It's a vassal state, not an ally. An ally means there's a bi-directional relationship. Israel is a colony created under Truman, and the relationship is unidirectional. They cannot exist without direct US support, and their economy isn't going to run without foreign investment.
Here's Biden celebrating the war he's responsible for: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/2024-09-28/live-updates-822145
It's not really that complex, Israel is a US vassal state that has killed more journalists than any country during any war in living memory.
The slaughter of journalists and civilians is rarely mentioned by the Harris / Biden administration, who otherwise applaud Israel's terrorism.
Chronologically the most important in our lifetimes
With the amount of documented effort feds and oligarchs put into astroturfing reddit, Facebook, x, et. al. It's hard to believe they're not doing it on Lemmy
@[email protected] I think this will help solve the mystery of the missing "good journalists"
constantly scared of the democrat's boogeyman, every 4 years. must be exhausting
The good journalists are being killed by Harris and Biden
You can't even write a song about pirates
Honest question
Why did you leave reddit?
5 paragraphs of nothing
Yes. Odd this is being downvoted heavily, no?
Detroit Muslim leader ejected from Kamala Harris rally, deepening rift between Democrats and Arab Americans
> Ahmed Ghanim, a Democrat, says he accepted an invitation to the event and was seated in the Royal Oak Music Theatre when a campaign organizer ordered him to leave.
> “She took me to the door, and she closed it, and I found two police officers waiting there, and she said, ‘You have to leave right now,’” Ghanim tells Metro Times. “I asked why she was kicking me out. She wouldn’t answer. I was very calmly asking why I was being kicked out.”
> He continues, “I was just wearing a suit and a white shirt. I said, ‘OK,’ and I left. The police officer said, ‘You either leave now or I’ll put you in the back of my car.’”
nice attempt to attach a storyline to being a prisoner-of-the-moment.
2012 which you rank 4th highest, where one candidate had formerly supported & implemented a version of the "national healthcare plan" and the other implemented it with conservative support. It was already law, and it wasn't going away.
Comapre anything on your list to '36 where capitalism itself was at stake, or '80 and the solidification of neoliberalism.
And it's always "but but the supreme court!" every 4 years. Like we need uphold this far-right de-facto legislative branch of government, and not threaten to kill it like FDR.
They're downvoting because this time it's the MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER IN HISTORY, and it will remain so until 2028.
Also look up the ethnic cleansing supported by Harris, or the previous ethnic cleansings done by the neocons who support her.
The most important election ever
"Most every campaign cycle, it seems, presidential candidates and political pundits claim this election is the most important one ever. It’s become something of a cliché in American politics. This time, however, they just might be correct." - from 2012
are those Harris or Trump supporters in the pic?
the oligarchs run the country.
I think people pushing the Brave browser are partially incentivized to do so by the cryptocurrency.
Biden envoy told aid groups Israel too close an ally for US to suspend arms
A humanitarian aid official who attended the meeting said Grande noted that Israel is one in a “tight circle of very few allies” that the U.S. will not oppose, nor will it “hold anything back that they want.”
This morning, peacekeepers at a position near Kafer Kela observed an IDF Merkava tank firing at their watchtower. Two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged. Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire on a UNIFIL position. We remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations ...
This morning, peacekeepers at a position near Kafer Kela observed an IDF Merkava tank firing at their watchtower. Two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged.
Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire on a UNIFIL position.
We remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property and to respect the inviolability of UN premises at all times.
Not looking for approval from a zio
Videos from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital show rescuers scrambling to save people as they struggle to contain a major fire.
> “What happened was that we woke up to smoke, flames, fire and burning pieces falling on the tents from every direction. The explosions terrified us in our tents and outside where we live behind Al-Aqsa Hospital,” Om Ahmad Radi, a survivor at the scene, told Al Jazeera.
> “The fire trucks couldn’t get here. There were so many burned and charred bodies all over the place. The amount of fire and explosions was enormous. We witnessed one of the most horrible and brutal nights.”
Hamas representative in Lebanon says Israel has prevented entry of food supplies into Jabalia camp for the last 10 days.
> Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, told Al Jazeera that Israel has “prevented the entry of food supplies to the north for 10 days”, describing what is happening in Jabalia as “a crime against humanity”.
> Intentionally starving civilians by “depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies” is a war crime, according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
> Meanwhile, six Palestinians, most of them children, were injured when the Israeli military bombed a home in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, Wafa said.
The attack on UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura comes a day after two Indonesian peacekeepers were injured.
The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon confirms that its headquarters in Naqoura was hit by explosions for the second time in 48 hours, a day after Israeli forces struck the same position.
Two peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were injured after two explosions occurred close to an observation tower, the UN mission said in a statement on Friday.
There was a time US presidents condemned and tried to reign in Israeli terror.
>Israel is the only US ally that has been exercising such oppression and terror for a lifetime. For many years, consecutive American administrations, both Democratic and Republican, condemned Israel’s recurring practice of terror. Today, however, the Biden-Harris administration has been supporting these practices to the extreme.
Israeli Apartheid
Why does American media have such a hard time talking about Israel being an apartheid state, when it's an established fact?
Do you have any critiques of Pixel 9 Gemini's privacy?
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy, and Giles Hogben, Senior Director, Privacy Engineering, Android ...
I'm considering stock pixel 9, but I was wondering if anyone had specific critiques of Gemini's privacy.
I use LLM bots frequently, but am a bit hesitant to let one take over my phone.
IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7
Haaretz confirming reports and photos around the use of the Hannibal Directive on October 7th.
tl;fp
"I Ain't Reading All That; Free Palestine"
> The meme enrages Israel supporters because Israel apologia depends on mountains of verbiage to spin obvious atrocities as reasonable and appropriate. At some point the kids noticed this was happening, and started dismissing all the narratives.
> ...Without mountains of narrative, all you’ve got is a nonstop deluge of raw video footage depicting the blatant genocidal criminality of Israel. No narrative overlay is required atop a video of a baby beheaded by Israeli military explosives. It stands on its own. You’d only need narrative to explain why the footage of the headless baby doesn’t say bad things about the side that’s dropping the bombs.
> ..Manipulators understand that they can use narrative to promote material agendas if they can get people to believe those narratives, and it enrages them when people handwave away the narrative and stick solely with the raw data of material reality. If you’ve based your life around trading empty narrative fluff for real material resources and gains, having your narratives dismissed can feel like holding a huge pile of currency that suddenly got devalued to zero. Of course the manipulators would be upset about this.
Upvote and downvote totals
How can I see totals per up and down vote in sync? Right now it combines them.
Federated and local forums on the same homepage?
I'd like to restart an old community with fedibb. The throwback phpbb UI is irresistible!😳 In addition to our own local forums, is it possible to include a couple forums from https://fedibb.ml/ such as "Music" and "Video Games" on the homepage and have my users interact?