On.
I'm blind as hell without my glasses and I never remember to bring my extra pair so if I'm wearing my sunglasses they stay on no matter what. If it was only going to be a few minutes I wouldn't swap even if I had my normal pair.
I never understood the "sunglasses indoors in douchey" thing anyway.
Based. I boycott Israeli/Israeli supporting products wherever I reasonably can, not just for economic reasons (though I'm glad that's having an effect) but for security reasons as well.
They certainly didn't help themselves with the pager terrorism and constant spying through their apps/programs. Even aside from the boycott for moral reasons, you couldn't pay me to use an Israeli company directly.
If you know someone you can't convince to boycott Israeli products using the morality argument, try using the security one.
It should but people love giving Europe a pass whenever they can for some reason.
While their statement is a hyperbolic and reductive statement about only the other side of the symbiotic relationship, we must also not strip Israel of its agency. Also, Israel≠Jews, as much as Israel tries to convince you they are the same.
In the macro scale. Yes, Israel is propped up by the west as a powerful tool against other regional powers and the imperial system funnels funds into their upkeep.
But it's also true that in the micro scale. Politicians are more directly and personally rewarded to keep those funds flowing (AIPAC exists regardless of tropes) and Israel uses the leverage they have as one of the more valuable strategic tools to grant them leeway others wouldn't have.
It's a two way street. Israel and The US/west aren't parasites leeching off one or the other, they're symbiotic.
Don't forget that the rest of Europe benefits from the imperialist projection in the same ways as the US does.
We have always lived under "might makes right". Ask any country that has been under the boot of western imperialism.
This is just the collapse of the charade of "rule of law" as the stranglehold of the western might begins to slip.
Nah, they will give it to their ISIS aligned collaborators and then shoot anyone/bomb anyone else who goes near it.
Between this and the US military maybe being deployed in LA tonight...we are in for a wild ride in the coming days.
If they acknowledge it was peaceful yesterday why are they back today throwing tear gas and shooting people with "less than lethals".
Tysm. I have seen from other sources they have been boarded and comms are down.
Leaving this here as I don't see it updated on al-jazeera.
How can I keep up with this more directly?
Um actually is a "less deadly" weapon so it's perfectly fine to shoot at whoever you feel like!