It’s prosperous thanks to heavy support from the west through billions in welfare and trillions spent fighting wars for them. The private companies opening branches in israel is another form of support. Also, their nuclear program was built by stealing our secrets which apparently we allow.

True, sometimes the most abusive businesses are small.

The real fantasy is thinking a genocidal ethnostate that relies heavily on billions in welfare from the west is sustainable.

I will not shed a tear if israel is wiped out, just like I wouldn’t have shed a tear if I was around to see nazi germany wiped out.

No, that’s not how hijackings work, and not why they decreased. They did not “let the hijackers do what they want,” and anyway, how would that discourage hijacking? If they were letting the hijackers do whatever they want, wouldn’t that ENCOURAGE hijackers?

Yes it was how it used to work, that’s why the planes would end up diverted. When that stopped being standard protocol, the hijackings reduced. You got it on that last sentence in that paragraph but for some reason think I’m arguing changing standard protocol to NOT allow hijackers to do their thing would encourage hijackers. You read my post backwards.

Hijackings went down because in the past the protocol was to let the hijacker do what they want since it just ended in a diverted plane with no one harmed. That doesn’t work anymore and it’s not because of the TSA.

They are a stock buyer and holder, so they take part in that pricing. If inflated valuations became a detriment, the stocks would be priced accordingly. We shouldn’t desire unrealistic p/e ratios.

If the valuations are bullshit, then the tax code should call them out on it so that valuations wouldn’t be so inflated. If the valuations aren’t bullshit, then they should be able to sell to get the money.

No, I don’t think a genocidal ethnostate that protects rapists has the right to exist.

I’m saying that every form of progress comes with challenges and downsides, and this saying of “Next generation will be fucked” is a cognitive bias every generation has had for a pretty long time.

Change is not necessarily progress.

It goes to India who then sells it to the EU.

They did it to cut off China who was getting oil from Venezuela.

But it’s messier.

Oh boy, guess we can look forward to more vibe-coded slop which will make it an even bigger pain to use.

What we really need is money out of politics and for AIPAC to register as the foreign lobby that it is.

One of the countries on the list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkNAQIuGZY

Then you’d be pretty wrong. Don’t fall for the propaganda, the entire middle east cannot be written off as a perpetually war-torn shithole.

The plan pushed by Cruz and Scott has been sought by conservatives for many years. Under current law, an investor who bought $100 worth of stock in 1990 and sold it today for $300 would currently owe capital gains taxes on the full $200 in profit. But the $100 investment in 1990 would be worth roughly $230 in today’s dollars after accounting for inflation. Under the Cruz-Scott proposal, the investor would only owe taxes on that $70, rather than the full $200. That is why the proposal is known as “indexing capital gains for inflation.”

Ah, so the ultra-wealthy who have been holding during the longest bull market in history can get a massive discount for dumping on us peons?

Do you think the entire middle east is just warlords fighting over dunes of sand?

In my state, republicans slapped on much higher EV registration fees but when democrats came into power, they just left them there. This pattern seems to mirror the national strategy.