Like how Hamas always had hostages and the IDF only had prisoners but they were functionally the same and treatment of IDF prisoners included torture and rape.

The article says it’s because of aggressive propaganda campaign from Israel. Some also say because of western islamophobia. Maybe financial interests?

Oh, I’m not criticizing Israel. That’s a done conclusion. I’m questioning why politicians in other countries go along with this. As far as I can see, and that’s clearly shown, there’s very good lobbying, information campaigns and lots of money. Even the Eurovision contest was full of money and influencing. I’m assuming influence alone can’t do this, certainly not after protests. That leaves money. Who has a lot of money, meaning trillions, and reason to use it as leverage? Certain banks. Of course that’s forbidden to say, but that omerta thing going on is now part of the stereotype.

Then better stop the genocide before antisemitism gets normalized. It will increase the longer this continues.

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China could also attack Taiwan. That’ll go much smoother when USA is alone and distracted

Elders were a great source is information when the world didn’t change much. Now they know everything about a world that became irrelevant a decade or two ago.

It works like that when you assume the other country will desperately lower their export prices and eat the difference so in the end it’s still sold at the same price in the country raising the tariffs. In practice the greedy capitalists raise prices in the shops at the mere mention of the concept of tariffs, even when the product is produced locally.

It’s the far right conveyor belt. Strart with some influencers with reasonable arguments, push towards slightly more extreme viewpoints blaming minorities until they’re truly radicalized and never believe anything from outside the bubble.

If you have 2 factor authentication, and the authentication device is on another continent, you don’t have any means to access the accounts even if they demand it.

Add that’s why certain employers already give a burner phone to their employees if they have to go to the USA.

And then come the robots and AI, and there are no jobs anymore. Then they have a problem with too much unemployment.

The VDA now wants to shift from a full ban to a 90 percent CO2 reduction target for new vehicles by 2035. That means 10 percent of vehicles sold could be powered by internal combustion engines.

Here they go again. First it’s 90%. If that’s approved, they move to lobbying for 80%, 70%, … We’ve seen that move before.

Not that it matters, China can undercut them on price if they need to. German manufacturers have been cheapening their brand for increased profits, so that premium reputation matters less and less. Meanwhile cost of living isn’t going down.

“Warning”. It’s the plan. As long as there’s fighting, Netanyahu stays in power. Gaza is pretty much cooked already so a new enemy is needed.

He just doesn’t want to pay the 5%.

And you still have a lot of people saying that if we just traded more with Russia and didn’t add countries to NATO, this wouldn’t have happened.

And those that start out as adequate often get surrounded by yes-men and lose touch with reality, after which it gets weird.

That’s not true. He is very good at making any situation worse.

Money is power in this society, and billionaires have the most money. See also climate change what is again the choice between a few hundred billionaires and a livable planet, and the billionaires are winning.

Fertility rates and what influences them have been discusses a lot. It’s something influences by a multitude of factors, and each region in the world has a different mix or ratio of factors, so that makes it hard to disentangle. Income, inequality, living cost, childcare cost, housing cost, societal expectations, double income families, commuting, urbanization and environment less suitable for children, pressure to be productive, promotions as status, prioritization of spending money on goods and travel, change in gender roles, dating and marriage changed, more single people, pressure to monitor and invest more time in children, economic instability, the increasing threat of AI and robots taking job … The list continues.

The main problem for modern society is that these things can’t be changed without modifying society itself and/or lots of money is involved. So policy makers are stuck. They’re under pressure to increase fertility rate but only in a way that it doesn’t cost employers money and makes sure that consumption of goods doesn’t drop. They also have to make sure there are enough workers but increasing immigration is problematic. The end result is that they do some token gestures and just let it play out. They probably hope that big tech arrives with their AI and robots to do the jobs and help with elderly care.

And whatever Israel is doing does reflect back on the international Jewish community and tainting opinions. They’re still committing atrocities under a flag with the Star of David.