Sports, Music, Hobbies like board games, Outdoor activities like camping and hiking.

There is plenty of fulfilling things to do together that dont involve alcohol or other drugs or “partying” in the sense of loud music, bad hookups and regrettable videos the next day.

Effective and efficient can be different. Some sanctions could be very effective, as in they ultimately achieve the intended goal, but very inefficient as they use a lot of resources. Other sanctions might not be effective on their own, but could be very efficient, as they us very little resources on your own side.

For the latter iirc. when Trump started a trade war with the EU, the EU mostly sanctioned agricultural products from areas where Trump was particularly popular. It didn’t cause that much damage to the US economy, but it was very cheap for the EU to substitute these products and caused disproportionate political damage.

That sounds quite illegal/against codes. Government agencies usually want a papertrail solely for their internal accountability and documentation. Of course there can be stuff “off the record”, but when it comes to decisionmaking, there should be some reason given on the record and that reason better looks plausible enough.

The official position in both countries is that there is “one China” and that they are the legitimate one.

Unlike in mainland China in Taiwan people including most of the political elite seem to be fine with the status quo though.

As long as people are voting for one of two genocidal parties that might be true. Although at some point it will be American soldiers doing the fighting and slaughtering, while the Israelis will watch and demand to get more money from the parents of the soldiers dying for them.

As long as they life and work there they pay taxes that fund settlements, bombs, the salaries of their murderous soldiers…

Israel is by constitution an ethnonationalist state. They being there and having the citizenship also still gives it legitimacy.

Imagine people took the message of Jesus serious to stop hoarding wealth and give to the poor. Truly a scary prospect. What comes next? Treating the sick without charging them?

The life of the Prophet Mohammed sas. is a great example of statecraft, going from a persecuted outcast in his own city to challenging the Roman and Persian empire within two decades. People saying Islam would not or should not be political are missing the key notions about how social and religious values are deeply integrated with politics.

The same holds true for Jesus, who challenged the corruption of politics and religion in his time and Moses, who is the O.G. insurrectionist liberator. Also Moses is the most mentioned prophet in the holy Quran.

All Abrahamic religions are inherently political.

One could also argue that all politics are inherently religious, creating false objects of worship, like money and the individual, glorified dictators or a twisted understanding of collectives.

Zionism is mainly based on ethnicity and only uses religious motives as far as it seems beneficial, while blatantly ignoring other religious motives of Judaism. There is a lot of devoted religious Jews that strongly oppose the Zionist project as it contradicts the faith.

They do think they suffer greatly because they have to leave the beach or café sometimes to go to a shelter. Meanwhile 40 km down the coast people are freezing to death in tents that get swamped with sea water.

This kind of misses a major point. In countries like the Netherlands or Germany the majority of people get cremated. No skeletalization, no bones, no leftovers. The urns are made from a material that dissolves fully within the rental period for the grave, so there is no collectible remains left by the time someone else is put in the same grave.

Because the other parties are either eyeballing possible coalition options, are chickenshit or have adapted a lot of far right positions from the AfD and worry, that closer scrutiny would also bring them into question.

Note that political meddling and unscrupelous behaviour has always been the hallmark of the Axel-Springer Media.

They have successfully motivated the murder of the student activist Rudi Dutschke in the 60s by a Neonazi terrorist.

In 2011 they have cheered themselves for having pushed the then president of Germany Christian Wulff (it is a ceremonial role, the head of the executive is the chancellor) with a smear campaign based on lies and fabrications.

They hold the absolute majority of reprimands for violations of journalistic standards by the publishers organization ethics board Presserat.

The former editor in chief of the Bild Zeitung Julian Reichelt had to be kicked out a few years back for sexual harassment and coercion of multiple women employees. But only after the Company tried to keep it under covers and pressured another publisher to not publish their investigative research in Germany, so US media had to publish it first.

They were always like this and they will always be like this. Axel-Springer is also the main pro US and pro Israel voice in Germanys media landscape. It should be telling everyone where things are headed that they switched now from supporting the far right neoliberal FDP to the fascist AfD.

The WHO was looking after detained UN staff in Yemen. The mission had nothing to do with the politics between factions in Yemen and Israel.

But if your bar of “deserves to be killed” is as low as “did not support Trumps COVID policies” it will be difficult for most people in the world to have their concerns of being attacked recognised.

This isn’t some secret. Listen to John Mearsheimer, who has talked about this for years. it is simple logic.

There is about the same number of Arab Palestinians and Western Israelis in the area. So for the Jewish supremacy ethonstate that Israel wants to be there is only three options:

1. Indefinite Apartheid. This is extremely costly and as the Arab population keeps growing more and more difficult to maintain. Also it is just preserving the status quo

2. Ethnic cleansing. Drive all the Palestinians out. However then your neighbors have to harbor them, they form a resistance there, and they keep demanding their right to return.

3. Genocide. By eradicating them all, you get the “final” solution to permanently steal and settle the land.

So what we see is Israel maintaining option 1 and looking to escalate to option 2 and 3 whenever possible. Notice how they first tried to expel the population of Gaza into Egypt? When this option wasn’t possible and they knew that their western supporters in the US, UK, Germany and others were okay with genocide, they escalated to genocide.

The only way to get out of this situation with minimizing further destruction and murder is to abandon the Zionist project in favor of a just state that grants equal rights and justice to everyone living in Palestine.

Maybe if the difference between “just an expensive technology” and “deadly disaster impacting the lifes of millions of people” is some bad management and poor regulatory oversight, it is not a technology fit for the use of current humanity.

A lot of people use “hedonism” as an excuse to destroy themselves with drug addictions and act egoistically in their relationships with others, causing a lot of pain and suffering.

1953 is some 36/37 years before the eventual collapse of the Sovjet Union.