Not so sure about Iran. I have looked for unambiguous quotes from them but can only find kooky religious stuff about Mahdism which is kind of like extremist Christians with their second coming madness.

Well educated Iranians seem to be Atheist whereas even intellectuals in Israel can be right wing religious nuts.

Certainly Iranian proxy groups like Hamas have unambiguously calked for a global caliphate

“Hamas, which is widely recognized as an Iranian proxy, has leaders and official rhetoric that go beyond the goal of liberating Palestine and at times explicitly reference the ambition of establishing a global Islamic caliphate.“

“On December 1, 2023, senior Hamas official Fathi Hammad declared on Al-Aqsa TV that the Palestinians are preparing to establish an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. He and other Hamas leaders have repeatedly stated that the liberation of Palestine is just a prelude to bringing all Islamic countries—and eventually the entire world—under Islamic rule, referencing the conquest of Rome and America as future goals”

https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leaders-our-goal-establishment-global-islamic-caliphate-not-just-liberation-palestine

For the record, my housemate of two years in Australia is Iranian. I also make music with an Iranian in Mashhad via the Internet (we jam electronic music). He is an extreme loner but tells me what society is like there.

Thanks.

And I didn’t know Signal had spam filters. It makes sense to not make that open source.

In my circle of 20 there has only been one instance of spam over several years. 3 of us got the same message.

The supply in circulation. Bonds are promissory notes. I don’t think the money disappears from ledgers.

The fractional reserve is fixed AFAIK.

Wiki citation:

86. The United Nations verified the recruitment and use of 4 Palestinian children (3 boys, 1 girl) by Israeli forces as human shields (3) and by the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades (1) as combatants in the occupied West Bank (3) and the Gaza Strip (1).

So that’s 4 examples of the IDF and 8 of the Palestinian militants. The numbers are not a scorecard though. These are just children and just the ones they had evidence of. Must happen a lot more, especially if you count adult shields.

I expect better from IDF since they represent a democratic government and so we should be hearing of the rogue soldiers being disciplined (jailed even). We rarely hear that.

Got a citation for that claim?

There are also claims of IDF sending civilians ahead of a raid in potentially booby trapped buildings.

But why waste our time on hearsay? It is hard enough examining all the documented evidence from each side.

In feel like there just aren’t enough of us trying to get at the truth. It is more like a game of football from the comfort of our Western homes where we encourage our team to keep going regardless of losses (on the ProPal side the encouragement for Hamas to not surrender is especially buzaare).

The money supply is fixed. Government prints money but not to cover new jobs. It is all about transfer of wealth.

We could all be moderately wealthy if Billionaires were not a thing. Basic Income is perhaps feasible too.

Economist Gary Stevenson explains it well. He has over a million views of each video on YouTube.

He is working class as fuck but graduated from LSE & Oxford and then made millions since 2008 betting that inequality will rise and that most people will be worse off. He was the most successful trader for Citibank but quit in disgust and to reveal the scam to the public. Now with a best-selling book.

https://youtu.be/BRvMuefnl0k

Going by this very targeted attack video, I find those numbers difficult to believe.

There just isn’t much explosive you can secretly pack into a pager. The strategy relied on body proximity.

Neither side seems interested in murdering everyone on the other side.

Iran’s intention is to eradicate a Jewish state in the Levant. Hamas have stated that they would repeat Oct 7 over and over (seems a stupid thing to say out loud even if one is on their side) and in fact their insane leadership called for world Islamist domination.

“We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified”

Whether we agree with the establishment of Israel in the first place or not, it aint going anywhere so to continue trying to eradicate it 77 years later exacerbates suffering.

Aboriginal Australians got a raw deal but are still doing better than Gazans because they didn’t continue warring. They are still fighting politically and rightly so.

Unfortunately the source code is not open

Wrong.

https://threema.com/en/why-threema/open-source

They are monthly not daily popups. They are daily at the start kust to make sure you memorize your PIN, then they peter off.

However if you ignore a monthly one then it doesn’t disturb you until the next monthly reminder. What is the point of a PIN if it can be ignored?

The pager attack was pretty targeted. Very low percentage of civilians killed (unlike the percentages of Hezbollah attacks on Israel).

Only Alaska has federal ranked choice voting and a Republican tried to repeal it., so I give you that one.

But check out the https://patrioticmillionaires.org/ site. I don’t think either party are interested in that (except maybe for Bernie, AOC and Warren - which I admit would make Dems slightly better).

I can’t help but wonder if some thought it couldn’t get worse for them personally so they wanted to see the whole system crash and burn.

It is a zero sum game. The rich are addicted to power over others despite data showing that even they would be happier in a more equitable society (see TED talk by Richard Wilkinson called “Spirit Level”).

Same thing in terms of being bought by lobbyists (although Elon’s influence is unprecedented).

Same thing in terms of refusing to reform one of the worst voting systems on the planet.

Same in terms of insider trading (Trump is more blatant and doesn’t mind if he tanks the economy in the process).

Same in terms of ignoring https://patrioticmillionaires.org/

Dems downvoting you are ignoring why Trump won. At their peril.

[Edit: I see in a later comment that you clarified and people here do get it.]

Dems laugh at his meandering speech but the MAGA’s appreciate he is not scripted and one actually can understand what he is on about. It looks demented on paper but it is actually how a lot of people speak. You don’t need to complete your sentence if you have got the message across . MAGA think we are stupid for getting confused with our comprehension.

In the GOP primaries he mocked his competitors on stage saying that he has given many donations to politicians and the favours will be returned, even the ones on stage with him. MAGA loved the openness of the corruption.

What I don’t get is why they thought he would “drain the swamp”?

Cadlillac agrees with Trump. Slave labour is what makes America great and the slaves love it apparently.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

Gaza and Ukraine are completely different conflicts.

Am just passing on what Ireland is doing.

Ireland will not be asserting if genocide is being committed, but asserting its interpretation of the Genocide Convention.

This is the same approach taken by Ireland in the Ukraine v Russia case.

The current definition of Genocide is set out in Article II of the Genocide Convention:

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

To constitute genocide, it also needs to be established that the victims are deliberately targeted — not randomly — because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention. This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, or even a part of it, but not its members as individuals.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/Genocide Convention-FactSheet-ENG.pdf

Whether or not Israel has a right to exist, it is a childish fantasy to imagine it will vanish.