Maturin [any]

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Cake day: August 25th, 2023

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  • Yeah. But it doesn't only undermine what credibility some people think the Dems had, it might also cause a massive rift in Is***l itself. Netanyahu has been under extreme political pressure from multiple sides to (1) get the hostages back and (2) accomplish their stated "war goals." By accepting a deal that was essentially on the table and accepted by Hamas 8 months ago, the people who were passionate about #1 are going to be pissed because a lot of hostages died in the last 8 months and the people who were passionate about #2 are going to be pissed because there is objective proof that they made no progress on any of their war goals in the last 8 months (i.e., they lost and lost worse than they had to if this is the deal they were going to get). This could cause a complete collapse of the government (which has already been signaled by the parts of the government who are unimaginably to the right of Netanyahu). So even if they don't abide by their commitments in the deal (which they won't), this is a major defeat for the government that is already barely able to hold it together.











  • More or less. The pigs transform back Into the old ruling class and change the rules back to how they were before (“all animals are equal but some are more equal than others”; “4 legs good 2 legs bad”, gets reversed). The hard working horse gets sent to the glue factory when he can’t work hard anymore.

    I believe the intent was that the pigs were supposed to be Stalin & Friends. The other animals may have had direct associations with other early Russian revolutionaries. But it’s been a while for me too.






  • “We have no idea how supply and demand work. We also have no understanding of the difference in cost between cheap and plentiful traditional gas supplies over essentially free infrastructure and LNG, which requires billions of dollars of new infrastructure and is the most expensive way to transport natural gas at scale.”

    • Reuters, probably