WaxedWookie @ WaxedWookie @lemmy.world

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It shouldn't need to be explained why you shouldn't help a state murder journalists, but based on the downvotes we can already see in this thread, the genocide enjoying cowards and bots are doing their thing.

Cynical as it is, that's what makes them "vital".

Trump and Vance are obviously monstrous pieces of shit, and helping Ukraine is pretty objectively correct both morally and strategically, but losing Taiwan, specifically TSMC would do a pretty incredible amount of damage, while losing Ukraine would empower Russia, but otherwise do fairly limited damage to US interests.

Should have happened after he started fucking with Starlink in Ukraine to aid a hostile state actor. Insanity.

Cancel culture strikes again... From the right as usual.

Palestinians killed in Gaza aren't terrorists - they're the victims of a genocide.

Since October 7th, 44,000 Palestinians have been killed compared to 1,706 Israelis. The stats over the past few decades don't deviate much from this ratio. Israel is killing many times more Palestinians, and a higher ratio of children, they're seizing land, holding many times more hostages, and committing and proudly documenting countless warcrimes.

Does Palestine have the right to defend itself like Israel? What would that look like to you? I ask mostly because you're actively supporting an ongoing genocide while blaming the victims of that genocide while applying inconsistent, nonsensical standards across the two groups.

Nor does capitalism to be fair...

It's certainly... something.

Ain't capitalism grand.

Owning shit isn't working. Why is this controversial?

Videos talking about building a unified Reich, talk of immigrants polluting the blood of the nation, a lot of talk from his orbit about cultural Marxism, all the shared enemies (other than Israel, who are now the genocidal fascist ethnostate he aspires to), Nazis consistently turning out to support him... It's straightforwardly Nazi bullshit. At least Hitler did prison time for the beer hall putsch - Jan 6? Fine, apparently.

I remember when the right were the debate bros up to the later phases of gamergate - it was all "facts don't care about your feelings" until people started pointing out the facts... It was about that time that the right went from questionably sane arseholes to full blown conspiracist mental illness.

At the micro-level, maybe - but we're far more than that - we're a unified society of capital that's on the fast-track to neo-feudalism.

Yes - the Democrats are at fault for arrogantly running an ineffective campaign like the institutionalists they are, and the Greens are at fault for aiding a hostile state actor and the unabashed fascists.

Both are bad, though not in a comparable way.

They should drop out because they have no path to victory, typically capture <1% of the vote, peaked at 2.7%, have no Senate seats, no house seats, no governorships - state or territorial, no chambers seats - upper or lower... But most importantly, they're siphoning votes away from the more progressive viable option, providing meaningful support to the worst possible option in doing so.

Both.

Both can be (and are) true.

The transparently Russia-backed spoiler candidates with absolutely no path to victory in a FPTP election have no value to anyone beyond their ability to siphon off votes from the two viable candidates.

RFK pulled out when it became clear that he would disrupt Trump more than Harris, and Stein remains in the race because she remains a valuable diversion for would-be Democrat voters.

...and yes - Kamala sacrificing the left to court the centre right by adopting Republican framing and policies isn't particularly effective because if people want a Republican, they'll vote Republican.

Other than giving him an excuse when he inevitably skips out on the cheque? No.

I think it's more that he doesn't like reality, so it's simply not true to him... but he's not shy about lying, and is clearly losing his mind - ladies and gentlemen, I give you the disaster that's a coin flip away from running the global hegemon ...again.

Fucking over more that 345 million people to reduce his tax bill.

...now, forget what a cunt Musk is (we know that already) and ask yourself what made it possible for a person to do that, and why those choices were made. Repeal Citizens United.

I think Giuliani is Trump's portrait of Dorian Grey... but Giuliani has hit his limit, and it's showing in Trump.

If you think a job should exist, the people working that job should be paid enough to live comfortably.

You don't get to look down on people flipping burgers and sneer that they should get a real job if you want McDonald's to exist - you're essentially saying people should be punished for delivering a service that you want - it's sickening.