Ben Shapiro is fighting everyone to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and it’s why even his followers are dropping like flies.
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101·16 hours agoHard left people don’t blame just Trump… You’re mistaking liberals for “hard left”, but liberals are right of center on most issues.
“Do as I say, not as I do” applies here.
It applies to you, silly. It’s YOUR government. Your need to be willing to fight for it, and it’s okay to ask for external help but it’s not okay to insist it’s everyone else’s problem.
I’ll be your Che, but you have to be Fidel first.
Actually, you do you, your country is heading for collapse that will primarily hurt you, and most of the rest of the world will be better off.
You don’t want to be gunned down, but you’re fine with me being murdered, I get it, no fucking shit.
You’re a coward, that’s the only thing you think everyone is afraid of. You’re fine with our people being drone struck at weddings or in ambulances, you’re fine with your country completely destroying our homelands and genociding us, I get it, no fucking shit. You only care about you and yours.
But again, they’re coming for you next.
Meanwhile, your own nation is shoveling money to the USA right now.
I assure you, my nation isn’t shoveling any money to the USA. I can’t wait for the empire to fall. I hope the coward citizens can make something good out of it, but I’m watching the same film I’ve seen many times before; a cult of personality comes to power and slowly strips away any mechanisms to stop him, then he targets and eliminates any opposition to his rule, secures military allegiance and sits on a throne and never leave. And finally when you’re ready to step up comes the torture camps and disappearances.
Enjoy having your vote counts before its cast for dear leader, if they decide to keep up the voting facade in the first place. Might just declare martial law and cancel elections permanently.
What a stupid rebuttal…
In response to being accurately accused of not doing anything to overthrow the fascist ruling class in your own country, you ask people from other countries to come do it for you? And you think you’re being smart?
10·5 days agoWhen will you learn that Democrats are not real opposition? They exist to give you the illusion that someone is fighting on your behalf, when they’re in power they fund genocides and war crimes while gaslighting you and backing off on most of their top issues, when Republicans are in power suddenly they care about minorities and women and healthcare again. Rinse and repeat.
Run on single-payer healthcare; when in power, establish and defend a Republican healthcare plan. Run on protecting Roe; let it get shredded after decades of fundraising off the threat. Run on student debt relief; deliver a means-tested maze and call it historic. Run on climate action; approve drilling, pipelines, and record military budgets while telling you to recycle harder. Run on labor rights; break strikes when workers become inconvenient. Run on immigrant justice; expand deportation machinery, cages, surveillance, and border militarization, then act horrified when Republicans use the same tools more openly. Run on criminal justice reform; fund more cops. Run on democracy; crush third parties, sue to keep opponents off ballots, and tell you there is no alternative.
And every election, the pitch is the same: “This is the most important election of your life.” Not because they intend to transform anything, but because fear is the only thing they have left to sell. They point at Republicans and say, “Look how bad they are,” as if being slightly less openly cruel is a political vision.
The function of the Democratic Party is not to defeat the right. It is to absorb anger, neutralize movements, discipline the left, and protect the ruling class from any genuine alternative. They take the language of justice, diversity, feminism, labor, climate, and peace, strip it of any threat to capital or empire, and sell it back to you as branding.
They do not fail because they are weak. They fail because their donors, consultants, lobbyists, and institutions are getting exactly what they paid for: no universal healthcare, no end to empire, no serious redistribution, no confrontation with capital, no real democracy in the workplace, no liberation from police violence, no break with apartheid, no politics beyond managed decline.
Republicans tell you they are your enemy. Democrats tell you they are your friend while helping your enemy build the cage.
At some point, we have to stop mistaking betrayal for incompetence.
6·5 days agohttps://www.home-assistant.io/
Home Assistant IS the state of the art. Local and privacy first, very powerful and has a huge community that provides a huge catalog of integrations that fill the gap that official integrations don’t cover. Incredibly customizable and capable.
You can buy their official hardware, install it on a raspberry pi to make a dedicated hardware yourself, or install it on any computer.
Their hardware has matured and is now in the polished luxury category, so I would only consider it if you start using it and know you’re going to use it enough to justify it, just install it on a computer or Nas/(docker) if you have one and try it out.
There is a learning curve, plenty of good YouTube tutorials and a very helpful community online though. Have fun!
5·6 days agoNo… It’s a soft metal, but its melting point is 180.50 °C (Mercury’s is −38.8290 °C)
162·6 days agoFun fact, people often use css frameworks as a starting point and override a lot of built in classes to add their own look.
It is. I don’t understand how they thought any of that was sarcasm…
2·9 days agoExcept the Ukrainian rulers are bending over backwards to suck up to and support the US and Israel in this war and everything else.
“hospitality suite” is not a private suite, it’s one big room with a shitty buffet and is so crowded you won’t want to be in there if you care about the game at all.
