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Milk_Sheikh

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  • Israel won’t end war for deal to free all hostages, PM’s aide said to tell families

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  • Or maybe, here’s a thought: You stop reacting capriciously, and asses the situation to make an informed decision for shoot/no-shoot. Retreat to safety and investigate. Israel likes to flout their ‘world class’ ISR and HUMINT capabilities and superior and accurate weapons, but then keeps making “tragic mistakes” that kill civilians, reporters, and aid workers. Hamas et al are definitely not respecting the laws of war, but that’s not license to turn neighborhoods into free-fire zones.

    Of course that requires the forces involved respecting civilian life and showing restraint.

  • Israel won’t end war for deal to free all hostages, PM’s aide said to tell families

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  • because when that law is broken, it turns civilians into targets

    Have you absolutely no shame? Or are you naïvely trying to sound authoritative? Unlawful combatants existing in an area, does not mean that civilians are greenlight for deliberate targeting.

    Nor does it excuse the atrocious and callous 1:10,1:20,1:100 ‘acceptable collateral damage’ Hamas:Civilian ratio the IDF has self assigned and modified up and down based on international outcry.

    for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians… in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander

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    Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women

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  • Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies

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  • It would at least (in theory) kick the politicization of judges to the circuit level and promote the same borderline majority opinions there instead - but make accession to SCotUS a supermajority. Hopefully then the only ones they can agree on are outstanding jurists.

    Or if it does fall prey to partisan agendas, then it makes the ideological bent of SCotUS stable-ish.

    • The Deep South gets two seats
    • New England one seat
    • Two for the Midwest
    • ‘The West’ two seats
    • The Bible/Rust belt one
    • And three for the East Coat & inland

  • Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war

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  • It’s astonishing that Biden/the administration has decided that Israel is worth throwing away the post-WW2 global system for.

    The US is going to need alliances and partnerships to counter future and current Chinese and Russian revanchist aggression, and Europe has already broken away from the US global leadership because of Gaza. They’ve all reinstated UNRAWA funding, several now formally recognize Palestine, multiple heads of state are openly calling it genocide, and the US sits alone wielding UNSC veto to protect the unsinkable aircraft carrier Israel.

  • Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war

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  • This. Though I support his stand and the good work that him and people like him do using aid funds despite the organization’s geopolitical bent, the man forgot who he was actually working for.

    It has been decided that the status quo will continue despite the mounting costs, your criticism and resistance is meaningless to them.

  • For edge lovers

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  • I can HIGHLY recommend brownie batter put into non-standard pans. Madeline pans make excellent bite sized brownies, and cupcakes are good too. Just don’t put too much into each one, otherwise the center doesn't bake and achieve the desired gooey texture.

  • Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies

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  • …and the district judges themselves elect/appoint their representatives to SCotUS. Get political appointees out of the top bench, I’ll take an unelected meritocracy over cronyism and patronage any day.

  • The US-built pier in Gaza broke apart. Here's how we got here and what might be next

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  • May your self righteousness sit easy with your soul, while the right clicks each ratchet of the Overton window.

    Voting ‘blue no matter who’ empowers that action - both with and without of your party.

  • The US-built pier in Gaza broke apart. Here's how we got here and what might be next

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  • The dock was always about being seen to help resolve the humanitarian crisis, but not actually get anyone linked to US policy inanywayshapeorform involved directly on the ground in Gaza.

    Like others have said, if the US/Egypt/Arab nations actually wanted to solve the famine? Aid convoy with military escort. “We’re gonna help these people, try and stop us” and let the IDF fafo. Hamas may not play along, but they have and are coordinating with aid agencies all the time for convoys.

  • Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'

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  • You’re right that it’s ineffective, but the messaging and emotional hooks are powerful. “The left” at its core challenges the ego. It sees society, culture, economics, politics, etc and says “Do better”, or if we’re being pleasant “We can do better, let’s build it”

    “The right” tells your id what it wants to hear. Everything is as it ought to be, you don’t need to improve yourself, this is the best place to be, failures are because of ‘our enemies’.

    “You’re fine, it’s their fault” is a very easy pill to swallow, and the mental gymnastics start quietly

    hate oil salesman

    Oh I’m definitely stealing this

  • Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'

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  • I am strong, powerful, manly man, so therefore any weakness/failure cannot be because of my failings, but a sign of how powerful the Jews/globalists/antifa/comintern/etc are

    It’s not a complex ideology, but it’s an easy panacea - like conspiracies- for the hard reality that is modern existence

  • White House says attack at Rafah camp did not cross Biden’s red line over supporting Israel

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  • I hate this part the most. There’s literally no viable way to help, aside from political pressure - which then gets shouted down as ‘bad faith tankie’.

