Fuck wealthy assholes that think their opinion is more valuable than the rest of us.
And fuck a system in which their opinion’s correct
It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.
Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.
When people talk about the illegitimacy of democracy under capitalism, this scarecrow and her late husband are why.
How can democracy co-exist in an economic system where orgs are run like dictatorships from the top down, and individuals hold more wealth, power, and influence than entire nation states — despite those orgs employing, and being dependent on, thousands or millions of workers?
I’m no fan of capitalism, but this type of electoral dysfunction seems to run particularly deep in America. There’s many other democracies in capitalist nations that have the basic sense to treat such brazen bribery as a crime.
Citizen’s United means it literally is
Exactly, for all literal and realistic practical purposes, their opinion is absolutely more valuable than the rest of us. It’s not that they “think” it is, it’s a simple matter of fact.
and yet their necks are all roughly the same size as everyone else’s.
How very curious.
It will go down as one of Republicans most favorite rulings and also the worst ruling the scotus has made… (Insert homer and Bart meme: worst so far.)
Well step 1 is wage slaves need to stop worshipping these clowns. Won’t solve the issue but ateast reduce their ability to sway public opinion.
Why vote when you can just buy an entire candidate?
She’s from Israel, she’s 78 and she’s got his (American, not relevant) husband’s money. She already supported Trump, who gave her some medal once elected.
Bye bye Miriam, despite your (husband’s) money, you will be forgotteni love it when these people get their names exposed in the media. i might not have even known who she was. now we can put her on a list. did you put her on a list? you should.
I’m no anthropologist or anything, but I’m pretty sure the annexation of the West Bank would guarantee a permanent guerilla terrorist force operating within Israel’s borders for the foreseeable future. Israel would never know peace. In 200 years they’ll probably still trying to snuff out terrorist cells constantly killing civilians.
Just with this war they have created thousands of fresh new volunteers for Hamas both within and outside the general area of the conflict.
The way out of this is more empathy for the Palestinians, not less.
Not if you push out the people living there, which has been how Israel has historically done it.
That’s exactly how you guarantee a permanent guerilla terrorist force.
You’re basically describing the situation we’ve been in since the Nahkba in 1948.
it’s important, critical, to remember that Israel didn’t blunder into this conflict; they were warned by internal and external intelligence that Hamas was going to attack, that it was going to be big.
Any rational actor would have readied their defenses, Bibi didn’t care. This is because Bibi needed the conflict to stay in office. And now Bibi’s jerking around POTUS.
Bibi’s been growing Hamas for decades. It serves his needs.
To be completely fair there is no way out of this.
Both sides will accept nothing but the COMPLETE destruction of the other side.
No? Israel is and has always been the deciding factor in whatever happens with Palestine. They refused a legitimate 2 state solution, continuously have stolen land from the west bank and Gaza, and are openly genocidal towards Palestinians?
How can you both sides this in a comment thread under an article about a zionist literally trying to pay off an American politician to support the Israeli government in committing crimes against humanity?
Hamas will militantly decline any peace offer that doesn’t include their holy sites.
It’s a no win situation. This war will continue long after everyone here is dead.
Bullshit, if you think Hamas would have kept the peace on any level. Or the terrorists that pre-dated Hamas…
“Would have”
Cool, but I don’t care about this weird hypothetical world you’re talking about that we do not live in and have never lived in. The Israeli military is armed by the United States with american weapons. The IDF, with American guns and missiles and planes and tanks, is in no way threatened by what a group of disenfranchised Muslim extremists can cobble together. It’s never even been close, not in 1949 and not for one second since then. They are essentially prisoners of the state. They are disenfranchised. They do not have access to land to till and raise animals in. They do not have freedom of movement. The water they have is controlled by Israel, the electricity they have is controlled by Israel, the medical supplies they have are controlled by Israel. The strip is an open air enclave. The west bank is and has been slowly being annexed by Israel (crime against humanity) over the last 60 years.
You’re talking about a population of 2 million people with 1 struggling to operate hospital. Who have been mass murdered thousands of times over the last 100 years by the IDF and Israeli state. This road does not go both ways and it never has. They literally mowed starving Palestinian men women children and elderly down with machine guns. People following a truck carrying flour because they are desperate for food. There are children starving to death in hospitals. We have people who need medications to survive dying because the IDF and the Israeli state and the zionists are doing everything they possibly can to prevent them for getting those things.
