I would, because I don’t think this current body will last much longer.

If they replaced him who knows how long he’d be around?!

China’s the only country Israel can’t blackmail?

As far as I can tell it’s not “especially” weapons export, it’s exclusively weapons export. European arms embargoes are good, but China seems to have gone farther here and stands alone in willing to do a larger general ban. According to the article it’s not just one company, China has declared that Israel is a “red zone” for investors and have prohibited any investment. Though, sure, this might actually just be something being made up for the lawsuit.

The pragmatic choice would be to continue investing in Israel, which is why everyone else still does it.

Why isn’t anyone else making this pragmatic choice?

So is their necromancy, since tons of people declared “executed” by tabloids are later seen alive.

Why is China the only country reading the room?

Yeah I was gonna say, swag bag Machato ripped the mask away. This shit is just a prize we give to the empire’s dogs.

This Canadian chauvinism is really weird.

The internet is international. If you don’t want to talk to non-Canadians, go outside and talk to your neighbors. The internet is not for you because most people on most websites aren’t Canadian.

It’s dangerous to Monsanto’s bottom line, because they rely on having a monopoly on their seeds. I’d say farmers breaking patent law is a revolutionary act! But, at least for now, the government doesn’t care if you save heirloom seeds or your own cultivars.

For now.

Then the government will try to make worms and plants illegal.

Not authoritarianism: being the prison capital of the world, spying on everyone everywhere, police killing 1000+ a year, etc etc

That’s intentional, they’re making you feel insecure so you work harder.

There are degrees of sickness, right? An asshole business owner who feels entitled to run red lights and speed because they’re white and have a nice car and know the police chief’s son probably doesn’t need life imprisonment or execution.

I mean, I wouldn’t really be too upset if they were, but it just seems wasteful.

On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.

The “monster” framing precludes the idea that they even can be rehabilitated. Monsters don’t get healing, they just need to be put away or executed. That’s still an improvement over letting them run rampant, but it’s a waste.

So what if it is?

It doesn’t change the fact that they need to be involuntarily committed for rehabilitation and have their assets seized. For their health.

We briefly experimented with the idea during Reconstruction and then quickly got rid of it.

skill issue

You just haven’t gotten a toaster that requires you to register your account over a continuous internet connection.

A start.

We don’t have to consider capitalism to have some kind of doctrine Orthodoxy, as if Adam Smith was a prophet and that deviations from liberalism aren’t capitalist. It’s still capitalism even if it isn’t what Adam Smith envisioned.

Billionaires believe in capitalism, even if they don’t believe in liberalism.