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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

According to prosecutors, Ms Butler and Ms Kelley had arranged with the grandmother of Ms Butler's children to meet at a highway intersection in Oklahoma to pick up the two children - aged six and eight - and take them to a birthday party.

This is why custody exchanges between disputing parents are usually done in a neutral yet publicly occupied space, not either party's house or the middle of bum-fuck nowhere.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Israeli's Supreme Court ruled that Israeli nationality is not a thing. Israel is a Jewish state since 2018, and Israeli Arabs are second class citizens.

This link was one of the sources from yours: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-nation-state-law-bill-explained-apartheid-netanyahu-democracy

The law does three big things:

  1. It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”
  2. It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and downgrades Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis — to a “special status.”
  3. It establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” and mandates that the state “will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.”

If only Jewish people have the right to self-determination, then all Israeli citizens do not have the same rights.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Lol I swear hexbear is a psyop designed to radicalise LGBTQ people and turn them against the moderate middle, thereby creating exactly the villain the gender/sexuality wedge issue calls for.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's worse than you imagine. The MAGA cult grew on reddit, with permission and dare I say nurturing from reddit admin.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. Legally they aren't, however I'm sure that the school's charter demands it in some form.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It should be noted that the countries that have recognised the State of Palestine do so with the borders divided up - they also recognise Israel. As such this implicitly considers Israel's territory to be its own and not some occupied/settler position.

Granted, Israel is still invading and settling all throughout Palestine's recognised territory, breaking international law, but what some people consider as land taken by settlers and what these countries think are often two different things.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Climate change was adopted because global warming doesn't intuitively line up with winters being much colder on top of the average temperature being higher.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Reality has a left-wing bias.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

The purchase itself was a leveraged buyout, they didn't pay the entire $44bn as Twitter took out a loan to cover $13bn. Like all leveraged buyouts (eg Toys R Us) the purchase itself is meant to kill the business. Even before Musk started screwing the revenue there was little hope Twitter could pay the interest, let along the principle. Now, Twitter is worth less than the debt, by some estimates.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There are extensions for that.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

The purchase itself was a death sentence. $13bn of the $44bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk's behalf, even before Musk started tanking the revenue there was no way Twitter was going to be able to pay the interest on that without further cash investment.

Meanwhile, given that the business in unviable, Musk can try all sorts of crazy shit and are what sticks to the wall. Anything that proves successful can be adopted by whatever comes after Twitter or other social media. Charging for API access stuck, this is just the next attempt.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is just another attempt at establishing a new status quo for other social media before Twitter dies a death due to the insurmountable debt that Musk's purchase saddled it with. We've had a bunch of things tried, so far the only thing that stuck was charging for API access (which reddit soon adopted). Let's not have this as well, please.

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