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Thats one aspect, yes, but capitalists aren’t just going to stop being capitalists because people are a little less likely to succumb to advertising. People still need food, still need housing, still need fun and leisure to stay sane. And there will still be people there eager and willing to exploit that need to the best of their ability… and more than willing to ignore them if its not worth their time.

If it was that easy, we’d be flooded with reasonably priced sources of food and other things.

The ability for the “free market” to fix all our problems has always been vastly overstated.

New? Where have you been the last several decades?

I didn’t see any noisemakers or confetti, where are you seeing celebration? I see acknowledgement and respect, but that’s a far cry from celebration.

Ukraine support was already under fire, they tried to push it through by attaching it to the Israel package.

Odo is a Kandra?

Yes, but he’s built up a tolerance over the years, it probably won’t affect him too much.

Shit happens. It sucks when it does, but sometimes you just can’t avoid it. Something coming out of a bush you can’t see behind, or a driver swerving unexpectedly. You can do everything you can to try and prevent it, but that doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed. If you worry too much about it your attention will be too focused on it and you’re more likely to miss something else.

This isn’t about “objective reality” though, it’s about subjective thought. You present a case that justifies killing that has no bearing on the situation. Israel is not under existential threat from Hamas, no matter what rhetoric they spawn. They’re not fighting for life, for existence. They’re killing to control. To have ultimate say of everything in what they perceive as their domain. That’s not self-defense, that’s aggression, pure and simple.

You can justify self-defense when your life is truly in danger, but that wasn’t the case. The case was that they found an excuse to kill people to justify their own authority. To blame someone else for all the evils of the world, and take no blame themselves. They killed for the glory, for the power, for the control. Not for defense. That’s a cheap excuse to shield from objective reality.

But, based on your own justification, that would be fine, wouldn’t it? At least they’d have the hostages back alive, right? That’s justified because you get the people back alive, right?

Or can you only justify killing with the return of hostages?

Yes, but we’re not talking about accidentally killing someone who’s attacking you, we’re talking about willfully ignoring the lives of those in the way of you and the person you’re trying to kill.

Ends justify the means, you mean?

He doesn’t live in the federation until the last episode, though. He lives on a Bajoran space station administrated by Starfleet.

Consume prilosec.

Clearly by swerving into a light pole like any rational driver.

"Don’t you think he looks tired?

Because they’re indicative of general economic conditions.

The thing is… everything else is already covered by anti hate-crime legislation. Basically just repetition of already established doctrine. Linking that to a zionism = Judaism rule of law essentially taints all action to prevent hate-crime. Which is one of the many goals of the current conservative power base.

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Statement #4 makes everything else worse. It’s basically linking criticism of Israel as criticism of Judaism in general. Without it, you’d be right, but with it it makes all of it ten times worse.