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"Let's be honest"

You just want him to concede your point so you feel better. You are not being his friend. Israel is under no definition committing genocide. Please self-reflect and admit this to yourself. Alas your position is too extreme and unwilling to change.

You have terribly disingenuous rhetoric.


It would be disingenuous if it weren’t for the fact that tens of thousands of innocent bystanders that Israel deemed subhuman are dead. That bloody smoking gun seems to be escaping you both.

Even if you don’t think Israel’s neighbors deserve life, you have to recognize that the entirety of western civilization and the Islamic world both see what Israel is doing as reprehensible.

Now I’m not asking you to say they’re right because they’re the vast majority (that would be subjective), what I’m asking you to agree with is that Israel needs to stop making everyone hate them, because it will be worse for Israel if everyone hates them.

That is an objective fact I hope we can agree on, regardless of the value you place on human life.


Of all of em Zuck seems to be at highest risk of some wildcard stuff happening. Unless musk or bezos personally get on rocket.

I don't wish ill of anyone ofc but with his forays into extreme forms of recreation and aviation and such there's a chance of a different surprise story.


They are defending the author in this case though. Im sure they bully authors plenty too, but I'm pretty sure they keep some around for allegations of libel and other complications where they have the authors back.


Can you source this? Does Russia have immigrants constantly coming in from these countries that claim to dislike it?(this isn't anything about immigration policy)

My workplace is over 50% Hispanic out on the warehouse floor. They are here because they prefer America, not because they hate it.


First I'll say that I say this as my view as a Brazilian, that actually have a very good and default opinion about the U.S, as far as a Brazilian can be.

U.S is an economic powerhouse, Russia isn't. So yes, U.S attracts worldwide immigration. And of course, who goes to the U.S, already go there because... like it. If they didn't liked it, they wouldn't go.

But Latin America population is almost 700 million. Those who go to the U.S are a small minority, and specially from countries that are very much, to be kind, not going well, so they see the U.S as an example to be followed, like the Cubans and Venezuelans in the U.S.

But Latin America isn't only them.

I suggest checking some polls on the subject on China/US, and you'll see majority of latin americans have positive opinion about China¹, with numbers actually similar in some countries to the U.S. While 16% have positive opinions about China in the U.S, it's 61% in Chile.

And of course, I'm not even considering the governments here, which I think should be the main point, as they are the one who will drive the countries relations.Most Latin America governments, see the U.S as a country that would never let another economic world power rise in the Americas continent. Majority of Brazilians believe that Brazil should reduce use of Dollar², and Trump made specific threats to countries that try to avoid dollar.

This view is actually very widespread, but is worse between leftists, the leftists in most part of Latin America are more what we call "Anti-american", because of U.S Operation Condor that imposed right-wing dictatorships in the region. And it goes even newer, as Brazilian former President's Dilma Rousseff was spied back during Obama terms. That was discovered in 2013 or so.

The whole Trump U.S thing in Panama it's because of the growing influence China was getting there, too.

[1] https://x.com/maps_black/status/1884036385272983709 [2] https://atlasintel.org/polls/latam-pulse


China started rising when it allowed capitalism in its special economic zones. Private capital had a big part in it. Shenzhen was given that status in the early 80s.


That's like 10% of the story. There are dozens of countries that moved to a more capital oriented economy yet there is only one China. The philipines, Indonesia, Malasia, the whole continent of Africa or South America. All capitalist economies, even neoliberal. Yet none of those countries that "allowed capitalism" come close to 1% of China's GDP. What's the difference? The difference is that in China the Communist Party governs. Society rules over Capital, not the other way around. That made the whole difference.


Another aspect is that China has more people than the US and Europe combined.

Massive labor force unrivaled by any in the world, all working to elevate 1 country.

Allowing capitalism, a competent government, and sheer volume of people - all critical to making their rise possible.


I do think they made some sound monetary decisions in their financial markets given how much nonsense the US deals with. I do think you are discounting the capitalism side and give too much weight to the governance side though. Really there's more nuance to both our sides, I don't feel internet comments is rly the best way to try and convey it.


If Russia wants the international version of suicide by cop. Invading US soil is the next tier up from invading Russia in winter in military blunders. No one has been stupid enough to try since 1812 when the British navy ruled. And they couldn't achieve any meaningful goals.


How does that even work? Like you can't use Swiss ammo against European nations or what? It just seems to make it literally(not figuratively) worthless.


We also wrote their constitution that they can't have a military.

They still have the jdf but we kinda forced this position, it's a bit of a baffling question.


Of course it's only baffling if you assume it's asked in good faith.


As someone who doesn't go to church or watch fox perhaps I've missed it, but all I've seen are refutations of this, for instance highly upvoted posts saying "x days of not regretting my vote" as of a few days ago.

Id be curious to see the data if there are any articles or polls that show a large amount of Trump voters regretting their pick. Thanks.


I wasn't sure where to say it but your comment seems appropriate. It must impact install numbers when companies(ones I've been at) only want you to use chrome. Wasn't really an option for our regular staff. I was able to get away with using ff.

Agree as well - I still end up mostly using Google search, tho half the time when I don't get any decent results I realize it wasn't that important anyways. Interesting side effect of poor search results.


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