TranscendentalEmpire

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The majority of Jews in New York are secular and therefore don't have a mouthpiece like the major Orthodox groups

That's the thing with ethno-states, you don't have to be religious to be a nationalist. It's not just orthodox Jews who have a problem with Palestinians. Hell, you don't even have to be Jewish to have extremist views about the genocide in Palestine. You could be orthodox, a secular Zionist, a right winged nationalist, or you could even be vicariously motivated evangelical who thinks a war in the holy land will spark the second coming. Are those views "normal"? Not to me, but I'm not exactly in charge of making those opinions for others.

As I said, it really depends on what your perspective is when it comes to what qualifies as normal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Only takes one or two employees to pretend to have heat stroke/exhaustion and get a work sponsored trip to the hospital to force a change in the working environment.

Really would be safer for everyone to have someone pretend rather than wait until someone actually has one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lol, people failing to recognize the inherent contradictions they spew always amazes me. "The economy is great, unemployment is down, people don't understand the economy is great, only real challenge its cuts to food stamps"......

So what you're saying is the economy = corporations are making record profits, more people are working than ever, those people don't see any of the profits, working people recognize they can't afford to live without food stamps.

It's like they subconsciously yearn for the guillotine.... We need to make a derogatory term to call someone who so flirtatiously teases people into class violence. (Chop)Block tease? Guillotine slut? Idk....needs to be workshopped to rule out tones of misogyny.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Eh, I guess it's a matter of perspective. Just like you shouldn't claim all Jews are extremist, it's also inaccurate to claim that all New York Jews are just normal people who happen to be Jewish. That is unless you believe holding extremist political views is perfectly normal.....which is a matter of perspective.

Imo the Jewish community has gone pretty far to the right, a similar response to America after 9/11. Even a lot of the prior moderate American Jewish community has recently adopted some pretty hard right stances when it comes to Palestine.

Just looking at Jewish communities on places like reddit can be pretty wild as far as how common it is for people to respond to valid criticism of the Israeli state as antisemitic hate crimes.

This is the inherent problem of ethno-states, it creates room for forced conflations between ethnicity and nationality.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

The real benefit of trelegy is that it's three medications in one. It's steroid, laba (Long-acting beta-agonist), and lama (Long-acting muscarinic antagonists ). Out of those three the one that is costing you the big bucks is the Lama, it's also the one that symbicort is missing, so it's probably the one that is making the difference for you.

Luckily I believe there is a generic option for a Lama inhaler (tiotropium bromide) that is less than a hundred bucks out of pocket with a coupon.

You would probably have much better coverage for something like a generic symbicort and a generic Spiriva (tiotropium). A lot of manufacturers basically keep doing different combinations to keep their drugs from being moved over to generics. So a combo is probably going to be the most effective cheap option for ya.

Good luck! I wish more providers took more time to consider their patients financial health as well, but unfortunately a lot of prescribers are just as lost as a lot of patients when it comes to understanding health coverage. The insurance and pharma companies like to make it as difficult as possible and offload all the blame on the healthcare providers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It's not a license to engage in historical revisionism. Like the myth of the clean wehrmacht, the notion that Hitler didn't have the broad support of the majority of German citizens is an attempt to deny the culpability of everyday Germans from the war crimes they were collectively responsible for in WW2.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's a bit pedantic to say that Hitler rose to power without the majority because he only received 43.9% of the vote..... especially considering that over 17 million people voted for him and the next most popular candidate only received 7 million votes.

That really only makes sense if you are reviewing the election through the lens of someone used to a two party system. If we are going to evaluate it as if it were a two party system and combine the right and left into two coalitions......the Nazi, Centre, DNVP, and BVP would make up nearly 26 million voters while the SPD and kpd would only make up nearly 12 million people.

Even though the Centre party was much more willing to work with the Nazi than the socialist, if we added their votes to the left coalition you'd still have 22m on the right and 16m on the left.

The only way you can really claim that the Nazi didn't receive the majority of the vote is if you misinterpret The Weimar Republic as a direct democracy and not a Republic.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The Clintons are largely responsible for the democratic party's tolerance and enabling of fascism. They are responsible for popularizing thirdway politics in the US, and making compromise the Democrats only real priority.

Of course they are going to endorse the center right, that is the party platform that they've been building since the 90s. I honestly do not know why the conservatives demonized Hillary so much, the Clinton's basically built their empire compromise by compromise.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago

I think that's a massive mischaracterization of the elections in 33. Hitler mainly rose to power because the traditional nationalist party and centrist party thought they could control him and use his popularity to ward off a coalition from leftist and unionists. The centrists were among the first parties to vote in favor of the Enabling act, which granted legislative powers to Hitler's government.

It's a bit pedantic to say that Hitler rose to power without the majority because he only received 43.9% of the vote..... especially considering that over 17 million people voted for him and the next most popular candidate only received 7 million votes.

That really only makes sense if you are reviewing the election through the lens of someone used to a two party system. If we are going to evaluate it as if it were a two party system and combine the right and left into two coalitions......the Nazi, Centre, DNVP, and BVP would make up nearly 26million voters while the SPD and kpd would only make up nearly 12 million people.

Even though the Centre party was much more willing to work with the Nazi than the SPD, if we added their votes to the left coalition you'd still have 22m on the right and 16m on the left.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But I didn't just say there was a cease fire, I declared it.... What don't they understand about that?

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