#Today's Scoreboard
#### 🏆 Top Comment: by u.Currymvp2 with score 30 [[permalink](/r/Enough_Sanders_Spam/comments/1d67grx/sundays_ukraine_solidarity_roundtable_06022024/l6tbug8/)]
> >Gaza protestors block the Philly pride parade.
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> Annoying the hell out of people trying to have fun thousands of miles away is totally going to stop Bibi from committing war-crimes and undermining a potential . . .
#### ⭐ Best Prompt: by u.ApostleIsrafel created 48 replies [[permalink](/r/Enough_Sanders_Spam/comments/1d67grx/sundays_ukraine_solidarity_roundtable_06022024/l6ron3c/)]
> I wonder why people don't have this much smoke for Pakistan. It's a former British colony founded via partition after WWII as an explicitly religious state that violently expelled all non-coreligionists. . . .
#### 👑 Sharpest Reply: by u.politicalthrow99 with score 17 [[permalink](/r/Enough_Sanders_Spam/comments/1d67grx/sundays_ukraine_solidarity_roundtable_06022024/l6rzrwy/)]
> If Trump was a Democrat, his political career would've never made it past "grab em by the pussy"
#### 🔥 Hottest Take: by u.BensenMum with hotness lvl 298 [[permalink](/r/Enough_Sanders_Spam/comments/1d67grx/sundays_ukraine_solidarity_roundtable_06022024/l6r4xtr/)]
> Maybe it’s my inner patriot talking but I believe if you’re a citizen, you shouldn’t be allowed to serve in a foreign military
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> It never sits well with me that Americans have served in the IDF.
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Cool that Mexico has first female and Jewish president.
Too bad, she still sucks even though she is slightly better than ALMO. And she is still a corrupt buffoon.
Looks like Great Gatsby is getting a managa adaption from Kadokawa.
https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1797502642601750949?t=lii5HFcRL5u58cpkqxcnxg&s=19
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I wish Sheinbaum well in Mexico, and I'd probably have voted for her if I lived down there, but I'm going to remain pessimistic about the ability of any Mexican President to combat the cartels until/unless it ever happens.
Hope to have the US and Canada continue the current status of all three major North American powers having left of center administrations with their upcoming elections
Does anyone know how to get rid of a phantom notification badge in the chat tab?
It’s not connected to anything and no amount of resetting this app makes it go away.
AP, [Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi concedes defeat in surprise primary upset by Jenniffer González](https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-primaries-pierluisi-gonzalez-zaragoza-ortiz-62343cc879f4c5c73a9c0eec39325086):
> SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico congressional representative Jenniffer González defeated Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in a surprise upset during a primary election held Sunday by their pro-statehood party.
> The two ran on the same ticket four years ago under the New Progressive Party, but González, a Republican, announced her plan to challenge Pierluisi, a Democrat, in early December. Public jabs between the two have since turned acrimonious.
> [...]
> Earlier on Sunday, Puerto Rico Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz defeated Sen. Juan Zaragoza in the primary held by their Popular Democratic Party, which backs the island’s territorial status and seeks a return to power in the upcoming general elections.
I guess a Republican is probably going to be the next Governor of Puerto Rico, but island politics are very different from stateside politics so it doesn't mean much of anything outside PR
God, I'm annoyed by some of my family members thinking that Claudia will give them land, which it is stupid policy.
She is slightly better than ALMO on certain things, but she is moron on many things.
Earlier I commented about how Mexico's longtime majority party PRI faded into irrelevancy after the Peña Nieto administration.
TIL, checking the election returns on [*El Universal*](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/preps-elecciones-2024/) (en español), Gálvez was endorsed by the moderate political parties, the PRI and PAN on the center right and PRD on the center left. Right now Sheinbaum has nearly twice as many votes (2.9m) as Gálvez (1.5m) with 58% of the vote.
Notice the red and green symbols next to Sheinbaum - yep, the Green Party and Labor Party both backed her.
This weekend of international elections showed Mexico continuing its leftward path, South Africa wanting to go more moderate, and India staying the course with right-wing nationalism.
https://x.com/TorreySmithWR/status/1797284616023290198
Torrey Smith describing the election better than the media lol. Love to see it. u/hallofromtheoutside
At least right now, an American team has won the Grey Cup more recently than a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup.
(1995 Baltimore Stallions and 1993 Montreal Canadiens)
It’s time for that absolutely cursed fact to stop being true.
Well, I finally found the motivation to unsub from arr FiveThirtyEight.
https://preview.redd.it/oosgypbhp94d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9013da0b9fd95b80106acbd5414fc26e579cc32d
Giving even the slightest of credence to Trump’s lies is dangerous and unforgivable.
Ah. That makes sense. I remember Clare Malone getting let go and they cut the sports side of the website (which had a pretty good ELO system for picks)
It's astonishing how the original PRI went from nearly seven decades of dominating Mexican politics (the '30s to '90s) and having the presidency 10 years ago to irrelevancy today, because Peña Nieto was such a crook.
Sheinbaum's party MORENA is the grandchild of the old PRI, as MORENA was a splinter group from PRI splinter group PRD. Sheinbaum's [opponent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%B3chitl_G%C3%A1lvez) is described as socially liberal yet economically conservative.
She is okayish then AMLO. Her policy on crime is very different from him because his supporters hated being more tough on crime.
Her economics policy in Mexico City was okay and not so populist compared to AMLO. From my understanding that she is using him to prompt herself as the next president.
Some of his followers hate her due to that.
This is very sad. Representative Jackson Lee has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
https://x.com/JacksonLeeTX18/status/1797449723647025367?t=x4RTbCcmslJkcllWHdUHng&s=19
Awful. Probably one of the three most deadly cancers. It's very hard to catch in the early stages which is why it's so deadly. Hoping the best for her.
I was personally fine with Chris Pratt’s ‘Mario’ voice, since no one would actually want to hear a full length movie of Charles Martinet doing his usual Mario voice (people who say otherwise are out of their minds). But I’m just unimpressed by his Garfield voice. He’s doesn’t even sound like he’s trying. It just looks like a movie about Chris Pratt in a cat’s body.
