The entire reason Israel exists is to be a lightning rod. The issue is they went from an easy nearby target for far right religious ethnostates, to becomin the far right religious ethnostate who is recklessly starting wars and genocides.
If all that matters is middle east geopolitics, then Israel is a liability because they keep attacking neighbors and committing genocides.
This isn't new, we funded fucking Osama Bin Laden too.
Imagine if GW insisted that because Bin Laden was once our ally, he always has to be.
Shit fucking changes.
But 70 and 80 year olds don't always notice because the older we get the faster it seems like time goes by. It happens to all of us, but when you're as old as a fucking country, it's hard to wrap your head around a lot of things have changed since then.
If you expect people to download PDFs from social media comments, it helps if you don't hide the link...
If you don't know how to inspect a link before downloading it, that's on you. You asked a question and I answered it by directly citing the source.
Some people are on phones where you can't just hover...
And you didn't "cite'" the source
You linked it
If you were citing it you would have quoted it and then shown the link without hiding it.
That's basic stuff we learn in highschool...
Hold finger on link, read link from context menu.
Nope, doesn't show the whole thing.
Maybe that works on iPhones and different android flavors tho
That's unfortunate. FWIW I don't disagree with you, full plaintext links should be posted anywhere. It's not like there are any psychopaths out there typing links manually instead of copy/pasting.
Then blame your app, not the person linking state.gov materials
I use voyager on iOS, it allows me to see the url of links before I click them
And I don't use apps to use a website on my phone, unless you count browsers as apps
Markdown is an accepted and implemented form of posting content on lemmy. That’s why I can do this or do this or do this but you don’t see the html. The platform shouldn’t cater to you because your app is incapable of showing you the links people post in markdown format, find a better app, or petition your app developer to handle links better
Why are you still ranting about apps?
Ok so file an issue with lemmy, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues, stop blaming software because you are mad that html has a feature to put links on text and it disrupts your workflow to see what those links are
How is Israel an ally?
They're a lightning rod.
The entire reason Israel exists is to be a lightning rod. The issue is they went from an easy nearby target for far right religious ethnostates, to becomin the far right religious ethnostate who is recklessly starting wars and genocides.
If all that matters is middle east geopolitics, then Israel is a liability because they keep attacking neighbors and committing genocides.
This isn't new, we funded fucking Osama Bin Laden too.
Imagine if GW insisted that because Bin Laden was once our ally, he always has to be.
Shit fucking changes.
But 70 and 80 year olds don't always notice because the older we get the faster it seems like time goes by. It happens to all of us, but when you're as old as a fucking country, it's hard to wrap your head around a lot of things have changed since then.
Page 218 onward.
Page 33 onward.
If you expect people to download PDFs from social media comments, it helps if you don't hide the link...
If you don't know how to inspect a link before downloading it, that's on you. You asked a question and I answered it by directly citing the source.
Some people are on phones where you can't just hover...
And you didn't "cite'" the source
You linked it
If you were citing it you would have quoted it and then shown the link without hiding it.
That's basic stuff we learn in highschool...
Hold finger on link, read link from context menu.
Nope, doesn't show the whole thing.
Maybe that works on iPhones and different android flavors tho
That's unfortunate. FWIW I don't disagree with you, full plaintext links should be posted anywhere. It's not like there are any psychopaths out there typing links manually instead of copy/pasting.
Then blame your app, not the person linking state.gov materials
I use voyager on iOS, it allows me to see the url of links before I click them
It’s available on android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager&hl=en_US
What's hard about just posting the link?
And I don't use apps to use a website on my phone, unless you count browsers as apps
Markdown is an accepted and implemented form of posting content on lemmy. That’s why I can do this or do this or do this but you don’t see the html. The platform shouldn’t cater to you because your app is incapable of showing you the links people post in markdown format, find a better app, or petition your app developer to handle links better
Why are you still ranting about apps?
Ok so file an issue with lemmy, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues, stop blaming software because you are mad that html has a feature to put links on text and it disrupts your workflow to see what those links are
Who is blaming software?