Re:Israeli startups are moving jobs and money out of the cou...
by OfSanguineFire on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:57PM
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It would be interesting to see some polling. I have friends in Israel who are super involved in protest, and that’s all I hear when I talk to them. But I have also spent a lot of time hitchhiking or cycling in Israel, and that outrage just isn’t shared by most of the ordinary people I meet, whether they be non-religious, Orthodox, Haredim, or Druze, or whether they be a resident of Israel proper or a West Bank settler. I start to wonder if the outraged Israelis are a bit like the hipsters in my own country: loud on social media, nearly insignificant in the real world.
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Re:Israeli startups are moving jobs and money out of the cou...
by chpatrick on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:05PM
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Ordinary people being complacent is more of a sign (and a root cause) of an autocratic country than not if you ask me. I live in Hungary and it's the same here.
Re:Israeli startups are moving jobs and money out of the cou...
by esafak on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:50PM
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Strongmen can get voted in and tilt the scales to stay in power. In the face of that, it is rational for the minority in disagreement to acquiesce, so I am not sure the causality runs in the direction you suggest.
Re:Israeli startups are moving jobs and money out of the cou...
by chpatrick on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:19PM
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It's a process. People put up with one overreach or blatant corruption here or there and ten years later they're stuck with a permanent mafia state. It's what you get when you have apathetic people who don't pay attention or take any part in politics. The crooks take over, which itself breeds more apathy ("it sucks but what can I do").
The "ordinary people" vote for this every four years.
Re:Israeli startups are moving jobs and money out of the cou...
by mgbmtl on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:25PM
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Isn't the outrage very visible in the streets of Israel (recurrent mass-protests)? I consider that different than outrage limited to social media.
I'm not very familiar with the issue, but in any case, a majority rule that ignores strong oppositions from minority voters can be dangerous for democracies. It is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner (old saying, not mine).