But Seriously...

One of the defining moments of my political education was when I responded to someone who worked in oil in the Gulf (of Mexico, but I digress) after the Deepwater Horizon spill. They were going on about how they didn't need liberal environmentalists from thousands of miles away who didn't understand the Gulf economy enacting their liberal environmental agenda on his state. I asked what about the Gulf fishing industry, which was completely devastated by the spill and were not far away liberals. His response was "I don't care about them; they live on the coast, I live inland."

 

Governor Hot Wheels tweeted that prayer works.

They are very clearly disincentivized from pointing out consequences from Cheeto Castro's "plan".

To be fair, the advance warning would have come from several agencies at once, so the redundancies we had in place on purpose were dismantled. So....winning?

 

The libs created this flood as a false flag, specifically to make the lack of forewarning a talking point, duh.

 

Still not as big a mistake as electing Abbott.

 

Just have ICE agents deport the flood to Mexico, they have the funding now.

 

How much of inflation after Covid was just corporate greed? A good deal it seems.

 

I know it’s easy, and unprovable, to say I told you so, but I’ve been screaming about this to anyone who’ll listen for 5 years. I’m sure I posted somewhere on this board about it. Profits for entire industries went through the roof during COVID, all under cover of supply chain bullshit.

 

Oh i completely agree with you. But i work in warehousing/purchasing, and we definitely had supply chain issues during covid.

 

I find it personally ironic how I want to round up and kill the people upset about that ad for its “Nazi intentions”.

 

Wait, we’re still trying to make a trade deal? I thought you guys would be our cherished 51st state by now.

 

I read this Reddit post that suggested one of the disconnects between the West and Israel/Palestines view of the conflict is that peace isn't a desirable end state and that is somewhat incomprehensible to Westerners.

The premise was that the goal of the Palestinians is that Israel goes away, and given the state of modern Judaism, if viewed through a propagandized islamic lens, its not impossible. Its not exactly annihilation, but that Israel abandons the land and cedes it to the Palestinians.

From that perspective, terrorism is a viable strategy: make occupying or neighboring the land difficult, expensive, dangerous and nerve-wracking. If Israel grants concessions, its evidence that the violence is working. Thus any negotiations for peace result in more violence.

The various Western powers support negotiations with peace as the desired end state, and view the concessions and steps in the negotiations as part of the process. They dont reconcile increased violence as an outcome of peace negotiations as an understandable response. All parties involved are all too happy to blame the increased violence on extreme elements or fringe groups, in part because it provides those at the negotiating table rationale for specific concessions (pork, in American political parlance, or just straight up bribes).

Israel benefits from the violence as a rallying cry for its military and political right wing, and uses it as evidence that the terrorist threat the US struggled with during the Bush administration is focused on Israel, not the US (an extension of the "roach motel" strategy.

The humanitarian spin on the crisis feels like a way to drum up resources to replace the loss of USAID spending.

The concept of Palestinian statehood is a Western solution that is a mirage befitting the Western perspective...its overly simplistic and doesn't actually resolve the underlying causes for tension, nor does it actually help any party present at the negotiating table.