queermunist she/her

Can’t wait for a hallucinating AI to report me for assault because I hugged someone in public.

Giving a shit about public health.

Or (heaven forbid) learning to draw!

Love to burn down an acre of rain forest to generate a picture of an ape.

This would require some kind of federation alliance of instances that check each other’s usernames to ensure no duplicates over the whole network. Sure, maybe lemmy.shit doesn’t recognize the network, but then they don’t get federated with.

This is definitely possible, but it doesn’t seem to be happening.

Without cheese or sour cream, just fresh tomato.

The black bean crunchwrap supreme can be made vegan if you order it fresco!

Practice I guess. I learned in a hs computers class where we had to do timed assignments, copying spreadsheets and transcribing speech and such. Hunt and Peck was simply too slow to do it, we had to learn our homerow to get a pass.

Also death to neoliberalism.

Saudi Arabia learned its lesson in the Yom Kippur War. Do not fuck with the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier.

As for Egypt, Israel is extremely important for transporting natural gas and, to a lesser extent, important as a trading partner. They also cooperate on security matters wrt terrorism.

Of course, the US is also very important for ensuring all its other puppets in the region play nice with Israel. Israel, itself, has influence because it is an extension of the US and more important than any mere puppet.

Israel isn’t the only reason OPEC has been brought to heel, but it was the last time OPEC ever used an oil embargo afaik

The spice must flow.

The presence of a Sword of Domacles hanging over the heads of every country in the region does have political uses, not just military ones.

An unsinkable aircraft carrier is a destabilizing force, what are you talking about?

Israel was critical for disempowering OPEC in the Yom Kippur War. We would not have gotten where we are today, with OPEC firmly under control, without Israel’s critical role in the conflict.

The bipartisan consensus on Israel is ironclad, elections don’t matter nearly as much as Israel does to the US empire.

I do no expect anything to change unless Israel, itself, enters a crisis that would require direct boots the ground. That might be the breaking point. Otherwise? Unlimited US/NATO bloc support.

Israel isn’t the only tool they need to control the likes of Egypt and Saudi Arabia - they need direct support too, especially Egypt, which would probably be controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood without US support. But, Israel is still critical as part of the broader strategy.

Saudi Arabia actually had consequences after the assassination of Jamal Koshogshi. Minor ones, but still.

Israel will never have consequences. It is just vastly more important - in fact, Israel is a tool to control Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the first place!

Saudi Arabia is kept in line by Israel’s presence in the region. OPEC was once a thorn in the US’s side and now they’re under control, and Israel was key for that.

Ukraine is a proxy war against Russia.

Supporting Israel is the point, it’s not a proxy.

They need Israel to control North Africa, the Arab Peninsula, and much of West Asia. They need Israel to control the movement of goods and people from Africa into Asia and Europe. They need Israel to control the Red Sea and help project power into the lower Mediterranean. They need Israel as their laboratory for surveillance technology and oppressive systems of control. Israel is the unsinkable aircraft carrier, the most valuable asset the US has. Israel is more important than most US states tbh

Conditions have gotten worse and the ruling class has chosen a scapegoat to distract people from the ongoing class war.

Democrats are already sacrificing climate targets, asylum seekers, and Palestinians. Yet another sacrifice on the pyre?

At some point you’re just voting for Republicans.

Most countries would be socialist.