If you’re going to fact check someone in defense of a corporation, at least check the facts your self. https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war
Anthropic absolutely is in bed with fascists, their objection isn’t about the use of Claude to identify targets, it is explicitly about it being able to engage targets. They are totally fine with their AI identifying a school full of children as a terrorist command base as long as a human Nazi pushes the “fire” button. They’re well aware the human Nazis aren’t checking the AI’s work and the purpose of the AI is to identify targets that lead to heavy casualties, so the human Nazis don’t have to manually scan a map and cross reference it with Intel, the point is speed and they get to say AI did it when they blow up a school.
Anthropic is proud to be part of the genocide in Gaza, and wants to be part of future wars and genocides. “Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war
And their objection is that their AI isn’t reliable enough not to engage American fighters by accident. They want fully autonomous weapons: “Fully autonomous weapons. Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Even fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
You feel free to believe it’s all about civilians, but they didn’t make a fuss or pull out of using AI for war when it repeatedly identified children as targets, they only object to allowing Claude to also engage.
The fascists aren’t upset anthropic’s ai won’t let them identify children as targets, they’re upset it won’t also execute them.
You’re disingenuously portraying them as refusing to choose targets, which is exactly what they wanted from this whole drama.
They wanted confusion in the air and people to defend them, because they have their manufactured reputation to protect. They’re not a moral AI company, they just want people to think (and repeat) that they are.
Are Trump supporters part of the intellectual debate on democracy?
No, we’re not a monolith, but not everyone can contribute intellectually. Yes, Fateh and Mahmoud Abbas are widely seen as collaborators, and have been for a long time now, but especially what they’ve done to oppress Palestinians since the Gaza genocide started.
I think Marwan Bargouti has potential to unite people, and if anything radicalizes you to not collaborate with Israel it’s Israeli prison. And he has spoken more recently in support of a one state solution so I think he has potential, but the narrative that he’s our Mandela is a romantic myth; imagine if Mandela fought for a black only ghettos as a state within South Africa instead of pushing for economic sanctions against the apartheid government.
That said, his children arguing for his release using the two state solution rhetoric doesn’t have as much weight as you’re implying it does.
So, I am also not going to start going around like a western asshole shitting on people on the ground who risk their safety, going against the genocidal Israeli right on a project of shared grief like this. In the exact same way that I don’t go around blanketly condemning groups that take on armed struggle to exercise the Palestian people’s legal right to armed resistance to occupation under international law.
False equivalence.
And for the same reason, I’m going to call the other commenter out, just like I would (and have) call out someone for blanketly denouncing Palestinian armed resistance.
Stick to the latter. “this kind of attitude is ridiculous and disconnected from the reality of Palestinians” this is you engaging in an argument on behalf of Palestinians and their reality, and you should expect to be called out in the same manner as the user you called out, who expressed an opposing Palestinian viewpoint.
Why do you feel entitled to express a Palestinian viewpoint but they aren’t? Have a measure of consistency in applying your criticism.
to recreate a kind of monolith that you can call “a very mature body of literature” (and whoever is outside that is “not part of the debate”, i.e., outside the monolith).
I didn’t exclude them from the intellectual argument and literature, they are absent from it.
Not every Palestinian wants Marwan released, and not for the reason you might think, some view him as a violent murderer who stands in the way of peace, believe it or not a lot of Palestinians oppose armed resistance, which you rightfully said shouldn’t be condemned.
I hope I’m not being repetitive and I hope I’m getting my point across. We’re not a monolith, but not every opinion deserves to be entertained respectfully by the simple merit of coming from a Palestinian’s mouth. I’ll bring up Trump supporters as an analog, a lot of them genuinely believe they are supporting the best future for their country and people (we’ll ignore the truly racist and just want others to suffer portion for now), does their view that Trump is protecting democracy and freedom need to be amplified and given equal weight because Americans are not a monolith?
It’s a stretchy analogy, I know, we live in Idiocracy now, but you understand what I’m saying?
I think you mean well, but I think you consume too much liberal Zionist propaganda, which is really convincing if you don’t interrogate it strongly.
How do you justify that claim with that link? What in that article supports the idea that it was debunked?
No…
Anecdote: “he’s a nice guy who didn’t have a childhood so he hung out with children, he couldn’t have possibly done anything wrong, I know him” -> opinion
Victim testimony: “he took advantage of my trust and innocence and molested me. I didn’t realize I’m being abused and it has given me a lifetime of mental suffering” -> data
You can say you don’t trust the victims, but it isn’t the same as proclaiming someone definitely didn’t commit a crime because I have a positive experience with them.
Yes, they’re tactics. Tactics to create a false equivalency of suffering between the occupied and the occupier.
