TLDR: Alcohol is a psychoactive, addictive carcinogen that will give you cancer no matter the consumption (though of course the more you drink the worse it becomes). It’ll also fuck up your liver, but that’s not mentioned in this article as it focuses on cancer.
That aside, where did you get that cigarettes are more addictive than alcohol? Only one of these will literally kill you if you quit cold turkey unprepared and it’s not cigarettes.
I say we split the difference and call it colonial/19th century North America.
Why do you single out alcohol as “should be used in moderation”? It’s literally a hard drug and way worse than cigarettes.
Then you’re not gonna get anything of value.
Honestly the word terrorist is too weak for these people. Terrorism is called that because it can only cause fear in its targets; it’s kind of a bluff in that in terms of numbers terrorism will never cause significant damage. This is something higher on the violence scale; the violence Palestinians suffer in the West Bank isn’t a bluff; it’s straight up pogroms.
Again, Ukraine’s decision to stop the agreement was the right one and only a dumbass would say otherwise. That and the fact that Ukraine is the primary reason Transnistria isn’t getting gas right now aren’t contradictory in any way and your insistence that Ukraine didn’t make a conscious decision to cut that gas is frankly immature.
As a guy in your situation on the other side (20 YO, only nerd in my family and none of them share my taste in basically anything), I just… don’t. I mean I just kinda exist and do my thing, because while I love them we’re too different to connect over much of anything.
You just had to strawman me didn’t you? I’ll just tell you: Your attitude throughout this exchange was insufferable, and if you were talking to someone who doesn’t know much about the Ukraine war you’d be pushing them away from whatever idea you were trying to convey.
I mean there the question becomes: Could Russia renew the agreement? And the answer for that is “not while continuing the war at least”, because like you said there’s no reason for Ukraine to allow the people invading them to make money using their territories.
On the other hand, why should Ukraine allow Russia to keep using their territory to make business?
They absolutely shouldn’t, but that doesn’t change the reality of the situation. If I’m asked “why does Transnistria not getting gas” I’m gonna say “because Ukraine cut it off”. If after that I’m asked “should they be blamed for it” I’d say “absolutely not”. These two realities can exist simultaneously; they’re not mutually exclusive.
He was there attacking an IDF military base, so… uh… yeah. Not something to celebrate.
I don’t think the oligarch framework makes sense as a way to view Israeli society. Your average Israeli wants to keep stealing Palestinian land as a matter of principle, not because they stand to gain anything from it.
I was gonna say this 82k isn’t much, but then I realized that that’s almost 1% of Israel’s population. If that’s all people who have problems with Israel’s current state, then yeah they’ll probably go even further off the deep end in the coming years. That said, Israeli society is already so insane that it doesn’t matter much at this point. Very few people in Israel actually want the genocide to stop, so their absence shouldn’t change much in the short term. In the long term it decreases the odds of Israel changing of its own accord, but I don’t think anyone was counting on that anyway.
This would decrease the number of people who advocate for Israel’s violence in the countries who provide weapons and political cover, all the while the violence gets worse.
I don’t think Jews are a significant fraction of the people supporting Israel’s genocide. I mean, they support it at below to above average rates depends on where you are and who you ask, but there aren’t enough of them for their immigration to affect the big picture.
Basically what I want to say is that the “limit state”, for lack of a better term, of zero anti-Zionist Jews in Israel and zero Zionist Jews abroad is very close to the current situation, so there’s not much room for change in that direction. We can say that modern Israel is in that limit state. And that leads us to…
This doesn’t bode well for Israel long term.
Exactly. Israel is kinda fucked when gen alpha and the generation after them grow up.
My point is: The reason Transnistria isn’t getting gas is because Ukraine cut off the gas. I’m not trying to make any deep point, just finding the whole “why would Putin leave his own subjects withour water?!” thing weird. Putin’s Russia has done many horrible things, but if we start making things up it stops being discussion and becomes a circlejerk.
Now Trump is going to be in power and this cunt will happily let China take over Taiwan.
Will he? Trump is soft on Russia but wasn’t he pretty hard on China?
I mean that was also reunification. Doesn’t make it a good thing, but it fits the definition of reunification.
The only answer here is “do what you want but make sure you have a plan”.
I mean probably yeah. That’s also not really my point here (and let’s face it; they kept that agreement to not anger the EU not for its own sake).
I mean because Ukraine stopped allowing Russian oil to go through its territory. I hate Putin as much as anyone else, but the answer should be obvious here.
Fair enough, but that’s mostly phycological addiction, which is a whole different beast. Nicotine addiction on its own is pretty easy to get over afaik.
True enough, but it’s important to make it clear it’s not good for you even in light doses so people can make an informed decision.