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I don't mind at all having to pay taxes when the poor can't. What really pisses me off is having to pay taxes when the rich won't.

>leaked audio recordings >from the situation room There was a time when this would have triggered a massive purge in an administration - now counter-intelligence just looks at Mossad agents like this

The best response I’ve seen to AI anything has been, “why should i bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write”

@naaycoqui No, Hamas isn't evil and genocidal. Israel is.

@haaretzcom Please let him come. The American people will handle it.

Ben-Gvir cancels family vacation to U.S. after difficulties with travel visa haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

@matthew_petti We fought to a draw

It’s stupid to say Trump “surrendered” to Iran, first of all because it’s bad politics (do you WANT the war to resume?) but also because it isn’t true. We fought to a draw and BOTH SIDES are making compromises now. That’s how peace works!

Quarterly reminder that James Garfield’s (President #20) great great grandson, Richard Garfield, invented Magic: The Gathering

@MazMHussain Judeo-fascists are delusional by nature.

Are Israelis owed something by the United States that warrants this level of entitlement? Trump has already gone to absurd lengths to satisfy their national interests and for not being willing to destroy the global economy by going a step further it’s evidently a “betrayal.”

The Soviets fucked some things up (and how could they not, they were forging entirely new ground). But the things they got right, maaaaaaaaaaannnn they really got them right.

The first woman in space wasn’t a billionaire. She was a Soviet textile worker. The Soviet Union looked at a factory worker and saw a future cosmonaut. The world got Valentina Tereshkova.

One thing they don't tell you about the “push a button for a million dollars but someone you don't know dıės” hypothetical is that literally every billionaire is effectively pressing that button as much as they can all the time just because that's how exploitation works

easy 150K

@jessisajew Betrayal by whom?

Everyone - and I mean everyone - in Israel feels a profound sense of betrayal today. From all across the political spectrum and from every walk of life. Everyone.

One time Neera Tanden wrote an oped about foreign aid that was so stupid that she got chewed out by the White House itself because she constantly opined on stuff but has no actual subject matter expertise. Working in the same building as her was an embarrassment.

an underdiscussed aspect of modern capitalism is that most low-wage jobs tightly regulate what you're doing at all times while you're on the clock and most high-wage jobs consist of hours of unstructured time in front of the computer during which you can do whatever

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program > screwworm outbreak almost immediately > $1B to combat it Government efficiency

Iran Enlisted “Senior Psychologists” to Help Craft Messages to Trump Ahead of Agreement Trump’s “reactions improved noticeably" after the psychiatric professionals joined Iran's negotiating effort dropsitenews.com/p/iran-trump-p…

@Chang1021J @thoughtographic What a kind sentiment.

@thoughtographic 正因为经历过苦难 我们才会更希望大家都能吃饱穿暖 在中国最多的问候不是“你好”或者“今天过得怎么样” 而是“吃饭了吗”

Less than 80 years ago China was the poorest country in the world. Colonized by England and Japan and suffering perpetual famines. Some people forget that context.

Shut your filthy mouth. The infamous caste system is unique to India. Don't project your dirty history onto China. To Chinese people, hukou is not a cage. It is an anchor. It does not mean you cannot leave. It means that after you leave, there is still somewhere that is responsible for you. In cities, there are street offices and neighborhood committees. In villages, there are village committees, land rights, housing plots, collective benefits, and local welfare arrangements. These are tied to hukou because hukou is not just “registration.” It is administrative responsibility. It tells the system: this person belongs somewhere; someone has to count them; someone has to help them; someone has to receive them if life in the city fails. This is why China does not experience the large-scale homelessness seen in India and the West. In your country, people can be “free” to move, then free to sleep under bridges, free to die in tents, free to disappear into a street nobody is responsible for. China’s hukou system is the opposite of that abandonment. It gives people roots. It gives local governments obligations. It gives rural people land, village membership, and a place to return to. Comparing this to India’s caste system is obscene. Caste is inherited social imprisonment built on blood, ritual purity, endogamy, untouchability, and spiritual pollution. Hukou is belonging, administration, welfare responsibility, and social anchoring. One says: you are born polluted and must stay below others. The other says: wherever you go, you still have a place that must take responsibility for you. These are not remotely the same thing.