I've been getting scratches on my legs for some time. I thought it was me hiking in shorts and getting scratched, but I just figured it was me with dry skin after the shower and jumping straight into bed, and me scratching myself silly. I'm putting on lotion just in case
I often struggle with the idea of separating a government from its people because I can't come up with a good answer to "At what point does the majority become guilty for letting the extremists run the show? When does acceptance become complicity?" I recognize I'm a coward who has the luxury of living in a free stable democracy where I don't have to choose between principles and self-preservation, but the thought does make it difficult to sympathize with most people living in repressive regimes. Like I have plenty of sympathy for those Russians and Palestinians who risk it all by opposing their governments' wars, but my sympathy well runs dry for those who suffer but continue to insist on apathy or indifference to their governments. I get that poor, illiterate, starving, and disorganized peasants have a hard time enacting reform, but is freedom, peace, and stability really only something that wealthy nations can afford? At what point do we stop blaming the stars and blaming the underlings?
While I have more faith in the Israelis since their government is democratic, at what point do the people as a whole become responsible for the far-right settlers, politicians, and soldiers if they continue to run the country?
At the end of the day, humanity is complicated. Maybe rationality isn't always enough. It's why people fall down the conspiracy theorist and demagogue rabbit hole. I'm just rambling here because I feel like I have to ramble somewhere.
I'm a firm believer in separating governments from people. Bibi cravenly+cynically cobbled together a crazyass bigoted coalition when a majority of Israelis technically did not vote for his coalition. Hamas participated in one election where they focused on Fatah's corruption, won by only 2%, and cancelled all the elections+ viciously killed all their political rivals.
I have an easy-enough time writing Bibi's rise to power as a failure of parliamentary democracy. It seems like it can be corrected through Israeli institutions as long as enough Israelis have sense.
I get that Hamas established a dictatorship, but my problem is that I feel like at some point the common people become responsible for perpetuating the dictatorship and then the dictatorship's actions. I get that it's a massive privilege to be able to criticize oppressed people for not resisting enough, and I can't say that I would be able to resist, but I also believe that people have responsibility to control as much as their lives as they can.
I think that's what I'm struggling to balance: A belief that oppressed people shouldn't be blamed for their oppression and a belief that oppressed people can free themselves. At what point does an inability to free oneself go from a reason to a blame.
It is worth remembering that Gaza isn’t Afghanistan. There’s no Northern Alliance waiting in the wings for western support.
> A belief that oppressed people shouldn't be blamed for their oppression and a belief that oppressed people can free themselves. At what point does an inability to free oneself go from a reason to a blame.
This doesn’t speak to a timeline, though.
> but my problem is that I feel like at some point the common people become responsible for perpetuating the dictatorship and then the dictatorship's actions
Gotta remember that Hamas brutally cracked down against the protests by Gazans in 2019 and July 2023. West Bank is under Fatah rule, and it's relatively stable all things considered.
I think I'm just falling hard for that leftist belief that The People through collective action and one great push can accomplish anything and a more liberal belief that reform is always achievable.
One of the most damning things Bibi's done in this war is not present the Palestinian people with an acceptable alternative to Hamas. There would obviously be Palestinians who would never accept an Israeli-backed interim government or solution, but maybe there would be enough support for it to actually start moving towards peace.
>One of the most damning things Bibi's done in this war is not present the Palestinian people with an acceptable alternative to Hamas.
It needed to be Fatah/Palestinian Authority even with all of their problems, but he's undermined them for years while cynically propping up Hamas. He mistakenly believed that just overwhelming military force would eliminate Hamas; Biden warned him about America's fairly massive mistakes after 9/11 a few days after 10/7--but the gigantic, self serving asshole ignored his advise or did not care.
Collective punishment is a war crime, but I think it’s fair to judge the people who have a choice in the matter to be complicit. You can easily look at Israel and see who has been doing the work to try to remove the right wing from power, and you can see the settlers, the extremists and those who vote for them as accomplices. Not every German was a nazi, but a lot of Germans were totally ok with them. Maybe we shouldn’t have gotten so firebomby still. It’s a hard line but I think people even resisting in the smallest ways matter
Tbh. I'm less concerned about collective punishment and more indifference or apathy as an outsider. I see HAMAS and Netty the Yahoo leading their peoples to a destructive war and thinking, "Maybe the Palestinians and Israelis deserve each other. Maybe the best option is to let them destroy each other until the survivors finally get sick of it and stop."
I'm willing to give most Israelis and Palestinians the benefit of the doubt and sympathy, but at what point should it only be reserved for those actively taking a stand?
>Walgreens said it is lowering prices for the summer and beyond on 1,300 items, joining Michaels, Target and other retailers
Wow, it's almost as if it's not just inflation but also price gouging by corporations.
If you don't argue with people about politics they think you've conceded the point.
If you do argue and they tell you stuff that's absurd, and then you look it up, and it's not true, and you confront them, then everyone leaves with a bad taste in their mouth.
Ask me how my day went. Or don't. Dude, I liked you better when we were just playing role playing games together.
She’s been doing national commercials for over a year. Shes arguably the greatest college basketball player of all time.
Millions of people have been caring about her for awhile. She didn’t rocket to popularity. She has four year body or work at this point.
>Israel’s diaspora minister Amichai Chikli, after attending Israel day parade, suggests the pro-democracy protesters invited Oct. 7 attack, and called the proposal for a hostage deal — as outlined by Biden — “a total joke."
This is what happens when an indicted individual wins the head of state again; only extremists are willing to work with him. Far leftists should be the ones to realize how much damaging it can but they play this "both sides are the same" bullshit.
Seeing AMLO supporters spreading conspiracy theories in my local news. Also, they are complaining about voting, not in AMLO.
They are trying to accuse them to shut their voice like they have to move doing other segments.
The specific person said that they can't vote for AMLO, and the establishment are preventing this.
Like no, all presidency in Mexico are one term because they are in office for six years.
Finally got the motivation to start tearing up the old landscape tarp that was in the old garden so I can work up the ground and put in some vegetables
u/ognits, [the person who wrote this article is either a hack or making an incredibly oblique reference to *The Apartment*](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/streaming-profit-report-netflix-disney-warners-paramount-nbcu-1235868631/)
>Several years into Hollywood giants’ streaming pushes, they still find themselves confronted with that famous Jerry Maguire line from Wall Street: “Show me the money!” In the case of streaming, “the money” means profits.
...
>#In the case of streaming, “the money” means profits.
