• jaeme@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Democracy is when a leader is allowed to facilitate genocide and then threaten his voterbase by saying his opponent is worse and will do the same thing.

    Harm reduction candidate is the Blue MAGA.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        no it isnt. same policies, one side is just more polite about it.

        yall still dont have healthcare, cmon

        • pingveno@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          Jerrod Kushner had a "peace plan" to kick the Palestinians out of what little they had left in the West Bank and move them to the middle of a barren desert. They dressed it up with "high tech industrial" and other buzz words to make it not look like a naked land grab. Obviously it didn't get agreed to, but these are the type of people who were empowered under the Trump administration. They would get power again and they are better organized this time to carry out their agenda.

            • pingveno@lemmy.ml
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              10 months ago

              Okay, let's rewind to the start of this recent spat of violence, 2023-10-07, when Hamas attacked Israeli citizens surrounding the Gaza Strip. Israel pretty quickly started a bombing campaign that has effectively destroyed northern Gaza. What it hasn't achieved is its stated goal, eliminating Hamas, nor is it close. My guess is that the Biden administration is putting significant pressure on the Israeli government behind the scenes to scale down their invasion, let aid in, and end illegal settlement expansion. They might be using the weapons as a carrot.

              Now think of what the Republicans would be doing in the same situation. Push back? No, they would be cheering from the sidelines like they are now. Illegal settlements? They never much worried about them before.

                • pingveno@lemmy.ml
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                  10 months ago

                  I'm basing it on what I've heard out of Congressional Democrats and Republicans. The administration tends to keep tight lip, but Congress is freer with its thoughts. Take the quote from this article:

                  Some Democratic lawmakers have suggested further significant aid to Israel should be contingent on concrete promises by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to curb civilian casualties in Gaza.

      • jaeme@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        Neither candidate will fundamentally change anything. The US has always been an unsustainable broken oligarchy based on robbing others.

        This is just the consequences of such a system, a slow painful decline.

        • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org
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          10 months ago

          Neither candidate will fundamentally change anything.

          Unless you have a particular arrangement of reproductive organs. Or if you love someone who does.

          Or if you have particular melanin expressing genes.

          Or if you don't subscribe to a certain deity.

          Or if you think your fellow workers should organize to oppose certain practices of your employer.

          Or if you have certain medical concerns.

          Or if you have certain precarious housing arrangements.

          • jaeme@lemmy.ml
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            10 months ago

            Unless you have a particular arrangement of reproductive organs. Or if you love someone who does.

            Biden never passed a federal abortion law and let Roe V Wade get overturned with little to no worthwhile response.

            Or if you have particular melanin expressing genes

            The Biden admin consistently refuses to tackle problems with a focus on racial justice. Private prisons, migrant camps, oil pipelines on indigenous land all have flourished under Biden.

            Or if you don't subscribe to a certain deity

            Butcher Biden is supporting a genocide on Palestinians for the crime of not being the right type of Jewish. Genocide Joe also does nothing to squash the extremist evangelicial movement, many of whom are in congress or state positions.

            Or if you think your fellow workers should organize to oppose certain practices of your employer.

            US labor laws have always been heavily biased against the workers. Again it was Biden admin who broke the strike of railworkers recently and milquetoast concessions. It was only the hard work of independent unions that workers managed to get concessions.

            Or if you have certain medical concerns.

            Socialism was made an evil ideology by congress. There is no universal public healthcare program nor price regulation of pharamseuticals. Narcotraficking remains a constant threat to people's lives.

            Or if you have certain precarious housing arrangements.

            Biden has done virtually nothing for unhoused people and has instead pushed for bigger police budgets which are a greater threat to exacerbating homelessness than ending it.

            Nice little poem which proves my point completely.

            Unlike in functioning and prosperous nations like China with their superior socialist economic model and marxist foundations, the USA will continue to decline and terrorize its citizens as well as other nations abroad.

            There was no democracy at any point in US history.

        • Uvine_Umbra@discuss.tchncs.de
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          10 months ago

          Not arguing against that, just pointing out that like it or not, for now that's the one choice that we have, so concede loss today to fight tomorrow versus surrendering in which tomorrow will never come