It basically relies on this false stereotype that since Israel is a Jewish state, and Jewish people are inherently manipulative or deceitful, Israel must not be telling the truth.

This almost supremacist rhetoric. With the implication being that the Israeli government due to its superiority over others is inherently incapable of being manipulative or deceitful and any claims to the contrary are anti-antisemitism.

One could interpret this as a racist take.

This guy has just, out in the open, bought himself into a position of power. This is the type of shit you see in a movie. Next thing you know, he’ll be scowling at a local detective reminding him of his diplomatic immunity.

Is it really something you only see in a movie (even in the context of the US). This is being reported because Musk’s diva persona, but I would speculate a lot of US oligarchs have previously had massive influence on government processes and some even got themselves into positions of power ala Musk.

With the US civil rights movement it’s worth considering the international context too. The cold war was was it’s early phase of intensity and it was difficult for US to compete in terms of soft power with formal discrimination laws. The world was undergoing intense decolonisation during that period.

That being said, I don’t support a defeatist view of the viability of protest. But you do need clear goals and a sufficiently large core group of people willing to take risks.

I am not from the US, so I might be out of league here, but haven’t recent US protest movements been somewhat ineffectual?

In a global context, successful protests movements tend to take active measures; blockading of transport and key commercial zones, organisation on a level that makes security forces ask themselves uncomfortable questions.

To be fair, such movements also tend to have very strange support (be it broad based or high approval amongst a very large minority).

It is not my intention to be defeatist or overly critical, just some thoughts. I could be wrong.

I initially read Elmo as Elon Musk, I was confused why you hate Musk specifically as someone who’s kid used to be a toddler.

As a Ukrainian, this meme hits very hard.

That’s a bridge too far for them, especially with particularly oligarch friendly policies of the incoming US administration.

Too little, too late as usual.

Unless there is any additional info, I think it’s a bit of a conspiracy theory to assume involvement from openAI. They are clearly malicious and dishonest, but that doesn’t mean one should just make things up. Furthermore, US oligarchs historically avoid getting their hands dirty (for most of the part, there are of course exceptions).

Plausible deniability.

The NYT op-ed is a fascinating read. Very much in the style US oligarchs. Pompous, but still trying to be folksy. Dishonest, but with an attempt to enable plausible deniability.

a brilliant, kind man who was working to make health care better for everyone.

If that was Thompson’s goal, he wouldn’t be working for a US health insurance company.

We understand and share the desire to build a health care system that works better for everyone. That is the purpose of our organization.

This is clearly false. This a for profit corporation.

I wonder what the goal of this piece is?

Come on. This is a delusional take.

And insightcrime is not “imperial news”, I read them a lot. They clearly aim for a factual perspective, almost academic in a sense.

And by bringing up imperialism in this context, you really are condoning the actions of those degenerate gang members.

Putin will give a Trump a list of demands. The demands are likely exclude complete dealbreakers such as surrendering Zaporizhzhia and Kherson (I am from Ukraine, this doesn’t seem viable).

Trump will go with putin’s demand; his plan will be to come back to the US public and say “I stopped the war” even though he essentially submitted to putin.

Sounds like this is the work of the Islamic State.

I wonder if the Taliban thugs are able to see the irony of the situation.

Saw the comment further down in the thread.

Fascinating stuff.

It’s understandable though. I don’t think US oligarchs are too concerned about security per se (US is sufficiently wealthy, on a compative basis, for anything approaching a real rebellion), but the whole situations does raise uncomfortable questions about their regime.

Curious if this a reddit-wide thing (i.e. implemented by oligarchs) or something specific to that community.

More than 100 mostly elderly people were murdered between December 6 and 7 by a gang operating in the Cité Soleil neighborhood, one of the capital’s poorest, according to Haiti’s government and human rights groups. Gang members shot or stabbed victims to death with machetes and knives, and burned bodies in the streets, according to a statement released by the National Human Rights Defense Network (Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains – RNDDH).

The gang’s leader reportedly ordered the slaughter after being told that elderly people in the area were practicing witchcraft to harm his young son, who had fallen ill. He subsequently died on December 7, according to the RNDDH.

This is intense brutality, chaos and collapse of government authority.

This isn’t political violence in the sense of supporters of different parties killing each other.

These are Mexican drug cartels killing and intimidating politicians to protect their turf, enable corruption and make it more difficult to fight them.

I am not necessarily arguing against what you’re saying, just pointing out that what’s going on in Mexico is primarily linked to drug cartels and not violent conflict based on ideology or political goals.

That’s not good. I was hoping they would move towards more open, inclusive governance.

I guess we’ll see how things develop, but this is not good sign.

I do believe this is true to some degree.

NK may be more fundamentally more aligned with China, but I do think NK at least tries to play them against each.