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To be fair, everyone's account was that age at one time. I'd prefer we all engage with their words.
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Sweden and the US are “kinda cozy” (I would say at least, from an inside perspective on how Sweden seems to lean in to US interests including copyright enforcements and so forth). However Sweden was the first country to recognise Palestine. Is it possible that the pulling out of UNESCO is further in-line with Trumps “we want to focus on America” fluff, similar to the threats of pulling out of NATO and the actual pull…
If you don't believe Gaza's health ministry, how about Agence France-Presse? The journalists' association of the French wire service Agence France-Presse (AFP) warned on Monday that staff working with the agency in Gaza are at risk of starvation and that "without intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die." In the statement, the SDJ said that AFP's journalists in Gaza have warned that they no longer have stren…
Do you have a link to a recent picture of this Bashar Taleb? I've found the Gaza famine to be very different from any other famine I've ever looked into - people seem to go from healthy to "died from starvation" without ever getting thin.
If you google for "famine yemen", you see very thin children, with just skin on bone - all the fat and muscle is gone. If you google for "famine gaza", they just seem a lot healthier.
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That's an amazingly obtuse distinction to make about an area that is being systematically starved. I don't know, maybe you think they're eating too much fast food or sugary drinks? Probably they need to make more exercise, right?
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Thus failing the Game of life at the very core, with corresponding last moments full of regrets if available. Yes we all have met those folks, only fools (or similar but less successful folks) wish they would be those people.
> corresponding last moments full of regrets That’s why they’re burning money on life extension moonshots.
Which will in foreseeable future end up as we all expect... there is still some form of justice in this world, and no money can really hack around it. trump will eventually die, so will putin and similar folks. The only hope for common people.
And what will happen in 22nd century and onwards is no great concerns for us here.
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The 2011 thing keeps getting cited in this thread, but it's wrong . The funding was cut because of what amounts to a booby-trap condition in pre-existing legislation . And they tried to get it overturned by it was blocked in congress. In fact this is an almost perfectly partisan issue, and the 2011 canard is giving cover to some horrifying both-sidesism.
That pre-existing legislation (which banned US financing of any UN agency that grants membership to Palestine) was signed by George HW Bush in 1990 and expanded by Bill Clinton in 1994, in both cases passed by Democrat-controlled Houses and Senates. So it's still "both-sidesism," whatever that is. And for what it's worth I never mentioned nor was thinking about "two sides," just multiple distinct administrations. Par…
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I don’t think the people who are starving are the ones with motorcycles and gasoline.
Last I checked motorcycles aren’t edible and gasoline isn’t drinkable…
But they are storable, far more stable than food. So it should be no suprise that motorcycles continue to function long after the food has run out. And gaza is tiny. It doesnt take more than a cup of fuel to cover considerable distance on these bikes.
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The Israeli lobby is a proxy for American weapon manufacturers that found being in bed with savage Zionists good for business.
That's part of it, but a relatively small part of it. Most of it is Christians who think they can force apocalyptic prophecies to come true by ensuring Israel's continued existence. The nature of their belief is such that it doesn't matter how badly Israel behaves, they will unconditionally support them.
I think hundreds of billions in dollars and unique testing bench for weapons development is a significant part.
The fact that it has synergies with the American foreign policy for dominating the oil rich Middle East is also definitely another plus.
It’s not just “oh the Israel lobby is strong”.
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> It’s one big club, and we’re not in it. I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply here, but like it or not, most Americans do support Israel.
Most American evangelicals support Israel. I'm not so sure if the rest of the remaining Americans also support Israel.
According to Gallup the majority of the US public supports Israel over Palestine, just as it has for decades. It's now "at it's lowest in 25 years" but it's still 46% vs 33% for Palestine, down from around 60% pro Israel in prior years.
https://thecradle.co/articles/us-popular-support-for-israel-...
About 10% of Americans identify as evangelical protestants
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/how-many-evangelicals-...
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Last I checked motorcycles aren’t edible and gasoline isn’t drinkable…
If only there was some way to exchange one type of an asset, such a motorcycle, to another, such as food... Too bad nothing like this was invented yet.
If everyone is starving, good luck finding someone who values a motorcycle more than food.