NoneOfUrBusiness

When led to believe that the only options are the status quo and fascism people choose fascism, how unthunkable!

K.

“The only thing that gives me some joy is that while all the zios were celebrating and laughing at me im over here thinking yall hit a Jew w. a damn israhelli passport!!! great job," she wrote.

Amazing.

*Too bad Democrats suck. Let’s not forget who caused this.

They passed the largest healthcare overhaul in a generation against unwaivering opposition from the entire GOP.

They had a supermajority and what did they pass? Literally Romneycare. Like dude if this is your “the DNC is good” pitch then you should think about the possibilities that they squashed by making their healthcare “overhaul” a literal Republican policy.

There’s plenty of good things the Democrats have done, even with absolutely razor thin margins and ZERO help from the other party.

Where did I imply otherwise? I didn’t say they’re out there causing damage on the scale of the Republicans; you have Republicans for that. I said they’re inadequate, which you seem to agree with.

And to be clear: the Democratic party has fucking sucked donkey balls for decades, but they are nowhere near the level of malevolence that conservatives present.

And who stops you when you try to make the sort of radical change necessary to stop conservatives from taking power? Hint: It’s the fucking neoliberals. Who stole the candidacy from Bernie not once but twice? Again the fucking neoliberals. And who’s trying to stop David Hoggs from trying replacing the people doing all this with young progressives (aka people exceeding the bare minimum of political competence and human decency)? Again the fucking neoliberals.

You need both the rachet and the gear to keep up this bad boy, and that’s the point I’m trying to make. The Democrats’ role in this nonsense isn’t to ruin everything (though they do some of that too), but to pave the way for Republicans to take power and ruin everything.

Uh… gestures broadly again? Democrats are seat warmers whose number 1 goal is to make sure the left doesn’t take power. Their number 2 goal is to make sure neoliberals stay in power both in the party and in the government. They’re systemically inadequate and systemically enforce their inadequacy on the American people. They’re at least as much of a problem as Republicans themselves.

That implies democrats are good, which… uh… gestures broadly.

Sigh why do I even bother? Say hello to the concentration camps for me.

If you look back on your exchange with Gofer you’ll find that you brought up a topic completely different from Gofer’s point not once but twice. No matter your political beliefs, that’s not good faith discussion. If anything it’s the sort of thing we (as in everyone to the left of Reagan) make fun of when right wingers and tankies do it.

Lmao you have Trump because people listened to you and people like you. You probably know what I mean by that (hint: Screw liberals, go left) so I won’t bother, but maybe try something different next time.

Dude, you know you’ve lost the plot when you’re resorting to deflecting and whataboutism.

I love it. Go Houthis*!

*Only applies to Israel-related activities.

And this is when we remind ourselves that the US hasn’t fought an enemy that can shoot back with anything other than guns in decades. They have late-stage Israel syndrome.

I have better things to do in my life than continue this farce of a conversation, but god damn some of y’all really do deserve Trump.

40000 is the number of people directly killed (as in shot or or blown to bits) by the IDF who the Gaza Health Ministry physically counted. That’s not an estimate, that’s a number you then use to make an estimate, like this one. If you have a study counting indirect deaths and producing a number less than this, then let’s see it, because otherwise this is a full six digits.

1.9 Million People live in the Gaza Strip, that’s 10 digits. Large numbers of them were displaced but still remain in Gaza, somewhere from 6 to 7 digits dead or injured, that leaves 10 digits still in Gaza

Uh… What? 1.9 is 7 digits, of which there were conservatively estimated to be 6 digits of dead by mid-2024. By the most conservative estimate possible, more than 10% of Gazans were fucking dead by the time your dear Biden left office.

The Israelis and Trump’s Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth are talking about pushing all of them permanently out of the region, future tense.

Yeah Biden leaned on Egypt and Jordan to accept exactly the same thing also in mid-2024 and was told to go fuck himself. For now Israel is blocking out all aid, which is the exact same thing it did at the start of the war under Biden.

What does that have to do with the Greens, NPD or Bloc though?

Do you have two or multiple parties in parliament?

They have two major parties and a whole bunch of minor ones. The Quebecoi Bloc is the biggest, but the New Democratic Party and Green Party also have some seats.

I was wondering whether a coalition government wouldn’t be more advantageous.

It would be, but that’s impossible under FPTP.

I mean it’s natural to not want a conservative government, but why root for a liberal majority and not a liberal minority with progressive parties to provide the remaining seats?

Bibi won by having his favorite outcome on 2024-11-05 realized.

I doubt Bibi cared much either way. I mean Trump likely was preferable to Harris, but even with Harris it’s not like he’d have faced real pressure to stop the genocide.