The fact that the idea of an air filter is controversial is frankly amazing.

They apparently only work in every situation except when put over your face.

Dumbest comment of the thread right up there folks.

When elections get decided on less than 100K votes across the country morons like this are essentially voting for fascism by not voting.

You could literally use google and find lots of stories talking about it. Here is a snippet from just one.

THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT narrative surrounding the Palestinian prisoners being released during this temporary ceasefire is both insidious and dishonest. Interior Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has banned Palestinians from celebrating their release. “My instructions are clear: there are to be no expressions of joy,” he said. “Expressions of joy are equivalent to backing terrorism, victory celebrations give backing to those human scum, for those Nazis.” He told Israeli police to deploy an “iron fist” to enforce his edict. https://theintercept.com/...

That is pretty fuckin clear.

Has to testify truthfully against every other defendant or they toss him in jail.

Now it is a race to be next in order to get any kind of deal. The worth of testimony goes down each time another person flips. It's gonna be the Hunger Games to get a plea before they don't need you anymore.

Aljazeera is the first thing to pop up. You can likely use it as a jumping off point.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/28/arrests

Let's tell a story...

Imagine for a moment, if you will, the United States in the present day. Imagine a bill reaches the US House of Representatives called "America the nation state of white people". In its basic principles it states "the right to exercise National self-determination in the United States is unique to white people". Further down a clause for White Settlement "the state views the development of White Settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation".

Outraged a coalition led by the Congressional Black Caucus initiates a challenge to the bill and proposes a bill of their own where it calls the United States "a country for all its citizens" but the speaker of the house unilaterally disqualifies the bill before it's allowed to even be debated.

The house General counsel explains in a statement the bill includes several articles that are meant to "alter the character of the United States from the nation state of white people to a state in which there is equal status from the point of view of nationality for whites and people of color" the bill is dead.

"America the nation state of white people" passes through both chambers of Congress unchallenged it's then signed into law.

US President Joe Biden would invoke the law in a tweet a year later saying "America is not a state of all its citizens according to the nation state law we passed America is the nation state of white people and not anyone else" As one Rights group put it "there is no Democratic constitution in the world that designates the Constitutional identity of the state on racial grounds as serving one ethnic group". There is now this disconcerting scenario, it is anything but imaginary.

It's completely real and happened just a few years ago to little coverage and little condemnation in Israel.

That is who you are defending, like a golem set to task by its master, thoughtless and without morals.

To make SS solvent all they need to do is make higher income earners contribute on the same scale they make lower income earners pay already.

If people making above 140,000ish had to keep contributing at the same rate as everyone UNDER that number does, there would be no issue at all. But a billionaire pays as much into SS as someone making 140k a year, probably LESS because of the Social Security payroll tax income limit.

Tax the rich already!

Way to minimise the last 40-50 years of capitalists actively working to stop any real progress on climate change. Sure progress is being made now after they figured out it was getting bad and there was money to be made in green tech. That doesn't excuse the decades of lobbying and and actual propaganda put out by capital interests that we are all paying for now.

That you are spouting off about "communist propaganda" tells me you either grew up in the 80's and really bought the red scare line or you bought the far right propaganda telling you to be scared of 'CHI-NAH' (to quote the orange traitor).

Hamas are terrorists, Netanyahu is a terrorist. If a terrorist is someone who attacks civilians for political aims.

I find it hard to discriminate Civilian A who was killed from Civilian B who was killed by the other side. Apparently that is a controversial statement around here. Ya'll are fucked.

Over the last century, the Land of the Free has slowly transformed into a land governed by endless laws, largely by cracking down on vices instead of actual crimes, creating a society that would render us all criminals if our behavior were constantly observed.

Just the framing of the first line is like something out of an Ayn Rand hallucination. When I see something that heavily tilted the first thing I look for is WHO is writing it and WHY would they.

Deliberately cutting off water, electricity and medical aid will result directly in children dying. Again I find it hard to see the difference between civilian A and civilian B being killed just on the basis of WHO killed them. But you do you.

Been comparing them to Nazis for weeks now.
The pearl clutching from israel defenders is infuriating especially when they get offended if you aren't perfectly polite with them as they defend a genocide.

with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, students bodies, and the warm weather.

That better?

I think this limit has been largely exceeded

I vote this for understatement of the week.

"You couldn’t far wronger in this question lol"

Sure. I couldn't "far wronger".
What a thoughtful and fact filled reply that furthers conversation.

Try making a point or defending your position if you want to be taken at all seriously.
As it stands why should anyone think you might be correct in your statements and not just dismiss you out of hand as a moron who is far wronger?

If they don't trust elections I wish they would stop taking the time to vote.

If they had the same rights then Israel would never have been able to be formed. I can't imagine why Palestinians might be a bit upset.

Ben Gvir is a special kind of evil, but unfortunately not so uncommon in the Israeli government.

You mean when Bibi said that Gaza shouldn’t exist and that Palestinian culture shouldn’t exist.

Bibi Netanyahu saying “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. 1 Samuel 15:3 ‘Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass’," .

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called residents of Gaza, about half of whom are children, “human animals” as he ordered a “complete siege” on the enclave including a total blockade of food, fuel, and electricity.

Former military officer Eliyahu Yossian said the IDF must enter Gaza “with the aim of revenge, zero morality, maximum corpses,” and told Channel 14 in Israel that “there is no population in Gaza, there are 2.5 million terrorists.”

Earlier this year, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at an event in Paris, “There’s no such thing as Palestinians because there’s no such thing as a Palestinian people.” He also said the West Bank town of Huwara should be “wiped out” by “the state of Israel,” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a map of what he called “The New Middle East”—without the illegally occupied West Bank, Gaza, or East Jerusalem—at the United Nations General Assembly just weeks before the onslaught in Gaza began.

Fuck you for only looking at one side and being blind to the genocide you are defending.

Israel’s strikes are the most targeted fucking strikes you’ve ever seen a military do,

Are you high? https://www.cnn.com/...

Flattening whole communities is as targeted as using a shotgun to kill a fly.