Horseshit.

When hundreds of civilians are murdered by terrorist, that’s not the moment to talk about rewarding the terrorists, which is exactly what they are asking Israel to do.

To be ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: Israel has offered peace deals and two state solutions many times before. Palestinians always walk away.

So this should be the moment that progressive turn to the PALESTINIANS and say, time for YOU to end the occupation by taking a peace deal that isn’t your favorite, because this terrorism shit is 1000% evil and unacceptable.

Sure, but night owls have more fun.

The problem with blanket attacks on capitalism is that it ignores the fact that the US became an economic superpower under capitalism, and we built the strongest middle class in history under capitalism WHEN WE MIXED IN SOCIALIST PROGRAMS.

BASIC economics shows that BY FAR capitalism is the most efficient way to generate wealth.

It sounds profoundly ignorant to be against that system.

Instead, we should be talking about what to do with the wealth it generates.

Bernie Sanders “Democratic socialism” is actually “capitalist socialism”. It leaves in place all the profit incentives and machinery of innovation and production, but then it redistributes wealth away from the hoarders at the top, and gives it back to the workers who generated it.

This is a much more compelling system to fight for than just a blanket “capitalism bad!” argument.

I can’t wait for her to be president!

The much, much, much more concerning aspect of voice cloning technology is that it will be used to scam people on a massive scale.

Imagine you get a call at 4am from a loved one who tells you that they are in an emergency situation and had to borrow a phone to call you. The beg you to venmo some money to a stranger’s account so that they can get their car fixed/get a plane ticket/pay someone back for giving them a lift/etc.

You recognize your loved one’s voice. They can respond to your questions (because chatbot AI). They know details about your life (because social media). It’s the middle of the night. You’re scared and not thinking clearly.

This technology all exists TODAY. In 10 or 20 years it’ll be so terrifyingly sophisticated, even the most wary people will be vulnerable to it.

It’s so pathetic that all these UFO stories are being taken seriously by world governments. What’s next? Will they turn down the lights in the capital and tell ghost stories?

Good!

Anti-nuclear is like anti-GMO and anti-vax: pure ignorance, and fear of that which they don’t understand.

Nuclear power is the ONLY form of clean energy that can be scaled up in time to save us from the worst of climate change.

We’ve had the cure for climate change all along, but fear that we’d do another Chernobyl has scared us away from it.

If Trump had smiled in his mugshot, putting it on merch would have been a fine idea for his campaign.

But the look in that mugshot is just plain sinister. Like if he had TRIED to look guilty, he couldn’t have done a better job than he did in that photo.

We all know his supporters are a cult, so this won’t bother them at all. But if they go putting this evil-looking mugshot in everyone’s face for the duration of the campaign, they are going to turn off a lot of the independent voters.

No orange jumpsuit. No prisoner number. No height lines in the background.

Very unsatisfying mugshot.

What’s with all this pro-communist crap on lemmy?

We’re down with Democratic socialism. They aren’t the same.

Think of it this way:

It’s indisputably evil what the United States did in stealing land and commiting genocide against the Native Americans. (I’d argue that Israel’s founding was far more just, but let’s say for a moment that it was equally horrific).

So, if today, Native Americans were launching thousands of rockets from their reservations, targeting civilians, targeting kids, and saying they won’t stop until we give them California, New York, New England, half of Washington DC, AND adopt a political reform that will inevitably lead to dissolving democracy and replacing it with a theocracy…

What the hell would you say the solution to that is?

At what point would you say to the Native Americans, “what happened to you was a tragedy, but the reality is we’re so far down this road it will never be undone. We need to find a way to move forward with that shared reality”?

Because that’s the situation in Israel.

The Palestinians are demanding (with no leverage) that Israel adopt a peace deal that would destroy Israel’s form of government and their ability to defend themselves from hostile nations (which they are surrounded by).

Israel will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever do that. They can’t. It would be governmental malpractice to do it.

So what, they are just supposed to let the Palestinians launch thousands of rockets at them … out of guilt?

