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To give a sense of how integrated the Israeli lobby is into US law and society, two of my friends have an anti-BDS clause baked into their lease. They could legally be evicted for boycotting Israel (hexbear.net)

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And I can’t even imagine it’s an intentional addition, it’s just become part of boiler plate legal documents here in the deep south.

The wiki on anti-BDS laws

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[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, he did build a decent company. He's only been coming out of pocket the last couple of years. I'm not trying to defend capital in any way, I'm just saying my wife needs a job, and the product they make isn't munitions for the war effort. In fact, he's mostly refused to sell to countries like Saudi Arabia that could feasibly use his product to hurt people in a roundabout way. He even switched to making PPE stuff during pandemic, and gave a lot of it away.

I agree with everything else you said though. I think a lot of boomers start out with decent intentions, but the world they grew up in taught them to be cynical, and it really sets in when the world around them changes, and they refuse to get out of the way of the next generation.

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

"The world they built is so nakedly self destructive, so very objectively harmful even they are starting to feel the pain, but the mild, passing discomfort in admitting fault for the first time in their entire life would literally be the worst thing that has ever happened to them, so of course going down with the ship is a far more reasonable course of action than allowing another captain to step in and possibly steer away from the iceberg."

Just one man's opinion. I'm fascinated by them, really. I deal with boomers all day ever day, I feel compassion of course but I cannot help but privately wonder how none of them ever realize they did all of this to themselves, in a thousand different ways, all day every day their entire life, it all has led to this, as inevitably as the river meeting the sea.

I'm not like, an advocate for organized religion or anything but their enthusiasm for rejecting any and all belief systems in favor of the all encompassing infatuation that entire generation manages to have with themselves is just an endless wellspring of neverending trauma for everyone else forced to live around them.