If I tell Ikea support that my “Vänner” are missing from my kit, will they mail a few replacement ones for me?

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich angrily dismissed the decision. The announcement “reflects a lack of confidence in Israel’s security and national strength, and also a lack of confidence in the righteousness of Israel’s path against its enemies,” he said in a statement from his office.

Why would a Moody’s rating take “the righteousness of Israel’s path” into account?

Starting out by saying both Hamas and Israel are genocidal pricks, because I have to in order to avoid getting flamed apparently, I just want to note the headline is so weaselly. It’s not “war” that destroyed these places, it was Israel with rockets, bombs, artillery, tanks and bulldozers.

I’d argue Carlson also didn’t manage to interview him, apparently Putin just rambled along without answering any questions.

Oh, you are misunderstanding me. Antisemitism is a fine word in itself, what I’m arguing against is not the word antisemite itself. I am arguing against the pointless arguments over what the word means, the “what you really mean” or the “you are using the wrong word because technically it shouldn’t mean what people use it for” arguments.

And I also think it’s an okay argument to have, if society really has long-held conflicting beliefs over what a word means. Like the word “socialist”. It makes sense to argue over what that means. But trying to redefine “antisemite” as someone who hates Jews and Arabs as well is stupid, since in usage it was specifically used for people hating Jews.

I think the thing with the word “antisemitism” is that it has been so thoroughly associated with nazis that it has become a weapon in itself. People wrestle over what it means because most people internalized “antisemites are bad”. If you can get “antisemite” associated with your enemy, you win.

It shouldn’t be a thing really. In a good faith conversation not between linguists, people should just clarify what they mean.

The West already won on this big time, even if Ukraine loses. Russia has lost most of its Soviet era stockpile, thousands of tanks, while the West had only committed its surplus.

That’s not counting personnel losses.

Just a bit of context, Hungarian MPs of the current government have boycotted every move of the opposition in the past 14 years.

They didn’t show up to any of the sessions, they didn’t put any initiatives or laws on the agenda. Not one.

I would have been more surprised if they actually did show up. That would have been unprecedented.

Wat is de problem met Nederlands?

I think with votes like this, especially with the low turnout, it just shows most people don’t really care because they don’t feel directly impacted one way or another. The people that feel impacted negatively by SUVs slightly outnumber people who feel impacted negatively by increased parking prices. That’s the result.

Putting aside the biased source, the war crimes of one side do not justify the war crimes of the other. Both are the scum of the world.

It may be the best case scenario for them still. This could be their “economic soft landing”.

I wonder if ripping it off might have caused a big enough economic problem to threaten the stability of the government.

This Evergrande business has been hanging in the air for years now. I wonder what this news means in practice.

I have lived in multiple countries across Europe, and I have seen what the article describes in multiple countries. I do not consider my life story to be relevant. I’m living in the Netherlands right now if that’s what you’re asking.

The point I’m making is that a random thing the Biden admin says it’s doing is not relevant for the majority of the world, or the majority of the developed world even. I am not even sure it’s relevant for everyone in the US with how polarized people seem to be.

They are in conflict with Turkey over Cyprus. Greece and Turkey thus have outsized militaries compared to the rest of the region.

No, the problem is that money decides which issues are important in the first place.

Or more likely that news doesn’t get paid to put it in the headline.

It is usually implied that when people talk about their experiences, they talk about things they have personally experienced. Also it is also implied that people on the internet are not all from one country.

I wonder why did you think I lived in the US in the first place.

I do not live in the US.