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More I read, the more predictable Israeli politics seems.
The outcome always seems to be “what’s most beneficial for Netanyahu’s survival.”
And in this case, its preserving the status quo since he needs that for a coalition, I guess?
More I read, the more predictable Israeli politics seems.
The outcome always seems to be “what’s most beneficial for Netanyahu’s survival.”
And in this case, its preserving the status quo since he needs that for a coalition, I guess?
Because the election is a popularity contest, and name recognition is everything.
And he’s the incumbent. He is president right now.
I don’t think it’s even about candidates, but just focusing on appearances.
That’s what grabs attention and makes money. Even the robotic social media feed algorithms know this.
CNN can’t help themselves. They need to compete with social media I guess.
I dunno, that debate just made me sad.
Oh, they will play this debate in clips forever.
We live in an age of YouTube and tiktok shorts.
We live in a world where Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is more electable than the candidates we have.
I figured Idiocracy was prescient, but it’s coming true awfully fast.
No, I never meant for it to be. I just wanted to stay alive and not give covid to someone else like, you know, someone sane.
But alas I didn’t want it to be political, but it was. I could assert that all I want, and it doesn’t change the community I had to interact with.
I dunno. I felt judged whenever I was walking around wearing a mask. One time I put one on when some guy walked up to me when I was walking my dog, and it kinda started an argument. A tow truck driver literally told me masks were government control devices before he jumped our car.
I felt like I was masking alone sometimes, like I was offending the public for doing it.
Just because that’s absurd doesn’t mean masses of people didn’t see masking as political. To me, it was kinda hard to ignore.
It was a late night comment in bad taste, yeah.
But as a devil’s advocate, it was just my observation of where I live in the US. I was trying to convery the general mood around me, and it was very toned down from what my neighbors actually said and did at the height of the pandemic. For reference, my neighbor had an anti mask party when covid was raging, and they were very liberal for this neighborhood… it still kind of boggles my mind.
I meant to present it as something absurd, not an opinion that I thought was reasonable.
But getting that kind of popularity is like being struck by lightning, especially now. He had a very advantageous start on TV (not to belittle how amazing he was).
Is this actually a thing in russia?
I used to talk to Russians in Discord, and even before that they were super uncomfortable with… all this. The coup must have been something as it was happening.
Cross compatible social media?
We really are in the future.
It’s really amazing how much damage his loss probably did to the world.
I can’t think of any pro-wildlife “influencers” that would be at his level today, much less wherever he would have reached in the remaining years.
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More than just a dispute over data, though, the Wikipedia editors argued that ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt often acts as more of a partisan actor in the Israel-Palestine conversation than a neutral source of information.
Greenblatt has called US anti-Zionist student protesters Iranian “proxies,” compared the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf to a swastika, and praised Elon Musk just days after the Twitter owner endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory as the “actual truth” last November.
Is this the story of the world now? Some old rich guy watches a little too much TV/Twitter and sends a major organization off the rails?
…I guess it always has been.
A reminder that Trumpy candidates to run against is what some Democrats wanted:
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/28/democrats-colorado-primary-ron-hanks-joe-odea