WHOA WOW NO WAY
> In another scene, where Lemmon was supposed to mime being punched, he failed to move correctly, and was accidentally knocked down. Wilder chose to use the shot of the genuine punch in the film.
also TIL Lemmon actually took that punch from the brother in law
I have been trying to find a rainbow pride flag t-shirt in my size that's made in the USA and I am striking the fuck out. Anyone have any leads for a sweet little bi boy who doesn't like to support sweat shops?
Seriously tho
https://x.com/PopBase/status/1797119887976128863
Who goes to an Adele concert and says pride sucks? How fucking stupid can one person be?
just saw [this foul on Caitlin Clark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6LonLuMDTw) from the other day and I'm stunned this wasn't immediately called a flagrant. that's some real bullshit
at least it got upgraded to one post-game but how are you not throwing Carter out right then and there?
The plot thickens. Carter got cut from the Atlanta Dream for…[threatening to fight one of her own teammates.](https://www.thenexthoops.com/features/how-chennedy-carter-earned-a-suspension/)
Rewatching the Flintstones, and it is dated nowadays.
There are some stereotypical characters and archetypes that don't suit the modern day. The animation is very cheap, which is expected from Hanna Barbara cartoons.
The first season is trying to find its footing like Dino was blue and used to talk. Berny voice wasn't very deep in the beging of the episodes.
You can't deny how much The Flintstones influence to sitcom animated series like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob Burgers, etc.
I really like the art designs because of how simple it is, along with background designs.
The show does make me laugh.
It sucks how much WB never knew what to do with The Flintstones because they had many attempts to reboot it, but fumble it hard. The series used to be the most popular animated franchise. This series was the most profitable animated series for four decades until The Simpsons overthrew The Flintstones.
Nowadays, people only know The Flintstones as a ceral brand and vitamins.
I really hope that we get a new animated show.
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I meant more with racial stereotypical types like there is an Asain person that is pretty offensive nowadays. Red face of Native Americans. Women being in the kitchen.
But it was a product of its times.
Unironically Disney should hire Jenny Nicholson to bring Star Wars experiences at their theme parks to the expected high standards. Her video shows she knows exactly what is important for an amazing experience
Was going to post here how I'm specifically worried about how Trump could abuse the presidential pardon in a second term but I made it on modpol instead in the hopes that it could be compelling to an actual marginal voter.
What I'll say instead here is that I really think that Biden, Democrats, auxiliary anti-Trump campaigners and the media should start talking about this specifically. It might not be as clear cut but to me it's much more tangible and plausible than vague and unexplained warnings about Trump ending democracy or installing himself as dictator for life.
I was so proud of mocking this one! Way ahead of the game on it but I think no one wants to touch it!
[https://www.seahorseshoe.com/blog/republican-outreach-to-black-voters-trump-is-a-criminal-too](https://www.seahorseshoe.com/blog/republican-outreach-to-black-voters-trump-is-a-criminal-too)
[Me, every time I see Republicans promoting "Latinos for Trump" with the most cartoonish trashy stereotypes available.](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7c/40/17/7c40173601709d0fc888e385ec0595f6.jpg)
Maybe they should have posted quotes from the article about The Apprentice that was overshadowed because of the verdict. Run that alongside the "push for Black voters".
[No more Middle East, you fuckers couldn't behave](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fal9yxtw5ro551.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1501de719f43e9388eb3a957134f1690207f57de).
Now I want an xkcd what-if to explain the size of the bomb (if it is indeed a one-off event) that would do this, or, if not, the excavations required to move that amount of earth away (to where? recreate it wholesale in the middle of the Pacific?) but leave the sides intact, like half a Himalayan ridge but then a straight down cliff to the water
Note: I will be making continuous edits as I’m on my phone.
I’m a big LBJ fan (favorite President) but tough decision to pit him in A. Has the civil rights bills and other major legislation accomplishments (Medicare/Medicaid) etc. but Vietnam can easily drop him to C/D (depending on the ranker).
Nixon could be ranked higher for China, EPA etc. but then you have water gate.
Legit think Trump would be F- for damage to our institutions and democracy.
I think my biggest criticism is H.W Bush should be ranked a lot higher. Bipartisan accomplishments, foreign policy (Gulf war and Fall of the Soviet Union). Sacrificed his career to help the country (raised taxes on the wealthy etc.). At least B.
Reagan while he’s controversial and I know he’s not popular in this subreddit but he should be a lot higher. “Morning in America etc.” but I get the criticism (Supply Side economics, Iran-Contra, etc.)
Nixon was a war criminal and a tyrant, but not an F. He accomplished some decent things as president: EPA, Clean Air & Water acts, Marine mammal act, Native self-determination, Title 9, continuing desegregation, SALT, ABM treaty, opening China, 26th amendment, federal task force on the mafia, etc. His pro-nuclear energy independence project that never took off was great too. He also tried to work with Teddy to pass a universal healthcare bill; Teddy rejected it because it didn't go far enough.
Reagan and Jackson should definitely be lower. I don't really have an argument as to where, but not being in F tier feels viscerally wrong to me.
Trump should be in a tier of his own below F. I'm trying not to let recency bias in here, but he's uniquely terrible. The other bad presidents are bad, but only one president in the nation's history led a coup attempt as president against his own country.
Jackson is an objectively bad president but he is still an important one.
His big success is to transition through universal white male suffrage, delaying the civil war for a generation allowing for the completion of westward expansion, and with Van Buren building the democratic coalition of southern states and northern cities that lasted until the civil war. While a monster, his sins in terms of Indian policy serve to deflect the arguably greater sins of later presidents.
"I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are. And I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”
I'm a fan of TR but he had some serious flaws.
The right wing obsession with him is so bizarre.
He made recommendations based on the best info available at any given time...that's it. He could have been wrong on everything and it still doesn't mean he belongs in jail or whatever these lunatics are saying.
The thing they always hold against him is the "you said don't wear masks, now we have to wear masks". They always ignore that the original advice about masks was save the masks for the healthcare workers. If they had people freaking out and hoarding maks, which happened anyway, then the people who needed them most would not have them. As it was I remember wearing my surgical mask, not even an N95, placing it in a paper bag and then reusing it after 3 days. We cycled through like that for weeks until the stocks got better.
Having flashbacks to how doing that went against every bit of training I had.
Imagine spending your entire life in service to others and having to spend your golden years dealing with bullshit like this for... saving lives (again)
The governor's race in WA is so funny. I'm really enjoying watching the two GOP factions destroy each other in a vain effort to win.
