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From the Bad Hasbara podcast, an interesting interview with two Israeli antizionist guys, their thoughts, and experiences. They both acknowledge that land as Palestine, and Zionism as something that happened in that land, so there's some identity question they face. They're open to calling themselves Palestinians, as people born there, and willing to build bridges for peaceful coexistence between different cultures or creeds, as it was before. They are secular, which at some point in the interview brings up the circumcision issue, which everyone does, no matter religious or secular. In Christian countries, secular people don't bring their babies to put water on their heads, but Israelis bring their babies to chop a piece of their penis skin. Something to think about at least, they call this a bit cultish as a society. Muslims also practice circumcision, so that's one of the few common grounds. Funny!

Another witness of the deliberate and reiterated murdering of Palestinian civilians including women and children by the Israeli terrorist and genocidal state.

He is appointing so many warmongering loonies, the deepest of the deep swamp. It's bad.

At least Lichtman's infallible prediction method can go where it belongs. The garbage can.

And they call him pro-peace. Stupidity.

From what Trump hinted in the campaign, although a bit ambiguous, we could assume he'll stop funneling money to Zelensky. That will accelerate Ukrainian defeat, which was inevitable anyway. Now some people say Trump is pro-Putin for this. It's fair to remember that in his first term, he bragged about selling Ukraine weapons, which is true, while Obama was only giving them pillows and sheets, his words. But this was all stupidity and irresponsibility from NATO and the West, using Ukraine as a tool to weaken Russia, which didn't go their way. But who cares when it's not your men doing the dying part, right? Now we'll see how things are settled. Russia annexed four territories, five with Crimea, those are not going back to Ukraine, that's certain.

Buy Twitter, promote Trump, and put some money and his media resources working for his campaign. Now time to get what he invested back. Subsidies for Tesla and to pay for his Twitter debts with taxpayer money.

Overcompensation, some may feel the need to prove to others and themselves that they are as American as non-Latino Americans by things like voting for the most anti-immigrant party or the one perceived as the most patriotic. Some are dumb too, don't forget about that factor. However, I think the Puerto Rican community may be genuinely mad about being called garbage. Yeah, he said the island, kind of the same. Some more Latinos may not like it either. That was a pretty big campaign mistake by Republicans, every vote counts. There are many polls, but the only one that matters is on Tuesday though.

Oh, lol, this was a non-intended mistake, but almost works as part of the joke, indeed. I meant assess, English is not my primary language.

I was judging the ones who made and liked the joke, not the other way around. My knowledge is limited, but Puerto Rico seems one of these places that wasn't allowed to be decolonized as others in their time, that the US kept for its geo-strategic and economic value by violent and fascist means. Being part of the US doesn't seem to do its people any favor nowadays either.

Every public restroom should have inspectors, so when you need to use them, you'll have to show them your genitalia first, then they'll asses if it matches your shown gender, and if everything is correct, they'll let you in. If not, you'll have to go to do your necessities in nature if it's a rural area, or between cars if it's in an urban area.

@mojsterr One ingredient doesn't mean one compound, though. As said before, there are many healthier options than Beyond Burger, which I didn't even mention first, but still better than any beef. Plant-based oils are not the healthiest, yet better than animal-based ones. Plant-based fats are best when eaten with their real fiber and compounds, like whole olives or nuts, not oil extracts. Beet extract is awesome though, they probably use it to give it the red color, but it's great for its antioxidants, that is known.

Some suicide cases in the IDF, PTSD. But are they the victims? Well... It's said that Jews were expelled from Muslim countries, and so does Ethan Klein. A deeper look about that: Finkelstein analyzes the two frame questions of Piers Morgan.

Transition to veganism is more likely in stage green than in the previous ones. Orange, the previous stage, has a more individualistic approach, while greens are also concerned about other's well-being, which would include animals in this case. Veganism aims to reduce animal suffering caused by humans as much as practically possible, knowing that to some extent is going to continue happening, even directly. Acceptance of suffering comes from understanding it. Everyone knows what pain and suffering are by direct experience, it's part of life. Animals are sentient beings, they are just other branches of the same evolutionary system that we belong, and just by observing them, although they don't have the same level of intelligence and capabilities as us, we can see that they experience pain and many emotions in similar manners to us. Vegans are not stupid, if a wild animal attacks them, they are going to put their life first. But most of us live in a world where we can choose to live and consume in a way that can avoid death and extreme suffering, just look at the factory farms, of animals whose life and fate we as humans decide what is going to be, while still keeping a good nutrition for us, probably even better. There's also the case of the environment, because we are more than 8 billion individuals, and animal-sourced food is extremely inefficient. Feeding animals to get food from them takes so much more land and resources than what it would take to just get it from plant sources. Also, vegan alternatives to usual animal-sourced products taste fucking awesome, you don't need to be eating lettuces all day, for those who think that is what vegans do, and they are less carcinogenic than many of the compounds that can be found in the previous ones. Oh yeah, vegan for the animals, the environment, and health.

