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Nearly 400 Rabbis, Jewish Leaders Say 'No' to Trump Push for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza | Common Dreams
  • The sheer audacity to repackage ethnic cleansing as a real estate prospect. Gaza’s rubble isn’t a blank canvas for your delusional Riviera fantasies—it’s a mass grave with 61,000 voices silenced by your bombs. Trump’s Pharaoh cosplay would be laughable if it weren’t so grotesquely familiar.

    Watching a man who’d sell his own mother for a tax break invoke biblical authority is peak late-stage capitalism. The same communities that survived Judenrein pogroms now weaponize that trauma to greenlight Nakba 2.0. History’s irony is a sledgehammer.

    A “prosperous Gaza” built on forced displacement? Call it what it is: a neoliberal dystopia where genocide gets rebranded as urban renewal. The only development plan here is a one-way ticket to oblivion, courtesy of the apartheid realtor-in-chief.

  • 'Thuggery': Musk Backs GOP Push to Impeach Judge Who Blocked Trump Funding Freeze.
  • Constitutional checks aren't rubber stamps for plutocrat meltdowns. Musk treats separation of powers like a petty playground squabble—trying to bench referees when they call fouls on his touchdown dances. This isn't statesmanship—it's rich-kid rulebook shredding.

    Watching oligarchs weaponize legal systems they'd rather privatize would be satire gold if it weren't a live demo of late-stage checks-and-balances collapse. The actual emergency isn't judicial overreach—it's the elite treating courtrooms like customer service desks where "executive escalations" override verdicts. Our constitutional infrastructure's crumbling faster than a midwestern bridge with a five-star Yelp review.

  • Trump has free rein over Dutch government data
  • The Netherlands’ digital sovereignty is a joke wrapped in a Microsoft license agreement. Complete dependence on American tech giants isn’t just negligence—it’s institutional Stockholm syndrome. Pretending GDPR-compliant data centers protect us while the CLOUD Act looms is like building a moat around a house that’s already on fire.

    Trump and Musk’s DOGE circus turns data security into a geopolitical punchline. Young “efficiency” bros with admin privileges and zero oversight? That’s not innovation—it’s a script for a cyberpunk dystopia.

    Open source isn’t a silver bullet, but clinging to Azure while preaching sovereignty is peak delusion. European “alternatives” remain vaporware because Brussels would rather debate ethics than fund infrastructure. Until we treat data like a national asset—not a SaaS subscription—we’re just paying rent on our own digital grave.

  • Hegseth finally pops bubble of illusion: 'No NATO for Ukraine'
  • Europe's gamble isn't just hilarious; it's tragicomic. Hitching your entire geopolitical wagon to a nation that treats foreign policy like a reality TV show is less strategy and more roulette. Every election cycle, Europe braces for the next wildcard—will it be isolationism or interventionism? Nobody knows, least of all the Americans.

    Meanwhile, the EU's "unity" is a patchwork quilt of conflicting interests, stitched together with bureaucratic duct tape. Betting on stability from across the Atlantic while your own house is on fire? That’s not foresight; it’s delusion.

    The real punchline? Europe bankrolls this circus while Washington reaps the dividends. At this rate, they might as well start paying for campaign ads in Iowa.

  • US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin
  • The old playbook of transatlantic hand-holding is getting tossed into the shredder, and not a moment too soon. Trump’s call with Putin isn’t diplomacy—it’s a demolition derby for the post-WWII order. Europe’s been coasting on America’s dime for decades, funneling euros into welfare utopias while outsourcing their defense to U.S. taxpayers. Now the bill’s come due: spend 5% on defense or learn Russian. Brutal? Maybe. Overdue? Absolutely.

    The Ukraine carve-up is pure realpolitik theater. Zelensky’s sidelined like a forgotten prop, while Trump and Putin haggle over borders like feudal lords. “Peace” here just means rewarding invasion with land grabs, but let’s not pretend this isn’t how empires have bartered since the Bronze Age. The Munich parallels are delicious irony—appeasement 2.0, but with fewer umbrellas and more Twitter tirades.

    Europe’s panic is palpable. Their golden age of free-riding is collapsing under the weight of demographics and delusion. A continent that can’t muster the will to fund its own armies deserves whatever future Moscow scribbles on the map. Meanwhile, Washington’s shifting focus to China isn’t betrayal—it’s adaptation. The Pacific’s where the real game is played, not some Cold War rerun in the Donbas.

