qdJzXuisAndVQb2 @ qdJzXuisAndVQb2 @lemm.ee

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Why do they back and support them so much? Pragmatically, what do they get in return???

Unfortunately, skilled politicians never let a good crisis go to waste.

Fuck me, I bet you're right. That's so fucked up.

Look at the thing in a map, it's just plopped in a big empty space. There's no bustling nightlife or cool scenery around.

He's a monster. Peak Hamilton vibes, give him the car, he will put it where it belongs. I think he's more ruthless than Hamilton, actually.

This is such a huge part of it. Stupid 'holy' sites provoking fanatics to unspeakable horrors.

Stupid take.

The whole Levant area has seen so many blood-soaked conquests that any claim of 'proper' or 'original' owners is wilfully and maliciously ignorant. This is also the case for pretty much every bit of solid ground. Your desire to return things to "how they were" is just you picking your fave point on a timeline of history.

I just read it. Which part exactly (please quote) do you think supports what you claimed?

Here's the link to the definition, which includes some examples: What is antisemitism? About the IHRA non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism

I'll make it even easier. Here is the full text of the definition:

Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.

I think we can still point out israeli war crimes without being called antisemitic under that definition.

Oh phew. I studied English Lit at university and had to wade through bits of both. I used to feel like I was some sort of uncultured swine for not "getting" them. But honestly, I just don't think they work as novels. As a piece of art, I guess, sure. Fine and modern art can look like nonsense without context, but often make sense when seen as part of a conversation with other artists and movements. If taken like that, fine, you do you, Joycey-boy, and write incomprehensibly. I'll be over here with my Iain Banks and Ned Beauman, enjoying them.

Nah, Russia is just another symptom of the broad-based rise in instability. Russia is making the most of it - and they are not alone. A few regimes are getting their shit sorted so that they can hunker down for the next few decades. Or not. Chaos is a ladder, after all.

Petty corruption is pretty decently under control (you can't bribe a police officer if they pull you over), but institutional corruption, politicians amd their buddies, that had a field day with COVID measures and is very much alive and kicking.

See this example of "legal" affairs that stink of corruption. A lot of land was force-bought to make way for a new high-speed line to be laid. Huge overruns later, the line has been chopped short, it will no longer run across certain tracts of land. So a tonne of land that was appropriated from citizens is now going to be sold off. I feel sure the price on those sales will be below market value and it will be sold to their buddies.

Or Nick Clegg, the former deputy Prime Minister who, when he left government, went into a veeery cushy job at Meta.

She should have resigned long ago, and ejected if she had refused.

Another 9/20er here. I did feel like I was guessing a lot, it was almost satisfying to get such a midway score.

I'm no Russell fan, but he's kept Hamilton startlingly honest, excellent work there.

No way would I have put money in Mclaren, what a turnaround. I'm really glad that Piastri is getting a chance to show his quality, after the messy way he got into the sport, it's nice to see things working out for him. I like Alpine, but they don't make it easy to!

Perfect comeback. Fucking hypocritical piece of shit, this dude.

With a slimy bio on the coinbase page too: "Tobi Lütke has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2022. Since September 2004, Mr. Lütke has served as co-founder and director of Shopify, Inc., an e-commerce company, and, since April 2008, has served as its Chief Executive Officer."

Source: https://investor.coinbase.com/governance/board-of-directors/default.aspx

The pure fantasy of affording the absurd mortgage anywhere decent and also having children and actually having a life (a car, a holiday once a year or less, healthy food) were a significant factor in my partner and mine's recent decision to not have any children. Just not affordable in Spain. We don't have family to palm kids off on so, what are you going to do? Have kids and starve, give them a subsistence upbringing, or survive and keep our own heads above water?

Dude, dial back the snarkiness.

Dude, this is a straw man you're arguing against. The truth is the lot of them are past it.