Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Oh you mean like the time Pakistan invaded Afghanistan to help create the Taliban

Israel killed an American citizen and 6 others in a strike on an aid convoy that the IDF knew about.

@Zincy
Notably a strike against World Kitchen, probably history’s most wholesome and effective charity for crisis and disaster areas.

@Zincy
Oh man reminds me of that time Israel fired at and killed a Reuters journalist that was clearly marked as a journalist

Or that time Israel sniped two women outside of a Catholic Church despite the Catholic authorities being incredibly outspoken on the plight of the Parish

Or that time Israel attacked a car of fleeing Palestinians and then attacked two ambulances that tried to save the sole survivor of the attack despite approving of the ambulances to come save said survivor

Or that time-

It gets even better.

Several experts are saying that it looked like it was hit with a precision weapon, likely launched from a UAV that is paired with a surveillance drone.

Meaning it was a targeted strike, not just a misguided artillery or anything.

Israel’s ally: stop shooting at me, chill!

Israel: There’s a misinput, misinput. CALM DOWN! You calm the fuck down! It was a misinput!

So with Biden declaring again and again that there is no red line that would stop him from supporting Israel, we can likely skip asking whether this will provoke a response from him and go straight to asking how fast will he bypass Congress and how many billions will he give Israel this time?

We still don’t have free healthcare by the way. But they do!

@tehwatever
“Our deepest apologies. We only meant to kill the civilians receiving the aid.”

@Zincy
Furthermore, the attack was likely launched by a drone, a drone which would’ve seen the top of these cars labelled as an aid convoy

And as the icing on the cake, according to Haaretz, the IDF bombed this aid convoy three fucking times

And Netanyahu calls it “unintentional” lol

Like, come on, it isn’t even debatable that Israel doesn’t give a fuck about causing civilian casualties at this point

I don’t know if they are doing it on purpose or the IDF has truly lost all fucks to give, but this is just indefensible

And of course, people are defending it

At this point, the guy is just asking for a drone to “get lost” and blow the shit out of him. I’m baffled it hasn’t happened already, like holy shit.

And now it sounds like World Kitchen is pausing or ceasing operations as a result, so the IDF got what they wanted in that regard. Make it too dangerous to render relief to Palestinians, making the extermination go smoother.

I can’t believe I just found out about this but reportedly, Israel has been using an AI system called “The Gospel” to select bombing targets in Gaza

One of the reasons they created this system was because the IDF were running out of targets to bomb and The Gospel can generate up to a 100 targets a day for the IDF to flatten

Israel is literally creating AM from I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream

Something something torment nexus

Ukraine using Cessna’s as long range drones
Over 1200 km from Ukraine. What the hell is going on with RuSSian air defense? Every SAM and AAG they have should easily be able to shoot them down.

Russia has been trying to fool Ukraine by painting decoy jet fighters on the runways of their airbases. Why is the ruse failing? Because their own attack helicopters have landed directly on top of some of the decoys.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russias-helicopters-landing-fake-painted-150718091.html

(I would’ve directly shared the image from the article, but as a BP, I don’t know how to do that.)

Someone please inform me here. I heard a lot about trying to rein Israel in by cutting their funding and military supplies, but it has me thinking: wouldn’t that just make Bibi and Nutcase-yahoo double down on their efforts and essentially burn down Palestine as fast as possible with what they have remaining?

Nah, they would just flip to buying from the same sources Russia has been getting their supplies from, North Korea, China and so on. The outcome remains the same: Israel gets their genocide, except the US no longer has an ally in the middle east. It’s the same reason why stopping US aid to Ukraine only benefits Russia and their sympathizers.

This isn’t post-WW2 anymore, countries aren’t as desperate to make deals with the US as they’d like to think.

Norfolk Southern calls activist’s plans a slash and burn campaign that will affect safety
An activist investor wants to replace the current CEO with one who doesn’t know jack shit about trains, and cut the operating ratio to 60%, which would require cutting as many as 2000 jobs.
There’s definitely a rat in that activist investor group.

@lonewolf
Activist investors don’t care about the core activity of the businesses they purchase, only how much quick profit they can squeeze out of them before dumping the carcass.

@Ereiam
Depends… some investor groups have “political” goals; iirc MS has some activist investment group that constantly pushes for pro-environment company policies, for example. Basically just mean they have some “vision” they always want to push for.

Huh so that’s what that email was about…

I’m invested in Vanguard Holdings, which also has a vested interest in Norfolk Southern.

They put out a presser to all investors about an upcoming vote involving NS. Guess that’s what this is about.

I’ll vote against Ancora.

@The Smiling Pony
ESG?

Holy shit, Jared Monroe formerly from LWC is going public about his NDA, and for black balling him in the industry. The LWC response? It’s a conspiracy by Hillary in Steven’s divorce. Not to mention the screenshots shared by LWC, shown on screen but not highlighted conveniently, makes Steven look worse. Talk about an own goal.

Also they are now suing Hillary for torturous interference for the ring doorbell footage of Crowder yelling at his pregnant wife.

The FCC had restored net neutrality in its latest vote.

@Dustcan
That’s good news.

@Dustcan
Suck it, Ajit Pai!