Which is why the Dems propped up Trump, so the only argument they would need to qualify for was "we aren't Trump". And people got tired of that "good cop, bad cop" game, where both parties are ultimately against the people.
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Why would he try?
The Democrats banked on the idea that Trump is the easiest candidate to win against, despite Clinton loosing to him in 2016. And it was clear with Biden. He wasn't voted because people liked him. He was voted because people were dissatisfied with Trumps first term. And Biden managed to fuck up so badly, that people rather chose Trump for a second round than to deal with Biden or Harris, who stated explicitly that she will do everything like Biden.
The Democrats thought that Trump is perfect as he lets them get away with being the worst version of themselves and they'd rather see another Trump presidency than actually provide good policies for the people.
What is called "democratic socialism" these days mostly just amounts to a market economy with a reasonable level of social security and public infrastructure.
Contrary to the Israeli claims there is no evidence of Hamas stealing food.
The video Israel published of the last moments of Yahya Sinwar showed him fighting on the front lines and until the last moment. Releasing that was very stupid from a propaganda perspective as Israel itself proved its claims about Hamas leaders hiding in tunnels and being well fed to be lies.
If there is no armed resistance in Gaza, Israel can "mob up" without any difficulty.
The reason why many intelligence and military people now voiced concern is not because they care about the lives of the Palestinian people, but because Gaza is a nightmare to conquer and occupy. Hamas and other armed groups are very creative and had decades to fortify Gaza for another invasion. For instance a lot of the explosives they use for their traps are unexploded ordnance from Israeli attacks.
Israel in large part used to blow up buildings in Gaza with US made anti-tank mines. They move to use the D9 armored bulldozers instead, because the fighters could capture significant stockpiles of mines and use them to blow up Israeli tanks. Now the bulldozers are easy targets for sniper fire and explosive attacks. Israel seems to rarely send in soldiers on foot, instead relying on heavily armored troop carriers that end up becoming sitting ducks and targeted with self made rocket launchers, shaped charges or having an explosive dropped in the often open hatch. There even was a video of fighters using an artillery rocket by simply laying on the ground and triggering the charge so it would fly forward towards a target.
Israels army hasn't fought a proper war on the ground for many years. Most soldiers are just used to pushing around women and children in the Westbank than to actually fighting against an armed opposition. The key strength of Israel is its airforce. But bombing things to rubble only gets you so far, as the US and NATO have seen in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen...
The Nazis said similar things when "liquidating" the Warsaw Ghetto after the Jewish resistance mounted an uprising.
Weren't these coaches a thing in the 19th century US, from which time the term comes? From what i could find quickly, Highway robbery became less of a thing in the UK and mainland Europe by the end of the 18th century.
Als der "Flügel" aufgelöst wurde, hat es doch auch nur ein Jahr gedauert, bis die gesamte Partei die selben Positionen vertreten hatte.
Oder anders gesagt: Alle unter 40 hatten in ihrer Jugend Zugriff auf Pornos und das ist aktuell nicht die problematische Generation.
Jein. Also einerseits stimme ich dir zu, dass diese Generationen allgemein nicht die "problematischen" sind. Andererseits haben diese Generationen auch stärkere Probleme damit, Beziehungen aufzubauen und zu halten und eine gesunde Sexualität zu leben.
Das hat viele verschiedene Gründe, wobei der Zugang zu Pornographie einer davon ist.
In der Hinsicht ist es wiederum wie mit den Drogen. Menschen, die einen problematischen Drogenkonsum entwickeln, haben soziale und psychische Probleme, die dann oft noch verstärkt werden.
For rich slave owners, who had the time to dabble in politics...
Zara opened its new and largest "flagship store" in February in Israel. The company ia deeply in bed with Israel and the claims to their defense are insincere. The timing of that campaign was obvious.
i was providing evidence why the NYT is agenda driven. As for how they hide it, i already recommended you to read "Manufacturing Consent" where this is analyzed in detail.
The french media confirmed there were acts of sexual abuse on October 7. This is a strange hill to die on.
Now you are moving goal posts and ignoring the fundamental problem. Also you selectively focus on the intercept, when multiple media outlets have investigated the NYT piece and found severe problems.
There is a substantial difference between factual reporting on sexual violence and letting a "former" intelligence officer who calls for genocide to completely fabricate cases and become unhinged in her claims. This also amounted to psychological violence against victims and family members who had to come out and deny the fabrications made by the New York Times. Imagine your family member is being murdered and a ruthless "former" intelligence officer is spreading inventions to make it more gruesome than it was and people being bullied to lie about it in order to support the governments propaganda efforts.