These groups don’t call for ending occupation as those words mean, they mean leaving the West Bank. If Israel exists as a Jewish supremacist ethno-religous state on stolen Palestian land, the occupation isn’t over. If they dismantle all their checkpoints, if they tear down the wall on Palestinian territory, if they remove their soldiers and stop shooting out children for sport, they’re still occupying our land, our only access to the ocean, our oil, our fresh water sources, our fertile lands, our grandparents’ graveyards, and our homes to which we still have keys. The “two state solution” is a liberal Zionist tool used to make the colonization of Palestine palatable for western audiences.
Ending occupation means a free Palestine from the river to the sea, and these groups aim to twist the meaning of words to make forcing us into a small land with no military and choking us economically so we continue to leave in search of better life. They want to end “occupation” so they can focus on colonization.
Of course the more extreme don’t like that plan, they want to exterminate Palestinians and get it over with as quickly as possible. That’s where their opposition comes from, not from a principal disagreement on the existence of a Jewish only state on colonized land, they all agree on that part.
And you can meaningfully debate with other Palestinians their efficacy or on diversity of tactics but I don’t think the jury is out on that debate
You know, we aren’t just sitting around debating these issues a few times a year when Israel is in the news. We spent decades thinking about this, and we have a very mature body of literature on the topic. Ghada Karmi, Ali Abunimah, Yousef Munayyer, Mouin Rabbani, Hani Faris, Edward Said, and Ghassan Kanafani are just a few Palestinian intellectuals/authors you could read to better understand this very much settled debate.
The existence of collaborators and propagandized Palestinians who aren’t well read on their own history (as a product of the ongoing colonization) doesn’t mean the “jury is out on the debate”, they aren’t part of the debate.
such that would compel outsiders to declare something like this a meaningless joke.
Yet you feel compelled as an outsider to speak with such authority and conviction.
Back in 2018, there was already evidence companies were using tariffs as cover to jack prices up beyond the tariff itself. An AEA study found washing machine prices went up almost 12%, and dryers went up about the same amount even though dryers were not tariffed. Once you include dryers and domestic brands too, prices rose by more than the tariff alone would explain.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20190611
And this is not just old news. In a 2025 New York Fed survey, about three quarters of firms said they passed tariff costs on to customers, and some said they also raised prices on goods that were not even tariffed. The Fed’s Beige Book flat out said some of the price hikes were not just from tariffs or higher costs, but from “opportunism.”
By 2026, the Fed was saying pass-through was basically complete. One Federal Reserve note found the tariffs put in place through November 2025 had raised core goods prices by 3.1% by February 2026. Another found both imported goods and domestic goods got more expensive after the 2025 tariff announcements.
And of course, once prices go up, companies are not eager to bring them back down. Reuters reported in February 2026 that businesses were unlikely to lower prices even after tariff relief, and were more likely to use that relief to offset other costs and chase refunds instead.
I know of some companies that didn’t raise prices or only raised them a small amount, but all the ones I heard of were mostly small companies making specialized products and depended on the loyalty of their customers.
Palestinian here. FUCK that shit.
Israelis are occupying our land and genociding us in the open. These attempts to paint them as equal victims only perpetuate the genocide and colonization of Palestine.
Anything less than allowing us our legal right of return and giving us reparations is just letting them get away with their decades of crimes because some of us dared to fight back.
We call Palestinians engaging in these events collaborators, or generously we could use the Zionist/American favorable term “useful idiots.”
Imagine a woman being publicly beat by her husband for decades and finally decides enough is enough and gouges his eye, and then holds an event to mourn both her scars/wounds and his eye. Would you be celebrating it, or would you say “hold up, something isn’t right here”?
You could also read the article you shame people and declare they haven’t read:
On the other hand, some pro-Palestinian voices have suggested that the ceremony advances a liberal Zionist narrative of false equivalence between Israeli and Palestinian suffering.
2·24 days agoDo you even know what “tankie” means? Do you even know what it means to you?
If you ever decide to read non colonial history books and learn something new instead of calling people Tankies when you can’t engage, I’ll truly celebrate.
I haven’t once said anything “tankie”, in defense of Russia, yet you keep insisting I’m spreading Russian progranda despite grounding and citing my claims in both western liberal media and Jewish Holocaust encyclopedia.
You lack the ability to accept criticism, you’ve said nothing of substance, you’ve provided no sources for your claims, and you repeatedly dismissed anti-Russia sources as tankie propaganda.
This isn’t for you, btw, you’re hopeless. It’s for anyone reading your nonsense to see how you engage with facts that disagree with what you think you know.
Right, intelligent aliens communicating, governing, trading, and fighting alongside humans in interstellar wars with faster-than-light travel, space lasers, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, planet-destroying superweapons, cybernetics, cloning, advanced prosthetics, and energy weapons does not qualify as science fiction because it also has mysticism, prophecy, telekinesis, and sword fights…