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FatCrab

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  • Kamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead Heat

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  • WI used to be heavily pro-labor, relatively progressive, and on a positive track, although it certainly was struggling to come to terms with its historical blemishes that persisted into deep systemic issues (racism and segregation have always been a massive issue in the state, but have only worsened in the last couple decades). When the right overtook almost the entirety of governor for a long stretch, it utterly broke the state though. The upside is that WI and MN were functionally identical until one went hard right and the other soft left and the result makes a wonderful case study for how vapid and destructive the entirety of the US right and Republicans are.

  • Kamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead Heat

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  • I am one of the many Wisconsin expats that has abandoned the state until it gets its shit back together. The thing you have to understand about the Wisconsin electorate, is that, in the aggregate, it's fucking dumb, mean, entitled, and will never reconsider its beliefs. The tea party movement really thoroughly fucked the state for the foreseeable future.

  • Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way

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  • You are also getting fairly biased feedback on this case, though. Realistically, I think companies like Beyond, Impossible, and Quorn have multiple product lines that give a taste and texture experience pretty damned close to their target, but people expect meat replacements to taste bad and so they do because taste is a wildly wishy-washy concept.

  • Kamala Harris says ‘I will not be silent’ on suffering in Gaza after Netanyahu talks

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  • While I agree that there should be a secular, non-ethno-, state of The Levantine Union or something, there is no realistic path to that that doesn't start from a two-state basis I don't think. Palestine and Israel first need to comingle culturally and intertwine economically (in a mutually beneficial manner--not just Israel exploiting Palestinians for cheap hard labor) before any unification can really happen imo.

  • Biden introduces Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin’ at Nato summit

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  • The question is who will turn out to vote. The number of "independents" who don't overwhelmingly vote republican or democratic is vanishingly small. This is found time and time again. Ultimately it's a question of which electorate turns out and which is demotivated enough not to.

  • Zelenskyy: If Trump Has Plan to End the Ukraine War 'He Should Tell Us Today'

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  • The criticisms are universally about how he "ended" it. I have seen no one that was in favor of staying. Likewise, Trump gets criticism on betraying our allies because he knowingly and intentionally ratfucked the kurds, or have you totally forgotten about that?

  • Zelenskyy: If Trump Has Plan to End the Ukraine War 'He Should Tell Us Today'

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  • You have been corrected because you are very obviously wrong. Are you going to integrate this correction into your espoused views going forward or are you just going to repeat the same brain dead bullshit again and again?

  • Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah

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  • Trump literally floated using the US military as a mercenary force, among a giant swathe of other fundamentally terrible policies he furthered, not to mention the broad and very obvious corruption under his administration just a few years ago. What in the fuck are you even talking about?

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • Keep in mind, there's a lot more that goes into the wildly superior Dutch infrastructure than just which streets get bike lanes along them. Roads are also fundamentally deferential to pedestrian and bike traffic there. As in, crossings are elevated above the road, which has a surprisingly effective impact on the culture and behaviors around modes.

    The other issue with bike infrastructure in MA is also the reason we see pockets of it done so well-- cities here have way more power than in other states. It's a lot easier to get this stuff implemented here with purely local efforts than, say, in WI or wherever. We also just straight up generally love biking here. It's still totally baffling to me how that fucking gremlin thought he could run for mayor of Somerville on an explicitly antibiking platform. I also wish we could get our shit together in Medford on this, but my city is so god damned broke, I don't think we could afford the paint for slapping down lines.

  • Fatah slams Hamas: Responsible for the current ‘Nakba’

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  • Yea, certainly seems like you have no sincere interest in this issue but are just another buzzard. Gross.

  • Fatah slams Hamas: Responsible for the current ‘Nakba’

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  • No, you're obviously a liar.

    Anyway, you being a silly dickhead aside, I corrected my post because it turns out that you were at least correct about the context of the elections. It's a good thing I'm more interested in getting clear and contextually correct information out there or you being such a shit head might've caused me to dig my heels in deeper, which literally would be counter to your purported intent (though I suspect you just want to be right and yell at people, and don't give a shit at all about much beyond that). Have a shit day. :)

  • Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

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  • No, but parenting can be pretty complex and there is a large degree of variability child to child. The idea that you either are a psychotic helicopter parent (because there is really no other interpretation to demanding a parent be around their toddler 24/7) or simply should not have children is a gross oversimplification and also, more importantly, fuckinh prima facie dumb as shit.

  • Fatah slams Hamas: Responsible for the current ‘Nakba’

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  • I feel like this paints Hamas in a much more forgiving light that it deserves. Hamas "won" the election after a violent campaign of intimidation and even then only by a plurality. While Fatah has many flaws, it's not a religio-fascist organization prone to arbitrary violent cruelty. Yes, Fatah criticizing Hamas is nothing new, but more because they're fundamentally opposed groups than Western preferences.

    EDIT: It's been pointed out to me that I was wrong about the context of Hamas' election and sources seem to back this up. While Hamas IS a violent religio-fascist organization, its violence against its electorate and opposition parties did not escalate until a few years after they were elected to a clear majority.

  • Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

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  • Cool. You clearly don't know what you're talking about then!

  • Israeli rabbi says ‘kill everyone in Gaza, including babies’

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  • Why? What in the world does your arbitrary cherry picked items have to do with the topic at hand? Are you trying to say that that is the entirety of talmudic discourse and that concepts of charity, stewardship, kindness, and growth are nowhere explored in the Talmud? I'm not saying there aren't many troubling aspects to Jewish liturgical Tesoro tradition. What I am saying is that they're about in par with any religion and shit like the OP posted is pretty fucking ignorant and dumb.

  • Israeli rabbi says ‘kill everyone in Gaza, including babies’

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  • Unfortunately, I don't think you'll find that as much anymore. One of understated but equally awful side effects of Hamas' very successful pogrom is, in targeting who it did among the Israeli population, it pushed a lot of Israeli society currently in Israel hard right even beyond standard rally around the flag effects. The Israeli left and peace activist movement effectively died last year.

  • Israeli rabbi says ‘kill everyone in Gaza, including babies’

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  • Yea, Judaism has no such thing as a deep and extensive set of rabbinical discourses that are as fundamental as the Torah. Really solid and thoughtful observation.

  • Taliban execute two men by gunfire in packed Afghanistan stadium

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  • This slightly misses the mark. The majority of crimes, including violent ones, are not committed by people performing a risk calculus. They're done with minimal thought and more often than not in the heat of the moment. Effectively, they are not crimes that you can deter because for a crime to be deterred, the potential criminal has to assess whether it makes sense to commit the crime. This works in cases of like financial fraud and white collar crime. Someone shooting another person during an altercation, not so much.

  • Taliban execute two men by gunfire in packed Afghanistan stadium

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  • Yes, we should also be addressing the failings of our penal system(s). Unfortunately, many around the world, and clearly yourself included, are more interested in retributive "justice" than habilitative functions.