Why did they even do that?
Why did they even do that?
I’ve never used a Mac but my experience with iPhones and iPads (not mine) has convinced me to never touch anything Apple makes. The requirement of iTunes to send files between an iPhone and a PC is, for example, just ridiculous.
car makers just jack up their prices so they make more off the subsidy
Exactly.
Really we should be subsidizing EVs from our own manufacturers.
You are. Still not doing much to corporate greed.
Uh… There’s a reason Israel hates BDS’s guts and that’s not because it doesn’t work.
I mean you can see the source code. You’ll know if anyone does something weird if you have two braincells.
Edit: Clown here move along.
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
What?
Just gonna say that alcohol is, by all means, a legal hard drug.
It also coincided with the 50th anniversary of October 7th, basically the Arab victory over Israel. Also Idk if the Jewish observances were intentional or not, but attacking your enemy while they have their guard down is common sense.
Ask the UN what they think of Gaza’s status. Hint: They won’t say “independent state”.
So I wrote about this before so I’ll just copy and paste:
The serious argument that October 7th was legitimate resistance relies on the fact that it was against military targets, with no evidence the leadership ordered anything close to slaughter of civilians. Add in that even after the IDF shelled and shot their own citizens the civilian casualty rate was 66% and the idea that Hamas just passed the border and randomly murdered civilians falls apart pretty quickly. Of course not denying the atrocities that actually happened, but October 7th as a whole was legitimate resistance with an army that’s prone to committing war crimes, not a terror attack with the goal of murdering civilians. This distinction is important because “atrocities were committed on October 7th” and “October 7th was a terror attack” aren’t equivalent statements.
End copy paste.
Therefore there’s no reason to condemn the attack. The lack of condemnation of atrocities committed during the attack is pretty bad and the result of rampant anti-Semitism in the Arab world, but there’s no reason to condemn October 7th itself.
Maybe ask Israel to stop occupying Gaza (and the rest of Palestine) before demanding that. This isn’t a war between countries; this is an occupied territory fighting for freedom.
What essentially everyone does care about, however, is repeatedly having rockets lobbed at them. When people feel under threat, reason starts to fall away, people begin dehumanizing the “other”, and you get the massive mess we have today. The fact of the matter is that Israel will never accept any situation where its people are under threat.
I get what you mean, but the current situation has continued since even before the rocket attacks. Gaza was blockaded before rocket attacks even became a thing (setting aside the second Intifada because that’s its own thing). What I mean is: Israeli’s feeling under threat is probably a factor, but it’s not the main issue.
and also, a legitimate Palestinian leadership in the first place
True enough, but let’s remember that it’s Israel that engineered a situation where they can claim Palestine has no legitimate leadership. You’re not wrong about the fact, but I just wanted to make the cause clear.
Realistically? Unless the international community (or the Muslim world) have a change of heart, the Hamas way of "get Israel to broadcast their atrocities to the world as loudly as possible) seems to be the best bet currently. A direct war of liberation is impossible because of the blockade, but at this rate the international community might actually give Israel the Apartheid treatment in two or three decades.
That’s what the PA is doing, and the result is the West Bank.
The Olmert proposal where Israel wanted to keep 10% of the West Bank? And what opportunity in 2005 they fucking blockaded the place as soon as they left.
This is why BDS is important.
Bruuuh Shaoki being 少奇 is brilliant. That aside don’t, it ain’t worth it.
I mean TBF Washington didn’t write the constitution and it was politically untenable at the time to illegalize slavery (note: I don’t know if he was against slavery, but generally no matter who was president it would’ve been impossible).
It’s a half-pun about actual piracy. Not sure if illegal fishing is actually considered piracy, but that’s the idea.