This seems like a de-escalation, the attack is very limited. Israel said it would respond, so it had to save face, and this is it. Israel can indeed respond and cause damage, I don't think that was doubted, but Iran made the same point last time too, that was the thing. Now, this round has stopped, but if Israel keeps targeting its enemies on Iranian soil or Iranian generals in other places, both things have happened, then the fire can start again. War in Gaza continues, Hamas is still operative and the IDF is continuing its ethnic cleansing by killing and displacing people in cages, who knows where, this mostly in Northem Gaza. The war in Lebanon is on too, Israel has seen they can't send their troops in there like in Gaza, they get killed so fast. What they can do is attack from the air though, and they are including civilians and their infrastructures, which is not a surprise at this point. Can this escalate? Maybe. Hezbollah leaders were killed, but for now it seems their way of functioning hasn't changed.

Putin visited North Korea recently, so maybe this is true, their relations are good and beneficial to each other. Russia doesn't need North Korean troops to win though. I'm hearing peace deal conversations are happening discreetly. Russian minimal conditions: no NATO, neutrality, respect for its minorities, no more proxy wars, and Russia keeps the new four territories but no more.

China did well by acquiring some capitalist free market principles, but not completely disregarding any state intervention. It's growing well, infrastructures are being built, there's innovation in its industry, they are producing good products, and people's daily lives are improving as well. Strategic oligopolies have a roof, the state. The US is so scared and brainwashed about the socialist and communist labels, that they perceive as the end of freedom any minimum state intervention in what could make the markets better for the people, the businesses, and their economy in general, at a bit of expense of the wealth and freedoms of the top ones. Their media is as bought as their duo-uniparty by the big companies and some other foreign lobbies not worth mentioning right now.

Zelensky is just ridiculous, what a joke plan. No call for negotiations, but what he calls the Victory Plan with five points. He asks to enter NATO immediately and later in the EU. That's one of the main reasons Russia attacked, it didn't accept NATO on his border with Ukraine before, and it's not going to accept now that it's winning. He asks for permission to use long-range weapons against Russian territory. That would be a direct war between Russia and NATO at that point, not even the Pentagon wants this. Understand that Russia can't let a long-range attack in its territory unanswered, and they have those kinds too, otherwise it sends the message that it can be attacked like that, and the attackers can get away with it. Russia won't accept that scenario, it's not that weak, in fact it's not weak at all. He offers the natural resources of Ukraine to US and EU. Cool, he is selling his country to Western companies, Zelensky the patriot. For the post-war era he wants to deploy Ukrainian soldiers in NATO's bases throughout all Europe. Sure, that should be accepted by the other European countries, that's what we want.

Freedom of press and speech is important, of course, many countries have a path to walk yet. Since the Internet era, a lot more voices can be shared and heard, that it's double edged sword, because a lot of garbage and direct lies get to spread too, but I definitely consider it better than a monopoly of conventional mediums being the only ones giving their version of the news. Conventional mediums are still extremely strong and have a huge influence on public opinion and politics. Journalism is not profitable, and it's not free, it has to be funded by wealthy bosses or companies that put money into them, the same lobbies that have a lot in the game, and the ones paying put some conditions and red lines, in Qatar and in the West. Many small YouTubers have the same payers as those mediums, so that's not completely clean either. A lot of independent ones ask for help on Patreon, those who don't receive big funds from big donors, I think that's okay, they have to eat too.

Exactly, it's somewhere else to check the news, not the only one. It's not surprising Israel doesn't like this medium because it exposes things they prefer hidden. Not only they don't like it, but target their journalists that cover Gaza. A prominent one was Shireen Abu Aklee, shot by a sniper in 2022, another terrorist attack by the IDF. During last year so many journalists of different mediums have been killed, not as a collateral damage, but targeted.

I wasn't talking about you, but about Westerners' perception in general about a name like that. Being from Qatar doesn't mean it's not making good coverage about this conflict and others. What would be more biased in this case would be to hide atrocities done to civilians. That has always been considered newsworthy by the media, as it should, and it has to be covered. Al Jazeera is doing it well. https://www.aljazeera.com/