CleverOleg

I’m speculating but… Israelis don’t actually like American Christian Zionists. They put on a face and act the part but they at best grit their teeth and tolerate them, if not outright despise them.

It’s my opinion that American Christian Zionism is actually not important at all to the existence of Israel. Meaning, evangelicals could stop supporting Israel today and you’d still get 98% of congress to overfund their genocide. Israel serves a critical purpose for American hegemony and international capital; the evangelical support just provides a cover, it’s not strictly necessary.

What the Israelis have learned over the last 21 months is that nothing matters. It doesn’t which party is in power, it doesn’t matter how evil they act, they will get their support from the West. So fuck it, why do they need these evangelical losers. They can tell the evangelicals to pound sand and it will change nothing, so why not keep those nutjobs out of the country.

Pre-Oct 7 it was around $3 billion per year, but probably higher in this bill.

I don’t even think this stripped all funding, or even a majority of it. Just reducing it by $500 million.

Yes. Honestly there’s still quite a few good leftist subs with a lot of activity (like TrueAnon, TheDeprogram, ShitLiberalsSay, Hasan’s sub) and others that are also really good for more “highbrow” discussion but a lot less activity (Marxism, InformedTankie).

I don’t really get the idea of staying off Reddit, but then again I’ve never really engaged in arguments with liberals on there, so I guess I’ve had a much better experience.

If this helps… I just set up Linux Mint on my parents computer. They were unsure about it at first. Then I told them, with all sincerity, they will probably find this easier to use than Windows 11 just from the simplicity aspect.

Yeah I recommend against dual booting. I did it, and I still have my Windows partition because I’ve found it’s not all that easy to remove a partition safely.

I’m an American, so probably the #1 reason I’m here is to get news from other places around the world. It doesn’t even have to be major news like this.

I’m pretty sure you can buy Coke without HFCS and with cane sugar instead. It’s not as prominent but it’s out there.

elderly reactionaries constantly harp on about the 1970s and how terribly Labour managed the state in that decade.

I’m an American and even I have constantly heard this about 1970s Britain (but I also have watched too much Clarkson-era Top Gear). That the economy of the UK in the 1970s was a complete failure dominated by inefficient unions and shoddy products, and that Thatcher came in and fixed it all. If anyone knows of any good reading material about this era that provides a counter to this prevailing narrative, I’d love to read up on that.

I’m 100% good now, that’s all pretty much well behind me. But I do have smoke for all the damage to the world that this movement I once was a part of has done and continues to do.

Albanese definitely deserves it. I mean, since they won’t give it to Sinwar posthumously, Albanese is probably the best of people they would actually choose.

But also, Trump’s cope and seethe if she won it instead of him would be quite a marvel.