Dividing the world into heroes and villains does us little good
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Btw. For every car you buy you need to buy a 'license' for ownership that lasts 10 years. Then there's the usual 150-170% tax on top.
The latest license for a medium engine sized car now is $103k. Then you pay the highly taxed car (150+%)
I have paid myfair share of car taxes here. (Well over six figures over the duration of my stay here.)
I am done paying these bastards more $$ when the cnuts can kick me out anytime.
But TBF the public transport system here is world class. Timed to the minute.
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I’ve always had it everywhere but the Cooler. Rockfish stripped me of it on the Cooler years ago.
I think its what they call 'empathy'. You might now be growing some organically.
I tested myself and was negative yesterday morning. I felt good while I worked all day. I forget the exact time but around 7pm after eating pizza I started feeling like I needed the rest room. Then I started sweating, light headed and my pulse was running from 80-95. I could feel my heart pounding. Laid on my back on bed with feet elevated and after hour heart beat back to 75-80. I read stuff on here and posted a little. Eventually went to sleep and just got up. I have headache like a hangover but otherwise feel fine. Scared me.
Bullshit.
Get back to us when all these attacks that have happened since 1948 from their radical neighbors stops. If you were to transplant the US into the Middle East, you’d realize that Israel has been on the defensive ever since its creation. They always get attacked FIRST and then respond. And, sometimes, the only way to effectively deal with that type of enemy is to resort to their tactics.
Get back to us when Israel cuts off the heads of babies.
Israel is a modern, civilized society trying to exist inside a territory filled with sadistic savages.
Honestly it was kind of nonresponsive to my point. We're all conditioned in the West to value everyone and believe that all people are generally the same (they are). Where differences in outcome come into play are often very much tied to cultural/systemic approach and geography.
I know a bunch of good Muslims who have their own opinions on how they were screwed over has nothing to do with that fact.
They got put into a situation based on British suggestions. Their statehood and land was immediately rejected by Arabs in the region, and a war ensued. It has never really stopped. Arab aggression and terrorism has been going on since well before 1948.
Israeli settlements and additional land grabs in the West Bank in recent years are bad, but the majority of its additions were security-related.
Also, there was an opportunity to accept a two state solution back in the Clinton years and it was rejected by the PLO and Arafat.
Seeing the images of them with captured babies and children is incomprehensible. There ought to be a way to unify and capture every Hamas soldier. And keep them alive until they die of old age and natural causes while being tortured as inhumanely as humanly possible for all of their days. I would agree to raising taxes for that end.
It’s been 80 years & the entire system that produced what you’re referring to (I think) is gone.
I can agree with the notion that no one is all good or bad, but I think your post, while reasonable in assessing actions of the players, misses the forest for the trees fails to address the goals of the various good & bad guys, & that is the most important thing to consider imo.
not discounting the evil but sort of to the original point i watched a documentary called gaza on netflix. it's short. maybe an hour. it largely focused on little kids trying to survive there. i think it was 2014. just a brutal existence. very, very sad. just getting food is a chore and the endless threat of bombing etc makes life hardly worth living. it's easy to understand how hate could be inculcated. with all the money in the world it's somewhat amazing that existences like this still persist
