Quick question uhh what is an Israeli team doing in the UEFA champions league anyway?

What EU wants is irrelevant though

I am fascinated by the Haredi being exempt from military service. Can’t wrap my head around how that is allowed, or what the point of it is. How is it decided that a person is Haredi in Israel? Is there an official designation? Or can anyone “convert” to that sect?

You underestimate how deeply engrained capitalist bootlicking is in the mass consciousness here

Recently Ratan Tata (from the Tata family) died of natural causes. This was the cue for all the bootlickers to come out of the woodworks with cringe obituaries. Like this:

As you wake up this morning and switch of your AC (Voltas) and look at the time (Titan) today one will not be able to dress to work (Westside/Zara/Zudio) this morning nor drink a cup of tea or coffee (Tetley/Starbucks) nor drive (TataMotors) or fly out (Vistara/AI) to work or shop for grocery (Big Basket) or Electronics (Chroma) nor make a call (Telecom) nor watch the news (TataSky) nor dine out (Taj) or do business (TCS) without paying homage to a wonderful human being and an architect by profession in the true sense…that has touched several lives and will be missed dearly
🌹🙏🌹

If Tata is hindutva

Tatas are not Hindu. I am not sure what their religious belief is called but it is something like Parsi or Zorastrian. They could be Hindutva themselves but it’s unlikely. They are cozy with BJP because they benefit greatly from their pro-corporation policies.

You can use the book Ten Myths About Israel if you wanna supplement your points. Or if they read books you can ask them to read it themselves. It is written in an easy to understand style.

Had to condemn hamas right in the third paragraph to get published maybe

You don’t have to quote Nietzsche to tell us that lying is not a good look

Liverpool are supposedly ideologically similar to Celtic. Bill Shankly, the club’s most iconic figure, was a socialist and the Liverpoil area in general is a Labour stronghold because Thatcher tried to choke them out with here neoliberal austerity.

Then Steven Gerrard chose to manage Rangers, Celtic’s loyalist rivals. I am glad his coaching career crashed and burned after that.

They have always equated sovereignty with instability

In UNGA resolutions China always votes against Israel in favour of Palestine. Voting records are publicly available here: https://digitallibrary.un.org/search?ln=en&cc=Voting+Data

It said something else before the edit but it’s all good now.

How does one be a populist while not pandering to the public.

I would say that is largely irrelevant. Chinese EVs are so much cheaper there is no way Western producers can compete with them barring tariffs. In a level playing field Chinese companies will completely push out the Western ones in low- and mid-range market. For luxury vehicles maybe the brand recognition can save them but in a tight economy cheaper cars will attract a lot of attention.

as well as their own operations in China

This is the reason. It is not because of their interest in fairness or free market (there is none), but because China is both critical to their production process and a massive market that cannot be ignored. If China retaliates their execs won’t be able to buy their tenth yacht.

Yeah. Progressive bracketing of income tax is only one aspect of the whole thing. It gets a lot of attention but once you take into account taxes on everything else, which also includes the most basic groceries for some reason, the non-wealthy end up getting taxed more proportionally to their income.

That is the policy around taxation for everything. The “middle class” always froths with rage everytime the budget is announced over this. Ever since GST has been introduced it has gotten worse as well, with more of the taxes going to the central government. The economic policies here are pretty preposterous.

Can someone explain what a delegate exactly is?

“This is very bad!” scream analysts from ING, a real estate research institute and Goldman Sachs.

In late July, China’s top decision-making body, the Politburo, reiterated the country’s commitment to supporting the completion of unfinished projects and turning unsold apartments into affordable housing.

I get where you are coming from but in this particular case the implications are far worse. This Sabrina person does not even try to convey that the Democrat’s hands would be tied.