Israel was never interested in a Palestinian state.

You can’t ethnically cleanse people and build Jewish settlements while proclaiming you want peace.

Why back up fantastic claims when you can just circlejerk on Lemmy?

Have you always been an insufferable wanker?

All these solutions (tax breaks, etc.) don’t appear to fix the more fundamental problem of it is too expensive to have a kid, work / life balance does not allow it and homes are too expensive.

This really applies to all industries.

Boeing used to put time, effort and care into building good planes. They stopped doing that, things went to shit and people died.

Airbus didn’t go down the Boeing route and are doing a lot better.

Sail the high seas.

Similar age here.

Not into social media and Reddit now sucks.

Sherman did nothing wrong.

Ok, I’ll bite.

Why are weddings stupid?

There may not be any need for that.

The United States, China, etc. all have trade policies that are fundamentally unsustainable and result in persistent trade imbalances.

This causes all sorts of poor economic outcomes for large sectors of those countries. For example, an anaemic household sector in China and over investments in housing, huge private and public sector deficits in the United States, etc.

In the free market world of Adam Smith and comparative advantage, persistent trade imbalances should not exist.

Over the medium to long term, imports are meant to pay for exports.

If there are persistent trade imbalances, it means there is persistent under consumption (China) or over consumption (United States).

Note: This is not just limited to these countries.

At some point, there is going to be an economic crisis because it can’t continue forever.

I don’t come from a developer background but that honestly sounds ridiculous.

If this type of thing is standard in software development, I feel bad for anybody in the industry.

CANCEL CULTURE

If you have wondered how some people deny obviously documented things like the Holocaust, this is a prime example.

“The starvation and mass killing of civilians in the Warsaw Ghetto is a legitimate strategy” - This guy.

In America, it is.

Simply stopping the supply of weapons would stop the war overnight.

Libertarianism is a hell of a drug.

It is clear that Israel is trying to start a war with Iran and Hezbollah and drag the United States into it.

It was pretty obvious, mate.

Writing war and peace doesn’t change that.

“I have had no sympathy from any of the accused. One who was HIV-positive came six times. Not once did my husband express any concern about my health,” she said.

Even if these rapists claims they thought they were participating in some weird sex play, if you knew you were HIV positive, why would you have unprotected sex with anybody?

Their claims reek of bullshit.