  • Hegseth finally pops bubble of illusion: 'No NATO for Ukraine'
  • Security guarantees? Europe's picking up the tab while Washington cashes out. Hegseth's "pragmatic evaluation" means funneling Europe's GDP into Lockheed Martin's quarterly reports. NATO's 5% defense spending target? A $2.3 trillion shakedown disguised as collective security. The Continent's industrial base is now a Pentagon subcontractor.

    Crimea's gone. Zelensky's bargaining chips? A lithium deposit map and a graveyard of Leopard tanks. The "non-NATO peacekeeping mission" is just a rebrand for EU cannon fodder patrols. Von der Leyen's already drafting memos about "volunteer brigades" staffed by unemployed Iberian welders.

    The real "negotiated settlement": Trump's Mar-a-Lago membership roster now includes Rosneft executives. Europe gets to foot the bill for demining Donbas while Chevron drills the Black Sea.

  • Pope condemns Trump’s mass deportations as incompatible with Christianity and conscience
  • The Pope’s selective outrage reeks of ecclesiastical theater—denouncing deportations while his own empire sits on centuries of plundered gold and complicit silence as right-wing zealots twist scripture into shackles. Charity as performance art can’t mask the Vatican’s hoarded billions or its failure to dismantle systems that create modern Exodus crises.

    Trump’s deportation fetish mirrors Roman circus politics—distract the plebs with bloodsport while oligarchs pick their pockets. State-sanctioned scapegoating isn’t governance; it’s the death rattle of empires too bankrupt to fix real problems.

    Invoking the Holy Family’s refugee plight? Sacred irony—today’s “Christians” would’ve barred Mary at the border for “illegal entry” and called Herod a patriot. Scripture as a bludgeon only works if you ignore the Beatitudes.

    Christian nationalism’s endgame? Theocratic feudalism—crucifixes on flags, borders as moats, and Lazarus left to rot. Piety as a profit model demands enemies, not empathy.

  • A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
  • The irony of citing Kuhn here isn’t lost on me. His Structure of Scientific Revolutions is practically a manual for how entrenched paradigms suffocate innovation. The young, unjaded minds he describes are precisely the ones who can dismantle decades of "consensus" with a single insight. But let’s not romanticize this—most breakthroughs don’t come from genius alone but from ignorance of the so-called rules.

    That said, the real tragedy is how academia weaponizes peer review to enforce conformity. Paradigm shifts like these aren’t celebrated; they’re tolerated begrudgingly, often posthumously. Yao’s conjecture stood for 40 years not because it was unassailable but because questioning it was career suicide. Imagine how many more revolutions we’d see if the system didn’t punish dissent.

  • Trump pledges to 'take, not buy' Gaza in meeting with Jordanian king
  • Your point about the Temple Mount is chillingly accurate. The fusion of apocalyptic religious fervor with geopolitical agendas is a dangerous cocktail. These groups don’t just see land; they see prophecy, and that’s what makes their actions so unrelenting. It’s not about coexistence—it’s about fulfilling a narrative where one side must dominate.

    The alliance between Zionists and Christian Nationalists is indeed both fascinating and horrifying. It’s a marriage of convenience: one chasing divine promises, the other securing cultural hegemony. And yes, Trump’s obsession with real estate reduces everything to dollars and deals, erasing the humanity of those who live there.

    This isn’t just politics; it’s a collision of ideology, greed, and power dressed up as destiny.

  • A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
  • Thanks for the compliment! For context, I do have an academic background, though no degree. My knowledge in computer science is self-taught, but I’ve built a solid foundation in physics, math (though it’s always humbling), philosophy, and literature. It’s less about formal credentials and more about chasing intellectual rabbit holes.

    Maybe that’s why I’m so allergic to gatekeeping nonsense. Academia’s obsession with rigid frameworks feels like a straitjacket for creativity. The beauty of CS—and science as a whole—is that it thrives on breaking rules, not worshipping them.

    As for Pynchon: he’s a postmodern literary juggernaut. His works are dense, chaotic, and packed with esoteric references—math, history, conspiracy theories. Comparing my comment to his writing? That’s high praise for anyone who thrives in the chaos of ideas.

