My bad I misunderstood what you meant. But the “51th state” narrative is completely false too. In fact it’s literally the newest Israeli propaganda, since their “we are doing the dirty work for the US” narrative fell apart.

MondoWeiss - The Shift: 50 States, One Israel

Just because the US and Israel are two heads of the same entity doesn’t mean that there aren’t internal contradictions that manifest as differences in strategy and tactics

This isn’t entirely false but Israel and the US have very different goals. Israel doesn’t abide by US weapon transfer laws, has its own legal system, and most importantly contrary to Ukraine, Israel gets their weapons for free with a direct full cash donation.

The way to make Israel part of the US is to make it reliant on the US is by debt-trapping it like the US debt-traps itself. But the US doesn’t do that, because Israel refuses to be tethered to the US. It just wants free weapons… and somehow gets it!.

The US is in the position of power but is giving away all its cards for free.

As for attacking Qatar, the US imposed a “peace plan” less than 3 weeks later which Israel immediately accepted. That doesn’t look like Israel calling the shots, nor does it look like Israel is a proxy.

The US let Israel bomb Qatar and knew Israel was going to do it.

The peace plan being Israel taking half the Gaza strip and getting all their captives back. And then continuously violating it. Israel clearly just did a PR stunt and got everything they wanted out of it. Even China and Russia bowing to Israel and handing Israel half of Gaza at the UNSC. And Israel is already moving bombing Lebanon, invading Syria, and very likely pulling the US into another Iran war soon.

To be clear, Israel doesn’t fully controll the US. There are many different lobbies in the US. Healthcare, OPEC, Agro, Israel, etc. But all Israel’s power revolves around a single topic which most other lobbies don’t care about. So Israel can easily get their way most of the time. That said, when they start touching the other lobbies, especially the OPEC as Israel did in Qatar, we start seeing pushback.

But that gets to the crux of my point. The US doesn’t support Israel out of self-interest. It supports Israel until Israel starts harming the self-interest of the US hard enough to get other big lobbies involved. And bombing Qatar was certainly one of those moves.

Fun fact MEE is based in the UK.

Also this article was probably the most comprehensive one of the mess I’ve read so far.

Dependance is a big part of what it entails to be a proxy. A proxy isn’t supposed to get too much autonomy lest it will start looking out for its own interest over the host when it gets too powerful. Israel is playing all sides. Giving a proxy nukes is certainly not a real thing.

This gets even clearer when looking at the Israel-Russia relation. Israel refused to send weapons to Ukraine because then Russia would probably start selling their anti-air and other weapons to Iran. For an unsinkable aircraft carrier Israel is extremely unreliable because Russia is much closer to Israel in proximity than Israel is to the US. Therefore Israel plays friendly with Russia, against US policy (and even sells US secrets to Russia).

The US doesn’t control Israel, it is Israel.

If that’s the case I’d love to hear an explanation for Israel bombing Qatar which is under US protection. That was a ridiculously bad move for US prominence in the region. And the whole part where Israel threatens US presidents with nukes under their planes.

Israel barely does ground combat in Gaza. 90% of its campaign is bombing hospitals and schools from the sky. When they finally roll up to do some ground combat some dude in flip flops walks up and throws a mine into their tank and they take heavy casualties.

What Israel does in the West Bank is comparable with US police minus the land mines in the West Bank. But Israel is not spending billions in military funding on their West Bank raids.

I don’t think Israel is a reliable partner to the US whatsoever. If they see the tides are shifting they will gladly ally with Russia or China whenever it becomes more convenient. They have already sold US secrets to Russia multiple times. Bombed the USS liberty etc. Of all the US “allies” in the Middle East, Israel is the least reliable one. Ask Britain what happened to the King David hotel.

Now compare that to Qatar and other Gulf states which are literally paying the US billions in “protection money” so the US can put military bases all over their country which it then uses to bomb Iran (for Israel). Now that’s what we call a good deal. And then Israel goes ahead and bombs Qatar and the US turns off the air defense systems so they can do it.. Now that’s a surefire way to get all the countries paying for US to host military bases to look elsewhere.

Israel is getting far too much playing money for how bad they are behaving.

That makes no sense either because Israel is using the most advanced stealth fighter jets to throw the heaviest bunker buster bombs on… stationary targets above ground.

