I respect whoever who took this picture.

Sacrificed an opportunity to skedaddle and is no doubt now a legend to these guys. "Holy fuck, can't believe you got that shot!"

As long as APAIC is funneling money into US politicians, everything Israel does is tangential to US politics.

In the 2022 midterm elections, AIPAC spent roughly $27 million, a figure that more than tripled to over $100 million for the 2024 cycle.

The US provided about $4 billion in aid to Israel.

We are right now engaged in a war - sorry, armed conflict - with Israel leading the charge.

So, yeah, have fun in your echo chamber where US politics is entirely divorced from the rest of the world.

That sounds like a psyop by a Reddit intern.

I joined a couple of months ago and still have no idea how it all really works.

And it's really not so important that I understand the minutia. People stumble around the internet all the time, making happy little discoveries and finding new communities. It's kind of the way things used to work - we didn't ask, we were just happily amused.

ZOMBO.COM

"So you have Tik Tok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza"

Funny how that works. Smashing the brain with Gaza, and the Epstein files, and ICE and heretofore unseen levels of financial corruption and on and on.

If the bar gets any lower, we'll need to start digging.

I think you don't even have to bump. Just turn on your hazard lights and start slowing down in the middle lane. In medium to heavy traffic, this should cause a standstill.

Relevant gif.

"Did you like that video I sent you?"

"Are you kidding me?! I LOVE that you sent me that video!"

Poor Rickless bastards.

Proton VPN.

I use the paid version, but I'm pretty sure you can get a free version without data caps.

It lets you set the location of your VPN endpoint, meaning that you can spoof your location to just about any country on the globe. Very easy and intuitive interface, works on mobile, and no I don't work for these motherfuckers, I'm just excited to share my experience because I only recently decided to start using a VPN.

Other options, according to Google: PrivadoVPN (10GB/month), Windscribe (10GB/month), and Hide.me

More info here, but I can't speak to the veracity of this source.

https://www.trtworld.com/article/938b226c9f43

Strook is a mother of eleven and a grandmother of twelve. In 2007, a Palestinian boy was found severely beaten and bleeding after escaping an alleged torture session.

It was later revealed that Zviki Strook and his friends had entered a Palestinian neighbourhood, captured a 15-year-old boy, handcuffed and beat him, stripped him, and allegedly hit him with an ATV (all-terrain vehicle) before leaving him tied up in a field. The victim escaped hours later, suffering from severe injuries.

I'd feel the same way. And yet...it's still effective.

"Why were you late?"

"Protesters."

"What were they protesting?"

And just like that, the conversation has started.

Yes, protests can be inconvenient. Freedom is messy.

The people who view protesting as "anti-social" aren't ever going to join your cause. They don't care about freedom, they care about safety and security.

I find it difficult to believe that all these concentration camps were built to hold immigrants. My guess is that political dissidents will be joining them soon. Midterms? 2028? Flip a coin, but count on it.

Nothing personal to you, but posts like this one might be one reason why so many places on the internet are echo chambers.

No explanation, no analysis, no factual data or source. So, if a person unfamiliar with the context (like me) stumbles across this post, the conversation is already over. It just looks like a bunch of tribal finger-pointing (in the sense that this "tribe" is right and another "tribe" is wrong).

Speaking of horses, did you know that house flies and horse flies can look almost identical, but are different species?

The possum is not the same species as the opossum. A rabbit and a hare are different species. A buzzard and vulture are different species.

It's all about DNA. If two bugs (or any organism) can mate and produce viable, fertile offspring - that's a species. If they can't, then they are different species.

This is perfect, I think! The last thing we need is a unified religious front that's "cleaned up God's house". Much better to have traditionalists offended by Machine Gun Jesus and in-fighting.

In fact, maybe replace Jesus' face with Trump's. Hit 'em with some blasphemy and see which Xians cheer it and which ones look away in shame and second-hand embarrassment.

Having been raised in the Bible Belt by boomer parents, I wonder if younger non-religious folks can wrap their head around the danger of this type of Christian Nationalism.

There is a not insignificant number of boomers cheering Trump on, not because they think he's a great president, but because they think we are in "end times". And here's the crazy part - these were once good, moral people. Or at least, they thought they were. They went to church and gave to charities and voted Republican. Pro-life, pro-America, how could they go wrong?

Christian conservative boomers ARE a death cult.

This is a generation that suffered through some of the most intense propaganda known to man. They used to have drills for nuclear attacks, the same way schools have active shooter drills in this day and age. Can you imagine how a child might feel, being told that they need to prepare to be vaporized? Practicing for it? That shit left a permanent mark, and boomers aren't the type to work through their feelings in therapy. They carried that shit with them every day through the turn of a new millennia and the load got heavier every day.

Now it's 70 years later and the world is still turning. Boomers are tired. They've seen a lot in their lifetimes, and it's all turned to shit. In their minds, it's time for a reset of humanity anyway. When they were 40 or 50, they still had a bit of hope left. They wanted to see the grandkids grow up, leave a better world.

All of that is gone now. They feel nothing but disgust for humanity. They don't give a fuck if the button is pushed. It's written in the Bible anyway. What a way to go out, right? And if Trump gets a terminal medical condition, it's all over. He'll make himself unforgettable in history. The first president to order a full-scale nuclear war. Armageddon. End times. He'll be worshipped like Hitler and Jesus and Regan all rolled into one. Everyone's hero.

Article summary: THIS JUST IN: TRUMP LOVES OIL, HATES CLEAN ENERGY

Yeah. We know.

I'm very disappointed that the term "petrodollar" is not used anywhere in this article, because the concept of a petrodollar explains (at least partially) why Trump has done what he's done.

Saudi Arabia has a deal with the U.S. They have agreed to trade only in U.S. dollars. By protecting that deal, Trump protects the U.S. dollar as the international currency of choice.

Any article about the oil trade and/or Gulf nations should mention this. It's a foundation of U.S. foreign policy. And, while it's an underhanded way to exert disproportionate control over global energy markets, it benefits the U.S. consumer greatly. It keeps the value of the dollar high, even as U.S. manufacturing dies.

In a just world, this arrangement would never have happened. But it did happen. If the petrodollar disappears tomorrow, there will be even more misery and hardship for working class Americans. Imperialism should be dismantled carefully, lest the innocent be crushed beneath it.

It's an incorrect/misleading title.

Shatner was mocking people who think new Star Trek is too "woke".

The original Star Trek was known for its very progressive (at the time) themes, and especially for its integrated cast. Don't have the energy to google it rn, but I think Shatner was one of the first white TV actors to kiss a black co-star onscreen.