It’s time for you to open your fucking eyes. You’re trying to both sides a genocide, equating the genociders with the victims.
You referred to “Arabs in the area” in another comment of yours too, equating hamas with all Muslim people in the middle east. Ask yourself why you’re generalizing a population of hundreds of millions of people and claiming they are all genocidally antisemitic.
Removed by mod
Removed, genocide denial.
Mhm. Goodbye zionist.
I’m guessing that’s because no adequate partition of a continuous extension of territory with an equitable distribution of viable habitable construction space and access to resources and the Mediterranean has not been made yet since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
I can assure you even the most militant, radicalized Hamas members would leap at such proposal with smiles on their faces. Even if it benefited slighly Israel more, they’d still do it, no problem.
Do you truly believe any proposals so far have been in any way, shape or form even approximately fair in the same measure for both parties ?
Of course not, Israel wants the rest of their ancient land. And the Arabs in the area want them gone completely.
Anyone that claims differently is being disingenuous, or out right lying.
Yeah maybe it started out that way for sure, but after so much death people on both sides are starting to consider other options. You can see that in Israel right now, people who are rejecting this narrative of either us or them. Maybe the crazies will always think this way, but over time people will be willing to make concessions. After all what good is it to rule a pile of rubble constantly under attack ?
A half promised land at peace is better than an entire promised land constantly in war economy. It’s not only quality of life we’re talking about. The entirety of the Jewish people is being blemished and shamed by the current actions of Israel.
I hope your right, but the pessimist in me is seeing more crazies in control not less. (Same here in US, shit is scary)
alternate headline: the adelson’s give billions to republican candidate again like they did every cycle.
(*Adelsons)
Best politicians that money can
buyrent.Seriously - how can any person be so brazenly and thoroughly warped?
I can only assume that, like so many of the fabulously wealthy, she’s profoundly mentally ill, such that she really can’t grasp the enormous human cost that fulfilling her petty, selfish and ultimately pointless desires would entail. It can only be the case that she genuinely can’t grasp the fact that the millions of people who would be made to suffer or die for this are actual people - actual beings with lives and loved ones who are every bit as important to them as hers are to her.
It’s either that or she’s genuinely evil, in the purest sense of the word, and on a scale the world has rarely seen.
So which is it Ms. Adelson? Are you insane or simply evil? There’s absolutely no doubt - none at all - that it’s one or the other.
Psychopathy.
To get that rich, one needs to be able to think of other people as things. “Human Resources” as such.
If other people are things then there’s no moral problem “decommissioning” them be it redundancy or killing.
What would make her evil is, if knowing this, she makes no effort to mitigate it. Given she’s a billionaire: evil.
She’s a billionaire. She’s used to killing people for selfish interests.
Single-issue voters are ruining our county.
She’s literally Israeli. I’d call it more than just a single issue for her.
This is the modern day equivalent of Western Expansion for genocidal Americans during the 19th century. You’re talking about a host of issues - Zionist white nationalism, Lebensraum, oil field development, and war time economics - bundled into a discrete set of buzzwords. There’s so much ideology and so much money packed into the idea of a Greater Israel spilling like bucket of spoiled milk across the Levant.
This is manifest destiny for neoconservatives. Its at the center of the Project for the New American Century. Israel is the beating heart of American Imperialism. Its the fulcrum by which Washington and Wall Street hope to turn the world.
Born in Mandatory Palestine. You can’t remove that from your bio no matter how hard as you try, witch.
Hey it’s better than optional Palestine.
What a cutie. Looks like a lot lizard
Billionaires gonna bill ya for air
Original title: Miriam Adelson’s Unfinished Business What does the eighth richest woman in the world want?
The article shows how aggressively anti-peace she is and her beliefs about the land to support the above claim
Sheldon Adelson’s widow. yeah, this all makes way too much sense. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in 2018, from #45. The wikipedia pic of her shows #45 solemnly placing the medal around her neck.
Funny how you can basically buy those. Just gotta be filthy rich and ethically bankrupt.
