In a world not run by the rich, for the rich this wouldn’t be an issue. Just tax large corporations over a certain size at a slightly higher rate and redistribute it back down to the poorest, turning it into a loop.

In most EU countries, if there really is a blowup over the budget (much rarer than the US), the old budget remains in place until a new one is negotiated.

It is not bipartisan. The countries that take more than they send (primarily Republican states, I’m led to believe) would absolutely refuse.

Just like “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” (a literally impossible task), the original expression was “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. In other words, rot spreads and all the good apples become bad apples by proximity.

National leader in this context doesn’t mean president. It just means somebody with clout that people listen to, and can focus public attention on specific issues.

You know what would have helped denuclearization? Giving the Budapest Memorandum teeth. Obama and every subsequent president made some mealy-mouthed “We’ll send a few old guns” to Ukraine, despite the deal being Ukraine gives up their nukes and Russia (lol), the US and UK defend them.

Every other country’s leadership looking at that has reached the obvious conclusion: nothing but nukes that you yourself control will save you against a nuclear power.

I know it’s an autocorrect issue, but “Uber the bus” sounds like the next goal of businesses gutting public infrastructure and replacing it with the gig economy. In other words, very on brand.

We don’t want him. We have enough problems with our own fascists.

Which US politician has been attempting to woo voters on the left, in your opinion?

Or, more realistically, hijacking the Democratic party and dragging it kicking and screaming towards the left.

The problem is that worldwide this is not a time for centrism. Promising “nothing will fundamentally change” is a great way to immediately lose an election.

Maybe you’re right, I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I see Trump more as the symptom of the rot than the cause itself.

I honestly believe that things would be worse if he had gotten shot. Trump is a despicably vile human being from every single angle, but he’s also senile, incredibly incompetent and narcissistic to the point it interferes with his goals.

A Vance presidency would be much worse, imho. The same goals, but not nearly as plagued with mental issues.

“Because no injustice has been justified by any injustice. Never, under any circumstances, though it was still so horrific and take it from me: Auschwitz was horrific. But Jews like Leon de Winter thus justify the violence against Palestinians or Lebanese and they find Jews who think otherwise traitors. Even my foster brother once literally wrote it to me: Hajo, you’re a traitor. Of course that affects me, but the primitive train of thought that is behind it: that you have to repay evil with evil, I find worse. I’d rather be a traitor than a perpetrator of crimes.”

Hajo Meyer

Ben Gurion washed his hands of the Diaspora… As early as a Mapai party conference in December 1942, he said that the tragedy of the European Jews did not ‘directly concern’ them. Those were the words of a leader who was willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of Jews to the idea of a Jewish state.

 Marek Edelman

My sense of betrayal grew. A question surfaced: was this what they died for? My relatives, all those Jews, all those thousands of names on the memorials? Was this horror of a racist, repressive state the result of their deaths?

Marika Sherwood

There’s plenty of Jews out there who saw what Israel would have to do in order to reach their goal of being a Jewish state from the beginning and wanted nothing to do with it. Plenty of Holocaust survivors at the time were very explicitly against the taking of land from a pre-existing population, and understood that to make it a Jewish state you’d need to remove the people there… somehow.

Some Rabbis have even made the argument that even attempting to form Israel in the first place is heretical.

Anti-zionist Jews have been a thing for as long as Zionism has existed.

Not the only time. Another example is the West Africa Squadron, where a small part of the British Navy tried to block all slave traffic coming out of West Africa.

The UK has done some insanely horrific things, but it does have some legitimate bright spots in there.

Not true. The sign up bonuses go to their next of kin. Russia is legitimately paying it out.

There are entire regions that have regeared their local economies to depend on these payouts. Because it’s mostly underdeveloped regions signing up, this has become the most bizarre and macabre investment program in the world. Here’s an excellent video on the topic.

They measure stress. Kind of ironically, it’s likely more reliable on people that think it works and thus get stressed while lying during the test. Of course, it can’t tell why you’re stressed so false positives happen a lot.

Literally had a conversation with an antisemite today who blames all Jews for Israel’s actions

Now, this looks like a job for me

So, everybody, free the detainee

'Cause we need a lot less guilty

'Cause it feels like this man will go free

I said this looks like a job for me

So, everybody, free the detainee

'Cause we need a lot less guilty

'Cause it feels like this man will go free