Maggoty
@Maggoty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 1 day ago:
Better but still not how your grill should sound…
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 1 day ago:
Or they happen in Africa so we don’t usually hear about them.
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 1 day ago:
Mortar shells? uhhh I’m not sure what mortar shells he’s been around or how he’s cooking that meat but those are two sounds that should not align.
- Comment on Never Forget 5 days ago:
That’s still a hell of a sentence for a B&E
- Comment on [Explicit video] I salute my brother @macklemore using his powerful artistry to tell some painful truths! #TruthJusticeLove 1 week ago:
Then you get in the streets.
- Comment on [Explicit video] I salute my brother @macklemore using his powerful artistry to tell some painful truths! #TruthJusticeLove 1 week ago:
He doesn’t have to pour gas on the fire.
- Comment on pick your side 1 week ago:
Well that does it, pink is the science folder.
- Comment on Zero to hero 1 week ago:
It’s really just a joke about counting from 0 instead of 1.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 week ago:
Well I guess it’s a start?
- Comment on Zero to hero 1 week ago:
We don’t talk about those kids, they’re weird. :)
- Comment on Zero to hero 1 week ago:
0 is natural.
Source - programming languages.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Yup, if you want to change someone the last thing you do is accuse them. Instead, point them to material about how healthy a plant based diet is, and point out how cheap it is. Or for guys like me, tactfully, point out you have to eat more actual stuff to get the same amount of calories. So big guys can lose weight eating plant based. If you introduce it in a positive way then people feel supported instead of attacked. That’s where veganism went wrong.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
This, oh so much. My doctor talking to me about how to keep my heart healthy on the back half of my life did way more than militant vegans ever did. So did the price of the food items… But that’s another story.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
That’s not actually true. The reason there’s been such a big push by conservative states to support Israel is specifically because support waned after the Cold War.
And the people actually in charge of defense trust Israel so much we have a, (checks notes), small outpost there. We have 13,000 troops in Kuwait alone. 9,000 in Bahrain, 8,000 in Qatar. Kuwait and Qatar both host giant military bases that our actual allies operate out of as well.
Don’t tell me that was going on in 1985. Tell me what’s going on now.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
But not in the context of a comparison with bronze. Nobody made the claim that Bronze was as strong as Steel.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
That was during the Cold War. You know, 40 odd years ago?
That’s not a reason to go all in on Israel now.
- Comment on we must go back and fix this 1 week ago:
I blame King Louis 15th. He dropped the ball after France’s best king. The financial problems associated with his reign set the stage for the French Revolution. And most importantly, he annexed Corsica. From which a young Artillery officer would rise to terrorize Europe.
Then after that guy, whose name nobody remembers, was properly exiled the Continental Monarchies agreed on a balance of power system. This was largely influenced by the fact that so many of them were actually related via the Habsburg family. And more than a few didn’t have any other family line… Look there’s a reason for the “Habsburg Jaw” okay?
Which brings us to the entire reason Serbia was stuck with the Habsburgs ruling part of what they thought should be Serbia. It was part of the Balance of Power idea from that period. The idea that was put in place to prevent any more unnamed Corsicans from conquering large swaths of Europe.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
And?
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
Tl;Dr - Massive unopposed lobbying campaigns for the last couple decades and the Cold War.
Honestly? Domestic politics. Israel has had an influential lobbying arm in the US since World War 2. Combine that with post war guilt about turning Jewish refugees away during the Holocaust and the cold war position of Arabs and you have a slam dunk case for the US backing Israel until the mid 90’s. Which is what you see in history.
However Bill Clinton correctly identified the political time bomb inherent to Israel after peace talks fell through and began pressuring them to end new settlements. The lobbying groups helped get George Bush elected because of that. (To be clear these are Americans, some Jewish, some not, that believe in Israel for varying reasons. Not Isreali agents or anything like that.) George Bush also did not want that political hot potato and kept Clinton’s pressure going. Especially as he tried to rally support for a second war.
At this point around 2003 alarm bells started going off in the pro Isreali lobbying groups and in the Israeli government. They sensed that now that the cold war was over they would not receive special treatment anymore. So they began laying the ground work for major lobbying efforts at the city, county, state, and federal levels. They also began a pressure campaign on media to have issues presented on a light partial to Israelis. In 2004 conservative Israelis and their allies had a taste of their worst nightmare. The Israeli prime minister ordered settlements in Gaza to be abandoned. This was because of international pressure.
Netanyahu and the pro Israel lobbying groups proceeded to work at making America a shield for Israel over the next 15 years. Resulting in many states and localities passing laws to prohibit the BDS movement and define any criticism of Israel as Anti-Semitism. This is known as the IHR definition which the US House just adopted.
While there is a significant portion of the US population that supports Israel as a result of decades of cold war propaganda, they aren’t why the government is so vehement about it. Israel and its friends have lobbied our government directly for nearly 20 years without much resistance. Pro Palestinian groups, and positions have been seen as largely terrorism aligned in a country that’s been at war with groups labeled as terrorists for 20 years. So any resistance that was encountered was easily dismissed.
That’s why our actual infrastructure of government favors Israel in places. Now why are we so actively supporting them instead of just letting the government do its thing? That comes down to one man and no one knows his reasons but him.
Other suggestions - Christian End of The World Theology- This explains some grass roots support but not the majority of grass roots or the government’s support. The US government has historically been hostile to this theology.
Oil - This doesn’t track. We’re in a big push to be independent of foreign oil and trying to transition to green energy. It could have been a reason 20 years ago, but not now.
Military Asset - This was true until the cold ended. Now the US has bases all over the middle east and Turkey, a NATO ally, is emerging as a competent weapons manufacturer with far less support than we give Israel.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
It’s a radar outpost. We have real bases capable of projecting troops and airpower all over the middle east. We could move the radar into Jordan and be fine.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
They aren’t an ally now though. They screw with our politics and ignore anything they don’t want.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
The US has something like 18 bases in the middle east. Israel is not a strategic asset in any way shape or form.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
They have nukes but other than that we have better allies and better democracies in the region.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
The comparison was iron and bronze. Not steel and bronze.
- Comment on PSA: Do not approach the wildlife. 2 weeks ago:
Lived in Arizona for a decade. Can confirm people are really fucking dumb with hiking in the heat. They close the trails around Phoenix every summer now and people go right past those signs and die anyways. Arizona also has the dumb motorist law where if you need to be rescued from a flash flood you drove into, you’re paying for it. In general Arizona is one of those states where signs saying “this is dangerous, turn around” should really be heeded. The last one is the I-17 going up to Flagstaff. They have signs for when chains are required and areas to put them on. So when you’re a hundred miles south of that point and the big electronic sign says “Chains or Turn Around”… Well you know where I’m going with that. There are sheer drops off the mountainside.
- Comment on PSA: Do not approach the wildlife. 2 weeks ago:
I just don’t understand that. I can see not getting that moose are dangerous from the safety of your home. But at the point you’re seeing one in real life the size alone should be a giant red flag.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 2 weeks ago:
Eh 65 is survivable. We’re looking at more like 650.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
If he can murder his opponents he can declare the election fraudulent and ignore it too.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
Yep that’s the argument. At the end of the day it’s a stalling tactic to push the trial past election day.
- Comment on 'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?' 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fine attitude for penne ante stuff. But this is emergent and killing thousands of people right in front of us. We either pressure him or throw our values out the window anyways.