Sheldon Gary Adelson (August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman,[2] investor, political donor, and philanthropist.[3][4][5] He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo and Convention Center before selling the properties in early 2022.[6] He owned the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, the Israeli weekly newspaper Makor Rishon, and the American daily newspaper the Las Vegas Review-Journal.[7][8]
Adelson created the Adelson Foundation in 2007, a private charity focusing on healthcare and support of Israel and the Jewish people. He was a major contributor to Republican Party candidates[9][10] and was often dubbed a “kingmaker” due to the size and frequency of his donations.[11][12] He and his wife Miriam Adelson were Donald Trump’s largest donors, providing the largest donation to Trump’s 2016 campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference, and the 2020 campaign.[13][14][15][16][17][18] He was also a major backer of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[19]
In 2020, Forbes listed his net worth as US$29.8 billion.[20]
He died in 2021
If anybody reading this is voting against Biden because of Palestine (effectively a vote for trump under fptp) these are trumps #1 fans and bill payers
Pro trump is not pro Palestine.
This article should make it even more patently clear to everyone that the situation in Palestine would get much worse if Trump wins.
A vote for Biden is also a vote for israel.
Have you already forgotten that under Biden israel committed the largest land theft in the West Bank in a long time?
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
That’s like saying Trump gets credit for everything that happened under his term even if somebody else did it, like the vaccine developed in Germany getting first to market
But no, that’s not how it works, unless you expect Biden to go in with the US military and declare war on Israel’s government
I expect Biden to put sanctions on israel and withold weapons when they violate war crimes.
Biden has also not undone Trumps move of moving the israeli embassy onto stolen land meaning Biden is on board with it.
Trump gets credit for the Zionism during his term, Biden gets credit for his own Zionism. Or need you be reminded that Biden openly calls himself a Zionist?
Are you expecting Biden to send the US military to enforce actions like that? How else will he make it happen on ground controlled by Israeli security forces without permission from Israel?
He canceled the previous veto policy;
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/netanyahu-biden-gop-effort-to-sanction-icc-00160387
Direct sanctions
Has in fact already withheld weapons (yeah it should’ve been done earlier, but Trump is the kind of person who’d make a point of supplying more).
https://apnews.com/article/israel-weapons-shipment-us-eed365ebef0477ba74bf9848cacae4f4
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/10/pause-us-joins-other-states-stopping-arms-transfers-israel
GOP, Trump’s party, want to enforce continued weapon sales to Israel and prevent Biden from halting it
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-gop-pushes-israel-weapons-bill/story?id=110228315
I mean… is it really anti-peace if she wants to end the war? Generally there’s peace for a while after someone completely wins.
Would people who supported the US joining WW2 so they could wreck the Axis be anti-peace?
Things to ponder.
It would be the same as ending the war Ukraine by letting Russia keep what they stole. Zero incentive not to keep doing it and it validates the side of the aggressor by saying “wow you both need to stop fighting”.
Right-wingers love to cite self-defense as reasons why they should own guns and be able to shoot people who simply knock on their front door but the second a brown person does it after years of being systematically oppressed/genocided suddenly they’re just as guilty as the oppressor, if not more so.
In short, wanting peace in that way is a pretty little lie meant to legitimize terror campaigns and invalidate the damage done to the victims. It’s full of horseshit.
I’m not arguing right or wrong, I’m just saying it’s technically not anti-peace.
In the same way that North Korea has “Democratic” in the name, sure. It’s all so surface level as to be essentially meaningless. While I agree that fairness does involve some arguing of that kind of a technicality it really only serves to validate the idea that Israel is justified in any way.
Israel wants to eradicate an entire culture and their people. They want to steal their land and are doing so with the help of major world powers. They bomb hospitals, shoot civilians, and terrorize Palestinians on the basis that they’re somehow owed that land. Hamas retaliated and now Israel is complaining by obliterating the entire country. The “peace” this lady wants is the peace for Israel to continue to do these things without retaliation. She doesn’t want peace, she wants submission.
The mega rich are just terrified of consequences and try, every day, to get their poor behaviour and lack of humanity written into laws and precedent so that they don’t have to ever to take blame for any of the rotten shit they pull.
Sure, if you consider the complete destruction of an entire ethnic group of people to be “peace”. Can’t fight if they’re all dead. But if you truly do think that way, you are the problem and I recommend a long walk off a short pier.
