I loathe that the left always have to debate between “splitting the vote” and actually voting for what we believe in.

TBF the right does too, as parties like UKIP and the whole brexit fiasco illustrated.

Divide and conquer.

TIL Scargill is still alive.

Lower than under the Lettuce.

I think we can all agree that the worst thing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that procedure may not have been followed correctly in UK parliament.

But hey, they’ve passed a call for an immediate cease fire, which I have been reliably informed is very important and means Israel and Hamas will now stop fighting.

Mission accomplished.

A common beauty hack is to match your lipstick colour to the colour of your nipple, so yeah.

This being said, maybe the Romulans or Vulcans in question have a fetish for humans.

His poop is bigger than my house.

FYI memory beta is for non-canon works. Memory alpha is for canon works, although obviously non-canon works do often end up becoming canon.

Others have already given you an answer, but for future reference, whenever you need to find something out about star trek there’s memory alpha. It’s basically the Trek encylopedia and is very detailed. It’s the trek equivalent of tv tropes, so can be a dangerous time suck. So in this case:

The alternate reality was a new reality created on Friday, January 4, 2233 (stardate 2233.04) when a temporal incursion caused by time travel of the Narada, a Romulan mining vessel from the year 2387, disrupted the time continuum of the prime universe. Accidentally traveling back to that point in time, Nero, the Narada’s captain, attacked the USS Kelvin resulting in the deaths of several crew members, including George Kirk and Richard Robau, and the destruction of the Kelvin itself. Spock arrived to the alternate reality in 2258 and was captured by Nero, who used red matter to destroy Vulcan. However, Nero’s attacks united the crew of the USS Enterprise, who foiled his attempt to destroy Earth. … Scans and telemetry of the 24th century Narada, taken by the Kelvin, were brought back to Starfleet by the survivors on the Kelvin’s shuttles. Therefore, Starfleet’s development and construction plans were slightly altered, making everything potentially more advanced, slightly ahead of schedule. … co-writer Simon Pegg had a different view of how the alternate reality diverges from the prime timeline from Orci and Kurtzman, believing events before 2233 were different too … “Spock’s incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe.”

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Alternate_reality

(https://memory-beta.fandom.com is also extensive, but is for non-canon works)

Housing which is shit and often unsuitable for habitation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project

And to be clear, they’ve built a lot of infrastructure, but it’s often underbuilt. Eg. they’ll build huge projects or even residential districts, but save money by not ensuring there’s sufficient drainage. Result: fancy stadium, looks better than many a western stadium, cost less to build, fancier, looks higher quality, what you see may even be better quality, built in record time, but when it rains everyone’s walking in poo water.

Oh, it’s you again.

am I imagining things here?

Oh, no. I assume you’re just being ignorant (again) and think some of them just have a bit of a tan. If you actually google them, you’ll find plenty are also of middle-eastern or North African origin. Here’s a few of them, I’ve included a few ministers who were active till 2023:

Uriel Menachem Buso is an Israeli politician who serves as Minister of Health … His mother Heftziba is the daughter of the Moroccan-born Mayor

Amichai Chikli … serves as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and the Minister for Social Equality. … Chikli was born in Jerusalem in 1981 to a Tunisian Jewish family.

May Golan … is an Israeli politician and activist … In 2023, a group of former Israeli ambassadors said they were “shocked” by the appointment of Golan as Israel’s new women’s advancement minister, saying that “Golan’s appointment is outrageous as she is a racist and divisive figure … She is the child of a single Orthodox Jewish mother … from Iraq

Shlomo Karhi … is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and serving as the Minister of Communications in the thirty-seventh government … Karhi was born … to mother Mazal and father Rabbi David Karhi, an Israeli-born Sabra of Tunisian Jewish heritage from Djerba

Makhlouf “Miki” Zohar … currently serves as the Minister of Culture and Sports in the thirty-seventh government. … His father Eli was an immigrant from Morocco and his mother Dina was from Tunisia.

David “Dudi” Amsalem … previously held the posts of Minister of Communications … His parents, Avraham and Sultana Amsalem, were immigrants from Morocco

Ofir Sofer … is currently the Minister of Aliyah and Integration … He is of Tunisian-Jewish descent.

Galit Distel-Atbaryan … was formerly the Minister of Information. … Distel-Atbaryan was born in Jerusalem to Iranian Jewish immigrants

Ya’akov Margi … currently serves as the Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services. … Margi was born in Rabat in Morocco and brought to Israel during Operation Yachin

Itamar Ben-Gvir … is an Israeli lawyer and far-right extremist… who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022 … His father was born in Jerusalem to Iraqi Jewish immigrants. He worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing. His mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant

Yifat Shasha-Biton … was appointed Minister of Education in June 2021 … Yifat Shasha-Biton was born … to Rachel, a nurse born in Morocco and Moshe David … born in Iraq.

Don’t bother responding.

You’ve embarassed yourself enough.

I admire your confidence.

Nitpick, but a storage tank isn’t the best target.

IRC it’s the distillation tower. Those can take months to get running again, especially now that Russia is under sanctions and can’t easily source some specialised parts.

A storage tank is relatively easy to manufacture and replace.

these people are white and European

More than half of Israelis have Middle Eastern or North African heritage.

If you’re transposing relatively binary American notions of race (invariably based on skin colour) on a conflict half way around the world, you’re entirely out of your depth when it comes to Israeli politics and the current conflict.

