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If there were any advantages to doing so, why not? The issue is there are no advantages and myriad disadvantages to aligning with Russia, if you believe you’re a democratic state.

Why would any democratic state want to align with a totalitarian state unless it was the only option?

Their stated goals are to rescue hostages and regime change by eliminating Hamas. If the goal is to kill maximum civilians they’re doing a really poor job.

If you just want the land, you just need to move people forcibly or buy it (it’s not like they’re particularly wealthy) and a plan to keep it. If your goal is genocide which so many people suggest, you kinda have to kill them no?

This is part of my problem with all the reactionary takes here - they aren’t consistent with what we’re actually seeing behavior wise.

Egypt could open their gates if they wanted to.

Sure - but I’m saying they can do it without nukes. They could have easily ratcheted up to 30,000 or 50,000 with conventional weapons - they could actually carpet bomb the strip.

My point is if they were trying to maximize death they could have kill many more people indiscriminately.

Assymetrical warfare in a densely populated area always is going to have a lot of civilian casualties.

“Wait, actions have consequences?” - Russia, probably.

I don’t know that it’s too leftist for me - just a lot of the personalities are too much for me - i can’t listen to anymore Bernie-would’ve-won and Hillary’s-a-war-criminal 8 years later.

I also think Hillary would’ve been a great president for real, so no one likes me either.

That’s actually a really great point that was hitting on something I felt but didn’t understand about my interactions and I think it really sums it up. It feels like every community is a general community here - explaining how technology works on reddit to someone on a general purpose sub was expected, but here you get people posting clickbaity anti-capitalist anti-tech shit in tech communities that are factually wrong and getting absurd upvotes and agreement from people who agree with the politics and that’s all.

And whatever hexbear is.

That’s funny. My experience with lemmy is it’s overwhelmingly leftist. And anything that doesn’t reinforce their worldview is heavily downvoted. Every liberal who isn’t hanging out on lemmygrad is called a liberal as a slur or a reactionary.

I can’t say exactly how many people they could kill if they were targeting civilians, but I can with certainty say it would be significantly more than have currently died.

They could drop many more bombs and shell the entire strip for weeks. These aren’t hypotheticals - we know they have the armament to do that.

There are around 20,000 people dead - out of almost 800,000 in Gaza. If their goal was a maximizing death, they could have killed significantly more. They certainly have the ammunition and means to do it - and that’s not a hypothetical.

What isn’t true that I was replying to is that chapter 11 bankruptcy is only for corporations and gazillionaires. Regular people can use 11 to their benefit often - especially if they aren’t so far in the hole they can’t see daylight.

Secured debt can be discharged without forfeiting the collateral by paying it off or coming to a new arrangement in a chapter 11 proceeding.

While there is a lot of discretion judges get in the vast majority of 7 or 13 proceedings, unsecured credit holders are entirely wiped out, or very nearly. Each individual case is different of course.

Sometimes I want to see things besides hard left politics, Linux and furries. And a huge helping of divorced-from-reality beyond-left opinions from .ml and whatever hexbear is.

And I know I can block all those communities, but you’re not left with a ton once you do. Those demographics are dramatically over represented on lemmy.

I have several accounts on different servers bud.

I mean he changed the party constitution….

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/ways-chinas-xi-jinping-amassed-power-over-decade-2022-10-10/

A brief google assuming you have access to an unfiltered internet will give you tons of examples and more details. But Xi is the party now.

As much as I hate to admit it, I’m considering it too - not instead, but also. I haven’t been back since Apollo died but Lemmy just doesn’t have the diversity of interests and niche communities yet. It feels really one dimensional sometimes.

Soylent is people.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/12/15/kanye-west-rant-las-vegas-jesus-christ-hitler-ye-sponsor-that-vultures/

From two weeks ago. I don’t think he got to the 2023 apology yet.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/12/15/kanye-west-rant-las-vegas-jesus-christ-hitler-ye-sponsor-that-vultures/

This was two weeks ago.

You can and will lose your home in many many states (non homestead states primarily). If the person you aren’t paying is your mortgage holder, you’re definitely going to lose your home You will also almost always lose non-primary residences provided they need to be liquidated to settle your debts. You will be given any excess money from the liquidations after your debts are settled.

If you’re settling debts you’re probably doing chapter 11 not 7.

Chapter 11 requires your lenders to play ball, but if they think they can make more money by extending terms of offering a discount than if they force you into chapter 7, they will.

If you make $5k/mo and your living expenses are $3k/mo and you have $3k/mo of debt for the next 30 months, reasonable lenders would look at that and say I’d rather have $1.5k for 60 months and I believe you can pay it rather than rolling the dice in chapter 7 on what assets you have or don’t have and what they’re worth when they finally get liquidated.

Fair point.