ynthrepic @ ynthrepic @lemmy.world

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And what do you think will take its place, and how?

That is the most disingenuous interpretation of my comment I can imagine.

You're finding enemies in your own trenches my friend. The genocide in Gaza is absolutely horrific, and I am not making any excuses for it.

I'm just saying we live in a better world now as a whole than years past, recent years notwithstanding. Think mid-Obama as maybe the most hopeful time in recent memory as far as advancement toward the Global Goals was concerned, and yeah I know Obama was still bombing foreign countries in the name of anti-terror and killing innocents to get at Obama Bin Laden.

Do you find any optimism in the world or are you pure nihilism?

Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn't used in journalism. Makes sense. Edit: nah I'm wrong. They'd use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. "Misinformation", "inaccuracies" "incorrectly said..." Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

What have I started lol.

Yeah, it's shit. But if we let bad be the enemy of better, we'll never get anywhere.

Do you think a world without the institutions o mentioned would do any better for Palestinians?

As t least there's still widespread support and sentiment among the populations of the western world, and Israel is very much a pariah state in many nations' eyes. It's just not within most nations' power to intervene.

Even then intervention is tricky. We don't people to do what Trump did in Venezuela, because history has shown it doesn't lead to better long term outcomes.

Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat...

Also eating boiled wheat grains was a thing long before bread was figured out.

You can make bread with rice flour too if that's your thing.

Of course not, you can't see very far below the surface.

Delicious.

Institutions like NATO and the ICC, global trade agreements, security guarantees, economic interdependencies, multiculturalism, air travel, the infrastructure of the internet. The fact a bridge collapse or building fire might make international headlines. Movies and culture from around the world being mainstream.

What makes you not think so?

Indeed. But the general direction of world order has been moving against that sort of thing, and increasingly, many serving US politicians and citizens. Trump is undermining both US and global progress away from the worst traits of human hegemonic History and putting them back on full display.

Sure, it's better than the alternative. But it still makes this move functionally meaningless aside from the reasons I mentioned.

It's possible he's just making a deal with Maduro, who he'll send back to Venezuela as his pawn. I guess we'll see.

Aluminium goes in one end and out the other, does it not?

Problem is, Maduro is a figurehead. He's not a mastermind. The regime will carry on without him. Nothing has been achieved by this kidnapping except a threat to Venezuela, and a message to China and Russia that this is how the world works now.

Edit: Also a lot of innocent or mostly innocent people have been murdered. Trump is a literal murderer.

Would love to, unfortunately, I'm a citizen of the globe, not the US. I wish you the best of luck!

This. Especially reporters. They should all call out lies and abuse without hesitation. Access to the Whitehouse press office isn't worth it. Don't even cover that shit. Make Trump have to step outside if he wants an audience.

No, but what I want is for the Memdani momentum to continue.

So, what now? Is there a socialist candidate the left can vote for instead?

And kids. They want every unwanted child to be forced into the world, regardless of the life they will enter. I guess most of the abandoned ones would be raised in horrific church-run foster care halls in the past. Gotta maintain the supply of easily indoctrinated followers and labourers.

Thanks for the additional context.

It is of course about all supposed benefits to the US of economic colonisation.

The rare earth component seems less known. Articles like this may shed some light.