bobthened

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Because the measures that economists use to measure the economy are not relevant to regular people. GDP tells you nothing about living standards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The USA has a higher rate of incarceration.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I’m referring the the pronunciation of the slur for gay people, not the name of a kind of cereal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's not pronounced puff, it's pronounced poof

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

If only it actually worked properly on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (35 children)

At the same time Israel was releasing Palestinian "prisoners" (largely children and largely imprisoned for petty crimes like throwing stones) they were capturing and imprisoning from the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) roughly the same number of people as they were releasing in Gaza.

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

That's not the point. People aren't saying that they'd rather have Trump in charge. The point is things will never get better if everyone keeps unquestioningly giving their votes to the Democrats regardless of how little the democrats represent their interests. The only real way most people have of making a political party change is by withholding their votes until that party changes in order to regain the votes.

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

That doesn't really matter though. The point still stands regardless of if it's explained by money literally disappearing into a hole or huge rounding errors and inefficiencies in their accounting systems.

They are still allowed much much more leniency with much larger amounts of money (aren't they aren't ever properly held to account for it) than regular people are allowed with comparatively tiny amounts of money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The current charter specifically makes a point of saying that that's not what they want though. Makes a point out of dragging a distinction between Jewish people (they don't have a problem with) and the Zionist project (which they do have a problem with

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Plenty of centrist liberals support Israel's "war against Hamas". US president Joe Biden and the Democratic party for example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It might, but luckily DeSantis is so unlikeable and has zero charisma, that the republicans would never win a presidential election with him as the candidate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The pipes on the wall are in exactly the same place on both pictures.

 

 

Was watching JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures and I thought this line was hilariously accurate.

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