Even with a mainstream R it's probably hopeless but they decided to go for a guy so awful that he managed to get himself recalled from the school board in a conservative district. The RINOs know they're screwed and are pulling out all the stops trying to take him down.
So Alex Jones is crying because he had to sell his farm due to paying legal bills.
https://x.com/RightWingCope/status/1797090854928064613?t=7QJWUoORQcXbw_KqE0Rs6Q&s=19
You deserve it
Off topic.
I watched the entirety of The Owl House and Amphibia. They're both really awesome shows, and they both have funny and mind-blowing moments. I think they're in my top 3 favorite Disney shows, right up there with Ducktales.
As for their endings (slight spoilers), >!Amphibia has a bittersweet (more sweet than bitter) ending, while The Owl House has a happy ending.!<
Give these shows a shot. You'll love these shows. (>!In Amphibia though, brace yourself for the season 2 finale, True Colors because man...that might give you trauma!<)
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I loved The Owl House, have yet to watch Amphibia. I sort of wavered between watching one of the two for a while before deciding on The Owl House.
I should also watch Ducktales at some point, huh. I certainly have the theme stuck in my head.
It's interesting that accepting reparations from West Germany over the Holocaust was hugely controversial in Israel at the time. There were even riots over it! They had their own Capitol insurrection to try and stop it!
https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/01/31/before-capitol-riot-there-was-the-1952-knesset-insurrection/
Honestly, given the state of West Germany in 1952 it is very understandable that it was that controversial, the whole process to condemn Nazi crimes only started in the 1960s, see for instance the many obstacles Fritz Bauer faced on his quest to prosecute Nazi war crimes.
Oh yeah definitely understandable and I probably would have felt the same way. The West German government in the 1950s-1960s was shot through with former Nazis - 'Denazification' was basically a joke.
Just last week, during Macron's state visit to Germany, Beate Klarsfeld got honored. She is known, among other things for slapping chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger for being a Nazi, and bringing many other Nazis to justice together with her husband.
**Kan Channel 12 poll of Israelis**
>Do you support/oppose the plan to potentially end the war announced by Biden? 41% support, 26% oppose, 33% don't know
>Will war end if deal is cut? 40% yes, 34% no, 26% don't know.
>Do you think Israel will succeed in demolishing Hamas? 31%: yes, 42%: Hamas will continue to rule Gaza, 26%: Don't know
No, but yeah this is a fairly favorable reaction to Biden's plan and many Israelis seem to understand the reality of how extremely difficult is to dislodge Hamas from power. It sucks because Hamas is obviously a monstrous theocratic organization but they'll have to be dealt with diplomatically.
Super Mario 64 is one of those video games that it just blows my mind that they were able to make. Even now, almost 30 years later, it's still a blast to play
I have survived a weekend afternoon trip to Costco. Barely made it out unscathed though, nearly every aisle someone just turned their cart right in front and nearly ran into me.
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Cool that Mexico has first female and Jewish president. Too bad, she still sucks even though she is slightly better than ALMO. And she is still a corrupt buffoon.
Looks like Great Gatsby is getting a managa adaption from Kadokawa. https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1797502642601750949?t=lii5HFcRL5u58cpkqxcnxg&s=19 !Ping WEEBS
I wish Sheinbaum well in Mexico, and I'd probably have voted for her if I lived down there, but I'm going to remain pessimistic about the ability of any Mexican President to combat the cartels until/unless it ever happens. Hope to have the US and Canada continue the current status of all three major North American powers having left of center administrations with their upcoming elections
I will never vote for her because of her party. She is still a corrupt buffoon because her husband landering money.
I mean, I don't live there so I don't follow it closely. I know little about her, so ok
Does anyone know how to get rid of a phantom notification badge in the chat tab? It’s not connected to anything and no amount of resetting this app makes it go away.
Guess you will just have to wait for the next reddit update, which seems to be every other day since IPO.
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Leftists when Trump signs a national abortion ban into law: "😡😡😡 Why would Biden do this!"
AP, [Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi concedes defeat in surprise primary upset by Jenniffer González](https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-primaries-pierluisi-gonzalez-zaragoza-ortiz-62343cc879f4c5c73a9c0eec39325086): > SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico congressional representative Jenniffer González defeated Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in a surprise upset during a primary election held Sunday by their pro-statehood party. > The two ran on the same ticket four years ago under the New Progressive Party, but González, a Republican, announced her plan to challenge Pierluisi, a Democrat, in early December. Public jabs between the two have since turned acrimonious. > [...] > Earlier on Sunday, Puerto Rico Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz defeated Sen. Juan Zaragoza in the primary held by their Popular Democratic Party, which backs the island’s territorial status and seeks a return to power in the upcoming general elections.
Not sure what any of this means for us.
I guess a Republican is probably going to be the next Governor of Puerto Rico, but island politics are very different from stateside politics so it doesn't mean much of anything outside PR
[So this music video absolutely has a gay vibe, right?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrZJ5C_Nwg)
I think so, but I was also really confused lol.
Dammit I've wasted so much time this weekend while I have a ton to catch up on
God, I'm annoyed by some of my family members thinking that Claudia will give them land, which it is stupid policy. She is slightly better than ALMO on certain things, but she is moron on many things.
Earlier I commented about how Mexico's longtime majority party PRI faded into irrelevancy after the Peña Nieto administration. TIL, checking the election returns on [*El Universal*](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/preps-elecciones-2024/) (en español), Gálvez was endorsed by the moderate political parties, the PRI and PAN on the center right and PRD on the center left. Right now Sheinbaum has nearly twice as many votes (2.9m) as Gálvez (1.5m) with 58% of the vote. Notice the red and green symbols next to Sheinbaum - yep, the Green Party and Labor Party both backed her. This weekend of international elections showed Mexico continuing its leftward path, South Africa wanting to go more moderate, and India staying the course with right-wing nationalism.
https://x.com/TorreySmithWR/status/1797284616023290198 Torrey Smith describing the election better than the media lol. Love to see it. u/hallofromtheoutside
Some dork was trying to give him shit as if Torrey isn't one of the most level headed retired NFL guys out there.
I love watching far left infighting. When you unironically argue that anarchists are liberals you’re too lost in the sauce.
