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The comment that was liked says to “vote her if not Trump”, it doesn’t say to vote “Trump if not her”.
A very important nuance. A more charitable explanation is that she is trying to get undecided voters. Which is exactly what a presidential candidate is supposed to do.
I agree with this take.
AI will definitely make some white collar jobs way more productive, and thus change the nature of that work and reduce the number of people employed in those jobs.
A good example is translation, where translators are now mostly reviewing translated texts instead of translating from scratch.
This means the ability to read fast and take on the role of editor is what remains important in the remaining jobs for translators.
The only country that can be blamed for destroying Iraqi industry is the USA. Two decades of war, one decade of sanctions and another decade of war (by Saddam against Iran) sponsored by the USA in the 1980s.
Obviously, Iranian industry will outcompete Iraqi industry at this point in history.
Iraq needs to rebuild and they need outside help.
I’m not gonna defend Iranian war mongering. And neither will I defend Turkish war mongering, or IS, USA or Israeli war mongering.
But the only path forward for Iraq is by making peace with the two power brokers in the region: Turkey and Iran.
And that’s what the current government is trying to achieve. The Turkey-Iraq corridor and the new port they are building are going to lay the foundation for their future prosperity.
As for Iran, Iran is desperate for allies. It won’t be that difficult to find some mutually beneficial relationship with them.
It’s more-or-less geographic destiny that Iran and Turkey will become the dominant powers in Western Asia.
They both basically ruled the area for most of history.
The best we (the West) could do is nudge them towards human rights and peace and friendship. For Turkey, that’s mostly a done deal.
For Iran, that was exactly what Obama tried to do. And it’s also what Iran has been trying to get for the past 25 years.
Iran is inherently on a path towards secularisation and more dovish policies. It’s the threat of war by the US and Israel that keeps the defense hawks in power.
Iran, especially, will never fully trust the USA - and for good reason. But they do want better relations with the USA. They just don’t want to get burned or bombed.
Does anyone know exactly where in the red sea this is?
I want to know if it’s in Yemens territorial waters or not.
The most common and stable society since the dawn of agriculture has been the feudal/slave society.
Countries like China and Bangladesh are basically this type of society.
And even the USA had sharecroppers until very recently.
We have to be very diligent, every waking hour, if we want to preserve our modern western way of life.
And we are horribly failing, by getting sucked into divide&conquer tactics that polarize the working class and thereby neutralize our political power.
He said those things towards the end of his life after he had been smeared for years.
Prior to that interview in 1983, he had criticized Israel for the atrocities they committed in Lebanon and people called him an anti-semite for comparing Israel to Nazi-Germany.
Eventually, he said fuck it, and went full anti-semite.
I don’t blame the guy. He’s only human and people can only take so much shit before they turn into bitter old men.
I used to think Jeremy Corbyn was an anti-semite. I also used to think Roald Dahl was an anti-semite.
But after researching what they actually said, it’s clear that they were just smeared, because they weren’t racist enough against Palestinians and (shockingly) thought Palestinians deserve human rights.
Honestly, I am now highly skeptical whenever someone calls another person an anti-semite.
The fediverse would be an improvement for now. But if it gets popular, bots will take over.
And corporate owned media hasn’t really brought us much good, either.
It got us into wars in Vietnam and Iraq and it also got us the destruction of the middle class.
I don’t think there really is a silver bullet. Best I can think of is, media owned by the people and for the people.