Also, having been on the other side of such a situation: it’s not cool to pressure or guilt trip your guests. Either be hospitable and let them do whatever they want, or don’t invite them.

If people aren’t hungry, then they aren’t hungry. Maybe they are on a diet, maybe they misunderstood OP’s intention and ate beforehand. Maybe they are recovering from something and don’t want to eat too much.

And as for the two that did not showed up. It’s a good practice to reconfirm the night before. Sometimes people forget. Sometimes life gets in the way.

If they did reconfirm and still didn’t show up and did not have a good excuse, then I would start looking for better friends.

Hope OP has better success next time. I do understand that the situation sucks.

But it’s also a situation that, in my opinion, is preventable.

He should have said almost every.

But thanks for pointing out the mathematical truth ☝️

No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.

The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

I agree. The rule based order only works if the rules apply to everyone.

And from a more realpolitik perspective: the Arab world is our (European) backyard.

We really don’t benefit from instability there.

Unfortunate reality, but headline placement is quite OK.

Exactly.

If the USA tried to again be a White/European ethnostate and allow anyone with Caucasian heritage to immigrate and barred everyone else from immigrating, then no one today would accept that.

And if they went full on apartheid and started putting natives and minorities in locked down ever-shrinking reservations, people would really lose their shit.

When white nationalists try to advocate for such policies, they are rightfully criticized for being racist.

I can never understand why Israel gets special treatment in that regard.

I presume you’re an American then.

It wasn’t that bad in Europe.

A few days ago, a mildly critical comment of mine against Netanyahu was removed by the lemmy.world mods.

I said something like, both Netanyahu and Hamas want this war. Not too controversial, I would think.

It was in a thread on lemmy.ml

Anyway, I ditched my lemmy.world account and made this alt my main.

But yeah, the bots and propagandists have found lemmy, too. They seem to be focussing on the bigger instances.

We are talking about the 90s though, not the 60s.

The difference is that even young people say life was better when boomers were young.

Higher wages, cheaper housing, lower cost of living.