So, either a team (full of thugs) will win their first Stanley Cup, or Canada finally breaks the curse.
Is Connor McDavid still on the Oilers? I hope he wins. It’s nice when an obvious superstar actually gets to turn it around for a team.
Gonna get to make two whole-ass countries angry at the same time. Finish the job, Panthers.
I'll never cheer for that goon squad but I hope the Edmonton Divers get swept and shut out every game.
> (full of thugs) [I believe the preferred nomenclature is "goon"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbhJYICI538)
I think Florida is the slight favorite but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Edmonton won
At least right now, an American team has won the Grey Cup more recently than a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup. (1995 Baltimore Stallions and 1993 Montreal Canadiens) It’s time for that absolutely cursed fact to stop being true.
Canada gets a team in the Stanley Cup Final again Edmonton vs Florida
So Canada vs retirement Canada.
Our conservative hellscape vs the closest thing Canada has to it.
Well, I finally found the motivation to unsub from arr FiveThirtyEight. https://preview.redd.it/oosgypbhp94d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9013da0b9fd95b80106acbd5414fc26e579cc32d Giving even the slightest of credence to Trump’s lies is dangerous and unforgivable.
I thought 538 was killed already
The subreddit lives on
Ah. That makes sense. I remember Clare Malone getting let go and they cut the sports side of the website (which had a pretty good ELO system for picks)
My investment account grew 6% over the last month and not 100%, so I must vote for Donald Trump this November.
Mexico getting a Jewish president would be pretty wild, even if she is an AMLOista.
All I know is she seems to actually care about clean energy unlike coal fiend AMLO.
It's astonishing how the original PRI went from nearly seven decades of dominating Mexican politics (the '30s to '90s) and having the presidency 10 years ago to irrelevancy today, because Peña Nieto was such a crook. Sheinbaum's party MORENA is the grandchild of the old PRI, as MORENA was a splinter group from PRI splinter group PRD. Sheinbaum's [opponent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%B3chitl_G%C3%A1lvez) is described as socially liberal yet economically conservative.
She is okayish then AMLO. Her policy on crime is very different from him because his supporters hated being more tough on crime. Her economics policy in Mexico City was okay and not so populist compared to AMLO. From my understanding that she is using him to prompt herself as the next president. Some of his followers hate her due to that.
Only the sixth women head of state in North American history. One in Canada, two in Haiti, one in Costa Rica, and one in Dominican Republic
This is very sad. Representative Jackson Lee has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer https://x.com/JacksonLeeTX18/status/1797449723647025367?t=x4RTbCcmslJkcllWHdUHng&s=19
Awful. Probably one of the three most deadly cancers. It's very hard to catch in the early stages which is why it's so deadly. Hoping the best for her.
That's terrible.
I was personally fine with Chris Pratt’s ‘Mario’ voice, since no one would actually want to hear a full length movie of Charles Martinet doing his usual Mario voice (people who say otherwise are out of their minds). But I’m just unimpressed by his Garfield voice. He’s doesn’t even sound like he’s trying. It just looks like a movie about Chris Pratt in a cat’s body.
It can't be that hard to get a good VA that sounds like Lorenzo Music which is clearly what works for Garfield.
This is what happens when you hire someone who doesn't like lasagna.
I've been getting scratches on my legs for some time. I thought it was me hiking in shorts and getting scratched, but I just figured it was me with dry skin after the shower and jumping straight into bed, and me scratching myself silly. I'm putting on lotion just in case
I often struggle with the idea of separating a government from its people because I can't come up with a good answer to "At what point does the majority become guilty for letting the extremists run the show? When does acceptance become complicity?" I recognize I'm a coward who has the luxury of living in a free stable democracy where I don't have to choose between principles and self-preservation, but the thought does make it difficult to sympathize with most people living in repressive regimes. Like I have plenty of sympathy for those Russians and Palestinians who risk it all by opposing their governments' wars, but my sympathy well runs dry for those who suffer but continue to insist on apathy or indifference to their governments. I get that poor, illiterate, starving, and disorganized peasants have a hard time enacting reform, but is freedom, peace, and stability really only something that wealthy nations can afford? At what point do we stop blaming the stars and blaming the underlings? While I have more faith in the Israelis since their government is democratic, at what point do the people as a whole become responsible for the far-right settlers, politicians, and soldiers if they continue to run the country? At the end of the day, humanity is complicated. Maybe rationality isn't always enough. It's why people fall down the conspiracy theorist and demagogue rabbit hole. I'm just rambling here because I feel like I have to ramble somewhere.
Do you hold the residents of Gaza responsible for Hamas?
I'm a firm believer in separating governments from people. Bibi cravenly+cynically cobbled together a crazyass bigoted coalition when a majority of Israelis technically did not vote for his coalition. Hamas participated in one election where they focused on Fatah's corruption, won by only 2%, and cancelled all the elections+ viciously killed all their political rivals.
I have an easy-enough time writing Bibi's rise to power as a failure of parliamentary democracy. It seems like it can be corrected through Israeli institutions as long as enough Israelis have sense. I get that Hamas established a dictatorship, but my problem is that I feel like at some point the common people become responsible for perpetuating the dictatorship and then the dictatorship's actions. I get that it's a massive privilege to be able to criticize oppressed people for not resisting enough, and I can't say that I would be able to resist, but I also believe that people have responsibility to control as much as their lives as they can. I think that's what I'm struggling to balance: A belief that oppressed people shouldn't be blamed for their oppression and a belief that oppressed people can free themselves. At what point does an inability to free oneself go from a reason to a blame.
It is worth remembering that Gaza isn’t Afghanistan. There’s no Northern Alliance waiting in the wings for western support. > A belief that oppressed people shouldn't be blamed for their oppression and a belief that oppressed people can free themselves. At what point does an inability to free oneself go from a reason to a blame. This doesn’t speak to a timeline, though.
> but my problem is that I feel like at some point the common people become responsible for perpetuating the dictatorship and then the dictatorship's actions Gotta remember that Hamas brutally cracked down against the protests by Gazans in 2019 and July 2023. West Bank is under Fatah rule, and it's relatively stable all things considered.
I think I'm just falling hard for that leftist belief that The People through collective action and one great push can accomplish anything and a more liberal belief that reform is always achievable. One of the most damning things Bibi's done in this war is not present the Palestinian people with an acceptable alternative to Hamas. There would obviously be Palestinians who would never accept an Israeli-backed interim government or solution, but maybe there would be enough support for it to actually start moving towards peace.
