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13 hours agoYou probably don’t mean to, but you’re sounding like a bit of an ignorant asshole. Were you like hangry or sth when you wrote this?
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I learned sth new! Pretty funny indeed
What international norm says you can’t charge people for using your territory?
3·15 hours agoNo. Don’t underestimate the impact of sanctions.
Call me ignorant, but what distinguishes it from pre-9/11 foreign policy?
11·21 hours agoThe entire country is sick to its core. Death to pissrael. All of it.
And if they didn’t pollute so much
Edit: oh and the traffic accidents of course! But aside from their size, the required infrastructure, their number, the pollution, and the traffic accidents, cars are totally fine!
Edit 2: And the noise! But other than those things…
1·2 days agoDo you know about the great march of return?
Funding a genocide is not normal.
Sadly, similar stuff does happen even when you have more parties.
In my opinion, what’s happening here is that the policies of the parties do not align with the opinions of the public. If you care about not doing a genocide, there wasn’t a candidate to vote for last cycle. If you care about universal health care, there wasn’t a candidate to vote for. And so on.
And you can measure this. Research has been carried out into the congruence between policy and public opinion in the US. For example, in the paper Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, it was found that the impact the average American (as a group) has on policy is miniscule compared to the influence of economic elites. You and I don’t benefit from invading Iran, but the owning class sure does, so that’s what we do. All this is independent of who’s in charge.
And so now you might rightly theorize that since there are only two parties, the democrats can fully cater to billionaires, as long as they’re less bad than the republicans. And as time goes on they move further and further right, since they really don’t have to care about voters, because the only other party consists of actual demons, and people will vote for them anyway.
However, you see this effect (the wealthy having a disproportionate amount of influence on policy) in pluralistic systems as well. Norway has about 9 major political parties, yet the study Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy finds that here too, the rich have an outsized influence. Similar studies exist for other western European countries, most of which (if not all) have more than two major parties.
So I don’t think the root of the problem is the two party system (although I’m sure it doesn’t help).
No you don’t understand, we have to do the same thing we’ve done for decades, and this time, instead of things getting worse, things will get better. Please be practical.
So Biden sends 20B in aid to help pissrael commit genocide, and you feel like the blame is on people voting for republicans months after that happened? That’s odd.
One of the big problems with lesser evil voting is that a lot of people forget they still voted for evil.
Hannah Arendt wrote it better but I can’t be bothered to look up and copy the full quote.
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Little known fact about Kamala Harris: she was actually part of the administration that sent close to 20 billion dollars in aid to help Israel commit the genocide. Pretty high up on the totem pole too.
I don’t have a specific Harris quote, but her running mate Walz said “The expansion of Israel… is an absolute fundamental necessity for the US”.
Maybe this makes you go “AHA! Gotcha, no quote!” But if, during the holocaust, I saw someone shipping heaps of zyklon B to Germany, have a running mate that said “well actually, it seems pretty great that Germany invaded Poland”, and who refuses to use the word genocide to describe the holocaust that they helped commit, that would be enough for me to conclude they’re a nazi. You’d have to be pretty fucking stupid not to. Or just not care, in which case, fuck you.
One of these is not like the others
I don’t see why this matters to you at all. If someone feeds the homeless nefariously, then let them. The homeless are getting fed. If someone stops the holocaust because it allows them to cement their hegemony, or because they got paid for it, whatever! If it stops the holocaust, I’m happy.