miz

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago

you're not very good at looking things up

[–] miz@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

it sure is neat how the most ignorant people all have the same dumb opinions

[–] miz@hexbear.net 59 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Andrew Jackson was 200 years ago. How is he relevant?

utter lack of critical thinking. this is the person calling other people childish

chefs-kiss

[–] miz@hexbear.net 55 points 5 days ago (16 children)

"why does history matter?"

lol, baby-brained shit

[–] miz@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago
[–] miz@hexbear.net 45 points 5 days ago (4 children)

go eat a dog turd

[–] miz@hexbear.net 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We deserve Trump, though. God, do we deserve him. We Americans have some good qualities, too, don’t get me wrong. But we’re also a bloodthirsty Mr. Hyde nation that subsists on massacres and slave labor and leaves victims half-alive and crawling over deserts and jungles, while we sit stuffing ourselves on couches and blathering about our “American exceptionalism.” We dumped 20 million gallons of toxic herbicide on Vietnam from the air, just to make the shooting easier without all those trees, an insane plan to win “hearts and minds” that has left about a million still disabled from defects and disease – including about 100,000 children, even decades later, little kids with misshapen heads, webbed hands and fused eyelids writhing on cots, our real American legacy, well out of view, of course.

Nowadays we use flying robots and missiles to kill so many civilians and women and children in places like Mosul and Raqqa and Damadola, Pakistan, in our countless ongoing undeclared wars that the incidents scarcely make the news anymore. Our next innovation is “automation,” AI-powered drones that can identify and shoot targets, so human beings don’t have to pull triggers and feel bad anymore. If you want to look in our rearview, it’s lynchings and race war and genocide all the way back, from Hispaniola to Jolo Island in the Philippines to Mendocino County, California, where we nearly wiped out the Yuki people once upon a time.

This is who we’ve always been, a nation of madmen and sociopaths, for whom murder is a line item, kept hidden via a long list of semantic self-deceptions, from “manifest destiny” to “collateral damage.” We’re used to presidents being the soul of probity, kind Dads and struggling Atlases, humbled by the terrible responsibility, proof to ourselves of our goodness. Now, the mask of respectability is gone, and we feel sorry for ourselves, because the sickness is showing.

So much of the Trump phenomenon is about history. Fueling the divide between pro- and anti-Trump camps is exactly the fact that we’ve never had a real reckoning with either our terrible past or our similarly bloody present. The Trump movement culturally represents an absolute denial of our sins from slavery on – hence the intense reaction to the removal of Confederate statues, the bizarre paranoia about the Washington Monument being next, and so on. But #resistance is also a denial mechanism. It makes Trump the root of all evil, and is powered by an intense desire to not have to look at the ugliness, to go back to the way things were. We see this hideous clown in the White House and feel our dignity outraged, but when you really think about it, what should America’s president look like?

Trump is no malfunction. He’s a perfect representation of who, as a country, we are and always have been: an insane monster. Frankly, we’re lucky he’s not walking around using a child’s femur as a toothpick.

—Matt Taibbi in 2016, before he decided his mortgage payments are more important than solidarity

[–] miz@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

when he said it he was sec state

[–] miz@hexbear.net 26 points 6 days ago

Irritable Brazil Syndrome

bolso-pain

 
 
 

Since 2020, states and municipalities across the country have amassed a portfolio of $1.7 billion in "Israel" Bonds—securities sold by the "state" of "Israel" to “strengthen every aspect of "Israel's" economy, enabling national infrastructure development.” Since October 7th, 2023, $580 million of state and municipal investments have been invested in "Israeli" bonds.

In some cases, the state treasurers and comptrollers that purchased "Israeli" bonds are the very same officials who pushed for laws in their states against investing in firms that embrace environmental social governance (ESG), or investments based, at least superficially, on diversity, climate change, or any other criteria they deem “woke.” Their argument: If a firm makes politically motivated investment decisions in accordance with ESG, then the firm has compromised its fiduciary duty to be a good steward of dollars and maximize returns for investors.

Were the "Israel" Bonds a secure investment, with growth fueled by regional war? No. In fact, they are rapidly losing value, earning a 20% lower return than when they were initially purchased just one year ago.

And it’s only going to get worse. Both S&P and Moody’s lowered "Israel’s" credit rating twice this year. Last October, "Israel" Bonds had a fixed rate of 5.74 to 5.96%, according to releases by state treasurers’ offices. The current rate for those same 3-year bonds now falls between 4.38-4.6%.

Yet many of the state treasurers and comptrollers across the U.S. who bought the bonds are unfazed. They invested not for the high returns, but, as Palm Beach County Clerk Joseph Abruzzo put it, because "Israel" is “our greatest ally” and “needs this money.”

 

"Israel’s" military has determined that the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister could put military officials and soldiers at risk of legal action while abroad, according to a report by Ynet citing army sources.

The decision could affect mandatory service and reserve soldiers who participated in Tel Aviv’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

“Some soldiers have already been required to leave countries they visited due to concerns about legal proceedings,” the "Israeli" news site said on 4 December.

According to the report, the "Israeli" army has identified around 30 cases in which its soldiers faced legal proceedings while visiting certain countries. At least eight "Israeli" soldiers were forced to leave the countries they were visiting, such as Cyprus, Slovenia, and the Netherlands.

The "Israeli" army has warned dozens of soldiers to avoid traveling abroad.

The army has not imposed a full travel ban on its members, but is carrying out a “risk assessment” process for soldiers who wish to travel.

Scores of "Israeli" army soldiers have, since the war in Gaza began, posted footage of themselves online making genocidal statements, destroying homes, ordering mass evacuations, or committing various forms of war crimes. Many of these testimonies were used as evidence in South Africa’s genocide case against "Israel" at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) earlier this year.

The report added that many pro-Palestinian organizations have used this material to create “blacklists” of "Israeli" army soldiers, publishing their names and photos, “hoping to identify future travel plans.” They then filed legal complaints or submitted petitions to authorities in the aforementioned countries.

“Individual proceedings against soldiers and junior officers traveling abroad could be based on ICC rulings. To any soldier or officer, if they are arrested, summoned for questioning, or feel they are being followed or photographed while abroad, "Israel" will provide immediate legal assistance through its local embassy or the Foreign Ministry’s situation room,” the army said.

“In non-ICC member countries such as the US, China, or India, there is local legislation governing the law of war. These nations are not obligated to act on ICC arrest warrants, but local laws could still pose risks,” it added.

Tel Aviv has hired legal experts to “monitor changes in legislation” in dozens of countries, Ynet reported.

“These lawyers track legal activity against "Israelis" and, if needed, represent soldiers and officers in those countries,” the daily added.

Chief Prosecutor of the ICC Karim Khan announced in late May that the court had applied for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant. The applications also included warrants for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammad Deif. The arrest warrants against the two "Israeli" officials were then issued by the ICC on 21 November.

Washington has rejected the ICC decision and previously vowed to take action against the court.

“The US has been clear that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over this matter. In coordination with partners, including "Israel", we are discussing next steps,” a US National Security Council spokesperson told reporters.

 

May 20, 2020

Leaked phone conversations between Joe Biden and then-Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko have been made public by a Ukrainian lawmaker.

Edited recordings of the calls were played at a news conference Tuesday in Kiev by Andriy Derkach, who has claimed he has proof showing that Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas company that employed Biden’s son Hunter Biden, paid then-Vice President Joe Biden $900,000 in lobbying fees.

 

Communications director Zorus Merlin (Branson) and data scientist and consultant Sean Seaside (Charles) assign accountability for the Democrats' electoral loss and raise money for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign to pay off its debts.

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