“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it.” – Donald Trump
#1) Wage growth. How do you make more money? Get a new job and move! Problem: Everyone has these golden handcuff mortgages. 2% to 7%. Moving would actually cost people more per month that the extra wages
#2) Wage growth through WFH. This path is currently so crowded that few have a chance. Hopefully once a few office mortgages are done and boomers with office fetishes die, more jobs will move this way
#3) Deflation. Makes economist immediately shout “But people will hold off purchasing things until later, making the economy worse!” The average car age is at a record high. Everyone is holding off on housing. There is word of groceries payment plans on installments. People already are holding off for later.
#2) Wage growth through WFH. This path is currently so crowded that few have a chance. Hopefully once a few office mortgages are done and boomers with office fetishes die, more jobs will move this way
It’s insane how much time and money we waste on just commuting for jobs that we really don’t need to be travelling to, and additionally how much we waste on just fucking around in the office without actually doing anything productive (because there’s nothing productive to do). A lot of people could free up a whole half of the rest of their life by just being able to work from home, I wager. Whether people realize it or not, the commute (including the gas money and fares) is part of the time they dedicate to work, and having to waste time on it without getting paid means you’re getting lese compensation for your time. Some people don’t value their time enough for it to matter, but some people (like me) do.
If you average 2 hours a day on your commute, that’s almost an entire month of unpaid time you’re using on your job (it’s not 30 days of pure time if you work an average of 4.5 days per week, but I’m including costs associated with the commute like gas or car maintanence and repair, which for most people would bring it up from the original 20 days to at least 30 days). Most people who don’t live in a city (or who have a job a far enough distance away) waste a whole fucking half a month to an entire month every year – 1/24 to 1/12 of their entire life – just driving to work. On the commute alone. I would take a massive pay cut to not have to make that commute, as well as not have to waste time sitting in an office that I could be using with my loved ones or to do the things I enjoy, which a good WFH setup actually allows you to do.
I’m moving to Chicago so I don’t have to have a car nor waste that much time travelling to places, and not just work but also to stores and hobby stuff. Apparently this is something a lot of people have been doing within the past few years because of how affordable Chicago is in comparison to pretty much every other big city. Ahhh, gentrification my beloved.
Overall I think we’re having a massive reversal of suburbanization/white flight and a move back to cities by people who want to “take back” their time and freedom of movement. As well as just generally not wanting to live in a conservative hellhole.
By not cracking down on these groups, Israel is showing a “lack of coherence” in its Gaza aid policy, said Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an Israeli nonprofit that has long called on Israel to improve conditions in the territory.
Oh no, it’s perfectly coherent. Give a fig leaf to apologists while pursuing literal genocide. It’s coherent - just vile beyond belief.
Except for the reality that other 99 will continue calling for the eradication of Israel and it’s peoples. This is an existential fight for both sides. Only your side is losing which is what all these pleas for terrorist sympathizers are really about.
When it is no longer a ‘just cause’ to want Israel gone then you might have a leg to stand on. Until then stop squawking about chickens coming home to roost.
When it is no longer a ‘just cause’ to want Israel gone then you might have a leg to stand on.
Remember when Fatah recognized Israel’s right to existence as part of a pathway to a two-state solution, and then Israel funded Hamas to undermine Fatah so Israel wouldn’t have to cooperate with Fatah?
Good times.
Might be that the reason it remains a ‘just cause’ amongst Palestinians to want Israel gone is the fact that Israel continuously insists on making this into an existential struggle.
No, they continually treat the situation as the existential struggle it has always been.
So this was just a fig leaf, and you don’t actually care to stop genocide even when the other party agrees to recognize Israel’s right to exist, good to know.
I never said Israel is perfect. Just this relentless myopic support for terrorist sympathizers is not going to work. Both sides can suck it tbh. The whole thing is a tragedy. But I see right through this “genocide isn’t cool when my side isn’t the one doing it”. You want actual earned sympathy for anyone involved in the Israel-Palestine fiasco? Surrender. Release the hostages. Rescind and prohibit any and all related fatwas/jihads. Have the UN step in and force a 2 state solution that both sides hate but accept, and cut the random acts of terrorism BS out permanently. Sit the F down and settle this BS peacefully.