I really don’t think that leveling an entire city with bombs has any practical use whatsoever. There is no GPS jamming, no advanced defense systems. Nothing which improves the advanced weaponry in any meaningful way that wouldn’t be achieved by simply painting some read targets in a Nevada deserts and checking how accurate the bombs would hit there.

Cops aren’t getting F35’s. The only valid use which can be argued is that Israel has is their mass surveillance systems and police state which does see actual use in export to the US and Europe.

It really feels like everyone is desperately trying to ignore the fact that Israel has basically all of US congress on their payroll, and the reason the US is giving taxpayer money to Israel is not out of self interest. AIPAC is the elephant in the room here.

Because a proxy is supposed to be fully reliant on the host and not have insane amounts of autonomy

Also America paying a visit to the guy who stole the nukes and is blackmailing America into doing their bidding because Israel has nukes lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_6nn5XdOw

A real testing ground for American weapons is Ukraine where America is fighting a real army. Guess who’s not getting nukes though.

I genuinely don’t think blowing up 1000 schools is a great way to “battle test” weapons. Might as well be blowing up stationary cardboard targets.

The only time Israel gets to test against real weapons is during their 12 day war with Iran. Where the entire system they worked on so hard for decades gets overwhelmed by a barrage of missiles in the most expected fashion possible, and the US wastes like 30% of their interceptor stockpile and is now running a defecit.

The biggest reason I don’t believe America controls Israel is because Israel has nukes (with secrets stolen from the US). The US would never hand over nukes to a proxy. Certainly not one as unreliable as Israel.

I feel like Israel doesn’t really serve much of a purpose as a military testing facility. All they do is snipe 5 year old kids and get their tanks blown up by a dude on literal flip flops walking up to it and throwing in a mine. Even their iron dome is utterly worthless and gets demolished by Hamas who just overwhelms it with garbage rockets costing 100x less.

Europe had a very strong arms industry until they decided to outsource all their production to America and Israel. The stuff Israel offers really isn’t that impressive. 90% of Israel’s military capabilities is throwing American bombs on hospitals with American F35’s.

Whoa my bad I didnt’ know I could just change every setting and spend hours to make it look like something else does out of the box.

Note that there are other ways to achieve ejaculation besides masturbating

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I don’t think LibreOffice is ‘bad’ either, the functionality is great and the foss license is superior to Onlyoffice

But when I compare it to Word and OnlyOffice (especially OnlyOffice since it’s free and open source) it lacks that polish and good default settings.

Not everything has to be to be VIM, good defaults are very important especially for novice users. And OnlyOffice has understood that very well.

I would like for LibreOffice to succeed. Therefore I hope they take some design cues from OnlyOffice or have a good UI developer even come up with something better. Basically I hope the guy in the post is going to town and heavily modernizes the current default LibreOffice layout.

Oh so after getting valid examples of objectively bad UI design you start complaining?

Nothing will be learned. People will just fearmonger and do lesser evilism again to justify not voting for anyone else.

I never tried looking into UI options, I use just OnlyOffice nowadays but LibreOffice should consider turning that on by default if it’s an option.

OnlyOffice also has a 10/10 screen when you open it, instantly asking whether you want to open a text document, PDF, make a slideshow etc. It’s just very polished and they actually put effort into the UI.

so immediately we get tribal responses from both sides

Good thing you’re providing the defense of Israel side, since nobody else on Lemmy is willing to do that.

Not killing just survivors, a double tap is about killing the people who try to rescue the wounded. It is using the wounded as a trap to lure out anyone willing to help them and kill them too.

I asked it how many Israelis were killed by the IDF on october 7 and it actually responded so that’s a first

I’ll give you an example since you clearly don’t understand heuristics.

Look how OnlyOffice highlights selected buttons with a light gray tint.

LibreOffice on the other hand highlights them with very strong blue color, which draws the users attention and distracts them from the document.

There are many more very bad design choices that LibreOffice makes, but it’s just a cluttered mess in general and can really put in some work to hide away all those buttons. Yes if you know where they are and use them every single day then it’s more efficient, but it takes up a lot of (mind) space to see all those buttons all the time.

No the American secret police just makes them suicide with a bullet to the back of the head. Rip Gary Webb.