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  • Are you surprised?

    Ben Gvir is literally a convicted terrorist. Do you have any idea how extreme you have to be for Israel to convict you of being a Zionist terrorist?

    He was so rightwing, the IDF excused him from compulsory military service

    The fact that he’s now in a position of authority is a huge red flag

    Itamar Ben-Gvir was born in Mevaseret Zion. His father was born in Iraqi Kurdistan and worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing.[10] His mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant who was active in the Irgun as a teenager and was a homemaker. His family was secular, but as a teenager, he adopted religious and radical right-wing views during the First Intifada. He first joined a right-wing youth movement affiliated with Moledet, a party which advocated the expulsion of Arabs out of Israel, and then joined the youth movement of the even more radical Kach and Kahane Chai party, which was designated as a terrorist organization and outlawed by the Israeli government.[12][13] He became youth coordinator of Kach, and claimed that he was detained at the age of 14. When he came of age for conscription into the Israel Defense Forces at 18, he was exempted from service by the IDF due to his extreme-right political background.[14][10]

    Ben-Gvir continued to be associated with the Kahanist movement;[15] Otzma Yehudit is considered Kach’s ideological successor.[16] However, when forming the Otzma Yehudit party, he claimed that it would not be a Kach, Kahane Chai or splinter group.[17] He carried out a series of far-right activities that have resulted in dozens of indictments. In a November 2015 interview, he claimed to have been indicted 53 times.[18] In most cases, the charges were thrown out of court.[10] In 2007, however, he was convicted for incitement to racism and supporting a terrorist organization.[19][20] Ben-Gvir has been convicted of at least eight charges.[9]

    In the 1990s, he was active in protests against the Oslo Accords. In 1995, Ben-Gvir came to public attention for the first time, when he appeared on television brandishing a Cadillac hood ornament that had been stolen from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car, and declared: “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too.” Several weeks later, Rabin was assassinated by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir.[10][21]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir


  • Why did so many people upvote that?

    The world revolves around the sun homie, not America…

    Hell, the big reason they got arrested, is they kept openly saying to a global audience “we came here because with a little money there’s no consequences”.

    Which pisses off the corrupt justice system and the people who benefit from it.

    They fucked up a nice situation a lot of dangerous people benefit from, but you’re clearly stuck in your own world view if you honestly think:

    They learned from our local high-profile crooks that if you can delay proceeding for a couple years, the process ends.

    Just fucking wild man











  • She asked me twice whether I thought her stories sounded crazy, so she was clearly somewhat aware of her condition.

    Not necessarily.

    It’s very likely everyone in her life were telling her it’s all in her head, she gets mad and says she’s not crazy…

    Then calls random repair people, tells them the story. And asks “am I crazy” because most businesses would never say that to a client. She was looking for validation, the same way people go fishing for compliments saying stuff like “I’m so bad at my job, I don’t know how you all put up with me”. Even if it’s true and they’re dead weight, most people will be polite and reassure them.

    I just didn’t know how to deal with someone like that

    Tell them that they should relay their concerns to a medical professional if they’re concerned.

    If they’re seriously doubting their delusions, they’ll go get help and thank you for the advice.

    More likely they’ll realize you’re not giving them what they want, get mad, and often blame you for being involved in the conspiracy.

    But there’s a chance they actually get help.

    Any kind of acceptance of their beliefs, no matter how tentative, reinforces it and drives them further into the delusion. Depending on how involved her family is, she might have called them immediately, and after cussing them out said even the plumber agrees she’s not crazy.




  • Nah, it’s for the same reason they never went to a jungle world.

    Back in the day they just shot everything in the desert outside of LA. It’s the whole reason westerns were a thing in the first place, free setting.

    So there was a bunch of props and sets from the studio, and Star Trek could do it for free.

    I mean, wasn’t even MASH in the desert for some reason?


  • It’s the same thing Brazil did.

    He’s rich enough that he’s kind of a parent corporation by himself, so:

    X was previously accused of violating the Digital Services Act (DSA), which could result in fines of up to 6 percent of total worldwide annual turnover. That fine would be levied on the “provider” of X, which could be defined to include other Musk-led firms.

    But yeah, American law has been limited so the buck stops at the company which declares bankruptcy and the money starts a new company.

    Not everyone else system is as shitty