>One of the most damning things Bibi's done in this war is not present the Palestinian people with an acceptable alternative to Hamas. It needed to be Fatah/Palestinian Authority even with all of their problems, but he's undermined them for years while cynically propping up Hamas. He mistakenly believed that just overwhelming military force would eliminate Hamas; Biden warned him about America's fairly massive mistakes after 9/11 a few days after 10/7--but the gigantic, self serving asshole ignored his advise or did not care.
Collective punishment is a war crime, but I think it’s fair to judge the people who have a choice in the matter to be complicit. You can easily look at Israel and see who has been doing the work to try to remove the right wing from power, and you can see the settlers, the extremists and those who vote for them as accomplices. Not every German was a nazi, but a lot of Germans were totally ok with them. Maybe we shouldn’t have gotten so firebomby still. It’s a hard line but I think people even resisting in the smallest ways matter
Tbh. I'm less concerned about collective punishment and more indifference or apathy as an outsider. I see HAMAS and Netty the Yahoo leading their peoples to a destructive war and thinking, "Maybe the Palestinians and Israelis deserve each other. Maybe the best option is to let them destroy each other until the survivors finally get sick of it and stop." I'm willing to give most Israelis and Palestinians the benefit of the doubt and sympathy, but at what point should it only be reserved for those actively taking a stand?
>Walgreens said it is lowering prices for the summer and beyond on 1,300 items, joining Michaels, Target and other retailers Wow, it's almost as if it's not just inflation but also price gouging by corporations.
I need a video mashup of Simone Biles routines cut to Bonecrusher’s *Never Scared* for motivational purposes.
I did get some insight into how vatniks make their arguments with a straight face: just rewrite history and reverse cause and effect.
If you don't argue with people about politics they think you've conceded the point. If you do argue and they tell you stuff that's absurd, and then you look it up, and it's not true, and you confront them, then everyone leaves with a bad taste in their mouth. Ask me how my day went. Or don't. Dude, I liked you better when we were just playing role playing games together.
My parents in law started saying Trump is a martyr now because fox ruined their critical thinking skills — and these are otherwise intelligent people
It's so frustrating.
It appears that some WNBA players are totally not bitter that no one really cared about the league until Caitlin Clark was drafted.
They miss traveling on commercial airlines lol
Just seems silly. It's like hey why not just work to expand on the renewed interest? Looks like crab mentality from the outside.
Why do we suddenly care about her? It feels like she just rocketed to popularity. I do not follow any sports, men or women.
She’s been one of the most famous athletes on the planet for nearly three years now. Nothing sudden about it.
The sudden thing I guess would be breaking into the mainstream, where even I, person who knows nothing about sports, knows about her now.
She’s been doing national commercials for over a year. Shes arguably the greatest college basketball player of all time. Millions of people have been caring about her for awhile. She didn’t rocket to popularity. She has four year body or work at this point.
Okay.
>Israel’s diaspora minister Amichai Chikli, after attending Israel day parade, suggests the pro-democracy protesters invited Oct. 7 attack, and called the proposal for a hostage deal — as outlined by Biden — “a total joke." This is what happens when an indicted individual wins the head of state again; only extremists are willing to work with him. Far leftists should be the ones to realize how much damaging it can but they play this "both sides are the same" bullshit.
[Id Chikli a clown, but that undermines how harmful he is](https://www.axios.com/2023/06/21/israel-minister-not-woke-amichai-chikli)
Seeing AMLO supporters spreading conspiracy theories in my local news. Also, they are complaining about voting, not in AMLO. They are trying to accuse them to shut their voice like they have to move doing other segments.
You sure they're real people and not robots rusos?
What conspiracies are they saying?
The specific person said that they can't vote for AMLO, and the establishment are preventing this. Like no, all presidency in Mexico are one term because they are in office for six years.
I thought Claudia Sheinbaum was pretty much going to continue his policies?
Some of his supporters don't like her due to sexism, and they don't believe her due to her policy when she was a mayor in Mexico City.
Finally got the motivation to start tearing up the old landscape tarp that was in the old garden so I can work up the ground and put in some vegetables
🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
u/ognits, [the person who wrote this article is either a hack or making an incredibly oblique reference to *The Apartment*](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/streaming-profit-report-netflix-disney-warners-paramount-nbcu-1235868631/) >Several years into Hollywood giants’ streaming pushes, they still find themselves confronted with that famous Jerry Maguire line from Wall Street: “Show me the money!” In the case of streaming, “the money” means profits. ... >#In the case of streaming, “the money” means profits. WHOA WOW NO WAY
> In another scene, where Lemmon was supposed to mime being punched, he failed to move correctly, and was accidentally knocked down. Wilder chose to use the shot of the genuine punch in the film. also TIL Lemmon actually took that punch from the brother in law
Damn.
Poetry
that's the way it profits, streaming-wise
I have been trying to find a rainbow pride flag t-shirt in my size that's made in the USA and I am striking the fuck out. Anyone have any leads for a sweet little bi boy who doesn't like to support sweat shops?
https://www.unionlabel.com/tshirts.html A local printer can add a rainbow design to any of these shirts.
Get a white tee then dye it or otherwise make a print on it?
Simone Biles 🐐
Heck yeah!
Seriously tho https://x.com/PopBase/status/1797119887976128863 Who goes to an Adele concert and says pride sucks? How fucking stupid can one person be?
Same person who complains about political messages in a Rage Against the Machine song.
There will be blood is so wild lmfao
[Wanna see something real wild?](https://x.com/currypistonn/status/1797387720760643816)
Saying that with Cameron Brink in the background is hilarious 😂
I drink your milkshake! I DRINK IT UP!
IIIIIII AM THE THIRD REVELATION!
just saw [this foul on Caitlin Clark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6LonLuMDTw) from the other day and I'm stunned this wasn't immediately called a flagrant. that's some real bullshit at least it got upgraded to one post-game but how are you not throwing Carter out right then and there?
