tearsintherain @ tearsintherain @leminal.space

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It's his wealth and ego that allows him to attract folks like the Saudi regime. Shared whims, beliefs and goals can also be a thing. The Saudi's were buying influence. Kind of like how the Crown Prince bought Jared Kusher thanks to all the business deals he was busy working on while his father-in-law was president. Kushner the self-serving stooge of the Saudi Crown Prince helped sweep U.S. intelligence reports on Khashoggi's killing under the rug. Then was gifted $2billion of investment by the Crown Prince, which not even the Saudi's believe is a good investment.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/03/21/jared-kushners-2-billion-investment-from-saudi-arabia-what-to-know-after-republicans-delay-subpoena/

"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman serves as the chairman of the Public Investment Fund, and reportedly personally intervened to approve the investment and overruled a panel of advisors who called the sum “unsatisfactory in all aspects.”

No one is claiming Elon is running 'the' show, but he certainly is running some show and has done plenty of damage with his twitter buyout. If you're calling out US foreign policy and the Mid East you're not wrong. Short-term selfish goals have lead to a myriad of long-term problems. Elon is not that bright, he has the temperament of a thin skinned teenage boy that never really grew up. I still don't understand why you're making him out to be some sort of martyr though.

Cable tv ads are def not the same across the country. Differ region to region, city to city, age group to age group, time slot to time slot, and are highly targeted just like online ads.

Fuck Bill Maher, dude is a wealthy, mediocre entertainer who eats real well pretending to be an everyman. Another disconnected wealthy old dude.

He said that when he “rides around” town — he lives in Beverly Hills — he doesn’t see a country that’s “falling apart.”

“A lot of people are just living their best lives. And they’re not all f—ing rich. It’s not all the top 20%,” he said.

"Bill Maher makes a staggering amount of money for a guy who hosts a weekly talk show", $10 million a year.

Cut off your nose to spite your face. Own the bicycles!

What we certainly do know is that Musk bought twitter not to enable free speech, but to control speech according to his personal whims and beliefs.

I imagine the Saudi's went in with Musk on the twitter deal to also control and dilute unfavorable speech. The Saudi ruler is the guy that assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi on foreign soil because he wasn't exactly a team Saudi ruler kind of guy.

Republicans love any legislation that creates a situation where working people have to be constantly worried about their livelihoods. This is how you ensure a cheap supply of labor, exploiting human beings.

Maybe someone should put DeSantis and Abbott to work in the heat outdoors and not give them any water breaks, see how they enjoy that. I mean it's not just inhumane, it can't be good for business. Unless of course you are in the business of cruelty as conservatives tend to be.

I mean many people have known this for a looong time. It's like asking a war criminal to investigate themself and then present their evidence. This behavior has been enabled with the usual blank check given to Israel.

Just look at the history of illegal settlement building. We just kept looking away, thus implicitly endorsing it. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/

A fundamental tenet of marketing, the art of separating dollars from your wallet, is to make you feel that you are less. That you are deficient, unless you look like so and so, have such and such, so buy this and that. Consume baby, consume.

But specifically saying there is a surge across all America is anecdotal. People from different regions get different advertising, broadcast wise and different search results.

India is def going to take a hit to their economy.

just gonna say calling out how he looks is dumb people.

This will never age well. Begin precipitous political decline.

Thanks for your justification for mass slaughter of women and children. I know it's been hard to pretend you care about civilian loss of life, and the usual PR cover failing.

Protests will grow even wider. If there's a wider war, the world will only blame Israel for having dragged the region and the rest of us into it.

Netanyahu, a greedy, self-serving, morally bankrupt corrupt politician has helped the world see that Israel has become its own worst enemy. Religious fundamentalist cuckoos killing indiscriminately in the name of some God or other.

This is maddening to look at. Motion to install wall railing and leave that light on at all times.

Even ketamine as I understand it, requires monitoring of blood pressure. I have a friend with a heart condition and he was unable to undergo ketamine therapy. Ketamine is sadly becoming just a very profitable wellness drug business.

Basically North Korea approach to education and information.

Move fast, break shit. Fake it till you sell it, then move the goal posts down. Shift human casualties onto individual responsibility, a core libertarian theme. Profit off the lies because it's too late, money already in the bank.

Exactly, the numbers speak for themselves.

And there goes the paint them all anti-semitic if they disagree with anything, literally anything Israel does. Even Jewish people who are protesting Israel's actions must be anti-semitic.

Sorry to tell you, but the world cannot unsee the horrors in Gaza, no matter how hard you try to control the narrative.

I don't doubt there has been hateful rhetoric from both, this is an emotional issue. But to pretend it's one sided is bs.

Worse, anyone protesting the horrors unfolding in Gaza. Anyone calling for a ceasefire is branded anti-semitic. Anyone calling out the horrific civilian death tolls of Palestinians is anti-semitic. Jewish people who are part of these protests are called anti-semitic. Similar is happening in Germany and other parts of the West.

Basically, anything that disagrees with anything Israel does is branded as anti-semitic. If you are not blank check pro-Israel, you must be anti-semitic. Which is just outrageous and beggars belief.

The usual PR cover that Israel gets has broken down, politicians themselves who are used to the same ol', same ol', still don't see why the younger generation is upset with the world they're inheriting. Polits don't compute how their years of failures on economic policies, on climate action, could also include the many failures of foreign policy and the business as usual approach. The elders are angry for implicitly being called out as hypocrites. For being called out for funding crimes against humanity. The calls for divestment ruffles the business interests of weapons manufacturing as well. Then you have those that are just ignorant, racist, prejudicial hateful types.

Apologies, had lazily copied directly from the linked articles headline.

You speak in hypotheticals fueled by hate. Ignoring all the violence perpetrated by many peoples.

You're filled with hate amigo, all towards a single belief system. Meanwhile Russia has invaded Ukraine, and civilians, women and children a plenty are being slaughtered in Gaza in the here and now, not some imaginary hypothetical.