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.
It’s not. At the end of the day, their vote is still just one of many.
Fucking vote. Get your friends to vote. Volunteer for a campaign. There are a ton of liberal groups that call people or knock on doors to get out the vote.
The only thing she has is money which hires… people to get out the vote. Commercials, endorsements, etc. none of that was enough to get Hillary elected. GOTV is what works. Fucking do it.
Poor wording, consider “in which they’re correct”
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.)
Why vote when you can just buy an entire candidate?
They don’t buy the elections. There are way too many people watching the integrity of elections at least at the lower levels. This is why they have to gerrymander things and try tricks like voter ID laws.
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.
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.
She’s a billionaire. She’s used to killing people for selfish interests.
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 knows. They all know. They just don’t care. Because they are evil shits.
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.
Both
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.
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.
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
This article should make it even more patently clear to everyone that the situation in Palestine would get much worse if Trump wins.
do we have a punchable faces sub yet?
Funny how you can basically buy those. Just gotta be filthy rich and ethically bankrupt.
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.
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?
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.
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Removed, genocide denial.
Mhm. Goodbye zionist.
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.
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)
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.
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.
You’re basically describing the situation we’ve been in since the Nahkba in 1948.
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He was always going to do that.
Right, he literally said he’d crush protests and deport protestors. It’s terrifying AF when someone with this much influence is this ill&informed.
The art of the deal?
alternate headline: the adelson’s give billions to republican candidate again like they did every cycle.
(*Adelsons)
She’s orange as fuck too
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 forgottentrumps top supporter in 2020 election has threatened to… support trump.
A real eye opener for everyone (except Trump supporters) where some of the rich want the world to go to … (or am i right?)
i 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.
What a cutie. Looks like a lot lizard
Stupid orange removed.
Invasion. It’s an invasion. A clean sweep genocidal invasion.
Billionaires gonna bill ya for air