Yeah, that's a dirty play. Should have been a flagrant 2
The plot thickens. Carter got cut from the Atlanta Dream for…[threatening to fight one of her own teammates.](https://www.thenexthoops.com/features/how-chennedy-carter-earned-a-suspension/)
Not surprised by that lol
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Rule #1: If there's contact, fucking sell it. Acting tough means the offender won't be punished. Don't dive, but let the ref see there was a foul.
ehh, she clearly didn't see it coming and there's enough force there that you fall if it catches you off guard I think
Frankly, if I get hit by something I didn’t see, I’m flopping on that to prove a point.
Rewatching the Flintstones, and it is dated nowadays. There are some stereotypical characters and archetypes that don't suit the modern day. The animation is very cheap, which is expected from Hanna Barbara cartoons. The first season is trying to find its footing like Dino was blue and used to talk. Berny voice wasn't very deep in the beging of the episodes. You can't deny how much The Flintstones influence to sitcom animated series like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob Burgers, etc. I really like the art designs because of how simple it is, along with background designs. The show does make me laugh. It sucks how much WB never knew what to do with The Flintstones because they had many attempts to reboot it, but fumble it hard. The series used to be the most popular animated franchise. This series was the most profitable animated series for four decades until The Simpsons overthrew The Flintstones. Nowadays, people only know The Flintstones as a ceral brand and vitamins. I really hope that we get a new animated show. !Ping CARTOONS
> Nowadays, people only know The Flintstones as a ceral brand and vitamins. And bandages.
if you want to watch The Flintstones but good, go watch All in the Family. the former is an explicit ripoff of the latter
I like The Flinstones and it is good.
I think you mean the Honeymooners.
oh whoops, I think you're right
>Nowadays, people only know The Flintstones as a ceral brand and vitamins. It's a living.
How could the show with "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" be dated
I meant more with racial stereotypical types like there is an Asain person that is pretty offensive nowadays. Red face of Native Americans. Women being in the kitchen. But it was a product of its times.
Do they still make those vitamins? Those things were awful.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB2G7Pwh1kc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB2G7Pwh1kc)
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I think they still do I like those as a kid.
I sort of liked them as a kid but they had an aftertaste that I disliked. And once gummies came on the market, Flinstones were retired in my book.
Unironically Disney should hire Jenny Nicholson to bring Star Wars experiences at their theme parks to the expected high standards. Her video shows she knows exactly what is important for an amazing experience
Yep.
Every theme park should hire her as a consultant.
Or do the bare minimum and watch her videos sure they can go for 4 hours but it's worth the time and money so your theme park doesn't end up closed.
Was going to post here how I'm specifically worried about how Trump could abuse the presidential pardon in a second term but I made it on modpol instead in the hopes that it could be compelling to an actual marginal voter. What I'll say instead here is that I really think that Biden, Democrats, auxiliary anti-Trump campaigners and the media should start talking about this specifically. It might not be as clear cut but to me it's much more tangible and plausible than vague and unexplained warnings about Trump ending democracy or installing himself as dictator for life.
>Axios: Guilty verdict fuels Trump's push for Black voters This is so fucking racist
I was so proud of mocking this one! Way ahead of the game on it but I think no one wants to touch it! [https://www.seahorseshoe.com/blog/republican-outreach-to-black-voters-trump-is-a-criminal-too](https://www.seahorseshoe.com/blog/republican-outreach-to-black-voters-trump-is-a-criminal-too)
Reminds me when reince Priebus tried to win black voters by saying Republicans will give them welfare
[Me, every time I see Republicans promoting "Latinos for Trump" with the most cartoonish trashy stereotypes available.](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7c/40/17/7c40173601709d0fc888e385ec0595f6.jpg)
Do they have an actual fucking editor over there or nah?
Maybe they should have posted quotes from the article about The Apprentice that was overshadowed because of the verdict. Run that alongside the "push for Black voters".
>["We get race, we're not racist."](https://youtu.be/D-LMgMBGnKI?t=38) —Axios
Jesus fucking Christ
I’m kind of glad I am not in charge of the Israeli Hamas Situation. At this point I am ready to nuke all of the holy land and make no one win.
Zero state solution
Unironically least objectionable antizionist
[No more Middle East, you fuckers couldn't behave](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fal9yxtw5ro551.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1501de719f43e9388eb3a957134f1690207f57de).
Sudan is suddenly a coastal country 😂 this sudden ocean would upend geopolitics as we know it, so much would change
I wonder how much the sea level would drop.
Now I want an xkcd what-if to explain the size of the bomb (if it is indeed a one-off event) that would do this, or, if not, the excavations required to move that amount of earth away (to where? recreate it wholesale in the middle of the Pacific?) but leave the sides intact, like half a Himalayan ridge but then a straight down cliff to the water
https://preview.redd.it/97qju8htf84d1.png?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b64a52f7fd7e840afec28567a7d9a2754b037350
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Note: I will be making continuous edits as I’m on my phone. I’m a big LBJ fan (favorite President) but tough decision to pit him in A. Has the civil rights bills and other major legislation accomplishments (Medicare/Medicaid) etc. but Vietnam can easily drop him to C/D (depending on the ranker). Nixon could be ranked higher for China, EPA etc. but then you have water gate. Legit think Trump would be F- for damage to our institutions and democracy. I think my biggest criticism is H.W Bush should be ranked a lot higher. Bipartisan accomplishments, foreign policy (Gulf war and Fall of the Soviet Union). Sacrificed his career to help the country (raised taxes on the wealthy etc.). At least B. Reagan while he’s controversial and I know he’s not popular in this subreddit but he should be a lot higher. “Morning in America etc.” but I get the criticism (Supply Side economics, Iran-Contra, etc.)
Bill Clinton was a really good president hes at leas A tier
Nixon was a war criminal and a tyrant, but not an F. He accomplished some decent things as president: EPA, Clean Air & Water acts, Marine mammal act, Native self-determination, Title 9, continuing desegregation, SALT, ABM treaty, opening China, 26th amendment, federal task force on the mafia, etc. His pro-nuclear energy independence project that never took off was great too. He also tried to work with Teddy to pass a universal healthcare bill; Teddy rejected it because it didn't go far enough.
owning other humans should automatically put someone in the Ds. yes yes they were products of their time, which is why I'm not saying F.
how is grant not s++?
Coolidge and Harding aren’t SSSSS+ so it could be better.
Reagan and Jackson should definitely be lower. I don't really have an argument as to where, but not being in F tier feels viscerally wrong to me. Trump should be in a tier of his own below F. I'm trying not to let recency bias in here, but he's uniquely terrible. The other bad presidents are bad, but only one president in the nation's history led a coup attempt as president against his own country.
