u/bampop

It works both ways. Governments are bending over backwards to silence opposition to Israel, and that means abandoning the rule of law and supressing free speech. The rot was there, but the open corruption and the sheer quantity of lies puts it into overdrive. If not for Israel, Trump would not have been reelected.

Any man who has to say, 'I am the king' is no true king.

That's not just a beard. It's a chin constructed from hair.

Nah, it's a dump and pump. You need cash to buy the dip

what was done to them.

Israel is not governed by holocaust survivors. They just like to pretend it is in order to use misplaced sympathy as a "get away with anything" card

Confession: I actually watched the ESC this year despite my moral qualms. Sorry.

But it really struck me how fake it has become. The "performances" in the final were just recordings of the ones shown in the qualifying rounds (probably weren't even live then). Words said by performers at the end of the song were chopped off. At the end when they showed clips of the performances with the performers in the "green room" reacting to them, pretty sure these were the same shots they used in the qualifying rounds. No continuous shots connecting the presenters to the performances. Every element of the show compartmentalized and combined using stock shots to fill in the gaps. Doesn't even resemble a live show. I wonder how much of this is required to ensure that nobody says anything about Israel, or shows or wears any unauthorised symbols, and that any undesired crowd noise can be edited (sounded like that happened when Israel phone vote was announced). Fucking weird.

Of course the ludicrously high phone vote for Israel was expected. But what is the deal with Switzerland's entry getting zero phone votes? That was really strange. Maybe the organizers agreed to donate all Switzerland's phone votes to Israel.

Anyway, the whole thing is so fake and fucked up, I won't be watching again. I feel sorry for the performers and the countries who try to contribute something good, it's just wasted on Eurovision.

"tell Vance he can schedule any time after Monday"

Sure, it's just a way to raise taxes on the public without calling it that. Upside is they bring in a lot of money quickly. Downside is they do a fuckton of irreparable damage to the US economy, the standard of living of people in the USA, and a fair bit of collateral damage to the rest of the world. But at least Elon gets his tax breaks for another couple of years so yay!

The funny thing is that it's supposed to stimulate US manufacturing. Like companies are going to invest years of time and billions of dollars building factories and moving production to the US, because of a tariff system that changes every 2 days.

I had a feeling he would try something like this. If you only need to convince 57 thousand people, throwing money at them is a very real option. But I never imagined he would go so cheap. 2 million dollars for every man woman and child would only cost the USA 120 billion dollars. Not a bad price for Greenland. 10k is a fucking insult.

D can also happen if the 00:45 job was before the 00:15 job, which thanks to the magic of daylight savings, is also possible

I have a taxi company. On one night, one of my drivers did two jobs, one dispatched at 00:15, the other at 00:45, and he clocked off at 02:15. How long was he working for?

A) 1 hour

B) 2 hours

C) 3 hours

D) 2 hours 30 minutes

E) any of the above

At all levels too. I mean, why the 24 hours a day fluorescent lights so you don't know night from day? How does that help? Hell, how does it even make more money? Even with senior management, the cruelty is the point.