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Most people are ignorant of the Nakba or the policy of "mowing the grass"

The body count is higher because they started the war and made Gaza into an open air prison. Nakba is a thing.

Yes and no. If it is framed as "Israel did it as well", then yes it's a whataboutism. But if it is framed in history, where Israel is the occupiers with overwhelming resources and has turned Gaza into an open air prison, then no, it's not a whataboutism but illustrating a larger pattern of violence.

When being a contrarian asshole becomes your marketing strategy.

Oh I am sure they planned and maybe even got the Saudis to consult. But I still think they are too stupid to realize the flaws of those plans. Even if they were as smart as they think they are, it's difficult to predict how things will work after the civilization they depend on for their power collapses. Hell, it probably doesn't matter how smart you are, such a scenario is inherently unpredictable.

Our political system equates value to revenue and that is why we don't tax accordingly. Business owners are labeled "job creators" and taxing them is framed as a negative value add.

Absolutely agree that athletes are also being exploited here and the burden should not fall on them to correct this (except as advocates for a better system).

This. Everyone wants qualified, well paid teachers for their kids, just like how most people want universal healthcare. But our government and media structure actively disempowers any such movements in that direction. Ie "we can agree we all want these things but we can't agree on how"

And when the social sector lobbies it is called "special interests" by the press. When capital owners do it they are called "job creators" by the press. Edit: or so it goes in the states.

Revenue is not the same as value, teachers enable much more economic activity than athletes. The fact we equate "profit generated" to the value of the profession is part of the problem.

Was thinking about this in the context of a joke I heard in the late 90s:

What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A good start.

We didn't we have jokes like that about the billionaires; at the time people were glazing Bill Gates. It's wild because billionaires are the ones writing the laws, lawyers just act it out.

Thing is, they need to bring their help and the help won't be happy if their families are left high and dry. These people are just too fucking stupid

I'm skeptical they could do it in a way that inherits stability from Linux. Imagine bolting on their service control on top of systemd or map their registry system to /etc. They either bring all the bad over to Linux or write something that doesn't support the windows ecosystem.