Jonna

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

George Lucas certainly did. The Vietnam War was part of the inspiration for Star Wars.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He says it contains DNA. There's a grain of truth to that but it's still bullshit:

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/dna-in-covid-19-vaccines-7-pieces

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yet one more way we are more complicated than middle school biology

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Since 2000, the ratio of Palestinian deaths to Israeli deaths is 21:1 (NYT). Rockets? The name evokes weapons from Lockheed or Boeing, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad make them in garages and basement tunnels while Israel has the most hitech interceptors available. It's still comparatively slingshots to F-16s.

Hamas was created in 1987, and has benefited from disproportionate treatment from the Israelis, who used Hamas to divide the Palestinian resistance. When Israel blows ckekd the negotiation tactics of the secular Palestinian resistance, what else were Palestinians to do? Palestinians in Gaza tried mass civil disobedience I'm 2018 with the Walk of Return, but Israel used live rounds and nearly 300 were killed and thousands wounded. How else were the Palestinians to seek freedom?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Land of the free here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You paid money for something and then you find you can't use it again. You seriously think that isn't fucked up?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

You're absolutely right that there IS a difference between the two parties.

But Obama's healthcare plan was a rebrand of a Heritage foundation (conservative) plan that had been enacted at the state level by Romney in Massachusetts, and the most progressive part (the Medicaid expansion) was a last minute compromise to make the plan CHEAPER because the majority of the plan is a tax payer subsidized government enforced insurance monopoly. It hasn't ended medical bankruptcies and it doesn't cover everyone.

Biden is actually better than I expected, while he gave in to the antics of Sinema and Manchin a little too easily and he's still drilling oil and gas, the "Inflation Reduction Act" is the best climate and infrastructure legislation we've had, just 20 years late and still too little. Meanwhile he lets the courts roll him on student loans, on reproductive rights, etc.

So yeah, the Democrats are better than the Republicans but they still SUCK.

Since Eugene McCarthy in the early 70s to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, and recently Bernie, working inside the Democrats has not worked. But obviously neither has working outside. We need to keep trying, and I wish I had a better answer. But we need to do better than the Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fascists gonna fasc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Officially "celibate"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I doubt you've even seen them. Even the protests organized by Palestinians welcome Jewish Voices for Peace who have signs that say, "Never Again Means for Everyone". And Jewish Voices for Peace organize a lot of protest themselves. Antifa peeps show up to make sure Nazis don't infiltrate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Why I have pistachios on hand

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