The eradication of millions of civilians is definitely anti-peace.
A similar situation would be the US joining WW2 on the Axis side. I mean once Britain, France, Russia, China, and the Jews were finished off, there’d be peace for a while right?
Ponder what unconditional support for Israel would mean for Palestinians in our current landscape.
You joke about the WW2 thing, but yes, that would have resulted in peace as well. Peace is peace, regardless of who wins.
There was peace after Genghis khan conquered most of Asia too.
I don’t ponder what unconditional support for Israel would mean for Palestinians in our current landscape, it would mean them being displaced to neighboring countries. Almost exactly the same as is happening in a half dozen other areas of the globe right now. You could displace every single Palestinian and it would still cause fewer refugees than the current number of refugees from Syria’s civil war, which has killed over a half million people.
I haven’t heard of a single university protest over Syria though.
Lots to unpack, let’s hit the big ones. Do any means justify peace? Is mass murder of entire countries okay because it would result in less overall friction afterward? How long does peace need to last after for it to make it worth it?
Displacement. Is it fair to the people who have lived in a country for generations to leave because of other’s actions? Moreso, many of them currently /want/ to leave (really really bad) but can’t, what should they do? And also, how is that fair to neighboring countries, they’re just required to take in refugees because Israel wants more land? (What if there weren’t neighboring countries?)
Finally, (please educate me), are universities very invested in Syrian companies/industries? That’s what the current protests are about, divestment from Israel. Are you required to care about all atrocities in order to care for one? What line marks which bad things in the world protesters should inclusively be knowledgeable about?
I’d argue that if Israel is attempting mass murder, they’re absolute shit at it. Sure they’ve killed a couple of tens of thousand Palestinians, but there’s something like 5 million of them, they’re having babies faster than Israel is killing people.
As for Displacement, most Palestinians haven’t lived there for generations, a lot of the current population comes from immigrants/internal migration from the surrounding region during the British Occupation, and also from the wars (Egypt owned Gaza for 20 years after the british left) The population of Palestine has grown so fast in the last 30 years that the median age is 19.6 (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-palestine-population/#:~:text=The population density in the,2%2C311 people per mi2).&text=The%20median%20age%20in%20the%20State%20of%20Palestine%20is%2019.6%20years.)
How is it fair to neighboring countries? You mean the ones that invaded Israel because they weren’t happy with the UN drawn borders after the wars? The ones that occupied those territories and brought people in? Most of the people are THEIR people to begin with.
If there weren’t neighboring countries, Palestinians wouldn’t exist. They would have been removed entirely 70 years ago without the invasion by those arab countries.
Most universities aren’t heavily invested in Israeli anything… Israel only accounts for something like 40 Billion in total foreign direct investment, while Canada, the US, Mexico are each measured in Trillions of dollars. Unless a specific university went out of their way to pick up an Israeli-attached portfolio, it likely accounts for less than 1% of their total investments.
Here’s a quote from the encampment people at my local university with their divestment demands: the university leases space to a marine company that has in the past helped produce equipment for Israel, the university has $4.3 million invested in Blackrock (a global asset management company) that in turn invests part of its funds in companies like Lockheed and Boeing which have relations with Israel, and the university has 250k invested in Scotiabank, which is in turn an investor in a single Israeli weapons company. The total endowment for this university is over 500 million dollars, so less than 1% is invested in companies that are themselves only partially invested in Israeli-attached companies.
If a fraction of 1% is enough to cause an encampment, then yes, there’s likely some Syria-attached companies in the mix there too and nobody gives a shit about that (and it’s been actively killing more people per year than Israel for more than a decade)
How long will that rate of death last when they’re also causing mass famine while controlling the borders? You know starvation can cause number of deaths across a population to skyrocket, right?
The current war is in Gaza (controlled by Hamas), she’s talking about starting a new war with the West Bank (controlled by the Palestinian Authority).
The current war is in multiple places, it’s hardly restricted to only Gaza. Even other countries (or at least nominally the “terrorist groups” in those countries) are firing missiles across the border into Israel. Lebanon, Syria, even Iran sent that massive drone attack.
Stupid orange bitch.
trumps top supporter in 2020 election has threatened to… support trump.
She’s orange as fuck too