On January 3, Mondoweiss published an article by an "anonymous group of Palestinian journalists in Israel" containing a critical review of statements in "Screams Without Words" about Gal Abdush. As described by Mondoweiss, some of Abdush's relatives, including her sisters and brother-in-law, stated that she hadn't been raped.[11][2] Her brother-in-law, Nissim Abdush, stated that no official party had informed them of sexual assault, saying that "the media invented it".[11] Her sisters Tali Barakha and Miral Altar pointed out perceived incoherencies in the timing of events, with Altar writing that "[i]t doesn't make any sense that in four minutes, they raped her, slaughtered her, and burned her".[11] The Mondoweiss article also pointed to a Ynet interview of Gal's mother, Eti Bracha, where she stated that she had only learned about the rape from "the New York Times reporter".[11][10] However, Bracha, like Gal Abdush's brother and mother-in-law, said they believed Abdush was raped.[10] Bracha stated that "there are witnesses who saw the sexual assault of my daughter".[10] In an article published in CounterPunch in early February, media scholar and Fordham University professor Robin Andersen criticized the strength of the investigation, noting major discrepancies between families' testimonies and the article's text.[22]
Eden Wessely, who filmed Gal Abdush's body, told Ynet in January 2024 that New York Times co-authors Schwartz and Sella had "called me again and again and explained how important [her footage and testimony were] to Israeli hasbara."[14][8]: ¶64 Wessely noted that Schwartz and Sella wanted "to know every detail".[14] She said she understood that "there were disagreements within the [Abdush] family about the publication that she had been raped", but stated her belief that Gal's "voice should be heard, because her whole appearance screamed: 'Look at me, hear me, I was raped, I was murdered.'"
Again, i feel like the gravity of it cannot be understated. This piece was clearly a propaganda piece to help Israel maintain its image as the ICJ demanded measures to be taken by Israel to prevent committing genocide against Palestinians. Even as the evidence came in, the NYT doubled down, despite full well knowing who and what it does propaganda for with this piece.
The fact that the NYT occasionally lets Palestinian voices be heard only serves as a veil to create the idea of being unbiased. Again this is something that is well analyzed in "Manufacturing consent" and it isn't exclusive to the NYT. Most corporate media acts in similar fashion.
Think of the receptors as keyholes and the molecules as keys.
The "correct" side is the right sided keys (D). The Meth-Key is larger and fits the hole nicely. The normal Amphetamine key is a bit smaller. This way it fits less well, but it is easier to fit the "wrong sided" key (L) because it is also smaller.
Now obviously what happens on the molecular level is different, but maybe this helps illuminate, why for one stereo-isomer the one substance is more potent and for the other stereo-isomer it is the other way round.
The NYT has also published many pieces demonizing Palestinians and downplaying Israeli war crimes. It even helped Israeli intelligence assets spread allegations about sexual violence on October 7 that couldn't be verified by other Journalists, human rights groups or the UN, but helped strongly in distracting from well documented and evidenced sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinians they have taken hostage.
The NYTs defends the piece to this day, despite acknowledging:
"In February 2024, Schwartz was found to have liked incendiary posts on social media, including one calling to "turn the strip into a slaughterhouse", "violate any norm, on the way to victory", and that read "Those in front of us are human animals who do not hesitate to violate minimal rules."[2][23][24] The Times launched an investigation.[23] The Times was reviewing Schwartz's social media posts, and made a preliminary statement that such activity breaches company policy.[23][5] Schwartz subsequently locked and deleted her social media posts."
The NYT also simped for the Iraq invasion and bullied out their former Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges, because he dared to criticize that illegal war of aggression.
As for the role of the NYT in maintaining support for the Vietnam war and downplaying US involvement with far right extremist and fascist terror organizations and dictators in Central and South America, i recommend you to read "Manufacturing consent", which provides detailed evidence of how the NYT is part of the corporate media that ensures consent for US crimes against humanity and international law all around the world.
I mean, they are nowhere near Rogan or Fox News in terms of agenda, but i think Rogan is a great example. Most of his stuff is just podcasts. So instead of "quoting" the guests, he just lets them speak directly. But the choice of guests, the choice of question and so on, make a huge difference in the picture conveyed to the consumer.
One could argue that the relatively subtle way of media like the NYT is more insidious as it is harder to spot, but it seems that the "blunt" approach of Fox News isn't less effective, so i couldn't judge which is better or worse.
I agree with you that it isn't very realistic to find reporting free of any Agenda, even if the reporters do their best to be as neutral as possible.
Fox has a 2.67 factor of trust/distrust among Republicans. Rogan has a 3.44 factor for Republicans.Meanwhile CNN has 4.14 trust/distrust among Democrats and the NYT has a factor of 7 among Democrats. MSNB still comes above a factor of 4 and WAPO is about the same factor like Rogan.
So it is not as much "all the way here" for Republicans. They are relatively more distrusting of all media, including "their" media.
So Republicans distrust media overall much more than Democrats.
If it wasn't for the Fox News and Joe Rogan trust, i would say Republicans seem more media literate than Democrats. Although in these case the Republicans also distrust them relatively more than the Democrats do for some of "their" media. In particular the NYT and CNN deserve much more distrust imo. It is clear that they are agenda driven, usually against the interests of the middle class.
For a calender showing most demonstrations and many other events going on in Germany: http://palaestina-solidaritaet.de/mein-kalender/ (unfortunately no https page available, maybe use a VPN)
From the top of my head things to do outside of Demonstrations:
Advocate for boycotts.For instance the "Heidelberg Materials" before "Heidelberg Cement" is illegally exploiting a quarry in the occupied Westbank and is crucial to the construction of more settlements. If you look around there might be a regional group that focuses on them.
Organize and participate in cultural eventsIt is important that Palestinian voices, and voices from other people suffering under Israeli attacks are heard. This goes beyond just living under the attacks. It is as important to help people spread their rich culture and history so Germans understand that Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians, Yemenis, Iraqis and Iranians are people like any other people and have the same rights as individuals and as people.
You should look to find local initiatives, which surely exist already in a place nearby where you life. They might have other ideas and already have an infrastructure to organize things.