You are totally right.

Fascism appeals to humanity’s most basic impulses and fascists will therefore always be a threat to democracy.

People crave the strong, authoritarian leader who will protect them from danger.

Israel only bombs terrorists, not civilians.

Your German nationality will now be revoked for thinking the wrong thought.

It’s really a global problem and I do think it’s an inevitable problem of capital saturation.

After decades of economic growth and peace, the developed world has an overabundance of wealth.

Some of that wealth chases the stock and bond markets and private equity and things like art and crypto and that’s fine. Those are proper channels to act as a sponge to absorb wealth.

But some of this wealth is chasing real estate and commodities, which makes the basic necessities of life unaffordable.

That’s better.

But most rich people are old, that’s not new.

That’s just how wealth accumulation and inheritance works.

TIL Taylor Swift and Elon Musk are boomers.

Good post, but we really need to get out of the generational thinking.

I know rich and poor boomers. I know rich and poor millenials, and gen X/Z.

It’s a class struggle. Always has been.

Stop making it a generational battle. That only serves to divide the working class.

Yes, there is racism, ageism, sexism. We should debate those things and improve, but we can’t let those things divide us politically.

And since I’m ranting, let me end with a solution. We need to find themes that help all of us.

So perhaps we should say: for example, everyone with less than $1M in wealth gets a $20K tax deduction.

Who could oppose that? It doesn’t benefit home owners vs. renters. It doesn’t benefit students vs. retirees. It doesn’t benefit city dwellers vs. rural. Or white vs. black.

But it does benefit the class who owns nothing and gives them a better chance to own something.

Exactly.

If the USA tried to again be a White/European ethnostate and allow anyone with Caucasian heritage to immigrate and barred everyone else from immigrating, then no one today would accept that.

And if they went full on apartheid and started putting natives and minorities in locked down ever-shrinking reservations, people would really lose their shit.

When white nationalists try to advocate for such policies, they are rightfully criticized for being racist.

I can never understand why Israel gets special treatment in that regard.

Indeed, also it’s much nicer to use a shared high quality tool than to buy an el-cheapo disposable tool.

Even something simple like a crowbar. I once borrowed a (shorter) professional crowbar after struggling with a (larger) cheap one. The thing I was trying to pry came out like butter.

Even though physics dictates that a shorter lever should be inferior, it just had a much better design and grip.

Better for our wallet, sanity and environment.

Netanyahu and the right need more terrorists in order to justify further land grabs, so yes, that’s the goal.

Radicalize more people, so that those people strike back, then engage in war and take their land.

And yes, this is also how the Europeans and Americans took land from the natives during colonization.

If that’s what you believe, then you don’t actually disagree with the sign.

You only disagree with the narrative that the sign must be anti-Semitic.

Welcome to our world.

Then you are basically implying the state of Israel can’t exist without genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

Most of these protesters want a one state solution that doesn’t discriminate between people based on religion or ethnicity.

Or they want a two state solution where a Palestinian army can protect Palestinians against Israel stealing their land, denying them health care and imprisoning their families.

The last natural, human, popular subreddit to arise on reddit was r/antiwork

After that, the site got swarmed by bots and censorship.

If you try and post something even remotely progressive in a popular subreddit, it will get deleted and you will probably get banned.

I didn’t think I’d find a mercantilist in 2024, but here we are.

No, that’s not how it works, otherwise the US would be a poor country based on their massive trade deficit.

Trade takes place because it is mutually beneficial. Each parties gets something out of each trade.

Reducing trade therefore will always hurts both countries.

Exactly which loses more will depend on a lot of factors, but in general smaller economies are more dependent on larger economies.

Usually with these types of things, it tends to be worse for the smaller economy, but both suffer. (See Brexit, Sanctions on Russia, Iran and Venezuela, and also historically those on apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia).

Turkey has a GDP 2-3x that of Israel, so I don’t know why you’d think it would be worse for them.

From a lecture by Roger Penrose

Wikipedia has an article and he has some videos on YouTube

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction

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Also, saying gymnastics don’t belong in the Olympics is not just an unpopular opinion, it’s crazy talk.

Like, in what world does one say that Simone Biles is not an Olympian.

I wouldn’t trust that website.

I have received Facebook memes from demented old people that were more convincing.

It seems like this site just specialises in outrage and slander.

You are correct.

I could swear that when I read the primary source yesterday, it said Bangladesh had zero sugar.

But going to the link, that’s no longer the case.

Either I was wrong or they corrected it.

Primary source: https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/

Does anyone know why Bangladesh had zero added sugar?

Could it be that Bangladesh has stricter regulations?

Edit: it seems I was wrong. I thought when I read this yesterday it said Bangladesh had no sugar, but looking it up today, that’s no longer the case.

Source: https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/