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    1. Not_A_Browser on

      It’s probably inaccurate, but I always have Nathan Robinson in my head as knock-off Noam Chomsky. As in, at least Chomsky did linguistics; Robinson exclusively has bad takes.

    4. EasyMoney92 on

      > Truck drivers trying to deliver aid inside Gaza say their work has become increasingly dangerous in recent months as people have grown desperately hungry and violent gangs have filled a power vacuum left by the territory’s Hamas rulers.

      > Crowds of very hungry people routinely rip aid off the backs of moving trucks, the local drivers said. Some trucks are hijacked by armed men working for gangs who sell the aid in Gaza’s markets for exorbitant prices . Israeli troops often shoot into the chaos, they said. Drivers have been killed in the mayhem.

      > Yasser Abu Shabab is all over Israeli news and Palestinian social media. He describes himself as a humanitarian and a liberator. International aid workers allege he was behind the systematic looting of aid entering the Gaza Strip last fall.
      > Israeli and Palestinian analysts say Abu Shabab was involved in drugs and weapons smuggling before the war and that he and some of his associates did business with the Islamic State branch in Sinai. After the interview with The Post, Abu Shabab was sent follow-up requests for comment on these allegations but did not respond.

      >Abu Shabab also became known inside Gaza in fall 2024 for allegedly being the ringleader of a criminal gang behind the looting of aid trucks, The Post reported in November. At the time, he said he was driven by desperation to “take from the trucks,” though he denied that his men attacked drivers.

      >Israel’s support for Abu Shabab and other Hamas rivals in Gaza echoes an effort to establish “Village Leagues” in the West Bank to counter the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1970s and early ’80s, analysts said. Israel gave money, administrative privileges and the right to carry weapons to selected representatives of clans in villages throughout the West Bank in a bid to establish fiefdoms under overall Israeli control and undermine the prospect of a Palestinian state.

    9. lesbian_al_garib on

      No bro you dont understand, its extremely necessary for me to use 5 different types of perfumes before going to work. 

    10. Tre-Fyra-Tre on

      I currently have 18 kr (that’s less than $2, for the Burgers) in my accounts and no money coming in until mid-September at the earliest

      If I were a business, I’d be wound up

    11. erasmus_phillo on

      If my 5’6″ Indian, broke grad student who lives with his mom ass can get dates in Toronto… then the rest of y’all can get dates. No excuses!

      I also never had much of an issue either when I was single.

    12. lesbian_al_garib on

      I don’t understand cats. I don’t like scratches but how come they do? 

    13. MURICCA on

      We should take every word we use in politics and run it through one of those “most commonly used words” things

      If it’s not in the top like 1000 or whatever, discard it. Use this as a speech proofreader

    14. beans_and_tuna on

      The minimum wage should be $40 billion an hour. Why? Because it’d be hilarious to watch the global economy just collapse.

    16. SwolePalmer on

      If your child ever worries he/she will achieve nothing in life, just remind him that Chris Cuomo once had a TV show that was watched by millions of people, unironically.

      ![gif](giphy|lqRu0AbfzcpMJlmT2I|downsized)

    18. TheCatholicsAreComin on

      If there’s something I/P ought to make liberals come to terms with, it’s that they can’t just bury injustice – historical or otherwise – under the fantasy that broad economic development will simply paper over them and make them irrelevant

      It’s a nice thought, and there certainly are times when historic injustices have to be looked over in favor of broader goals, but it’s openly become an excuse for the majority groups to paper over their own actions and ignore the longstanding consequences they cause in favor for a “solution” that won’t make them either ideologically or materially uncomfortable; something made easier when the affected group has limited ability to even advocate for themselves

      What’s more, in the long run as we’re seeing, this approach doesn’t even work. The historical injustices against minorities in America haven’t just not gone away, but the refusal to address them has helped create horrid things like Trump and ICE. The refusal to acknowledge the pain and injustice Palestinians have suffered has emboldened Israel to launch even worse campaigns against them

      Liberals can’t keep getting forced into action like this at the last minute – dragged kicking and screaming – and also be surprised when people start becoming highly critical of and turning away from liberalism

    19. ihatemendingwalls on

      >In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”

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