So you condemn Nat Turner?
All children are innocent. None should be hurt. That’s not the world Israel has built so it may not be the one they receive. Of course the children don’t deserve it, but I won’t tell a people they should exist in subjugation and ethnic cleansing for decades instead of fighting back by whatever means are necessary.
Disagree with the starting premise. Rhodesia existed. Then it didn’t. Israel must meet the same end.
liberals when they encounter principles: BLOCKED
I don’t give a fuck about your “chess” during genocide. You vote to stop the mass ethnic cleansing of human beings or you don’t. And if you don’t, fuck you, in the least uncertain of terms.
I’m not sure what you mean by the first line. My meaning is you don’t get to frame enabling Israel’s continued existence via funding for the Iron Dome as being about some sort of net-effect of protecting children when Israel’s mere existence guarantees the opposite, as demonstrated again and again throughout history.
Indeed, Bernie’s movement outgrew him, starting from the day he caved and endorsed Biden. And look what that got us: I was duped into voting for genocide, in the name of “lesser evil” politics. That paradigm is how we ended up in a world where the “lesser evil” is “maybe they’d do a little less genocide than the other guy.”
Harris promised the “most lethal fighting force in the history of the world” or whatever the quote was, and promised “no deviation” from Biden’s openly-genocidal policies. You can dream of a kinder genocidaire, I’ll dream of the end of genocide and empire.
mirroring that of El-Sayed’s recent words himself noting protecting all children, including Israeli children
The existence of israel guarantees the continued death of Palestinian children. You don’t get to have your cake and eat it too.
The rest of your points are fair but I don’t trust her. I don’t trust any Democrat (or other politician) unconditionally, but Ilhan Omar is by far in the lead for me. I hope I’m wrong about AOC but that vote tells me she’s more of a political opportunist than a truly principled person - and changing when the winds blow differently could support that conclusion just as much as it could support the conclusion that she saw the error of her ways.
For example, Trump with Musk’s help gutted USAID, which has now led to over 600,000 civilians deaths in just a year’s time, and continuously rising. That dwarfs the deaths in Gaza and Ukraine, combined. Naturally one atrocity does not detract from another, but it’s important to put into context the Greater Evil in what is often an inevitably binary-choice outcome for elections.
Right, but the weak leadership of the Democrats (and their corruption in rigging the primaries against their populist uprising in the form of Bernie Sanders) enabled Trump’s rise. So it’s binary in the narrative, but under an oligarchy, it’s really just one choice (so no choice) with different theatrical performances attached.
Their unabashed support for Israel, including AOC’s decision to vote against discontinuing Iron Dome funding (in other words, if you remove the double-negative, voting to continue funding it), seems like a bit more apt exemplification of “what is wrong with the party” than someone shaking their head at a TV.
She’s part of the problem. Ilhan Omar is a much stronger example.
(Edit: My mistake, she actually voted "Present’, and her excuse was basically “the bill didn’t do enough so I decided we should do nothing at all”. Very Democrat of her indeed.)
Repeatedly, regardless of what she faces, she tries to make the best choices in that situation
Including voting against the bill to discontinue funding for the Zionazi state’s Iron Dome?
(Edit: My mistake, she actually voted "Present’, and her excuse was basically “the bill didn’t do enough so I decided we should do nothing at all”. Very Democrat of her indeed.)
Her honesty, directness, and willingness to continue using our taxpayer dollars to continue funding ‘defensive’ weapons for an apartheid occupation determined by the UN to be guilty of genocide.
(Edit: My mistake, she actually voted "Present’, and her excuse was basically “the bill didn’t do enough so I decided we should do nothing at all”. Very Democrat of her indeed.)
He’s the “Diet Republican” brand of Democrat (most Democrats are but especially him), and people have already shown repeatedly that they arent interested in that.
People who want a Republican will vote for the real thing. People who don’t want a Republican will vote for someone else. He’s pandering to a crowd that doesn’t exist in any significant size.
It also wasn’t “less safe”, violent crime has been dropping for quite a while in most areas
So just whining on Lemmy then, got it.
“stealing an election openly and shamelessly is a whole different thing”…yet, they still have support and zero repercussions after sending in a mob to kill cops and politicians in order to create a distraction for fake election officials with fake election documents to sneak into the certification process and overthrow the government.
…because the party you’re so concerned with voting for did nothing to hold the chief architect accountable.
Yes, Trump has mentioned many things he hasn’t done. Hypotheticals about GOP governors are just that: hypotheticals. And what are the National Guard going to do anyway? People can just show up and vote. If anything, it would probably motivate the “we should be at brunch and ignoring genocide” Kamala crowd even more.
Far fewer illegal immigrants? At least that’s what DHS says, so yes.
Well if they say so! And good thing they took all those vicious terrorists weaponizing their cars off the streets, too! Everyone knows DHS would never tell a lie.
They kidnapped plenty of people. Then they got run off.
protests haven’t done anything effective in the last 20+ years in the US
lmao you think by “in the streets” I mean No Kings protests? Privileged liberal for sure.
So either buckle up and prepare for something bigger or shut up
Seeing as you’re clearly incapable of the latter despite having no idea what you’re talking about, does “buckling up” solely entail whining about how powerless I am on Lemmy or is there more to it? Just want to be sure I’m following your instructions to the letter.
I don’t care what someone who voted to fund Israel has to say about anything.
…Yeah, DC, just about the only place in the US that doesn’t require a governor’s approval or Insurrection Act criteria to be met in order to call in the National Guard. Great example, for sure, yeah man, totally gonna expand to the whole country.
ICE absolutely got run out of Minneapolis. Tf you mean they “finished their job”, do you think there are zero immigrants left to kidnap in the whole state?
You can keep crying and doomsaying and insisting we’re powerless, that’s what liberals are good for after all. The people actually in the streets (which I’m increasingly certain is not you) will hold it down, don’t worry. Not to mention Trump probably doesn’t even have the political capital to pull off a coup amongst his own base anymore.
It was fun to show up in keffiyehs and watch the old libs clutch their pearls, at least.
And to pass out anti-ICE info to middle-aged and older folks who may not have necessarily been aware of those resources.
But yeah fuck No Kings.
…You left the part out of your quote where I specified examples of it already happening
How many people are willing to get into a shooting battle with the ICE-aligned PD
Quite a few, if necessary to defend our rights. Why do you think they got run out of Minneapolis? People started barricading the street and doing armed patrols. In a number of other locations, people actually started shooting. Some were never apprehended, some got insane sentences. But stealing an election openly and shamelessly is a whole different ball game.
Even if people are individually angry, there is no collective organization that opposes the current administration.
Lmao wtf are you talking about? Are you just a liberal who never left the house? There is substantial organization against Trump’s Gestapo.
The results I’m interested in achieving basically never conflict with my principles, so no occasions immediately come to mind.
If you don’t unflinchingly stand against genocide, you are a waste of a human, politician or otherwise.