Are you saying that two of the most powerful financial institutions in the world would bribe the politician who does what the billionires want and has explicitly requested bribes in the past? Surely you’re not serious.
Risky move when they could strip you of all your power if they wanted to.
Oh yeah? Have fun doing all that with no phone access in Gitmo. It’s an official presidential act, with you threatening terrorism on the economy and all…
also, if that happens everyone else in the market would tank it as well. hedgefunds have been doing economic terrorism for a long time “too big to fail” is economic terrorism.
It’s also the enforcement arm of the government. If they just simply enforced the laws on the books they could probably arrest a bunch of people for the crimes they get away with daily. Nothing is special about bankers or fund managers, they can be replaced by other bankers or managers.
Do the parents of an unborn human get to claim child benefits? It's equally funny and scary how it seems like you guys are about to define pre- and post-birth rights for humans as a tactic to reduce the bodily autonomy of adult women.
It'll be interesting to see GOP politicians wade into this legislative battlefield and not expect that people probably want to see the rights of fetuses include healthcare and other things that greatly improve childhood outcomes.
I'm hoping there are Democrats who are prescient enough to introduce a bill guaranteeing specific care to all unborn humans so that this rhetoric can at least be used in a helpful way. You wanna fight using babies? Let's do it, fuckers.
I hope for a good backfire of countless lawsuits asserting inalienable human rights and dependent benefits by which pregnant people may foul Arizona courts.
Index funds, such as those run by Vanguard, are required by their own policy to hold all the components of the stock index that they track, and DJT.O was added to a major index.
The moment the company drops in value and falls out of the index is the same moment the index funds sell their holdings of it.
BlackRock is a huge hedge fund though.
The real batshit crazy part is that DJT.O was somehow deemed valuable enough to be included in an index despite having almost no revenue.
The only thing keeping the stock value up is the MAGA crazies pumping their money into it, magically thinking it’ll become profitable and make them rich.
There is an international law that says you can take prisoners during war, and there are international laws about the treatment of said prisoners. The only reason they are hostages is because they were not taken by an established country.
Hamas had a whole investigation and remediation in the space of days, in the middle of a war zone. Meanwhile we’re still waiting to find out who killed Shireen Abu Akleh over 2 years ago.
Keep in mind it’s always possible that they do this partly for PR. But at least they were transparent, even if they did in to look good. After all, next to Israel, anyone would look good.
I guess what you mean to ask is: was this part of the NYT report or not? Is that right?
And also, I agree that much of that report was BS, but is that enough to discredit every single story in it? You may pretty well be denying rapes that did take place. I have no reason to deny the testimonies of some of these women. Hamas fighters are not angels and it would be quite naive to assume that no rape happened. What I said does not suggest that Hamas carries out systematic rape. Maybe that is a claim more worth your time to moderate than “some victims came out and spoke out about sexual assault during captivity.”
But if this is how things roll in this community then just ban me 😉
One started making claims of sexual assault 100 days after her release in the day 50 prisoner swap.
It was mentioned released hostages are pressured by the Israeli government into making false confessions. They tell them if they lie there will be more pressure on Hamas to release other hostages.
Thanks for pointing that out. No denying this. Is this about Amit Soussanna? Would be curious to see a timeline for that. But also as a rape victim myself, it took me years to finally come out and tell my parents what had happened. It’s possible that she is lying, but also possible that she is saying he truth. It doesn’t say anything politically about Hamas or Palestinians… it’s just a thing that is likely to have happened.
The thing is, it would also be naive to assume that no sexual assault or abuse happeend. Even Hezbollah (a much more disciplined army) will have cases like that.
Do you hound everyone for citations or only in this case? Do you want proof that these people have had these testimonies or that these things actually happened?
Just because there are problems with the NYT does not mean this particular story is not credible. This woman is simply sharing her experinece. What evidence do you have to refute the claims of a rape victim? Should she not be taken as seriously as any other rape victim? Just because Israel can take advantage of such a story to justify genocide does not mean we can discredit the story without being intellectually dishonest.
It’s fine just go ahead and ban me because I won’t edit anything. I provided two articles about captives and their experience having been held hostage by Hamas, they list multiple instances. I have no time for bs like this.
Whereas there are a multitude of reliable sources citing Israelis forces torturing and raping Palestinian prisoners until death. Not isolated incidents, but a multitude of seperate situations.
I never denied that and nothing I said points to anything against that. Some Hamas fighters still raped and abused some captives. This is reality. These people also have the right to have their story heard because it’s just one part of the truth.
The article begins: “Mohammed Abu Al-Qumsan had just picked up birth certificates for his newly-born twins when he found out they had been killed, along with his wife and her mother, by an Israeli strike on the Gaza apartment where they were sheltering.”
There’s more detail about the attack (tank shell) and a photo of the grieving man.
The article begins with the headline, which is all most people read. The point here is that it omits the perpetrator. If it was Russia it would be front and centre stated. This lying by omission has become a standard trope for western legacy media.
It’s important enough to have in the first paragraph of the article. Why not have it in the headline? The reality is that many people do not even read the article. The headline not only has a role in capturing the attention of readers but is often the extent of information people receive? Saying ‘Israeli strike’ is only two more words. Why did reuters not include it. It’s naive to think there isn’t a propaganda spin to not mentioning it in the headline.
Terrorists killing hostages in response to his kids being killed by other terrorists. Who would have that that this is where this war was going to lead…
I think that Hamas fighters should listen to their superiors.
I don’t think killing hostages is the right thing to do.
Have a hard time finding fault with this person for seeking revenge after hearing that his children were murdered.
So, the guard shouldn’t have done this, but I can’t say that I would do differently in his situation. If someone killed my child I would be looking for revenge as well.
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