But they won’t. This shit show will continue on until one side or the other loses completely and I got news for you unless something radically changes it doesn’t look like it is going to be Israel.
I guess I just find it real interesting the amount of doiblethink it takes to continously push that we are “terrorist sympathizers”. Or maybe I misunderstand and you’re saying that Palestinians are terrorist sympathizers because seeing you’re whole family erradicated and wanting revenge against those who did it is terrorism. I definitley don’t support Hamas, and if it is the case that wanting revenge for dead innocents is terrorism, the the IDF are a bunch of brutal hypocrite terrorists that are being funded by the US. Also, it’s kind of hard to see through “genocide” when the Lancet is putting new estimates at 8% of the population dead. I really don’t think “earning” your sympathy or the sympathy of anyone that thinks like you is worth much.
It’s all right there in your own statement. They shouldn’t want revenge. They should want justice. ICC should absolutely get involved where crimes against humanity are concerned. Their desire for revenge takes out ‘innocents’ on the Israeli side and the circle of hate continues.
And as I’ve already said. Both sides want the complete removal of the other. Statistics only show what we all agree on: Israel is more capable of effecting their threat. So not only are both sides morally in the wrong, Hamas’ is also foolish for begging to be pooped on in the first place.
And ‘earning mine et al’ sympathy is apparently worth something because the news constantly appeals to it.
We aren’t talking about not killing Hamas though. We are talking about Palestinian civilians. You keep on sidestepping that. All comments I’ve seen you leave are you pretending to be this “both sides suck” person, but making no distinguishment between civilian and combatant with respect to Hamas and Palestine. You talk about Israel being justified in “getting its hands dirty to stop genocide”. You generalize Palestinian civilians as terrorists for a sentiment that Israeli civilians have confessed to feeling themselves.
The ask has been, and always will be stop killing civilians, but there are no “civilians” on one side of the conflict to you, and that is why your sympathy isn’t worth it. I must have missed the direct address to “Burstar’s sympathy” in the article.
So thought-crime? They can’t “hide” behind a civilian label because they felt angry about the deaths of their families? How many, realistically, are going to act on it? Because I specifically said that they want it, not that they are going to pursue it.
And fuck it, let’s add to the fact that many are ACTIVELY trying to get out, and even of those, not many actually have the means or are too afraid of being killed whilst fleeing. Is that the actions of a so-called combatant?
You’re arguing my point. Both sides KNOW the other wants to end their existence and everyone on both sides is doing as much as they are willing to that end. For some it is paying their taxes. Others, sending their children to a school they know harbours Hamas weapons. Some spit and throw rocks at soldiers and some pick up an AK. Israel has stopped hesitating when it comes to the 2nd and 3rd category and stopped caring about the first and frankly I don’t blame them.
You know Hamas is intentionally hiding amongst the civilians to garner sympathy and you’re supporting that strategy by falling for it instead of decrying that warcrime.
You don’t blame the IDF. So much for the “both sides suck” facade. And I don’t see how you yourself can keep arguing about Hamas warcrimes when, as you’ve said, civilians are supporting the cause. That would mean they are fair game under your views. You can’t have a “both sides suck” opinion when you’ve made notes that one side should clearly be justified.
A couple thousand Hamas terrorists with improvised rockets, rocks, and whatever little they manage to smuggle across some of the most tightly controlled borders in the world are NOT an existential threat to the country that controls those borders and have one of the most powerful and advanced militaries in the history of humanity, with millions of actual and potential recruits.
They’re fighting NOT to protect their own existence, but to kill or displace all Palestinians. The vast majority of whom are innocent civilians, of course.
The vast majority of whom are innocent civilians, of course.
No, they are not. They self identify as martyrs. They are a part of, or at least support the cause. Hamas fills a school with weapons and ammo. They keep sending their children to it but say an extra prayer before and after they leave and return.
If only it was ‘just a few thousand Hamas terrorists’…
The vast majority of whom are innocent civilians, of course.
No, they are not. They self identify as martyrs. They are a part of, or at least support the cause
That’s just not true. Over half of the population wasn’t even ALIVE the last time there was an alternative to vote for, much less old enough to vote.
Hamas fills a school with weapons and ammo.
