are whataboutism.

The irony of this comment is palpable.

I understand that Gazans made a mistake in 2007, the same way Gazans knew they made a mistake once Hamas canceled elections forever and started torturing dissidents.

There's no reason for people today to copy that mistake by supporting Hamas now.

You joke but people really do think that

You’re rooting for terrorists performing genocide

I don't support Hamas, the only group actively and openly pursuing genocide in this conflict.

When the cost of essential goods is increased beyond the rate of inflation

Inflation is the measure of the cost of goods. You have cause and effect backwards here.

and those profits are going to people who are already in the top 10% of wealth holders

Wages are up across the board. Do you resent suppliers, warehouse staff, truck drivers, grocery employees, and distributors for making more money?

The only significant life changes that happened during the post-covid inflation was wages increasing. Hiring is up, wage pressure is up, union membership is way the fuck up.

Inflation happens because people have the money to support higher prices. It's no more greed to raise prices there than it is for you to want to make more money.

We do have an issue in our society of wealth capture, and that's a fixable problem we've seen steps toward. Wealth capture and inflation aren't directly related or correlated, however.

Because I’m not liking having an AR-15 leaning on my desk, and a 12-gauge on my nightstand, for when the local Brown Shirts decide I’m “vermin” and they need to raid my house “for my own good”. Anyone think that’s “radical” or “paranoid”? Got steep yourself in some WWII history lessons.

This is indeed both radical and paranoid.

Even before this Israel shit, Biden doesn’t have a good chance.

The election year just started, and these numbers are going to change dramatically

Most shockingly, it turns out that continuing to ignore the rightful moral outrage of as many as half of your potential voters

Strong disagree on this language.

https://jcpa.org/new-u-s-poll-raises-questions-about-americans-support-for-israels-war-against-hamas/

Anyone in the 10% that thinks hostages or sexual assault is a lie, or that Jews overplay the fucking Holocaust, are not "rightful" and their concerns do not come from empathy, because they lack empathy as a concept.

This will help reduce housing costs, and generally help traffic, as well as pave the way for public transport.