LostWon

To shut our governments up, they're allowing a small amount in. Netanyahu and his allies in the Knesset are even apologizing to their citizens for it.

Netanyahu defends Gaza aid resumption, acknowledges step stemmed from allies’ pressure

PM stresses need to avoid bad optics of starvation; dozens of trucks said ready to enter; far-right parties divided on move, but neither threatens to exit in protest

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Israel’s “greatest friends in the world,” he said, including senators but without mentioning specific nationalities, had said there was “one thing we cannot stand. We cannot accept images of hunger, mass hunger. We cannot stand that. We will not be able to support you.”

Netanyahu said the situation had been approaching a “red line” and a “dangerous point,” but it was not clear if he was referring to the crisis in Gaza or the potential loss of support from allies.

9, with wistful moments of 3

I don't know how old you are now, but do you find you've developed impairments or cognitive difficulties of any kind since then? (Reportedly, even pot is apparently supposed to have lasting effects if the brain is still developing during use.)

Given how invested they are in apologia, owners hearing that are liable to somehow take it to mean the thing's better at avoiding pedestrians because of said "targeting." I might start referring to it as "pedestrian execution mode" to drive the point home.

Or a bottle of water.

I heard about this elsewhere. The gist I got was that Trump wants the US to pay the lowest price any developed country pays for prescription meds, most likely targeting places in Europe, but with the potential to affect everywhere else too as the drug companies seek to recoup their costs. Thing is, it's apparently unlikely to go anywhere. Big pharma sued to prevent this a while back during a similar attempt by a past administration (I can't remember which president).

I do think there's a benefit to using a term to distinguish between the denialist side of Zionism that many diaspora Jews subscribe to (knowingly or unknowingly), and the explicitly, gleefully racist Jewish supremacy-movement that's prominent in Israeli political thought. You might encourage people to use the term Kahanist instead. Same shit as nazism, different übermensch. So it's more accurate and gets to the heart of the issue.

I'm just an outside observer myself but yes, it's clear there's absolutely propaganda for folks at the bottom. In the spirit of the topic though, I was talking about the perspective of the oil companies Danielle Smith answers to. Dividing people within AB doesn't seem to be in their immediate interest. I welcome other insights anyone might have, but right now it seems to me the only way they'd want this is if they're doing a long-term gamble on increasing the likelihood of joining the US.

Interesting. Thanks for the update!

Neither am I, but I don't see how an independent Alberta would even remotely benefit the all-powerful oil companies unless their actual end goal is to have AB join the US.

The only way this wouldn't be supremely disappointing would be if they were keeping all staff and only introducing this for lower-importance sequences to reduce the famously insane workload. But yeah, I know I'm only kidding myself to even entertain that idea.

It sucks, but it costs the same to pay the staff no matter who is or isn't there. What costs us more is to move his family out and then move them back in again when he likely wins in a by-election. I just learned they have a non-verbal autistic daughter. An unnecessary double-move would be not only costly to us but extremely cruel to that child. We should just be demanding he reimburse the costs of his stay until he's legitimately living there again. If he loses out in a leadership review or in the expected by-election, then we pay for the move as they're forced to adjust to leaving for good (and he should still pay for the overstay, as far as I'm concerned).