
A child was among the dead in Kostiantynivka, an industrial city near the front lines in the eastern Donetsk region, officials said.

Several points:
I find Taylor Swift bland as beige, I don't get the appeal at all, and I think Musk is a rabid twatwaffle. I also don't believe anyone should really get to be so wealthy. Still, there are good reasons why one might need to travel by private means without their movements being broadcast.
Israel and allies have spent enormous resources convincing themselves and anyone they can that Palestinians don't exist.
No, not immediately, and also for very different reasons. Palestinians, no matter where they end up, have a large sense of identity and continue to identify at Palestinians, be they Muslims or Christians - continuing to speak in their own dialect for example - while Israel expends enormous resources convincing themselves and anyone who will listen that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian". Palestinians by and large do not want to leave Palestine, because if they do they would likely never be able to return - especially if forced out by the IDF.
Essentially, each country has reasons to not do what Israel wants. And two of the major reasons on top of it all is that it is what Israel wants, and it is not what the Palestinians want. Palestinians want their homeland.
Your iPhone / Samsung is manufactured there. So no, that's a bad take. You get what you pay for, and good quality is still cheaper than made elsewhere.
BYD is set to beat Tesla for a second straight year after producing more than 3 million cars in 2023
I suggest you watch reviews of the BYD fleet. They are incredibly positive.
Bah Canada has no independent foreign policy. We just follow the United States.
This is all true, and yet it's still a good thing.
The more people invest in this stuff the cheaper it will get.
That is not true unfortunately. I tend to be very left wing socially - economically I'm more left of center - and that was reflected on my social media as well - either pushing me towards more radical content or stoking anger with more radical right wing content to get me riled up and coming back for more.
I ended up with a growing hatred and emnity for a growing number of people and "groups", and black and white thinking. Even though I was aware that I was being manipulated, it was still impossible to sit on a high horse above the fray.
It's quite easy to manipulate human minds, even ones that are careful and aware. We can all be manipulated. It's why advertising works, for example.
The only thing to do really is to not play that game. Avoid advertising, avoid other content curators deciding what you get to see and telling you how to reason, etc... realise that most people are empathetic, that most people want what's best, and those that are radical have been manipulated to be that way, sadly.
This is the first generation with worse prospects than the previous one. Wealth inequality is growing, and robber barons are back. Climate change is making any prospects even worse.
Combine that with a communication revolution (social media, to be exact) which allows anyone to pretty much target anyone else with any message they feel like, means disinformation pushing narratives is everywhere. And not to forget, there people in charge of these platforms are among the aforementioned robber barons.
It's easy to offer simple solutions to these problems and push disinformation to people who don't have the knowledge, time or energy to debunk everything and think deeply about things, since they're busy slaving away to put food on their tables, struggling to build a future, and looking for solutions. And simple answers give people a sense of control or explanation over their difficult situation.
It's why I have completely removed myself from every social media platform there is, except this one and I'm only on here intermittently.
Israelis will never accept to become a minority. It's as simple as that.
I'm not a communist because I think communism is a big failure.
So is deregulation and unfettered capitalism. It's why every time we deregulate and cut taxes, the wealth gap gets wider, life gets shitter for everyone but the wealthiest, etc...
These are the same clowns who added most of the debt (Bush and Trump tax cuts) then complain about the debt when they're no longer in power.
Honestly? Yeah I don't see any way around this than to simply predicate all aid to the region on conditions.
It's unclear how anything else can work.
If this requires a permanent UN military mission with the right to shoot to kill any threat all along the border of both Palestine and Israel, I'm fine with it. If it means Israel bitches and moans about how unfair it is, who cares. It's about time they respected and enforced the law. If it means Palestinians need to fight to dismantle their own militant orgs and fight for peace, at least they will have a light at the end of that tunnel instead of the despair of the past 70 years (and earlier too, tbh).
Hamas doesn't give a fuck about peace, ceasefires, children, or anything else.
That doesn't mean Israel should get carte blanche to do whatever they want. Let's not forget that prominent members of the current Israeli government have expressed very clear genocidal desires of their own.
You still haven't made any sort of point.
There is a definition, and it applies. It's unclear why you disagree.
Yeah sure.
Conservatives elect speaker who doesn't believe in dinosaurs, ancient history or climate change, wants to make homosexuality illegal, voted to overturn the election and did everything in his power to thwart it, reporters aren't allowed to question it, but it's those opposed who are "scum".
Them's Nazi words, quite literally. You really need an education.
Yeah, he'll get trounced by someone in his own party though, like the last one did.
You make some strange and easily debunkable claims here.
Mainly because all the productive land was taken from them.
The few farms and fisheries in Gaza can't produce enough for 2 million people. Especially since they aren't allowed to mechanize their agriculture, and are limited in maritime range for fishing.
And forget the possibility of trade ports...
I'm not IN your house, I just surround your house, prevent you from leaving, can cut off your power, water and food at will.
There are quite a lot of Christians in Palestine.
Russian missile attack hits market in Ukraine, 16 dead
A child was among the dead in Kostiantynivka, an industrial city near the front lines in the eastern Donetsk region, officials said.