The supply in circulation. Bonds are promissory notes. I don’t think the money disappears from ledgers.

The fractional reserve is fixed AFAIK.

Wiki citation:

86. The United Nations verified the recruitment and use of 4 Palestinian children (3 boys, 1 girl) by Israeli forces as human shields (3) and by the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades (1) as combatants in the occupied West Bank (3) and the Gaza Strip (1).

So that’s 4 examples of the IDF and 8 of the Palestinian militants. The numbers are not a scorecard though. These are just children and just the ones they had evidence of. Must happen a lot more, especially if you count adult shields.

I expect better from IDF since they represent a democratic government and so we should be hearing of the rogue soldiers being disciplined (jailed even). We rarely hear that.

Got a citation for that claim?

There are also claims of IDF sending civilians ahead of a raid in potentially booby trapped buildings.

But why waste our time on hearsay? It is hard enough examining all the documented evidence from each side.

In feel like there just aren’t enough of us trying to get at the truth. It is more like a game of football from the comfort of our Western homes where we encourage our team to keep going regardless of losses (on the ProPal side the encouragement for Hamas to not surrender is especially buzaare).

The money supply is fixed. Government prints money but not to cover new jobs. It is all about transfer of wealth.

We could all be moderately wealthy if Billionaires were not a thing. Basic Income is perhaps feasible too.

Economist Gary Stevenson explains it well. He has over a million views of each video on YouTube.

He is working class as fuck but graduated from LSE & Oxford and then made millions since 2008 betting that inequality will rise and that most people will be worse off. He was the most successful trader for Citibank but quit in disgust and to reveal the scam to the public. Now with a best-selling book.

https://youtu.be/BRvMuefnl0k

Going by this very targeted attack video, I find those numbers difficult to believe.

There just isn’t much explosive you can secretly pack into a pager. The strategy relied on body proximity.

Neither side seems interested in murdering everyone on the other side.

Iran’s intention is to eradicate a Jewish state in the Levant. Hamas have stated that they would repeat Oct 7 over and over (seems a stupid thing to say out loud even if one is on their side) and in fact their insane leadership called for world Islamist domination.

“We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified”

Whether we agree with the establishment of Israel in the first place or not, it aint going anywhere so to continue trying to eradicate it 77 years later exacerbates suffering.

Aboriginal Australians got a raw deal but are still doing better than Gazans because they didn’t continue warring. They are still fighting politically and rightly so.

Unfortunately the source code is not open

Wrong.

https://threema.com/en/why-threema/open-source

They are monthly not daily popups. They are daily at the start kust to make sure you memorize your PIN, then they peter off.

However if you ignore a monthly one then it doesn’t disturb you until the next monthly reminder. What is the point of a PIN if it can be ignored?

The pager attack was pretty targeted. Very low percentage of civilians killed (unlike the percentages of Hezbollah attacks on Israel).

Only Alaska has federal ranked choice voting and a Republican tried to repeal it., so I give you that one.

But check out the https://patrioticmillionaires.org/ site. I don’t think either party are interested in that (except maybe for Bernie, AOC and Warren - which I admit would make Dems slightly better).

I can’t help but wonder if some thought it couldn’t get worse for them personally so they wanted to see the whole system crash and burn.

It is a zero sum game. The rich are addicted to power over others despite data showing that even they would be happier in a more equitable society (see TED talk by Richard Wilkinson called “Spirit Level”).

Same thing in terms of being bought by lobbyists (although Elon’s influence is unprecedented).

Same thing in terms of refusing to reform one of the worst voting systems on the planet.

Same in terms of insider trading (Trump is more blatant and doesn’t mind if he tanks the economy in the process).

Same in terms of ignoring https://patrioticmillionaires.org/

Dems downvoting you are ignoring why Trump won. At their peril.

[Edit: I see in a later comment that you clarified and people here do get it.]

Dems laugh at his meandering speech but the MAGA’s appreciate he is not scripted and one actually can understand what he is on about. It looks demented on paper but it is actually how a lot of people speak. You don’t need to complete your sentence if you have got the message across . MAGA think we are stupid for getting confused with our comprehension.

In the GOP primaries he mocked his competitors on stage saying that he has given many donations to politicians and the favours will be returned, even the ones on stage with him. MAGA loved the openness of the corruption.

What I don’t get is why they thought he would “drain the swamp”?

Cadlillac agrees with Trump. Slave labour is what makes America great and the slaves love it apparently.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

Unfortunately Americans are not reading this thread :(

So MMP solves the problem, yes?

Ranked choice with a single member is better than FPTP.

5 candidates is closer to proportional but it is flawed because it is “low resolution”.

One could theoretically have a system to vote for hundreds/all seats for finer resolution but MMP is a tried and tested way to achieve the same.

We have come full circle to my initial comment…

Ranked choice allows for coalitions like in AU.

Maybe you mean Multi Member Proportional voting like NZ and DE. That is the best system but complicated. US cannot even deal with converting to metric so MMP would result in exploding heads.

I don’t think you understand the Australian Senate voting system or Tasmanian lower house or the MMP of Scotland, UK, DE.

They all have ranked choice but are tweaked to be proportional too.

MMP makes it proportional by also giving you a party vote which determines what proportion of seats that party should hold so that you don’t get a situation like you described in Australia’s last election. Better to watch a 2 minute video on it.

MMP is the most accurate/fair proportional system but more complex.

That’s massively skewed. Even though the difference is tiny, Labour got almost a 2/3 supermajority.

One way to remedy this would be to retain ranked choice but make the electorates/districts three times as large and elect three members in each. Just like how Tasmania does but with 5 members and 5 huge districts.

The Australian Senate voting does roughly what both houses of the Tasmanian state voting do and what you are calling for.

The Senate still has ranked choice but also proportional representation because of the multiple members in each district (in the Australian Senate the “district” is the entire state, with 6 members elected each time).

Federal Labor currently cannot pass any laws without Greens support in the senate (unless the conservatives support the bill).

Districts are fair because the member can be accessed by local constituents (in theory anyhow). US Gerrymandering is unfair. Australian Gerrymandering is nowhere near as bad.

These coalitions still happen with ranked choice but only if a minor party is popular in a district.

Except for Tasmania in Australia where minor parties have an even better chance. It has only 5 districts for state elections and each district has 5 seats. Greens often get a seat because their candidate is 5th most popular in a district.

In other states they are now winning seats but fewer than Tasmania.

Ranked choice allows for coalitions like in AU.

Maybe you mean Multi Member Proportional voting like NZ and DE. That is the best system but complicated. US cannot even deal with converting to metric so MMP would result in exploding heads.