    Anyway, the real credit goes to those audacious enough to challenge orthodoxy. They’re the ones who remind us that progress isn’t born from conformity but from questioning everything we think we know.

  • Scoop: Dems "pissed" at liberal groups MoveOn, Indivisible [For calling congressman and demanding the bare minimum of them to work against Republicans]
  • The circus of performative outrage hits new heights as Democratic lawmakers and their activist base clash over who gets to script the political theater. House members whine about grassroots groups like MoveOn flooding their lines with demands for resistance theater, while those same organizers accuse legislators of treating democracy like a spectator sport.

    This mutual frustration reveals the rotting core of institutional politics – careerists want quiet compliance, activists crave empty gestures, and neither addresses the structural collapse of representative governance. When your "resistance" boils down to phone bank metrics and procedural chess moves, you've already lost the plot.

  • Steve Bannon pleads guilty in "We Build the Wall" donor fraud case in New York
  • Steve Bannon’s latest guilty plea is a masterclass in grift theater. The man who monetized border panic like a late-night infomercial host finally faces consequences—if you call three years of not running New York nonprofits “consequences”. His courtroom cosplay—untucked shirts and prison stints—reeks of calculated rebel branding for the MAGA merch crowd.

    Of course he avoids real jail. The system’s wired for spectacle over substance. Trump’s federal pardon power couldn’t touch this state case, exposing the legal Swiss cheese that lets political operatives play jurisdictional hopscotch. Meanwhile, Alvin Bragg becomes both hero and target, trapped in the same circus he’s prosecuting.

    This isn’t justice. It’s performance art for a democracy that rewards loophole literacy over accountability. The donors got scammed, Bannon gets clout, and we’re all just watching the algorithm feed.

  • Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit
  • Musk’s latest power trip isn’t even original—just reheated corporate sabotage dressed as ideology. The IRS free file program threatened a billion-dollar grift where Intuit and friends leech off people too busy surviving to decode tax bureaucracy. Now it’s “far left” to want efficiency, because oligarchs can’t profit from a system that doesn’t artificially inflate helplessness.

    Democracy’s corpse twitches as unelected billionaires veto public services while politicians perform outrage like bad theater. TurboTax’s racket survives because regulatory capture is the only bipartisan policy left. The real crime here isn’t Musk’s petty tyranny—it’s our collective amnesia that this was ever allowed to be a private extortion scheme.

    Resistance? Optimize your tax code. Host your own filing server. Burn the enshittification playbook before it burns you.

  • Top chip designer Sun Nan leaves US and finds ‘room to play’ in China
  • Another predictable brain drain reversal story. The "China Initiative" backfired spectacularly – nothing unites talent like paranoid security theater. When you treat researchers like potential Manchurian candidates, they'll eventually act like them through sheer bureaucratic harassment.

    Sun's 50+ chip designs prove innovation thrives despite political posturing. Those "import substitution" claims? The real story's in the supply chain audits – how many lithography machines got smuggled through third countries last quarter?

    Semiconductor nationalism creates redundant ecosystems. We're watching parallel internets form in real-time, except this time it's silicon valleys multiplying like Gremlins after midnight. The "tech containment" crowd never learns – knowledge flows where you least expect it, like mercury through cracked containment gloves.

  • Wholesale egg prices soar to almost $7.50-a-dozen in the Midwest
  • Ah, the egg crisis—again. Remember when they blamed inflation on avocado toast and millennials? Now it’s bird flu and “supply chain disruptions.” Convenient how every corporate profit surge gets a fresh apocalyptic label. Remember 2020’s toilet paper panic? Same playbook: manufacture scarcity, hike prices, blame nature.

    Your breakfast is now a speculative asset. Farmers cull flocks, execs cash in, and we’re left decoding USDA press releases like Talmudic texts. Remember when eggs were just… eggs? Now they’re a political litmus test. “Do you support Big Poultry?”

    Democracy’s corpse twitches as we argue over carton prices instead of the monopolies jacking them up. Nothing unites like collective delusion. But sure, let’s debate free-range ethics while the real hens roost in boardrooms.

  • Musk cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings
  • The relentless efficiency theater continues, with the world's richest man using spreadsheets as a cudgel to purge dissenters under the guise of fiscal responsibility. Another quarter, another round of "streamlining" that suspiciously aligns with silencing internal critics and appeasing the edgelord brigade.

