“A Tax On Stupid People”: New American Airlines AAdvantage Marketplace Encourages Members To Waste Miles On Worthless Rewards [Roundup]

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  1. @1990: Unfortunately, that’s what happens when the MSM and irresponsible Western governments launder Hamas propaganda for them and pump out these outlandish lies every single day.

  2. @Common Sense — Didn’t the Arab League literally just recently call for Hamas to end the war and release the hostages? I mean, it’d be better if those 22 member states actually accepted refugees from Gaza, you know, to help those people in-need. Why would Egypt, Jordan, and/or Saudi not want to help the Palestinians? And, doesn’t Egypt literally share a border with Gaza? Hmm. Odd.

  3. Though, if you decide to abandon AA, what do you do with the miles than will expire?

  4. @1990: Don’t forget the only reason they’re “refugees” 80 years later is because the Arabs wanted them around as a stick to beat the Jews with. No one calls all the Mizrahi Jews ethnically cleansed from the Middle East during the period after 1948 refugees.

  5. @Common Sense — Yes, and it seems the ‘beatings will continue…’ unless enough is enough!

    It’s not the same, but it feels similar to the atrocities faced by the Armenians and Greeks displaced (and murdered) in the 1920s by the Turks; they still waiting for an acknowledgment and apology from the Turkey as well. I doubt Erdogan would ever allow it.

  6. The Armenian Genocide is barely acknowledged by Western countries, either. Israel recently acknowledged it, but is one of the few Western countries to stand up to the Turkish bully.

  7. @Common Sense — Exactly. Which is why it’s disappointing to see Cypriots (of Greek descent) ‘protesting’ the Israeli tourists visiting their country (or so most media is promoting). Like, do those ‘protestors’ not realize that Israeli is friend, no foe, to their cause as Greeks, Cypriots, Armenians, and other free peoples of the world? At the very least, it’s no way to treat your visitors. Besides, tourism is practically their economy on that island. There’s a cognitive dissonance, for sure.

  8. A. I’m not sure if it’s actually natives or migrants.

    B. Antisemitism was always self harming to the people propagating it. It really is a mind virus.

  9. There are tons of OPM flyers that accrue miles and don’t have anything to spend them on.

    Youre not redeeming on flights when you have 2 weeks vacations a year, and barely make 50k like most OPM flyers flying for their corporate overlord

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