    • The crossing are crippled and capriciously limited by Israel and/or ‘protesters’
    • Airdrops are helping, but barely
    • The floating pier is now out of commission for “at least a week”
    • Direct donations are likely not going to reach needy, but be skimmed or frozen

    And all that, just so they can be bombed or starved. Even those who do survive this if/when it ends will be desperately broken people who have endured incredible loss and trauma

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    Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit

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  • Nvidia doing the right thing, for the wrong reason. They need these ebook repositories to continue to exist, so their customers can buy their overpriced chips and scrape the books for training data

    Cartel traffickers also care about their drug mules, at least until they reach their destination

  • US condemns loss of life, but says no policy changes after civilian deaths in Israeli strike in Rafah

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  • “Everything that we can see tells us that they are not moving into a major ground operation in population centers in the center of Rafah,” Kirby said

    Wow. That’s vatnik levels of mental gymnastics right there on display for the whole world.

    There’s tanks and APCs in central Rafah, a million refugees have fled (again) from what was specified by Israel as a civilian safe zone, Al-Quassam is posting daily combat footage again after weeks of low activity, but “everything we see” does not cross our ‘red line’ fuckouttahere

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    SSDE

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  • It’s the economy, stupid

    …and for most Americans the economy isn’t that great. Sure we ducked the recession that should have come, but while “line goes up” is great for Wall Street and the economy as a whole, the delayed impact means that improvement does little for the suburban and rural working class voters whose only exposure to the stock market is their 401(k). That’s decades away from paying anything out, while right now they’re feeling the pinch of stagnant wages and corporate driven inflation

  • The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report

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  • Ding ding ding on all points but - it’s not ‘the end of history’ anymore, definitely not after 9/11 and GWOT.

    There are headwinds coming for US and western leadership, and the unlimited ‘bear hug’ support for Bibi Israel has America standing alone at the UN, a global hypocrite in the “rules based international order” whilst pointing the finger at Russia and Ukraine, or China and the 11 10 9 dash line/Taiwan/Senkaku Islands/etc…

    The global south is turning against western leadership; South Africa’s dogged case at the ICC, the French getting ejected from their peacekeeping missions in multiple former colonies, India is sending assassins to run hits on US and Canadian soil, OPEC expansion, that nut in Argentina… There’s growing rejection of the Pax Americana and/or Bretton Woods, and not in same bipolar competition like in the Cold War

  • The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report

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  • Putin took the civilian route and “won elections” before the leapfrogging the presidency with Medevev and eventual solidification of his autocracy. He is a dictator in autocrats’ dress, faux elections and rivals aplenty, but not a general or warlord. Accordingly he insulates himself from meaningful challenge, which (like Xi and the CCP’s leadership) requires culling anyone competent immediately below you, or keeping them distracted with intra-competition for favor instead of seeking the top role.

    A crumbling Muscovy regime, a fractured society with war fatigue, an arsenal of nuclear weapons that are scattered in Russia and in client states like Belarus, an ocean of conventional arms and equipment, Russia set up in a war economy, and then add a power vacuum are NOT positives for Ukraine, Europe, or the world.

    During the fall of the Soviet Union, there were a lot of CIA agents and friends running around trying to secure and round up those nukes, lest they enter the black market or the local warlord/strongman decides “that’s OURS now” and another nuclear actor is on the chessboard.

    Though the deconfliction hotlines are broken, non-proliferation treaties not renewed, and hypersonics changing the viability of ‘first-strike’ strategy, Russia still is a known actor. Someone like Prigozin is not, and that’s my point. Putin will play ‘the game’ of great power competition. A blowhard populist with an insecure power base and multiple rivals has a very different incentive structure, and may do the unthinkable if it means solidifying their hold on power.

  • The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report

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  • Hard to swallow pills: Putin dying is not a positive outcome for the world - yet. There’s no groomed successor or lieutenant in the wings, when he leaves the scene it will be knives out inside the Kremlin (and outside it), which will lead to a fractured Moscow with Balkanization of the fringes like Georgia and Chechnya, or an even more brutal dictator, likely coming from the military sphere rather than civil.

    There is no moderate off-ramp for Russia currently, and after Prigozin nobody in Russia is going to be permitted to collect power that can even think of challenging Putin.