In a short explanation, the people of israel are not for the most part but the government is but only kind of. For more of an explanation since Israel declared independence from the British in 1948 the first few decades of its existence saw many conflicts initiated mainly by its neighbors lead to mass civilian death within its borders, Lebanon was one of the countries early on, not to mention the Nakbah lead to a mass migration of Palestinians to southern Lebanon and the rise of Hezbollah as the largest non state military in the 20th and 21states centuries so far. Hezbollah has for a mission to destroy Israel according to its founder since the 1990’s at the latest and has been one of the largest vectors of rockets into Israel since the 80’s. Israel has tried backing other groups in Lebanon to stop Hezbollah from having the control they do in Lebanon but to mixed success at best. With Iranian backing and the largest non state military they have managed to benefit from both terror tactics and some military action, leading Israel to do such things as plant bombs in pagers and radios sold to their leadership and doing a decapitation strike using said explosives. That is the main reason why the Israeli government is doing military action today in Lebanon, a fairly unfriendly government, who is too weak to enforce disarmament of an internationally recognized terrorist group who has a political arm entrenched in local governance and wants to destroy Israel while getting financial and political backing from Iran’s IRGC who also helped plan and fund the October 7 attack. This is not to say what Israel is doing is right or justified but their reasoning as best I can tell.

That and he knows about the Antichrist.

You know I think it will be similar to how kids in the south for the last 100+ years have dealt with seeing their ancestors names on Confederate monuments and in school textbooks, it will slowly be massaged into being a “good thing actually” or “not that bad” and you will have those who will deny that Noem killed her dog in a gravel pit or something.

I hate how relevant this appears to be to daily life.

Yeah it’s probably like corruption the optimal number isn’t 0 but as close as we can get without hamstringing society. Make it just hard enough so that those who would do it if it was easy can’t do it easily and then you have 90% less corruption. Think of it like piracy, it was big in the 2000’s when buying DVDs was a thing and storage was getting cheap but record labels and studios were not able to update their business model and the easiest way to get most media for the average user was something like Napster. When streaming came along and Netflix had a massive catalogue and was better in every way to cable and same with music streaming platforms at first piracy almost stopped completely and is only coming back due to enshitification. We need to implement a model like Netflix streaming which aligns incentives for politicians to make good policies and not sell out the country from under us for personal gain by making said decisions have actual negative and immediate consequences, be it trading in the stock market while in office or for a ster period of 2 terms after they serve their time in office, being a lobbyist for a set amount of time before or after presenting themselves as a candidate, and enforcing an open period after a law is drafted for public review and ability to lodge complaints and a 2-4 year reassessment of the law to see if it is actually doing what it was set out to do or not and repeal it if not (with exceptions for laws that govern long term policy such as schools where it can take 14 years for the policy to actually show concrete results.

But that would make sense and be an effective way of making laws and governing and more importantly would stop those who haven’t meaningfully added to society from being able to easily profit from it in a way that others can’t.

While that may be true it doesn’t mean that the spending on the shindig in iran is where all that money goes, a large majority of it goes into salaries for soldiers and soldier benefits such as the GI bill and the VA, even if the care and salaries aren’t very good there are millions of Americans getting their salary from the DOD or military directly.

Epstein donated to both parties

While I agree with the sentiment, social security pays out over 1.2 USD trillion annually. The cost of this “short operation” will be in the trillion dollar plus eventually if it turns out like the last few wars in the area but even the AP says that bot Iraq and Afghanistan came out to 2 trillion USD over the course of their respective conflicts. . Much of domestic payments from the federal government is for the Pentagon and Social security, with social security being the biggest line item on the US budget.

I think Windows is trying their best to make windows as unappealing as possible and Google seems to want to do the same with Android. If there isn’t a slow trickle of people to Mac or Linux for computers and things like Iphone, graphene OS, or Linux mobile for cell phones and tablets I would be very surprised.