Eg. Netenyahu may be ‘white’ but Likud and right wing voters are overwhelmingly of middle-eastern or north african heritage. IRC Ben-Gvir, the far right minister of National security, is of Iraqi and Kurdish origin.

Given your comment was upvoted significantly, that’s a damning indictment on how uneducated people are here too and how outdated their views on Israel are. Seriously people, go read about Israeli politics. Tiktok videos aren’t enough. Hell, here’s a website which has been previously accused of being pro-Hamas/Muslim brotherhood:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-why-right-wing-mizrahi-vote-misunderstood

I’ve provided further sources here:

https://kbin.social/m/world@lemmy.world/t/809321/-/comment/4963666

And another user has provided sources here:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/6965014

Please note that Biden not liking Netenyahu or his government, is different to Biden being supportive of the current war cabinet or Israel itself.

There are legitimate reasons to be critical of the US stance on that.

Have you ever considered that you don’t know that much, which is why you think what the democrats are doing is easy to understand and simple, and seem to think Israel, Netenyahu and his government are all the same thing?

Here’s an article from before the Hamas attacks:

The White House has finally invited Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the US after months of snubbing the Israeli prime minister over his government’s creeping annexation of the West Bank and deepening oppression of the Palestinians.

And another one:

President Biden bluntly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he “cannot continue down this road” … he touched off the kind of response usually expressed by America’s adversaries rather than its allies. … “Israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad, including from the best of friends,” Mr. Netanyahu said on Wednesday, accusing the U.S. president of meddling in another country’s politics — which is exactly what Mr. Biden was intending to do. It was a remarkably public outbreak of the kind of disagreement that usually takes place in private. But there were other factors at work that had been brewing for many years.

And here’s another relevant article:

Biden understands that Netanyahu’s position is a precarious one. His governing coalition received just 48.4 percent of the vote, and took power only because of a quirk of the Israeli electoral system. The coalition relies on an alliance of unpopular far-right parties to stay afloat, whom Netanyahu must appease to remain in office. Biden has exploited this weakness and repeatedly poked at it. Rather than directly confronting Netanyahu, he has called out his extremist partners and in this way heightened the contradictions within Netanyahu’s coalition, undermining its stability and gradually eroding its support in the polls. In July, Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that Netanyahu’s government has “the most extremist members of cabinets that I’ve seen” in Israel … This was Biden’s approach in action: criticizing Israel during wartime in front of a pro-Israel crowd, and doing so in a way that nonetheless denied Netanyahu any opening. As long as it’s Biden versus Ben-Gvir, rather than Biden versus Bibi, the president holds the upper hand. … Biden has brought the same strategy to bear on the issue of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, which has accelerated under the cover of Israel’s campaign in Gaza. Netanyahu’s coalition is unable to clamp down on these extremists and their terrorism because it is beholden to these extremists. But most Israelis have no desire to mortgage the security of Israel and its indispensable relationship to the United States in favor of some far-flung hilltop settlers in West Bank regions that few Israelis could locate on a map. Knowing this, Biden has begun unrolling a series of unilateral measures intended to raise the price of settler violence and pit Netanyahu and his allies against the Israeli public.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/biden-netanyahu-geopolitics-israel-hamas-war/676357/

Proper nasty politics, keep your enemies closer, and backstabbing basically.

People think Biden’s this old incompetent coot, but there’s a reason he’s been around for decades. He’s a piece of work, for better or for worse, and knows how the game is played.

Obviously plenty of people on social media have been shitting on Biden for a while now, perhaps understandably.

But this is why he has to play a delicate and balanced role. He obviously hates Netenyahu and dislikes Israel’s government, but he can’t push too hard, because it would only help Netenyahu cling on to power a while longer. For example:

After cautious criticism by Biden, Netanyahu rallies Israel’s right wing … The spat was cheered by Netanyahu’s supporters, who dismiss any calls from Biden or other leaders to pull back from the military assault on Gaza until Hamas has been wiped out as a fighting force.

So although he initially publicly backed Israel 100%, the reason he’s now being relatively muted in his criticism of their government, is almost certainly because he wants Netenyahu gone or wants Netenyahu to be forced to create a new coalition with more moderate parties. You know, get rid of those smug thunder cunts Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

Meanwhile, the US is clearly pushing the two state solution hard behind the scenes. Don’t think it’s an accident that little America’s David Cameron said the UK might recognise Palestine and apparently the US is considering it too, all while doing an intensive tour of the middle-east and negotiating with Israel’s neighbours for normalisation.

This isn’t an open war.

It’s a limited amount of retaliatory and proportional strikes, meant to dissuade further attacks on US forces and international shipping. They’ve also chosen not to attack Iran, exactly because they want to avoid escalation. They also warned Iran ahead of time, so they could move out anyone important.

If the US hadn’t responded, it would only have made things worse. You can’t just ignore groups murdering your soldiers. That’ll only invite more of this crap. Terrorists shooting at civilian container ships is also not good for anyone.

The same thing happened with Iran and Pakistan recently. Iran struck Pakistan. Pakistan struck back. They both came to the conclusion they didn’t want a war, and made a statement to that effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Per capita the US spends up to four times as much as comparable developed countries on healthcare, countries which often have something approaching universal healthcare which is affordable for almost everyone.

In other words, the US could spends less on healthcare, more on defense, and still have universal and better healthcare.