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#politics #opinion

I'm probably too one-sided against Israel. So let me make a case for Israel.

Hezbollah has been firing rockets at it for almost a year. Those rockets are not guided and their targets are not certain, making them war crimes and "terrorism". They come from various places, mostly from valleys in the mountains, but also from residential areas. If Israel is held to the standard of "you cannot use war crimes or terrorism in response" that puts Israel at a distinct disadvantage and they just lose. Of course they aren't going to just sit there and take it. When they did air strikes on Southern Lebanon they hit many civilian residential targets which then experienced many subsequent explosions (indicating they hit a cache of weapons) or several rockets came flying out in spirals like a fireworks stand (again indicating that they hit a cache of weapons). You can find the videos. I can attest to seeing some of these on live-stream so they aren't AI generated.

Now I believe that Hezbollah's aims are noble, to pressure Israel to stop the genocide. But their methods include terrorism, war crimes, and intentionally placing military assets among cilivilan neighborhoods.

Just because one side is committing crimes doesn't mean the other side isn't.

Many innocent Lebanese are dying, as well as many innocent Israelis, and war is hell.

I predict it will get much worse, because Israel has just repeatedly escalated over and over without even IMHO a good reason to have done so, leaving their enemies little choice than to escalate and possibly even do a ground invasion of Israel or S Lebanon or both.

I hear there are 40,000 Hezbollah ground troops in the Syrian Golan Heights ready to invade.

I hear there are 40,000 US troops throughout the middle east, as well as new troops amassing at Cyprus and the 101st Airborne.

Russia has a naval base at Tartus (North of Beirut in Syria) a city that Israel attacked four days ago (I don't know what the target was). They have an S-500 here, the placement of which put an end to Israeli fighter jet activity in Syria (Russia said they would shoot them down). Russia should be able to shoot down Israeli fighter jets attacking Beirut, but they haven't done so and I don't believe they ever told Israel they would shoot down their planes in Lebanon, only in Syria.

There are lots of ways this could pay out.

There is no justification. Unfortunately Israelis are from birth indoctrinated to believe in their racial superiority and that they are victimised from all sides particularly from the Arabs. This is taught to them in school and they are also taught to see the Palestinians as less than human trying to steal “their land” given to them as gods chosen people. This in their minds justifies their barbarity. Children in prison, rapes including of said children, murder and mutilation, torture camps, mass executions of doctors and hospital staff, mass graves with people buried alive. Nothing justifies this barbarity.

Asia celebrates progress of society as a whole. This is not a communist ideal. It’s just the way Asia works. The individual is not as important as society as a whole. In the west the individual is promoted above society. I’m not sure which is better or if there is even a better. This is just an observation.

Just watched “Wondering Earth”. Very much a Chinese “Independence Day”. Jingoistic rubbish. But it’s all about individual sacrifice for the good of the many. This is a natural aspiration for Asia as much as individual triumph in spite of the many is natural for the west.

Just an interesting observation I thought ☺️

There was never any “rules based international order”

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Hang on a minute! It’s still September. How’ve u got the October bitcoin price? Is there a black hole involved?? There is isn’t there.

Is $63 k the new $58k?

In the next 50 years I’m pretty sure Michael Saylor is right

In the next 100 years Saif may be right.

🤣🤣 but seriously wtf.

There’s a dichotomy here.

Saif: Bitcoin is going to outperform all assets and as people realise this they are going to ditch other assets for bitcoin. This leads to increase in value of bitcoin and a representative decrease in all other assets which will go to their utility value. Therefore bitcoin is going to be the most precious asset and it’s going to take a huge incentive for someone to pass with it.

Saylor: Bitcoin is going to outperform all assets and there’s going to be a representative decrease in other assets but people are going to continue to value these assets above their utility value and Bitcoin will be a precious asset but others will continue to have value, some more than bitcoin.

There’s a lot of money tied up in people who think exactly like him. This is the reality of financial systems. They want “yield” if not is a not performing asset no matter how much it intrinsically goes up. There property which goes up abt 5% a year but gives a yield of about 3%. They’re obsessed with yield but this is who money managers are. Take it or leave it but the vast majority of rich people think like him.

I can’t get over how hard the media is trying to ignore the genocide being committed by Israel and the US.