Which is why I'm easing back onto the socials, going out today to an event, and getting ready for a summer on the streets. Shit's bad, and X is presumably a disaster now, but there's no escaping it, just fighting it.

That's roughly their yearly budget, which is roughly 5% of Israel's GDP. It's helpful. But they have their own weapons companies, to say nothing of many other countries willing to sell to them, and a government that could fund them better. Israel doesn't strictly need US aid to oppress Palestine.

In Vampire: The Masquerade, the Nosferatu clan flaw is they're all so hideously ugly as to be clearly inhuman, represented by an Appearance attribute of 0 on a 1-5 scale. Billy Corgan's Appearance would be -1.

They can buy those bombs from other countries with their own military budget or build them locally. If they didn't have the weaponry provided by the US that was provided, they would have changed their tactics, but they wouldn't have stopped.

Netanyahu decided to try to kill as many Gazans as he could. He's done this for decades. Israel is committing genocide, and its government decides for itself to continue doing so. Attribute blame where it belongs.

I don't know if this sort of misread of the Nietzschean concept of Macht, the overcoming of one's self-restraint, to wield Kraft, or primordial strength, is what you intended, but that's how it reads. He didn't factor in others' will to power either. White philosophers often don't.

Biden wouldn't have had anywhere near the leverage Reagan had at that point without sending in the troops. Nice as that sounds for Palestinians for a bigger power to have their back, I don't think a land war (or second-strike Israeli nukes) would make their lives better.

You outline the dollar amount of US military aid to Israel, but not the percentage. In 1981, for example, the IDF's domestic budget was $4.7B. The chart shown indicates a surge of US aid around $14B. 75% of the IDF budget was US aid then. It's less than 15% US aid now.

I would have seen the movie three times in the theater if they'd gotten Clancy Brown to show up in a bald cap.

It's too bound up with his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg for me, but not for Eisenberg's lack of trying to do something different.

Their leadership was not ready to accept a form of cease-fire that would have stopped them from killing civilians in other parts of their empire. They hoped negotiations with the Soviets would let them keep their colonies. The US should be proud of stopping them.

My home state celebrates "Victory Day," a holiday about the US winning WWII that happens in August; some folks aren't fans of the name because they think the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are being celebrated. My take: it's a very good thing for so many people that the US beat Japan.