Gaza's war amputees short of prostheses under Israeli restrictions Fourteen-year-old Fadel al-Naji used to be a keen footballer but is now largely confined to his home in Gaza City since both legs were severed in an Israeli drone attack in September.

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that's been true for decades and the situation improved a bit with Obamacare (yet sentiment didn't diverge from inflation/unemployment like it did in 2020-whatever)

Hungarian politician Zsolt Hegedus stole the spotlight on social media with an energetic onstage dance moments after Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar's victory speech.

key tenet of #DarkWoke ^

inflation indices account for this already

yeah but the war is actually going to cause unemployment problems and even worse inflation

During the Biden years inflation/unemployment diverged from sentiment in the US, even though the US was more comfortable than other countries.

it's the opposite—lowest quintile gained most during the pandemic.

Americans ("so many people") comparing themselves to richer Americans while ignoring the workers in other countries (that they depend on for their lifestyles) is a problem though.

Americans are consumers first and they try to shoehorn things into left-sounding language but at best it's clumsily trying to object to status inequality and at worst it's Americans trying to make ethical claims the government must feed them more (even if that means exploitation elsewhere)

Southern Lebanon burning

Israel attacks Southern Lebanon

a self-pitying socialist would've been inconceivable at one point, but today it marks them perhaps even more than other Americans

Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's Since the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah reignited on March 2, Israel has pushed deeper into southern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s medics and hospitals are coming under fire as Israel accelerates its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Doctors say the attacks on Lebanon's health system remind them of similar tactics used in Gaza.

"There are non US citizens influencing our elections" you mean Israel? 😭

way more effective than 'corporations'

PK wrote about the potential for such in 1994!

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not sure; he's a settler so I'm sure he wants to bulldoze in the West Bank and steal their land

woman at party with noose and man carrying gun

The Deputy Knesset speaker celebrates the passage of the death penalty bill at a party, carrying a noose accessory (her husband is carrying a machine gun)

And even if we ignore the grave concerns that threaten the West’s social model precisely by its increasing global influence—ecological and demographic factors, worldwide anomie, intensifying conflicts of partition between large nations and even within the Western nations, precisely as a result of growing competition from the outside, annulment of the deal between free enterprise and parliamentarianism—it is hard to dismiss the possibility that the economic and political principles that the West champions today could soon turn against it. Free trade will be seen in a different light, when the top exporter is no longer the United States or Germany, but China; freedom of movement will provoke hysterical and barbaric reactions, should hundreds of millions hit the road. While the victory of Western principles in liberal and imperialist times meant eo ipso the victory of the West, the victory of today’s mass democratic West on a planetary level could bring about the demise of the West. This could occur slowly, but it could also be fast. The rapid collapse of the communist empire does not simply show that communism was a giant with feet of clay, as the dominant opinion in the West would have it. The lesson is much more general, and it is this: states and regimes, no matter their names, are by their nature fragile entities, and can disintegrate in no time.

Panagiotis Kondylis' prescient analysis of the problems facing the West (1993)

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getragen. Das Jetzt und Hier dieses Reichtums nimmt dem utopischen Zukunftsbezug des politischen Willens seine innere Kraft und Legitimation. Damit aber, daß die eschatologische Dimension des politischen Willens in der Massendemokratie obsolet wird, verliert das Problem der Willensübertragung, das den Streit um die Demokratie so unversöhnlich machte, seine radikale Dringlichkeit. Bedenken gegen die Rolle der Willensübertragung in der Politik hatten in Freiheitsgründen ihren Ursprung; Gleichheitsgründe kamen hinzu, sowie und solange die Gleichheit als eine Funktion der Freiheit galt. Wie aber stehen Freiheit und Gleichheit da, wenn der Konsument die Citoyenrolle übernimmt?

Peter Furth (2015)

Where do freedom and equality stand now that the consumer has replaced the citizen?

:3 omg

while Americans do not support the war in Iran margin, Israeli Jews overwhelmingly favor it (90%)

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Wait til you hear about Lindsay Graham about flying out for Mossad guidance so they could get Trump to go to war with Iran…

Lindsay Graham got guidance from Mossad on how to sell it to Trump, not Russia

I have 100% effective way to read paywalled articles it’s called “job”

the local bodega :}

@federalreserve.gov you should post this when you raise interest rates

Carl Schmitt is for sure postmodern and hostile to the old catholic worldview.

I do think the Christian worldview offers an opportunity for more peace, deferring judgment to the afterlife.

Ironically the Nazis were a pretty great example of when you need to face down the enemy! Self-exemplifying

Voting/choice is one thing: once you’re in the booth you just pull the lever.

You vote for Harris but you should be aware that Harris being the candidate = we’re fucked and political elites failed in their decisions…

no idea! I think hypothetical but maybe he pulled it off.