Apart from Luigi, who is mulching/has muclh4d b/millionnaires recently? I must have missed that news item.
Hope your crypto investments work out better this time. Maybe lean on the stocks a little more.
P. S. I think that there’s a wide continuum of posters. It’s not all one guy with one ideology and 100,000 accounts.
Aye, any Israeli who isn’t actively opposing the settlements in the West Bank is unambiguously in the wrong. And I wish that wasn’t a controversial statement.
You’re right in that Rabin’s assassination wasn’t the change in itself (that such Israeli extremists had continued to exist shows that that violent current in Israel had continued and been bubbling away), but it makes a good mark of a turning point and the loss of really any chance for reconciliation in at least our lifetimes.
Over Jason and the Argonauts, or Tale of Perseus?
I guess they’re less famous, and maybe I’m just being nit-picky. I’d rather just put them all as one level below ur-journey tale.
I’m very happy to be wrong.
Could you give me some examples? as I think that the strokes are just so broad it’s more archetypal journey story than Odyssey in particular to me.
The Nakba was a tragedy, and Ben has his role in that along with all the other high ups in the various paramilitary forces. The IDF didn’t exist then, though it does trace its routes back to those paramilitary groups.
That Ben G worked to limit their power once the nation was formed is a mark against him being a fascist to me, and he didn’t go as hard on violent struggle as the meaning of life as full fasc-fascism does.
Violent, racist, and did bad things yes (and genocidal to boot!). I don’t think that auto-makes fascist.
As for what was being done pre-Six Day War I’m going to guess pogroms, murders, and forced sterilisation. So I’ll go back up and add genocidal to it. Doesn’t make him fascist though, unless we’re making it a synonym for genocidist.
My use of the “Mulch the rich crowd” as people who will, at least (or perhaps at most) express the desire to grind up billionaires, or maybe millionaires into more useful biomass, such as mulch for their vegetable garden or community allotment.
You used it seemingly as a term for “people with lots of money and investments” thus able not only to not sell to keep up with cost of living increases, but also buy up things sold by those who needed to liquidate assets to keep themselves afloat.
Now, they may not be mutually exclusive circles - but the overlap would be neither informative nor relevant to the point.
For instance if someone is talking about birds and mentions a quality of vertebrates, and you come in with “and vertebrates can breathe underwater!” because fish are vertebrates and you are very clever.
Give Israel some credit, Ben Gurion wasn’t a fascist, despite his problems - but also you could understand where he was coming from.
It’s really from the 70s on when Israel moved from problematic and apatheidy into the full on genocidal regime we see today.
The watershed moment, not surprisingly, being the assassination of Rabin.
The Passion of the Christ?
Because that’s a story form that gets used and used all over again, or at least is able to be seen in many a story.
Illiad and Odyssey are big, but I don’t think copied so much these days.
Lives of the Ceasers, even though less fiction had a huge impact on European story telling and narratives that lasts to this day.
Journey to the West was written about 1400 (unless I’m missing some very key information), so not even one millennia of copycats, yet.
Which particular set of Israeli policies are you supporting here?
The 10-15 civilian deaths per strike on a possible low level Hamas supporter?
The continued “accidental” killing of medical staff, including Red Cross and Red Crescent workers, and journalists?
The idea of turning off water and electricity from all of Gaza as a valid response?
The escalation of illegal settlement and theft of Palestinian property and land in the West Bank, with IDF support no less?
Or the use of the Hannibal Protocol against Israeli Civilians on October 8th by IDF forces?
Or do you just not think it is incumbent on the one with greater power and strength to offer the olive branch first if peace is truly desires? And in fact would rather the Palestinian people are smeared across an enlarged Israel?
I think we understand “mulch the rich crowd” very differently.
But rich people, on the whole, cope better with economic downturns because they have more resources to play with and aren’t living paycheck to paycheck.
So why would the mulch the rich crowd be celebrating?
Yeah, I feel prime numbers are more complete, like a sculpture. Even numbers feel like a pile of 2x2 cubes stacked by a toddler unless they have loads of factors (e.g. 24) which have a great mandalaesque sense of symmetry to them.
121 is my favourite number.
It seems mostly centre left, with a strong added helping of either liberterianism/anti-authoritiatianism or tankie, that’s certainly true.
You’re right, that there are smug keyboard warrior types, like those who were delighted that Thailand or Vietnam sentenced that female millionaire to death while letting the men involved off. I took umbrage with them. It wasn’t revolutionary, it was sexism and maintaining the status quo.
You have the right idea with investing, too - if its something one wants to do. Provided you can keep earning enough to not need to sell unplanned. Follow the market, but don’t let panic take over. Good luck with it all.