Exec laughs in accountability and fires people

For most eras, how hard it was to make a good sandwich. And I’m not just talking about the past.

Well played sir.

Maybe I would receive your arguments with more grace if it wasn’t laced with personal judgements.

If we have so little influence over Israel than that undermines your argument that we’re getting “power coupons” in return. I’m not even debating you on the morality of Kissinger, I’m meeting you where you stand: if we don’t exercise our influence then we are going to lose it (and Kissinger agrees with me on that at least)

The argument is that we’re not using our strongest influence by virtue of not threatening to withhold arms (even though it would be in US interest to do so to preserve influence in the region). I am not arguing that the US controls Israel like some vassal state.

If the US has no influence over Israel in regards to this conflict than that sounds like a critical policy failure and a huge geopolitical risk.

Edit: I’m curious what potential Israel allies you speak of that are not aligned with the US? Our own allies are distancing themselves from this clusterfuck.

If you don’t see how Israel is undermining America’s soft power then idk what to say.

You talk about how foreign policy is about power and influence - I am saying Biden doesn’t understand how influence works as evidence by him not using his power to influence Israeli policy even though it is leading to a more volatile middle east and lower approval ratings at home. In other words, he is undermining his own influence. But go on and tell us how we’re children for expecting more.

I think their goal is to displace 90% into Egypt and kill the rest. Still genocide.

Yeah, we totally reined in their terror by giving them everything they wanted. Biden thinks if he is nice enough they will return in kind. He tends to use the same tactic when negotiating with Republicans 🤦‍♂️

Not sure how Solipsism contradicts atheism or anything else for that matter… I see it more as punting the question. If my mind is the only way for me to know what exists, and my experience is such that atheism is true, then that’s the end of the discussion. Not sure why I am arguing with myself on this one. /S

From my point of view, the world is neither getting worse nor better.

Is the climate changing the human world for the worse, or isn’t it? Maybe you don’t deny that climate change is happening, but this comment seems to deny its impact.

Not if you loosely define “organized human society”. Imagine a bright future where you just live in your pod and be a happy meatbag that powers the Matrix. Hell, even corporations are “organized human society”.

Those ghouls are saying we should dim the sun instead of disinvestment in oil.

Weird that people insist climate change isn’t changing the world. Or at least not in a way that matters?

If we can’t say that our actions are making the world better or worse, then there really is no need to be involved in politics.

Are both sides ignorant of the history behind climate change?

A way of life is ending, but life will go on. Frankly I’m rooting for gas to be more expensive.

Love it. Often I’ll frame “better” in terms of individualism. Licking a boot as an individual is better than bargaining as a group I guess 🤷

Being pro-Open source is to be against the specialization of labor? That’s probably not what you mean, but I don’t get how having the option to participate negates specialized labor.

It does cover how larger industry would be coordinated, it is not advocating for communes. Feel like we’re reading two different things…