More IDF Hasbara with no root in reality
They keep sending their children to it but say an extra prayer before and after they leave and return
WTF are you blathering about??
If only it was 'just a few thousand Hamas terrorists
It is. Against a military with vastly superior technology and more soldiers than there are people in Gaza and the West Bank combined.
It’s not a war. It’s a genocide during which the occupation forces of the fascist apartheid regime is committing crimes against humanity on a daily basis.
That’s just not true. Over half of the population wasn’t even ALIVE the last time there was an alternative to vote for, much less old enough to vote.
Yes, it is. Every newsclip I’ve seen the ‘civilians’ use the word martyr in their statement. Face it. They aren’t people in the Trade Centre just living their lives. They tacitly or overtly support the cause and so are not mere innocent bystanders. As for age? Indoctrination starts at birth and you know it so knock it off with the disingenuous arguments.
Every newsclip I’ve seen the ‘civilians’ use the word martyr in their statement
Sounds like you need better sources.
Face it. They aren’t people in the Trade Centre just living their lives. They tacitly or overtly support the cause and so are not mere innocent bystanders
That’s a sinister lie that the war criminals in the Knesset are using to justify slaughtering innocents, including children.
It’s no different than American bigots saying all Muslims and Arabs are terrorists.
As for age? Indoctrination starts at birth and you know it so knock it off with the disingenuous arguments.
So what you’re saying is that it’s completely fine to slaughter all the children? You’re totally fine with the mass slaughter of children?
lol I can’t even. Doubling down on the disingenuous arguments. Toodles dude. Reality is Gaza is going to be converted to a parking lot if people like you continue to refuse facing facts and conceding this isn’t a winnable fight. Keep on clutching your pearls and saying ‘no u’ until the martyr supply is completely exhausted. Some consolation ‘but we were right’ will be at that point eh?
Imagine the Native Americans are fighting back against a genocide and you’re taking the side of the colonizers. That’s what you look like right now. It’s incredible that people get themselves into the mindset to support a genocide, but I suppose it must be possible people like you exist or the Nazis wouldn’t have gotten as far as they did.
By shielding themselves with the wives and children… After invading first, slaughtering innocents and taking hostages they continue to refuse to release. It isn’t a genocide. It’s the tragic consequence of using civilians as shields. Really want to stop the killing? Call on Hamas to surrender or at least stop cowering under schools. But we both know that isn’t your intention.
Do you really think they take literal human shields? That’s not what they mean, I don’t think even the IDF thinks that. They mean they live in the same places as civilians, which or course they’re going to, they’re a guerilla terrorist fighting force stuck in an extremely dense area due to Israel land encroachment. Btw, Israel has been known to do that and there have been videos lately showing that.
They also didn’t attack first. Zionists came in and steadily took land back in the beginning, when it was just British Mandate of Palestine. It was peaceful for a long time until they had the numbers to enact violence. Meanwhile, the Palestinians were promised a bunch of territory by the British for fighting against the Ottoman Empire, who then reneged on the deal to give Zionists a state. They then fought back and lost even more land, and have been losing more land since then. Hamas didn’t form until after decades of Israeli terrorists and paramilitary forces had killed lots of innocent Palestinians and took their land. They are a reaction to the killing by Israel. This didn’t all start on October 7th. The current ruling party Likud is descended from some of these paramilitary armies.
Even back in the beginning Jewish luminaries like Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt thought Israel was a bad idea, sometimes once they went to visit, once they realized what it cost to the local population and how it would put them in an eternal military struggle to genocide the local population like was done to them.
Nope, they absolutely attacked first. Rationalize it all you want but fact is Palestine et al chose violence FIRST.
Second, Hamas absolutely uses human shields. Storing weapons, equipment and themselves under schools and the like. Thats what you don’t get. They have tunnels everywhere and can come out wherever and whenever they want so all this BS about Israel intentionally targetting civilians is a load when a declared safezone gets ambushed for the millionth time by terrorist cockroaches coming out of the woodwork specifically because it is ‘safe’.
Hamas picked the fight and then hides amongst the populace. Clearly Israel is to blame there.
It does go backwards but then you’ll have negative inflation. That means people buy less, prices have to go down. Negative effect is that businesses go bankrupt, people lose their job and they don’t have a paycheck to live to.
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