It does but the lobby wouldn't be allowed to exist if Isntreal weren't a useful tool for the US-aligned empire. The lobby is a how, not a why.
I don't think Epstein dirt is that powerful. We live in a post-truth time. Powerful men have been getting away withremoved kids for a long time, see Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin for a less political example.
Sooo many "wholesome" videos of predator and prey animals together and it's horrible because eventually that cat or dog is going to kill and eat the little bird and it'll be all the fault of the irresponsible asshole human owner who put them together. It happened with someone I knew irl and was completely predictable.
And these assholes always get defensive when you say something, like "my precious baby isn't a cold-blooded killer! They're siblings! They're both my kids!" No, animals are intelligent and sentient people too but you can't just anthropomorphize them, you have to respect them for who and what they are
This is heartbreaking.
Hades: extremely queer.
You have it backwards though, the US does this because it finds the destabilization of the middle east convenient to its strategic interests. Israel is the US's rabid attack dog that the US has given a very slack leash. Materially there's no way for Israel to control the US's actions. BurgerPunk is correct.
Thing about material reality is that it always wins in the end. You can spin a narrative for a while, but sooner or later you have to reconcile it with what's actually happening in the world.
Well said
But I assure you, my Bad Tweet — which I posted during a very bad time, which is to say, at the start of pandemic lockdowns, when everybody felt like yellowjacket wasps at the end of summer — was not in any way a contributing factor to the publishing lawsuit. We were trapped in our houses. Things were weird. Everybody was nervous. Writers and artists and freelancers had no idea what was going to happen next. We were bleaching our broccoli and washing our hands bloody. It was fucked up. Sorry.
Holy shit, blaming it on the stress of "lockdown"? We never locked down but getting paid to not risk my life at a pointless job was one of the chillest times of my life, so much so that I still yearn for that time to come back even though I was going through a devastating breakup at the time, that's how bad capitalism and having to work are. Unless he was locked at home with an actual domestic violence abuser I can't imagine how he could have been under such immense stress to trigger a lawsuit.
Anyway what was the tweet even? Because I can't see them at all, not even here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200704020133/https://medium.com/nameless-aimless/the-assassination-of-the-internet-archive-by-the-coward-chuck-wendig-5ffb4677ee49
Good evisceration though: "Chuck is less a writer than he is a mouthpiece for corporate fandom and a watchdog for copyright disobedience. His assertion that he is being attacked by bad faith actors misdirecting their anger towards publishers at him is disingenuous. When Metallica drove Napster into bankruptcy over piracy of their albums, they received due backlash for crushing one of the best distribution networks of the early internet era. The difference here is that Metallica made Master of Puppets and Chuck hasn’t even made St. Anger. Chuck Wendig is less interested in writing than he is in mining whatever drips of profit he can from a desiccated industry."
And on that note I've never heard of the guy, has he actually done anything of notable value? Wikipedia just mentions some Star Wars slop and some Marvel slop as his biggest contributions to culture, which sound like net negatives
Well, this would have been a good 2nd time to do it.
The courts you imagine to exist for trying these folks... Where can I find them?
Take your pick. There's the Hague, which is internationally recognized as a place to try war criminals. Or there could be a tribunal in Nuremberg since that's where they hanged (a woefully paltry number of) high-ranking Nazis after WWII. Or those war criminals could be handed over to People's Courts comprised of the families that survived having their loved ones murdered. Send Bush to Iraq, send Biden to Palestine, send Clinton to Libya.
The country decided that the president is immune from prosecution. A system which enshrines in its legal structures such morally reprehensible positions is completely illegitimate. We don't have to obey, nor should we.
As for your last question, consider it a wish-list. But if anyone in government actually had a conscience they would be demanding this too or seeking to change the laws to get the ball rolling. Gotta prosecute and punish the war criminals before they die of old age and escape to a Hell that will be far kinder on them than they deserve.
So now Ukraine is threatening to interfere with the election to tip it against Biden and in favor of dRumpf! Russia has already won! /lib
universal healthcare, and student loan forgiveness
Sorry, we can't afford any of those because we need the money to pay reparations to survivors of the Gaza Genocide
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Isntreal is a military base masquerading as a country.