The goal for the political parties is to just get into power temporarily in order to further your own career.

Just to be clear, to get to the definition of affordable (3 times medium family income) most detached homes in cities would need to lose 80-90% of their value.

That has never been the goal, it's not the goal of ANY of the major political parties because it would be political suicide.

For housing to be affordable, current house prices would have to drop significantly, which would means loses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for most home owners, and 65% of the current residential properties are owned by the family that live in them (the majority of voters)

You should post the comic to mildly infuriating too.

Shouldn't they charge themselves with genocide first?

The US killed more than half a million civilians in the middle east in retaliation for 9/11

Did everyone forget this? Or does it just not count when it's the US that does it.

The UN approved borders for Israel after the world wars, and 5 neighbouring countries invaded Israel the day it declared independence and was supposed to take effect because they weren't happy with them.

So clearly annihilation was a perfect answer.

Being elected democratically does not make you a government. It makes you in charge.

A functional government needs to perform things like taxation and civic spending. As far as I can tell, Hamas didn't do those things. Most the infrastructure in Gaza was built by foreign aid groups.

I'm consistent with all of history.

Borders wouldn't exist unless people (and groups of people) had some sort of conflict over who controls what.

Hamas was never a proper government. It has always been a military organization. It was literally formed to fight Israel.

Yes, that's how it works. He already took Crimea in 2014 from Ukraine.

You've got the metaphor wrong, and it's a useless argument to defend even if it was correct because almost every other country in the entire world is on "stolen" land.

Jewish people have been there for literally thousands of years. So have the ancestors of the Palestinians. Neither was the country that existed even just prior to the formation of Israel. So they fought, and even with support from multiple neighbors the Palestinians lost. Now it's Israel.

Who wins is how borders work in the real world.

Unless you're also supporting giving back your land to the previous inhabitants completely... Should all non-native Americans leave north America? Should England give their land back to the Celts? Should we all climb back into the womb in Africa and just disappear the human race?

And it's not recognized by a single G7 country in that 75%.

It doesn't even have it's own proper government, and Gaza specifically doesn't even have a puppet government anymore because it's being controlled by Hamas rather than the PA.

So not false.

Hamas is not the one that had to build a wall and a multi billion dollar rocket defence system and still got attacked.

Israel tried to defend itself, Hamas kept at it, and now they're paying the price. This is war.

Hamas could release them any time they want.

They took them for a reason, to use them against Israel.

Palestine is not a country and has never been a country.

Every one of them until they stop attacking Israel and especially taking hostages.

If your kids got take hostage, would you limit what you would do to get them back?

Sorry, did the person who took hostages just say "if you care about the lives" you should stop supporting Israel?

This is why I still support Israel. Fuck these terrorists.

Counting by units biases you towards junk that isn't bought by the first world because it's bad.

My winter range on a highway with heat on is around 385, which is the sticker value when I bought it.

My summer range is almost 500.

It's a lot more than people think.

Switching to cheap EVs does not get us off fossil fuels as much as you think.

Personal transportation only accounts for something like 20% of the total fossil fuel use.