And all of those reasons, and their outcomes, are because we allowed rich people to be involved in our government. As a result, our government is a government of, by, and for the (rich) people.
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And they are free. Free falling for it again.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/responding-trump-tariff-threat-taiwan-says-chip-business-is-win-win-2025-01-28/
The editor who made sure this is the preview frame from the video deserves a Pulitzer
I saw him on X claiming he can’t be a Zionist & a Nazi… which is pretty bizarre since plenty of Nazis are openly zionists who want the series of events to be:
- All jews are moved to Israel, and thus out of their lives
- Israel kills all the arabs
- The rest of the world kills Israel, citing them killing the arabs as the justification
Basically they want to reduce all jews to sonderkammandos for anihilating everyone who’s not a white christian.
As a side note, I don’t think it was a coincidence that Donald declared 27 Jan 2025 a national day of rememberance… on the day, and completely omitted that it was the Soviet Union who did the liberating of Auschwitz.
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God, that’s good.
Oof.
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I think he’s more pointing out why Israel was established in the first place as a geographical nation in the modern world, and that Israel’s actions the last 15 months have been going according to plan, even though they’re making the decisions themselves. The idea that they are justified in what they are doing has been built up in their culture by their western backers for generations, in accordance with the plan, leading to their desire to engage in this genocide at the first opportunity that they can rationalize with themselves. Israel is the direct, immediate offender in this situation, but they have puppet masters behind the scenes too, playing a more long-term game of pitting the world’s ethnic minorities against each other.
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The Israel situation is particularly weird because the ICJ already issued an opinion that what Israel has been doing in Gaza has been a clear breach of the the most sacrosanct values of the UN (ie that sovereignty includes no state may take your land by force, and that your people are entitled to safety) and is currently preparing to issue an advisory opinion on Israel’s obligations.
But Donald and his crew have basically advocated to speed up the invasion by asking other countries to take all the Palestinians:
So while the US is pretty blatantly using Israel to fight proxy wars with groups that interfere with its interests for the past 70 years, its now at the point where the UN is agreeing “this is war crimes” in black-and-white and Donald is suggesting maybe if they speed up the invasion war crime that’ll mitigate the genocide-in-progress war crime.
Which it really won’t, because the Rome Statute, art 6 includes forcibly transferring people to a different country under it’s definition of genocide. So that would just be, basically doing the crime to try to pretend you didn’t.
I’m not convinced it’ll help as the ICJ also very clearly thinks Netanyahu and Gallant should be trialed in the Hague as war criminals who have systematically committed crimes against humanity. They haven’t specified article 6 yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it got added any day now.
Like it’s literally so bad that now NZ, with a conservative government in power, is making IDF service a mandatory disclosure.
And Australia has actually been sending people back out of concern that they’re maybe implicated in war crimes:
So the entire facade of self-defence (which is how Israel has traditionally responded to criticism) has fallen away and the rest of the traditional allies are now preparing for the inevitable international trials - but Donald and his crew are still acting like its business as usual.
It kind seems like a large part of it is the shift over time has been away from strategic use of Israel as a proxy in the region, and more toward appeasing the people who think that Israel ruling the entire region is going to lead to the Second Coming of Christ.
And like… it’s been quite a while since I went to church etc but I can’t imagine Jesus “Love thy neighbour” of Nazereth would be super thrilled with the situation.
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Plane Crash? Helicopter Crash? Must be the fault of Black People and/or Women.
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This guy’s bullshit is like a broken record. It’s always the fault of the exact people who you know he’s gonna blame.
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January 20: FAA director fired
January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Don’t let him lie. This is Trump’s fault.
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In happier news, the priest who decided to copy Elon’s Nazi salute got to the Find Out stage and it seems everyone who worked on his web site were people of integrity.
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February 1:
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Can’t wait to see MAGAs reaction to rising grocery prices.
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They’ll claim it’s somehow the fault of the democrats, DEI hirings, transgender bathroom users, and abortions.
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I have a feeling this will escalate even more.
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Begun the Trade Wars have.
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I wonder what this will mean for the stock market. I don’t need to sell immediately but I did plan to take out a large chunk in maybe a year or two. Hopefully it wont matter by then.
We truly are living in the most boring Star Wars plot ever.
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I dunno I think it is more entertaining than The Phantom Menace at the very least. Even if our droids aren’t as ambulatory as the Galactic Trade Federations.
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What’s wrong with these planes? At least no one died this time.
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