In 1953, the Eisenhower administration temporarily delayed $26 million in funding to Israel over its construction of a hydroelectric project on the Jordan River.

In 1983, Reagan reaffirmed that he would not send F-16 jets to Israel until Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon.

In 1992, the Bush administration threatened to withhold the delivery of $10 billion in loan guarantees to Israel if it continued building settlements in the West Bank

lulz i like it, i love it, i want some more of it

truly a top shelf troll

I hope and pray what Brazil is doing now (but don’t believe it will) becomes a blueprint in choking off Musks cynical use of Freedom of Speech to attempt to overthrow democracies everywhere in service to fascist power

their actions over the last 50 years have spoken so loudly i couldn’t hear what they were trying to say

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this is based, as @nincodedo mentioned before it’s cursed they don’t all do this

toilet paper without cardboard roll centers are much cheaper to produce, though impossible to place in a toilet paper holder, so they sit on the sink, or the floor, or a long nail in the wall

season 2 is unwatchable, didn’t make it past halfway of the first episode. total loss. i was very up on the first season, which i found draggy, right up until the sprint across all of middle earth, to a battle, to the mountain exploding into a volcano in the span of 10 minutes (HotD pulled this same bullshit with a 5 minute montage in the finale which had more movement of forces than the entire rest of the shortened 8 episode season). that sprint. fight, mordor, bit ruined what was already teetering on a bad experienced. found myself about 30 minutes into the first episode of the second season thinking, this is all shit, the acting, the writting, the direction, all of this is just straight garbage, i don’t like any of this, it’s pretty, but that’s all that it has going for it, i guess i fixated on the stupid acorns still green in the proto hobbit’s hair in the desert, and the rock try sprouting bugs, that did it for me, i was like, nope, i’m noping the fuck out of this bullshit right fucking now, nope nope nope, i’m done

wait a sec, after seating a anti abortion republican majority on the supreme court who killed roe v wade, “voter, by a wide margin, say that they trust kamala harris on the issue”, you don’t fucking say. what a useless headline in a sea of useless headlines, attempting to make this election about policy, as apposed to the fascist strikes back vs sanity endures. this election is not about issues, it’s not about policy, trump has no weathrvane except what will benefit him, at the expense of every single other living creature on this earth

it’s life vs death. these are not policies, they are states of being

anyone trying to get you to argue harris’ polices vs trumps, is working for trump, or russia, or saudi arabia

“chapeau means hat, oeuf means egg, those french have a different word for everything” ~ steve martin

The judge, it seems, is flying by the seat of his pants a bit, as he also said that businesses and individuals using VPN’s to access Xitter, would be fined $9k a day or something like that. Not sure how he thinks VPN’s work. I guess they can institute the Brazil wide block, then watch to see what accounts from Brasil are updating after the block, then make the case they must be using VPN’s to circumnavigate the block, but that’s A WHOLE FUCKTON of surveillance, enforcement and prosecution, I’m not sure Brazil’s courts are up for.

Judge has the right idea here, fuck Elon Musk, and fuck Xitter, it is not a sovereign nation, it is a communications company poisoning and allowing through racist incitement the poisoning of the body politic of the entire free world, and should be held to task.

“Alexandre de Moraes, the court’s top judge, has also ordered daily fines for people or businesses in Brazil that use virtual private networks (VPNs) or other methods to access X while the site is banned in the country”

how do they imagine vpn’s work down there in ole brazil

excellent

I mean, even though the Dragon Battle At Rooks Rest was top fucking notch, I thought that the Second season of HotD ruined and wasted Daemon on his Haranhal “fluff this season out so we call make more money” acid trip, cynically made Rhynaera into a pussycat to prop up the Black factions likeability for reasons only book readers will know, and the finale’s “really getting ready for war this time” 5 minute montage with more literal movement and action than we got for the entire rest of the season was a thumb in the eye, George knows dragons weren’t real, right?

telegram is now, and has always been, the nazi app. so, this checks out.

cats sleeping with dogs, anarchy i tell ya

I mean I get that prices have gone up, but it’s not difficult or costly these days to print out correct pricing for accurate up to date, in store menus, should someone call in for an order, remind them over the phone prices have changed, and tell them what each item will cost when they order it, anything other is shady as fuck, no matter how good the food is, it would probably annoy me to the point of going elsewhere. Probably. Unless they sold huge old school new york take out egg rolls as big as half your arm, if they did that I’d turn my pockets inside out until lint fell out.

If 7 years of updates aren’t coupled with 7 years of an extended warranty on LED TV’s which notoriously burn out after 2 or 3, it doesn’t matter

well, no, they lost their first right of refusal