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#fedi22

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uktoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Please voteEnglish
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    3 days ago

    No, but in 2020 I didn’t vote for Trump.

    Ok. I guess you maybe voted Biden? Did he explicitly stand on not supporting Israel?

    Why did I get a genocide?

    You got a genocide?

    In the short term, genocide is happening because Hamas pissed Israel off one time too many and one time too much. In the long term, the genocide is happening because of historical and deep-rooted emnity between Israel and its neighbouring Arab states. It sucks. There are extremist arseholes on both sides who profit from continued conflict and violence against ‘the other’.

    Regardless, America doesn’t have absolute fiat in the region. Who you vote for makes little difference to what Netanyahu and Haniyeh will choose to do. But Trump is no less an ally of Israel than Biden is.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uktoAnd Finally...@feddit.uk•Canceled Experiment to Block the Sun Won’t Stop Rich Donors from TryingEnglish
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    7 days ago

    “Sunlight is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal sunlight supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring sunlight a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to sunlight. That’s an extreme solution. The other view says that sunlight is stuff like any other stuff, and like any other stuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it’s better to give stuff a value so that we’re all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this sunlight, and there are many different possibilities there.” - that Nestle CEO, probably.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uktoNews@lemmy.world•The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into lawEnglish
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    11 days ago

    “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses”

    Bollocks, more like.

    The earliest known laws are from The Code of Ur-Nammu from Mesopotamia written on tablets around  2100–2050 BCE. If Moses existed, he was probably chiselling away at his tables six or seven hundred years later.

    So I demand that these laws replace the 10 Commandments in schools. Who could forget such classics as:

    • If a prospective son-in-law enters the house of his prospective father-in-law, but his father-in-law later gives his daughter to another man, the father-in-law shall return to the rejected son-in-law twofold the amount of bridal presents he had brought.
    • If a man’s slave-woman, comparing herself to her mistress, speaks insolently to her, her mouth shall be scoured with 1 quart of salt.
    • If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver.
    • If a man stealthily cultivates the field of another man and he raises a complaint, this is however to be rejected, and this man will lose his expenses.