For anyone not getting this reference it’s a fascinating, but sad story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt

Everyone who gives weapons to Israel (or money to buy weapons) did this. I finally got angry enough to write Biden a letter, but who knows if he actually read it or not (probably not, but I did get a reply). It didn’t seem to help much. All the protests aren’t helping much. What can the people do to stop the govenment’s support of Israel?

I heard that too, but I’m no historian. What certainly is different now is having the internet; everyone who cares is staying informed and seeing what Israel is doing to Palestinians in almost real time. Not that we can do much about it.

I suggest writing some letters to choice politicians.… Maybe you can get past the thick, dead tissue surrounding what remains of their hearts.

I think people were not detecting the sarcasm…

Wow, that’s crazy. My ecosystem only has microdenizens; I can’t image what it would be like to go macro. Good luck making your dreams come true =☆

If another country came into ours and started driving people out, cutting down food trees and putting in settlements, you bet we’d be pissed. But it’s like our politicians have zero empathy and can’t imagine us being in another’s shoes. I know politics requires making hard choices, but must every top politician be a sociopath? It’s very imbalanced.

“Patients are generally encouraged to rest, stay hydrated, and use over-the-counter pain relievers[…]”

Sounds like you turn yourself into a sloth… Where you do it is up to you, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can’t vote anymore, but I will try to contact a representative anyways. I have already tried contacting the White House, but got a crappy response. I’ll check out the link, thanks.

Who can stop the US’s support of Israel? It seems hopeless. I don’t even know what else to say. This world is upside-down.

The administration of President Joe Biden had considered blocking the battalion from receiving US assistance amid reports of involvement in human rights violations, but Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Friday that such abuses had been “effectively remediated”.

So, we effectively dragged our feet until we got assurances that the battalion corrected its behavior? Yet, when it comes to the UNWRA, we’re quick to cease funding on a faint glimmer of a rumor.

I’m not buying much, if any, of this story. The FBI has been known to groom potential ‘terrorists’, catch them before they can act, and then toot their own horns for a job well done. And by groom, I mean nudging unstable people towards extremism and providing them weapons, vehicles, dates, etc. to carry out an attack.

Knowing that the FBI does the things I mentioned also leads to a disturbing question: how many successful mass attacks in the US were the result of FBI involvement? Is it a nonzero number?

I’m not sure anything short of a large, sympathetic militia and/or military intervention was going to help, since the farmers had armed men.

That said, who else but cops would be using rubber bullets? Seems suspicious… maybe the cops didn’t just fail to stop the farmers after all.

Just trying to look at the thing from every angle.

I’m probably blind, but I can’t find where the police were at fault this time. It said the cops failed to stop the farmers… maybe it’s similar to the Israeli military/settler dynamic?

Can’t add railing to every steep area. Jk, of course we can, we’ve got the resources :D

It’s a sad story though, how he let go once he knew he was risking his wife’s life by continuing to hold onto her. That final look of goodbye which probably took place, and the letting go.

Thanks for the detailed info. It would be awesome if the CEOs and shareholders took a pay hit, so they could keep work here and pay them more to boot. (I haven’t run any numbers to see if it would even make a big enough difference.)

I didn’t know the CHIPS act was having trouble. Last new I heard was that US workers supposedly didn’t have sufficient work ethic, or something. Iirc, it sounded like they didn’t want to be worked to death…

It really does seem like it boils down to this every time. How can an aggressive propaganda campaign be counteracted without infinite resources, and without alienating people?

Is anything stopping western nations from subsidizing their own EV industries to the same degree China purportedly does?

The US will probably want another land base in the general area. Megiddo, for instance, might be a strategic location. Of course, the people living there would need extra defensive capabilities. But to get public support, the initiative will need a name… perhaps something like ‘Arm Megiddo’. /j

On a more serious note, this could easily get very bad very quickly, and not just ‘over there’. We trust our governments to make decisions that keep us safe, but once they stop doing that they invite total destabilization from within. If the mainland gets attacked, all hell could break loose here…

Imagine an industry ruining your homeland and family’s way of life, and then government offering you a job in that same industry to keep you silent and obedient. It seems a lot of desperate people are applying for jobs anyway, but what does that do to one’s psyche?

Even if this were considered binding I’m hardpressed to think the US would play along with it.

Is not the US breaking its own law by continuing to provide Irarael monetary and military support? The Leahy Law says we can’t do that if the recipient of aid is commiting war crimes. All aid should be suspended while an impartial and independent party investigates Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank.