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Anti-trans school board candidates backed by Ron DeSantis get crushed in Florida
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The US government spends millions to open grocery stores in food deserts. The real test is their survival.
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Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
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Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt – conservationists say number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’
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Polish leader urges Nord Stream patrons to ‘apologize and keep quiet’ as pipeline mystery returns to spotlight
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Can MAGA be multicultural? Making sense of Donald Trump’s appeal to nonwhite American voters.
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California is giving schools more homework: Build housing for teachers
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What is the motivation to keep sending Benajmin Netanyahu military aide while the Gaza crisis continues?
I hope it is kosher to post this under ~talk. I know people are sick of this topic, so I put plenty of tags in to help those not interested avoid seeing this thread. FWIW, you can go into your...
I hope it is kosher to post this under ~talk. I know people are sick of this topic, so I put plenty of tags in to help those not interested avoid seeing this thread. FWIW, you can go into your Settings and enter keywords to filter threads on ( via tags ).
To my question.
Netanyahu has been killing people with no means of defense.
What is President Biden's motivation to keep sending military aide to Israel while Netanyahu continues to do this?
I have a few guesses, but none of them on their own or together seems to justify the political or humanitarian costs:
- Somehow it is in the geopolitical interest of the U.S. to do so
- Israel would be destroyed without military aide ( but defensive weapons can still be sent )
- The U.S. benefits from Israeli intelligence
- Congressional republicans aligned with Christian Nationlists want to see Israel live out a Biblical prophesy and it would cost President Biden politically if he were to push a decrease in military aide - assuming he could.
- President Biden might have lost Jewish American votes, BUT Jews are a minority in America and many American Jews are against what Netanyahu is doing.
Those are the possibilities I could come up with. Am I missing anything? All of these possibilities together do not seem to be worth the political cost President Biden incurred. Is there something I missed?
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Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
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Digital apartheid in Gaza: Unjust content moderation at the request of Israel’s cyber unit
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 12
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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How trans autistic people are using joy as political resistance
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United States Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden administration rules against sex discrimination in schools
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Why scrapping VAT on sunscreen and public EV charging would be an expensive waste of money
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Sweden's snitch law immigration plan prompts alarm across society – forcing public sector workers to report undocumented people decried as utterly inhumane
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Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Thailand’s next PM, youngest ever
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Denmark's minister of equality: There are limits to what rights trans people should have
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The US government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
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Police in Denmark to implement facial recognition technology to combat violent crimes – recent increases in crime in Copenhagen involving gangs from neighbouring Sweden
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The big question touching a nerve this election: "Can my husband find out who I am voting for?"
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Compensation arrives seven years after siege that left Marawi a ‘dead city’
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to resign, paving way for new leader
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Why is Donald Trump so obsessed with Hannibal Lecter?
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Sustainable US transit advocates unite for Kamala Harris-Tim Walz — and against Donald Trump’s embrace of fossil fuel
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Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk [as it was not approved by the European Commission]
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Léna Lazare is the new face of climate activism—and she's carrying a pickax
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Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
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The right’s Anti-Israel insurgents – A burgeoning anti-Zionist strain in the America First movement looks to capitalize on popular disaffection over Palestine for its own ends
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 5
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Gay student says “Coach” Tim Walz protected him from homophobic bullies
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The fall of the mainstream media: New elites
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Has there ever been a time before where so much social change was occuring in quick succession of each other?
I am not really someone who is well-versed in history, I never paid attention in high school, I couldn't wait to GTFO. I know what I know based solely on podcasts/debates/lectures I find on...
I am not really someone who is well-versed in history, I never paid attention in high school, I couldn't wait to GTFO. I know what I know based solely on podcasts/debates/lectures I find on YouTube and what Hollywood brings to my attention.
from my own knowledge, periods of social change (at least in North America):
- the civil rights movement
- women's suffrage movement
- civil war (given it was fought to a great deal to end slavery)
when it comes to social changes in history that is not based in North America, I know of only the broad strokes and none of the specifics, like I know the arrival of the printing press lead to a great deal of struggle in the same way that the arrival of social media has created a struggle, just the balance of power has changed.
I also know that France went through a French Revolution that played a big part of its current political landscape and its secular status quo.
However, something I have found interesting is that within the span of <10 years, we are experiencing a reckoning on several different fronts:
- MeToo movement have rise to a long-needed discussion of sexual harassment and just a general gender reckoning in other ways too
- the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests gave rise to a global awareness that race-related issues
- the Hamas attack on Israel has certainly pushed the discussion of Israel-Palestine to the forefront. Before the attack, I could not tell you the difference between Erdoğan and Netanyahu. That's obviously no longer the case.
But it makes me wonder if this is unprecedented in human history that so many different issues of social change are being pushed to the forefront in very quick succession of each other or this is a repeat, that it's common for a civilization that experiences one changing in the social norm, to start experiencing other social changes cause they are always in the mindset or something?
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Kamala Harris names Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, as running mate
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Joe Biden administration sued over US sanctions against Israeli settlers
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Bangladesh’s leader resigns and flees country after protests
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[SOLVED] How do I filter politics out of Tildes?
I don’t like seeing news and politics in tildes home page, is there a way to filter out news and politics?
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JD Vance’s wife: My husband only meant to insult people who actively choose not to have kids, not people who are trying but are unsuccessful
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German court due to rule on ‘from the river to the sea’ case in test of free speech
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It’s official: These thirteen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah
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US targets surging grocery prices in latest probe
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