They have incredible windows too

Don’t buy your popcorn from China

Give it a few days

It’s not unfair to say, given recent events, that Israel has an unusual amount of influence over Western countries.

Nothing antisemitic about it. Israel has the means and capabilities of running influence operations in a way that Palestine doesn’t.

“Jewish bankers”, however, is a pretty common antisemitic trope so I don’t think you’re wrong about this specific commenter

Nuance is dead on social media.

It isn’t that bad, yet, on Lemmy but it gets to the point where people just scream past each other and because of things like default ranking comments by vote instead of a timeline whoever can get/bot the most votes wins and the other person is cast into the oblivion of “Click here to see more comments”.

On social media?..

Ironically, the mass killing of a Semitic people , not antisemitism.

The protest against the mass killing of Semitic people, antisemitism.

I’m only robbing this bank to support our fine police force. The heroin is recreational though.

You’re not wearing the right color hat to understand (tinfoil)

Powerful seems like a pointless adjective here.

It doesn’t take much power to destroy a cable. Did they invent a really long, and powerful, chain with a powerful anchor on it only usable by a boat with powerful electric winch?

Maybe they put AI in it too, for extra power of course

Surely the richest men alive will save us from the predations of the rich and powerful.

-Voters, 2024

The law of the jungle

Literally every standing structure is destroyed.

Either Hamas is the most battle hardened infantry to ever take the field and never giving an inch despite being armed with scraps vs a US armed foe with air dominance, or Israel is carpet bombing civilians.

You mean using the power of the government to suppress dissent?

The War on Drugs was largely used as an excuse to target anti-Vietnam War protestors.

We had https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism where the government targeted the left, accusing them of supporting Communists.

Or, more recently, the government arrested and is attempting to deport a lawful permanent resident and Colombia University student explicitly (from Trump’s own mouth) for protesting against Israel:

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-440828980a4ee7bf4ddcf3d123e02b3e

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan many people were arrested for donating to charities which were ran by groups that the US designated as “supporters of terrorism”.

There’s no end of examples of governments suppressing dissent and protest using the violence of the State.

Oh it should still be quite effective against the coming protestors terrorist rioting antifa thugs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

-Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.

NYT doesn’t do real journalism anymore, they just report on the narrative.

Congress passed aid to Ukraine.

Remember when Trump threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine in order to pressure Zelenskyy into announcing an investigation into Biden during an election?

He was impeached for that.

So, this time he put on a little theater skit in the White House’s Oval Office so that he can be immune by claiming that he paused aid as an official act resulting from an official meeting.

Trump is simply pausing aid by using executive powers in bad faith. Congress already approved the money but Trump can delay it for a long time before courts get involved.

We’re basically watching the sitting US President openly shaking down a country for protection money (rare earth rights) while it’s in the process of being attacked by Russia.

Russia already wins this. They’re never going to have to give up the land that they claimed and Trump is going to give Russia a ban on Ukraine joining NATO on top of it.

As an aside, did you know that around 3 billion USD passed through the TRUMP cryptocurrency before it collapsed. Kinda makes you wonder if the previous owners of that money got what they paid for.

Are you saying that the ceasefire didn’t bring more people into harms way?

It seems like you’re needlessly deconstructing what I said to try to find offense and outrage

The war was enough to drive the civilians away. The ceasefire just re-filled the warzone for round 2 of the air campaign.