SulaymanF @ SulaymanF @lemmy.world

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Like many things, this is actually Trump’s fault.

Netanyahu and the Israeli government work really hard at “bipartisan” support. They try to lobby (and bribe) members of both parties in the US and spread their influence around broadly. Trump tipped the scales by not only being hyper pro-Israel (and thus inviting Democrats to go the opposite direction) but he also publicly tweeted that Ilhan Omar and other Democrats should be banned from Israel and that Netanyahu is weak for not banning them. Netanyahu had planned to allow her and others in to keep the bipartisan lobbying going, but after Trump embarrassed him he cancelled their visas. It caused immediate blowback by Congress and damaged the bipartisan balance Netanyahu worked hard for decades on.

So of course this emboldened Netanyahu to ban others.

Supposedly she has a lot of homeland security protection. But not good enough to stop her stuff from being stolen?

Stop trying to pretend you can critically analyze whether any of these claims are valid or not. You’re selectively quoting experts who tell you what you want to hear and ignoring the more popular consensus that says you’re wrong.

We have plenty of evidence already, such as the positive cultures and the genomic ancestry, you just don’t like what it points to.

Not at all. You think animals naturally migrated on their own from the forest to the market and would leave a trail? Someone picked one up and brought it in a cage. It only takes one.

I love how everyone online is an armchair zoonotic expert. Your ideas are inexperienced.

The virus could have arrived there on the shoe of a lab worker

And it could have been sprayed by flying saucers. How is that any less probable?

You’re using the words without understanding virology or epidemiology or basic probabilities. We have evidence of prior outbreaks like SARS from the wild and positive cultures in the wet market are major pieces of evidence to back up the origin.

We already have plenty of evidence to conclude zoonotic origin. Bat RNA. Positive cultures in the wet market. Covid genome.

He’s such a whiner. This is people’s idea of strength?

Right wing or just conservative? Is he more liberal than any republicans?

What a weak response by officials. It may have been in error? They can’t even admit that they are terrorizing citizens?

Frankly this is a good idea in the long term despite a possible short term loss.

The Tea Party hurt the Republicans in the short term, but they took over the party and purged the liberal elements. They replaced Eric Cantor with a speaker who does everything they want. They’re a monolithic block now and have been winning out on their strategies ever since.

AOC ousted 10-term congressman Joe Crowley in a primary by a huge margin. A few more of those couldn’t hurt.

Collective Responsibility is what Israel has been arguing to justify violence against Palestinian civilians for literally decades.

Trump always starts with the “worst” criminals as he knows it’s hard for Democrats or others to object since they don’t want to be “on the side of criminals,” but it won’t end there.

The bullets Mangione used to kill Thomson had “deny,” “delay,” and “depose” inscribed on them.

Allegedly. The reporter forgot to be professional for a moment.

Some of the preferences are surprising for the CEO of Tesla, a company dedicated to sustainability. Apparently Musk isn’t “interested in conserving fuel” because he “wants to fly as quickly and as direct” as possible.

So his “going green” was always an act.

Absolutely a good idea. Republicans have a very weak hold in Congress and keeping this visible will spook them.

“I asked the hit man to not carry out what I ordered and he said no. But of course I’m still paying him. See how powerless I am?”

Potassium kills pretty fast

That’s oddly specific. Did I miss something?

He chose this method? Are people THAT scared of needles that they’d prefer getting shot?