But what about the SAVE act?
The presidents primary domestic legislature is set to rewrite the rules of voting, if passed.
The way the law is currently written, your Real ID will not be sufficient to vote. You will need a passport to confirm your ID, which is something 50% of Americans do not have.
Think about all the oil you use as a regular person- for heating, transportation, fertilizer for your foods, etc.
Now say the price goes up by 20%. Would you, in response, consume 20% less? Would you heat your home 20% less and eat 20% less and go to work 20% less? Of course not.
The estimated 20% reduction in worldwide crude production means, somehow, somewhere, as a world we have to use 20% less oil. Then the question is, how high does the price have to rise to force people to consume 20% less?
How expensive will it have to get to force people to heat 20% less and eat 20% less and drive 20% less? I don’t know, but it’s going to get worse, because we aren’t there yet.
Israel does use the same argumentation, the “human shields” narrative was used as justification to bomb Gaza.
The difference is that Israel bombed pretty much every building in Gaza, whereas the IRGC reportedly only struck select hotels where US or Israeli troops were being moved off base.
That is a significant difference, because one is a war crime, and the other is a legitimate target under the rules of war.
Moving troops from military bases into hotels means that those hotels are no longer civilian infrastructure.
Worse than Biden’s “We finally beat Medicare”?
Biden’s debate performance was so bad that it got Trump elected.
What makes you question the story?
Certainly the Trump administration had been lying about it losses, and they are releasing many face-saving coverup stories. It would be foolish to give them the benefit of the doubt.
But the Kuwaiti friendly fire incident actually has lots of evidence to back it up. You can watch video of the “dogfight”- a Kuwaiti jet is clearly attacking US jet at very close range. The US jet appears to be surprised, as they fail to deploy most counter-measures.
Unfortunately the hard data on UHC’s denial rate is not public information. The company wouldn’t want all the bad publicity that would come with transparency.
There would be other signs, though. For example, UHC investors suing to increase the denial rate.
The lawsuit argues that the company’s changing corporate practices in the wake of Thompsons murder have been too consumer-friendly, and the investors’ profits are suffering as a result.
This unequal exchange rate logic has been firmly established for decades.
“On October 18, 2011, captured IDF tank gunner Gilad Shalit, captured by the Palestinian militant organization Hamas in 2006, was released in exchange for 1027 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.”
List of Arab–Israeli prisoner exchanges -Wikipedia
“Palestinian prisoners” have become a form of currency for the Israeli state. Whenever they start to run low, they just go to the West Bank and get more.
Are you sure you aren’t underestimating the huge volume of demand that needs to be destroyed? I believe something like 20%-25% of demand needs to be destroyed, in both the crude and LNG markets.
The last time demand was 20% lower than baseline was during the two worst months of Covid, when the majority of people were staying inside their home
So the question is: how high does the price of oil have to get in order to force people to consume like they did under the worst of Covid?
I’m no economist, but my gut feeling says it will be sustained significantly higher than $160/barrel.
They shrugged it off when churches were damaged in Gaza, why would this be any different?
There’s this city in the West Bank called Bethlehem, I guess some famous dude was born there. The churches in Bethlehem weren’t able to have Christmas celebrations for two years due to Israel’s genocide.
How did evangelicals respond? Polling says 65% support Israel’s military action in Gaza, even after two years of indiscriminate bombing, death marches, forced starvation, and torture camps.
If you’re really into Catholic lore and mythology, then yes, the Pope’s word holds a lot of weight. They believe in papal infallibility, which means that when the Pope meets certain very specific criteria, he is literally speaking for God and is thus perfect and unquestionable.
Regular normie Catholics? They believe in the Pope the same way they believe in the Bible: it is the true word of God, but it’s too much of a bother to actually read it. They’re never reading papal edicts, they’re just reading news headlines about the pope like everyone else.
Suicidal thoughts in response to this news is really concerning. From what I understand, you aren’t being personally affected by this news. Go take care of yourself. Touch grass or do whatever you need to do.
I think it will help to have a broader perspective. The US spends over $1 trillion each year on violence. When the bombs stop, then profits drop, and this is not acceptable to the capitalist class. When we stopped spending $60bln in Afghanistan, we instantly started spending $60bln in Ukraine. Now Ukraine is winding down, we will spend it on Venezuela. After that, Panama? Greenland? Cuba? Mexico? This cycle will continue until the military industrial complex is dismantled. That is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.
You are on the ethically correct side, and that matters. I find inspiration in the many generations of people who fought against slavery in the US. So many people, so many generations fought to end slavery, and most did not live to see the successful end. We must continue to fight, even if we do not see success in our lifetimes, we lay the groundwork for future generation’s success. We owe it to them.
And if you do choose to end yourself, I respect your bodily autonomy, but please make sure you are of sound mind when you make that very serious decision. And consider following in the holy footsteps of Saint Luigi of Baltimore.
Perry Bible Fellowship is not low effort, newspaper quality, nor rage bait.
Maybe OP is a repost bot or plant or whatever, but PBF is a top-tier internet comic.
We can agree that there will most likely not be a mass popular uprising for Maduro and Chavism.
I believe there will be a mass popular uprising against Trump and the puppet government of Machado.
Polls: 91% of Venezuelans Hold Unfavorable Views of Opposition Leader María Corina Machado
You’re really begging for downvotes with this comment, but I’m curious: how do you see this situation playing out? Do you think a couple steps ahead, or just react?
My guess is that is going to go like this:
MBFC
Do you have a less biased or more credible source for this fact check?
The Grayzone is worthy of valid criticism, but MBFC does not provide valid criticism, it is rightwing propaganda.
Coffee is a diuretic, it is beneficial to the kidneys and hard on the stomach.
A large percentage of cats die from kidney issues, not many die from stomach issues. So coffee is good for cats makes sense imo.
When Luigi killed that UHC oligarch, the company responded by lowering their claims denial rate by 1-2%. UHC processes hundreds of millions of claims every year.
Do the math- the slaying of Brian Thompson meant that millions of claims that would have otherwise been denied were approved.
By killing one oligarch, hundreds of lives were saved. Perhaps even thousands.
We know this because Investors Are Pressing UnitedHealth Group to Deny More Care
Your scenario suggests that the friend ‘just started’ to act out, but this breaks the analogy because the US has been doing war crimes for decades.
This isn’t a friend that just started acting out, it’s a friend that has a history of talking behind your back, stealing your stuff, crashing your car, sleeping with your SO, killing your pet, and offering you a cash bribe in return.
Why is this person still your friend? Why didn’t people reach their limit when the friend killed a million innocent Iraqis?