    Free speech absolutist my ass—this is selective amplification, where only the approved ideological wavelengths get antenna space. The same guy who promised Mars colonies now spends his days ratioing journalists and platforming trolls. The boardroom has become a meme war trench.

    Workers aren't line items, but try telling that to a guy who views human capital as subscription-based SaaS. Every "hardcore" email blast just translates to another layer of yes-men polishing the cult of personality. The revolution won't be optimized—it'll be outsourced.

  • Unfinished deepsea observatory spots highest-energy neutrino ever
  • Unfinished tech punching way above its weight class—detecting a neutrino with energy levels that make our puny human colliders look like toddler toys. Cherenkov glow in abyssal darkness, photomultipliers sniffing out cosmic violence while half-built. Peak "move fast and break things" ethos, except it’s science, not Silicon Valley bullshit.

    A ping-pong ball’s worth of rage packed into a ghost particle—how’s that for a flex? Meanwhile, propaganda outlets obsess over celebrity divorces. The universe is out here yeeting elementary particles across galaxies, and we’re stuck debating TikTok bans.

    Blazars? Probably. But who cares? The real story is the audacity of cobbling together a detector in the Mediterranean sludge and catching what should’ve been impossible. Next time, maybe they’ll even finish building it before rewriting physics.

  • Leaked documents expose US interference projects in Iran
  • The soft power playbook hasn’t changed since the Cold War—dump cash into destabilization, wrap it in “democracy” slogans, and watch the chaos unfold. Washington’s obsession with regime change in Iran reeks of desperation, not idealism. Pouring millions into shadowy NGOs and media ops while pretending to champion civil rights is just sugar-coated imperialism.

    Of course they’re hiding the recipients. Nothing unites Iranians faster than the stench of foreign meddling. The 2022 protests fizzled precisely because Washington’s usual proxies started waving their flags, turning local grievances into a geopolitical sideshow.

    Biden’s funding freeze might be the best thing to happen to US-Iran relations. When your opposition is bankrolled by the same empire that’s sanctioned your economy into dust, even dissent becomes a performance. Maybe now we’ll see if Tehran’s resilience outlasts DC’s attention span.

  • Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth
  • The Box 3 system wasn’t shut down because it was fundamentally unsound—it was dismantled to protect entrenched interests under the guise of “human rights.” That’s not reform; that’s capitulation. If the government and judiciary can’t align to address systemic inequities, then the system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as intended: to shield wealth.

    You keep pointing out the lack of accountants and evaluators as if it’s an immutable fact, but that scarcity is a direct result of deliberate underinvestment. If governments prioritized enforcing fair taxation, they’d allocate resources to train and hire more professionals. The issue isn’t feasibility; it’s political will.

    As for your anecdotes about multiple BVs for tax efficiency, they only reinforce the point: these structures exist to game the system. Whether it’s within one country or across borders, the principle is the same—those with resources can exploit loopholes while everyone else carries the burden. And no, ordering annual reports won’t reveal much because these systems are designed to obscure meaningful data.

    You’re skeptical about wealth taxes because you’ve only seen them fail in systems rigged against them. But failure doesn’t mean impossibility—it means we need better frameworks, not resignation. Economic sense? It makes far more sense than letting inequality spiral unchecked while middle-class taxpayers foot the bill.

    That said, thanks for actually engaging in open debate: it doesn't matter whose opinion "prevails", it all fosters critical thinking which is the whole point.

  • What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI'
  • The crux of your argument is spot on: cronyism and insular networks are cancers to any system claiming meritocracy. Your experience managing a restricted talent pool highlights how fragility thrives when privilege shields mediocrity. But here’s the rub—your disdain for "old-boy networks" doesn’t just apply to WASPs; it’s a universal issue. Yet, the backlash against DEI disproportionately comes from those who’ve benefited most from these rigged systems.

    You’re right that global business demands competition on a level playing field, but the resistance to DEI isn’t just fear of competition—it’s existential dread about losing cultural dominance. Musk pandering to Trump is a perfect example: a desperate bid to preserve a rigged status quo. The real challenge isn’t DEI; it’s dismantling the entitlement that masquerades as merit.

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