Yes. Yes. Equate is the store brand name for Wal Mart medications. Equate will make equivalent products to Advil, Tylenol, etc but for cheaper.
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We truly are getting dumber as a species. We're facing climate change but running some of the most power hungry processers in the world to spit out cooking recipes and homework answers for millions of people. All to better collect their data to sell products to them that will distract them from the climate disaster our corporations have caused. It's really fun to watch if it wasn't so sad.
It might surprise you but people can do more than two things at once. Such a misdirected fake outrage comment.
Dude. I think you need to pick up a history book. Denazification is not Putin. It's the term to describe post WW2 Germany. And yes, it's authoritarian rule by another state over a state that committed a fucking genocide. When you commit a genocide and your population is largely in favor of it, that population is sick and doesn't get to have self determination.
Denazification would range from punishment to individuals to reeducation programs and reintegration programs that can help the propaganda of genocide be overcome.
I would say the major difference between the genocidal actions of the American state and the Israeli state is that the citizens of the US are largely distanced from it. Both in terms of media but also more importantly geographically. Because of this the Israeli state not only has to manufacture consent for passive acceptance but actively manufacturer concent for the war crimes that every citizen can hear every night in Gaza.
This leads to a much more sick society in terms of dehumanizing Palestinians.
You seem to think I'm looking at this from some "good vs. bad" dynamic. I am not. I am only looking at the degree to which the state has manufactured concent in the population and that degree is to such an extreme in the Israeli society. It exists in America as well. But is primarily done through distractions, through their "toys". Israel is different in this way. The population is not just (on average) distracted and xenophobic; they have reached a degree of dehumanizing Palestinians that will poison it's population for generations.
Also, the comparison between voting for Trump and Israel is just not reasonable at all. Trump is not a genocide that you can hear happening as bombs are dropped every night. The material circumstances are just not comparable. I'm not saying Trump and his actions will not hurt people. Again, I'm talking about the degree to which concent needs to be manufactured. And most Americans won't notice until someone in their family gets sent to a camp.
Do you think that Nazi Germany didn't need Denazification?
The population of Israel is heavily in support of a return to Genocide in Gaza. The vast majority that aren't are only against it because the hostages are still there.
Only 10% of Israelis believed the IDF was using "too much firepower" in December of 2023. The time in which Israel was bombing heavily and dropping white phosphorus on civilian areas.
There was a large protest in Israel not "against rape" but against the potential conviction of an IDF soldier who had raped and killed a Palestinian ON VIDEO. This led to a large protest that overan the detention center. The Israeli people literally protested to protect a rapist. Oh and the rapist is now a media personality in Israel.
This is not a population that is victim to it's rulers. This is a population that largely supports the genocide of Palestinians.
I'm gonna give the unpopular take online and say that religion is not the source. Religion is only a tool that is often used negatively within class struggle. The source of Israel today is so much more ingrained in white supremacy, colonialism, and class conflict that I just can't say that "banning" religion would be at all helpful.
The religion and hope of the Palestine people is a core part of their resistance and their struggle. And while I'll always be against fundamentalist interpretation of religion in the hands of the ruling class; I just think a focus on religion as being the ultimate problem is incorrect and unhelpful.
I wasn't referencing the article I was speaking more generally on things like "Democracy Index" or others that care more about a country having unregulated free markets than they do about citizens having healthcare. This is often what these "democracy" surveys refer to as Economic Freedom. You can pretend it's how they act like it's defined like "oh the government can't tell you what business you can run as a poor mom and pop shop". But in reality it's the biggest players that benefit from unregulated markets on a global scale.
It's why a capitalist hellhole like Argentina is considered a "flawed democracy" and Cuba is considered "Authoritarian". It's just neoliberal bull shit.
Allowing Zionist to redefine the word and just "becoming anti semitic" is a really bad take. Maybe I'm missing the intent of your comment. I'll be good faith and assume you just wrote this badly.
By pure numbers it is mostly compromised of evangelical Christians. There are significantly more evangelical Christians that are Zionist than there are Jews.
I love when people try to make some type of comparison between one fascist foreign policy party and another like one is better.
This is American foreign policy. It is bipartisan. The only difference between Biden and Trump on Israel is the aesthetics.
There is absolutely no reason to guilt anyone for not voting for the administration that was currently supporting a genocide or one that voted for the one that would support one in the future. US foreign policy is bipartisan. The US was always going to abandon Ukraine and it will always support Israel. If you think that one would be different then you haven't read any history on US foreign policy.
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I see this comment a lot on Lemmy and it's disturbing. I too was perma banned for telling a Nazi to "go to hell". 10 year old account with no prior bans.