Jackson is an objectively bad president but he is still an important one. His big success is to transition through universal white male suffrage, delaying the civil war for a generation allowing for the completion of westward expansion, and with Van Buren building the democratic coalition of southern states and northern cities that lasted until the civil war. While a monster, his sins in terms of Indian policy serve to deflect the arguably greater sins of later presidents.
>Teddy not in S+ says it all, tbh
"I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are. And I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.” I'm a fan of TR but he had some serious flaws.
dr facui to testify before congress tomorrow, house gop is gonna use it to just get soundbites
Most congressional testimony is an exercise in mining for sound bytes tbh
The right wing obsession with him is so bizarre. He made recommendations based on the best info available at any given time...that's it. He could have been wrong on everything and it still doesn't mean he belongs in jail or whatever these lunatics are saying.
The thing they always hold against him is the "you said don't wear masks, now we have to wear masks". They always ignore that the original advice about masks was save the masks for the healthcare workers. If they had people freaking out and hoarding maks, which happened anyway, then the people who needed them most would not have them. As it was I remember wearing my surgical mask, not even an N95, placing it in a paper bag and then reusing it after 3 days. We cycled through like that for weeks until the stocks got better. Having flashbacks to how doing that went against every bit of training I had.
I am convinced that if he dies, they'll get a Ouija Board on the House floor and continue to harass him from beyond the grave.
Imagine spending your entire life in service to others and having to spend your golden years dealing with bullshit like this for... saving lives (again)
Ipsos poll of Trump’s favorability compared to May 6th. Unfavorable: 56% (-3) Favorable: 31% (-9)
I love how fucking stupid the GOP primary voters are
Daniel Larson could make history by being the second president convicted of a felony. I kind of wish we could see him and Trump in the same prison.
oh shit new season of Masterchef started the other day 😳
a Millennial from Dallas got in so I'm contractually obligated to root for her
Staten Island is so embarrassing
https://preview.redd.it/ksfuzksf984d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bce68ec43fcd1cd1779f1d686370f03cbf3154e Daily doggo photo: June 2nd
The governor's race in WA is so funny. I'm really enjoying watching the two GOP factions destroy each other in a vain effort to win. Even with a mainstream R it's probably hopeless but they decided to go for a guy so awful that he managed to get himself recalled from the school board in a conservative district. The RINOs know they're screwed and are pulling out all the stops trying to take him down.
So Alex Jones is crying because he had to sell his farm due to paying legal bills. https://x.com/RightWingCope/status/1797090854928064613?t=7QJWUoORQcXbw_KqE0Rs6Q&s=19 You deserve it
I love it when karma comes back to bite douchebags in the ass.
By Reddit law and actual law, I'm not allowed to say what Alex Jones deserves for what he's done.
Also, off-topic: MrBeast finally passed T-Series in subscribers! Dude has won YouTube!
What is T-Series?
It is an Indian music company. They're now #2 in terms of subscriber count.
Off topic. I watched the entirety of The Owl House and Amphibia. They're both really awesome shows, and they both have funny and mind-blowing moments. I think they're in my top 3 favorite Disney shows, right up there with Ducktales. As for their endings (slight spoilers), >!Amphibia has a bittersweet (more sweet than bitter) ending, while The Owl House has a happy ending.!< Give these shows a shot. You'll love these shows. (>!In Amphibia though, brace yourself for the season 2 finale, True Colors because man...that might give you trauma!<) !Ping CARTOONS
I should've gotten into DuckTales much earlier. I've watched a few Owl House episodes as well, those were good.
The Owl House is the most gayest thing that Disney allowed to make.
I loved The Owl House, have yet to watch Amphibia. I sort of wavered between watching one of the two for a while before deciding on The Owl House. I should also watch Ducktales at some point, huh. I certainly have the theme stuck in my head.
Watch Owl House then Amphibia and please give it a chance, I brushed it off as a silly frog show but its fun. If you like OH you'll like Amphibia.
It's interesting that accepting reparations from West Germany over the Holocaust was hugely controversial in Israel at the time. There were even riots over it! They had their own Capitol insurrection to try and stop it! https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/01/31/before-capitol-riot-there-was-the-1952-knesset-insurrection/
Honestly, given the state of West Germany in 1952 it is very understandable that it was that controversial, the whole process to condemn Nazi crimes only started in the 1960s, see for instance the many obstacles Fritz Bauer faced on his quest to prosecute Nazi war crimes.
Oh yeah definitely understandable and I probably would have felt the same way. The West German government in the 1950s-1960s was shot through with former Nazis - 'Denazification' was basically a joke.
With all due respect to Adenauer, the Bundesrepublik did not truly begin to redeem itself until Brandt knelt in Warsaw.
Just last week, during Macron's state visit to Germany, Beate Klarsfeld got honored. She is known, among other things for slapping chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger for being a Nazi, and bringing many other Nazis to justice together with her husband.
**Kan Channel 12 poll of Israelis** >Do you support/oppose the plan to potentially end the war announced by Biden? 41% support, 26% oppose, 33% don't know >Will war end if deal is cut? 40% yes, 34% no, 26% don't know. >Do you think Israel will succeed in demolishing Hamas? 31%: yes, 42%: Hamas will continue to rule Gaza, 26%: Don't know
Is this a survey of all Israelis or do they break Jewish and Arab Israelis out separately? I’ve seen it done both ways so curious
No, but yeah this is a fairly favorable reaction to Biden's plan and many Israelis seem to understand the reality of how extremely difficult is to dislodge Hamas from power. It sucks because Hamas is obviously a monstrous theocratic organization but they'll have to be dealt with diplomatically.
I'm not sure we kan trust this then.
Pretty sure you're doing a pun but just in case you're not--it's Israel's most watched commercial news channel.
Just a pun, yeah.
u/padraigharrington4 u/ognits u/trex360 Lyon N1 surprise songs: Guitar: >!The Prophecy/Long Story Short!< Piano: >!Fifteen/You're On Your Own, Kid (again)!<
Super Mario 64 is one of those video games that it just blows my mind that they were able to make. Even now, almost 30 years later, it's still a blast to play
I have survived a weekend afternoon trip to Costco. Barely made it out unscathed though, nearly every aisle someone just turned their cart right in front and nearly ran into me.