That comparison is completely out of touch. You making a bank account means entering a strictly regulated contractual relationship. And for starters banks will require you to have an address and send letters to it. Do you want every online website to first send you an activation code by post?
And that is the thinly veiled real goal here. If you need a proper age verification process on most platforms, you need an identification process on most platforms. And that conveniently allows to associate everything you do on every platform to you personally. So if the government doesn't like what you do, they can oppress you more easily.
If a convention to pick a candidate was so bad, why did the Republicans win with it? The Republicans had proper primaries. They won.
As for the importance of Gaza, here are some early numbers analyzed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/election-harris-gaza-policy
Interesting. The only source for the "Cancer Jews" is a fascist twitter channel, who has a video of attacks on a tram with that statement. However in the video such a chant cannot be heard.
https://x.com/LoneWolfRA/status/1856067780497551609/video/1?mx=2
"For justice & freedom. Seeks confrontation. #liberal #secular #economist #allochtoon #Amsterdammer Links opgevoed, Rechts ontwikkeld" The last part translates to "raised on the left, developed on the right"
Also the article seems to praise Geerd Wilders, who is known to be a fascist since over a decade.
Why is it that Zionists are always in bed with Fascists?
Lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris
Scholars have perceived an ideological shift in Morris's work starting around 2000, during the Second Intifada. Morris's perspective has been described as having become more conservative and more negative towards Palestinians, viewing the 1948 expulsions as a justified act.
Baruch Kimmerling
In an article in HNN, Baruch Kimmerling discusses Morris' 2004 Haaretz interview in which Morris states:>
if he was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete job. I know that this stuns the Arabs and the liberals and the politically correct types. But my feeling is that this place would be quieter and know less suffering if the matter had been resolved once and for all. If Ben-Gurion had carried out a large expulsion and cleaned the whole country - the whole Land of Israel, as far as the Jordan River. It may yet turn out that this was his fatal mistake. If he had carried out a full expulsion - rather than a partial one - he would have stabilized the State of Israel for generations... Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.
Kimmerling describes Morrris's views as "shocking" and says that Morris "has abandoned his historian’s mantle and donned the armor of a Jewish chauvinist who wants the Land of Israel completely cleansed from Arabs" He criticizes the analysis of Morris as misunderstanding the impact of the refugee problem on the current conflict, and the magnitude of an even larger refugee population.[35]
I encourage to read all of the "Praise and criticism" section in his wiki. Benny Morris is definitely not a reliable source.
problem is that behind closed doors he repeatedly said, he doesnt care. SA is de-facto a major supporter of Israel even if they don't hold formal ties. At some point a few month back MBS said he is scared of getting assassinated over his support for Israel. Meanwhile signs of solidarity with Palestinians are banned in SA.
Until SA proves by actions that they changed course, i see these statements as lip services of a scared dictator.
Israel embracing their plans for a "greater Israel" including parts of Egypt, the Arabian peninsula, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and a bit of Turkey more and more openly might force him and the other collaborating Arab regimes to genuinely change their position. Otherwise Israel will just annex them one by one.
Well, a lot of the "centre right" in Europe also has moved to political positions that used to be exclusive to the far right. Ecological issues are only one area. Civil liberties, authoritarian surveillance and police suppression, freedom of personal choice and lifestyle...
That is just plainy wrong.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx
This is from end of March.
The DNC did everything they could to demotivate and alienate their base. Everyone who cheered that on instead of demanding proper primaries didn't just loose the elections, but also showed a moral desolace
So first it always was Biden, now other choice permitted. Then it was Harris, no other choice permitted. Now it is "Democrat", which is a pretty broad spectrum.
And that show exactly the failure of the Harris/Biden supporters. Instead of pushing for a viable candidate that doesn't support the genocide in Gaza, people doubled down on a center right-right pro genocide candidate. And this strategy didn't just loose the election, it also shows the complicity of everyone who supported that campaign. Who chose a secure election loss with genocide support, over daring to bring a non genocidal candidate to the ballot.
Social harm is much higher with alcohol. There used to be a graph plotting both social and physical harm, but it got replaced with the one you criticise, effectively stating the same thing. Alcohol in its effects for both the individual and society is a hard drug, like coke, heroin or meth.
But the way you get defensive makes me wonder why aconowledging alcohol to be a serious drug with huge damage both to individuals and society is so difficult.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7308a1.htm
180k/330 Mio = 54 Alcohol related deaths per year and 100k people in the US.
60k / 80 Mio = 75 Alcohol related deaths per year and 100 k people in Germany.
More people per capita die in Germany from alcohol abuse than in the US. I have no idea which numbers you have there. They are way off.
The inflated art market is a great tool for money laundering and tax evasion. There is a lot of people with a lot of money who care.