There’s only ONE way this ends: Palestinians admit that they lost. It might not be fair. It might not be justice. But it is REALITY.

And then they need to take the best peace deal Israel is willing to offer.

… this is the reality they walked away from 20+ years ago.

That’s an entire generation of Palestinian children growing up in an incredibly shitty situation.

Meanwhile, Israel said “fuck this”, built an iron dome defense system, built a border fence, and have economically thrived.

They can literally keep going like this indefinitely. And as time goes on they only get more and more bitter at the Palestinian terrorism. So they keep leaning harder and harder on hardliner politicians, who say "well, if Palestinians are going to be our enemies no matter what, why shouldn’t we just take and take and take?

Palestinians are the terrorists because they literally are the terrorists.

As in, they deliberately target civilians, often specifically CHILDREN for death.

Is there misconduct in the Israeli army? Absolutely. But that is WORLDS apart from adopting a government POLICY of targeting children.

I think Israel has shown extraordinary restraint given that the Palestinians have been actively trying to murder their children for DECADES, including electing a government that had the GENOCIDE of Jews as part of their written charter.

For those who don’t want to read a whole article:

The Oslo Accords were a cycle of negotiations and agreements. With every round, it looked like they were getting closer to an agreement.

In the end the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat killed the negotiation at camp David. He would not budge on several issues, but key among them was “right of return”.

Essentially “right of return” would instantly give full citizenship and voting rights to a vast amount of fantastic anti-Jewish Arabs, who would very shortly thereafter have been able to vote Israel out of existence by turning it from a democracy into a Muslim theocracy. And like all other Muslim theocracies, they would have been terrible if not genocidal to their Jewish citizens.

Arafat not only quit the peace process, he declared a “second antifada” … meaning a new call for the most foul terrorism: blowing up school buses, ambulances, targeting Jewish children for death, etc.

A bit later when Arafat died, we found out WHY he killed the peace process: while his people were impoverished and suffering, Arafat himself was hoarding nearly A BILLION DOLLARS in what was supposed to be humanitarian aid money for this people.

Arafat stopped the piece process because war was allowing him to retain power, and grow his obscene wealth.

I’m sure there were a huge swath of people who used Twitter and didn’t care at all about Musk one way or the other.

Then he rebranded and threw his ego and control in everyone’s face. And all the people who like Twitter IN SPITE of Elon were now forced to acknowledge that their Twitter is gone.

Just like over at reddit now, the latest move has alienated the people who really cared about the platform itself. If they rebranded to “Spez’s World”, though, a lot of the people who didn’t give a shit before would suddenly be ready to bail.

We’re dealing with drought and water restrictions in the US, too. Is it because we’re genocidal lunatics who hate citizens of certain states?

The real complaint here isn’t that the Palestinians are going thirsty. It’s that they aren’t getting enough water to farm?

I’m not quite sure what Palestinians thought was going to happen when they rejected peace offer after peace offer, and turned instead to non-stop terrorism.

Did they think Israelis were going to say: “oh, sure, you’re constantly launching thousands of rockets at our kids, but hey, let us spend a ton of money upgrading your infrastructure for you.”

Palestinians are vastly outmatched militarily, so for decades they’ve had exactly two options: make peace with Israel on their terms, or keep doing terrorism, and hoping that they’ll get international sympathy when Israel retaliates, and that international pressure will force Israel to … accept a peace treaty that leaves Israel with indefensible borders and an influx of Palestinian citizens that would use their vote to turn Israel into a Jew-hating Muslim theocracy.

At a certain point, you’d think Palestinians would start caring more about their kids’ futures than their hatred of Israel.

If they’d accepted peace under the offer made during the Oslo Accords, they would have had their own state for about 30 years now, with the ability to grow an economy, manage their own infrastructure, etc.

My understanding is that rent control backfired pretty spectacularly in the long term.

The better plan here would be to stop companies from buying residential properties, to incentivized the conversion of commercial properties into apartments, to penalize banks and individuals who are sitting on unused residential properties.

Oh, and wipe out all student loan debt so that younger generations have a prayer of buying a house someday.