Nearly all hostages taken by Hamas were IDF or former IDF. They primarily targeted generals and IDF bases, which thanks to Israel’s Hannibal strategy are interspersed in civilian areas.

Given the number of causalities, Hamas acted, and has always acted, with more valor and more care for civilians than the IDF who are famous for sniping children and reporters.

Resistance is killing those that oppress you, even if they take off their uniform and throw a party next to your concentration camp.

With how racist they are towards China?

I mean it would work out better for them but I’m pretty sure brics doesn’t need such an economic and cultural drag, even if it would be very, very funny.

They’re including the entirety of China’s media budget.

While I agree things like npr, pbs, and local newspapers are propaganda, you guys typically don’t. So it’s silly to compare the two like that.

It’s like saying the entirety of the UK’s tv license fee is just for state run propaganda; and that’s not fair, channel 4 exists and works against UK state propaganda.

Most sane kbin/mbin user.

Minors are going to access the internet no matter what you do, it’s on them an their underdeveloped brains on whether or not they can handle it.

If their parents don’t care enough, then let them be raised here, amongst the stable minds that think anything to the left of burning kids alive for warmth is tankieism (.world) or anything to the right of luxury gay space communism is fascism (all the sane instances).

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That humans are human?

Yeah, I’m willing to draw the line in the sand there. Equality in the face of nobility (i.e. class vs race based discrimination) is more fair and equal than the view espoused by our founding fathers. But all caste systems have always been bad. Universally. And no matter the culture or time period with this idea, you’ll find a loud minority or a large majority of people that disagree with the caste system in place.

Because that’s how they work, a minority can only benefit, and are the only ones that need it to work, so the less stratified they are the more people are against it but are rendered powerless by the system in place.

Every human that didn’t believe in equality, and by that I just mean that all humans are human, is a bad person.

For fucks sake orangutans got their name because we as a species treated them as human at one point. If we can do that to a fucking monkey there’s no epiphany needed to do it to actual humans.

Biden won in a primary where the dnc refused to fund any other candidates and was only participated in by people that admitted they didn’t want the position.

There was no second primary.

But it inevitably will become that cheap, as your steak and pork become infinitely, exponentially more expensive over time.

We’re already massively subsidizing meat production and we’re entirely ignoring the majority of meats costs in calculating prices.

Those costs are going to keep getting higher, however, and those subsidies won’t be able to last even in a wealthy monetary issues country like the US. Unless you completely abandon capitalism, real beef isnt going to be a thing for middle class or poor people within 20 years, and it won’t be a thing period within a hundred.

However the tech to print meat will get smaller and cheaper over time and the seed ingredients are already cheaper than the land maintenance and feed for real livestock. Hell it’s cheaper than most inputs for anything except corn and wheat. There will be a time in the next few decades where middle class people in smart countries will have a meat printer at home to make whatever they want for dinner and shopping for meat will be too prohibitively expensive for anyone but the rich.

Climate change is already causing crop failures and water distribution fights, and quite frankly the meat industry doesn’t have enough money to fight the climate on this issue.

Cheap guilt free meat built to whatever fat percentage you want will fail to sell?

Well you enjoy your $50/lbs wagu, and I’ll enjoy exactly the same quality at $3/lbs.

In the US, at least, nearly all corporations digitized around the late nineties while buying into personality test nonsense.

At this time the screening was more simple than it was today, keyword searches and yes/no personality decisions that eliminated over 90% of applicants.

Now with LLMs they can eliminate nearly all applicants, giving them more legal justification to request visas or outsource.

If it’s not in settings-> gestures that’s probably a phone gesture you’d need to change on your device.

Swiping right doesn’t go back for me.

Fun fact this is also against .world’s tos.

You’re assuming they’ll ever pay. The executive is the one that would assist against nonpayment on a judgement, so all the defendant of a lawsuit like this has to do is be friendly with the executive branch.

My dude I’m dual citizen Chinese and us, stealing from the rich and building the fundamentals of society equally is kinda my jam, even if someone did fuck up and make me a us citizen by default.

The American working class, despite making far more than their peers in the global South, are usually more poor than their peers in the global South. Home ownership is a myth and favelas are banned here; you’ll not only never retire but even if you manage to get to retirement age all your money is going to go to medical care. You might have a car but you need it to live since there’s more distance between your house and the only grocery store than there is between most villages in poor countries. Hell all the wealth the US stole still has more people living near open sewage lines than any country in South America. Shit even the cops are more corrupt than those in the south but you can’t even bribe them since they’re paid so much by the rich to protect their property.

The American poor are happy to give up the wealth their country stole, because they never saw any of it.

treat Chinese tourists like shit

Treat China like a hostile force

Increasingly enshittify own economies

Wonder why Chinese tourists stop coming

Xinjiang is more interesting to visit than anywhere in France, and you don’t have to worry about being hit on by a weird French guy.

That line only works when most of the global north aren’t more poor than those in the south.

Most people in the western world do want to remove the stolen wealth and return it, since they’ve never seen it either.

Given every report has been corrected lower for the last 8 years, this might mean we’re reaching a true net negative.

Global depression is a way to fight climate change I guess.

We’ve been in a recession.

In short, they’re trying to make much more money to pay the executives’ 7 figure salaries, and are giving up browser privacy to do so.