@whstancil Do these people not realize that Biden is a moderating influence on Israel whereas Trump would completely untie their hands? Do they not see how they're screwing over Palestinians?
@SlowpokeCon@visegrad24@ScooterCasterNY You can easily appease the moderate left. The radical part of the left are extremists, and by their nature cannot be appeased. Same on both sides.
“How can you disagree with South Africa calling Israel an Apartheid State?”
“How can you disagree with the UN calling for a ceasefire?”
“How can you disagree with Amnesty International calling the conflict a genocide?
“How can you support Israel when other black people are against them?”
The real question is, why am I using my brain instead of blindly listening to other people?
It’s simple: I have enough self esteem to do my own research, stand by my values, and trust my ability to come to my own conclusions
And I won’t let anyone bully me into saying or supporting something I know is wrong
this is how persuasion happens, in a nutshell. nobody cares about policy. no one cares about material conditions. people just get told by their friends (or tiktok) that someone is good or bad and then they believe it until their friends (or tiktok) tell them something else
I once dated a communist. He was a joyless person who felt profound guilt in anything that wasn't liberating the working class. He refused to get a job because it meant he'd be taking a job from an immigrant, which meant I was working 15 hours a day to try to keep us off the streets. He didn't like having sex because he felt like he didn't deserve it when there was so much suffering in the world. So I guess I had to suffer too. There is no rationale or logic behind any of this, just a profound radiating misery and a desire to destroy everything that they feel is "unequal." The only acceptable outcome for them is that you give them all your money and worldly goods and then roll yourself into a mass grave.
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an Australian hacker, publisher and activist, Julian Assange. He's best-known as the founder of WikiLeaks, leaking hacked and stolen data, cooperating with the Russian intelligence, and for being under criminal investigation in the US.
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Armaments spending, specifically that aimed at arming foreign governments, is an economic boost and wealth driver. Sure, of $60 billion in Ukraine aid, some of that wealth goes overseas -- but not $60 billion, nor even close. It's spent and taxed -exclusively- in the US.
Our government has made war profiteering into an art form.
Loan repayment, influence on policy, industrial concessions: We stand to profit hugely as long as Ukraine remains embattled. NATO armaments purchases from the US are on the rise, and will remain high as long as Russia remains a nominal threat. Our midwest farmers have had an amazing year. Domestic oil and natural gas are booming.
And the moment peace is declared? Massive industrial investment. US-built nuclear reactor hardware. Truly vast returns on our investment. Oh, and an empty Black Sea naval base available for lease.
Object to the war on moral grounds and I'll listen. Economically, though, we're coming up aces.
We live in a time increasingly resembling the second half of the 1930s. I couldn't live with myself with the knowledge I didn't do more to stop another Hitler. In light of the Republican wavering and in memory of Navalny I will give $100 towards FPV drones for Ukr for every RT.
Watching the online left turn on AOC makes clear what much of it has become: the same kind of mutual indulgence society you see on the MAGA right, where members can give each other permission to ignore complicated realities, and indeed, win social cred by proudly rejecting them