Yes! That’s the right word. Fixed, thanks

I’d call them medical luddites but even back then they had primitive vaccinations against smallpox, plus the luddites did at least have genuine concerns (jobs). Being anti-medicine is mind-boggling. Even if it stems from anti-pharma, of which the profit motive is genuinely concerning, this anti-medicine mentality does nothing to address it and only harms themselves and others.

Some European country not too long ago, I wonder which one…

How incredibly inhumane. Immigrants built this country. If anyone here isn’t the descendant of an immigrant; they are an either an descendant of a native American to survived the genocide, or of a chattel slave who survived the anti-black violence that’s been prevalent in this country for over a hundred years.

If the ideal version of America is supposed to be freedom and democracy where anyone looking to make a better life for themselves is welcome, then anti-immigrant sentiment is anti-american.

Things our Representatives can do to fight back, delay, and obstruct Trump’s fascist agenda:

For Senate Democrats:

https://indivisible.org/resource/explainer-how-senate-democrats-can-delay-defy-trumps-agenda-procedural-hardball

For House Democrats

https://indivisible.org/resource/explainer-how-house-democrats-can-delay-and-defy-trump-musk-coup

Force roll call votes on everything—Republicans must go on record for every bad decision.
Use motions to recommit to force Republicans to take difficult votes.
File privileged resolutions to demand immediate consideration of issues Republicans want to avoid.
Leverage parliamentary inquiries and points of order to disrupt floor proceedings and expose GOP dysfunction.

Put Republicans on the record about their harmful policies.
Force votes when GOP members are absent to either force something through or force every Republican member to be in their seats the entire time.
Make motions to subpoena officials and demand transparency.
Expose MAGA extremism in real-time.

Demand hearings on Trump’s and Vought’s plans to override federal spending. If Republicans refuse to hold real oversight hearings, Democrats must take matters into their own hands. That means holding shadow hearings—bringing in experts, impacted communities, and whistleblowers to expose how MAGA elites are trying to loot the government and rig the system for billionaires. These hearings should be public, media-driven, and designed to put pressure on Republicans to defend their corruption in the light of day.
Publicize findings to show voters exactly how MAGA elites are trying to loot the government, and while Republicans are covering for the Trump-Musk coup, Democrats are fighting to stop it.

Host Town Halls: Update voters on how Democrats are fighting back.
Adopt GOP Districts: Hold town halls in Republican-held areas to expose GOP sabotage and talk directly to their constituents.
Engage Online: Mobilize voters with digital content that names names and pulls no punches.

Is the text “ULTRA CONCENTRATED” not clear?

As an American, please boycott us (and Israel), this Fascist empire needs to crumble quickly

The premise that stupidity is inherited from parents is one based on eugenics and false. It’s still a funny movie, but it’s also important to recognize that it is based on a false premise

https://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/idiocracys_curdled_politics_the_beloved_dystopian_comedy_is_really_a_celebration_of_eugenics_partner/

Or we could just abolish the death penalty

I could much more easily call Israel a terrorist state, and by looking at cases of actual acts of terror, it’s clear that Israel does magnitudes more. But while acknowledging acts of terrorism is important, giving the label of terrorist to an entire group is not really useful. It’s mostly use to de-legitimize acts of resistance against colonialism and occupations. Such is the case with Ireland, Vietnam, Algeria, South Africa, and many more.

Both the Occupier and the Occupied can and do use acts of terrorism to further their aims, but the aims are diametrically opposed. The aim of the occupier is to continue the occupation, that requires violence to maintain, and ethnic cleansing. The aim of the occupied is to end the occupation, by any means possible, and gain emancipation. We see that one is a reaction to the other, Israel’s perpetual violence towards native peoples is the underlying cause of these conflicts. Solutions to ending the violence of anti-colonialism can only come from ending the underlying violence of the colonialism.

We see that permanent occupation develops into an Apartheid, as the settlers / occupiers have rights upheld by the State and Military, while the natives / occupied have no rights and subjected to violence from both the Settlers and Military. The State, who holds the monopoly on power, uses terrorism to suppress resistance to the occupation in order to maintain it. The occupied, having no power, uses terrorism as a means to resist the occupation.

Israel has no interest in peace, it has interest in land grabbing, which is in complete opposition to peace. This is fundamental to Zionism. Which is why an end to Zionism and a regime change, where a Secular Bi-National One-State that gives equal rights to Palestinians and Israelis is the only way for the conflict to really end. Not only with Palestinian resistance, but with all resistance groups that were created by Israeli occupation.

Mass starvation once again, the Genocide isn’t over

If anyone needs more reasons to boycott Amazon:

Continuing this pattern, our employers signed a contract called Project Nimbus to sell dangerous technology to the Israeli military and government. This contract was signed the same week that the Israeli military attacked Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – killing nearly 250 people, including more than 60 children. The technology our companies have contracted to build will make the systematic discrimination and displacement carried out by the Israeli military and government even crueler and deadlier for Palestinians.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/12/google-amazon-workers-condemn-project-nimbus-israeli-military-contract

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal

Which gets passed onto us the consumers. Won’t be surprised if Trump gives oil companies even more subsidies (funded by our tax dollars)…

Coincidence or not, interesting that this lines up with the moment Trump’s approval went negative

An entire softball interview with a terrorist was clipped out of context?

Yeah, and he’s neither a houthi nor a terrorist.

2:35:40 - 2:51:09

Pull the other one

No, your free to watch the whole video. I couldn’t care less about your clips. But framing a yemeni teenager as a terrorist is fucked up and untrue.

Your source are clips from a guy who’s a pedo, done sexual assault, and revenge porn? Weird.

Pretty sure clips were debunked a while back by just not clipping out context.

You can still find it on apkpure or something like that for those that want to avoid the app store

For anyone wondering, yes the BDS Movement is having an impact. If anyone wants to join, the No Thanks App (created by a Palestinian developer) Apple / Android makes it as easy as a quick search or barcode scan

Affirming the role the BDS movement has played in the Israeli economy’s “spiral of collapse,” as 130 leading Israeli economists describe it, in September, the Chairman of the Israeli Export Institute said: “BDS and boycotts have changed Israel’s global trade landscape.” He added, “Economic boycotts and BDS organizations present major challenges, and in some countries, we are forced to operate under the radar.” Israel’s projected annual GDP growth rate for 2024 is 0%, according to leading credit rating agency S&P, and some 60,000 Israeli businesses are projected to have shut down during this year of ongoing genocide.

https://bdsmovement.net/Indicators-BDS-Global-Impact-July-December-2024

Not on policy

While I do agree that voting for the lesser evil is the correct thing to do for harm reduction and advocated for people to do so during the campaign (as I did and advocated others to as well), ultimately this points to a much larger issue with our supposedly representative institutions. Unfortunately, the reality is the vast majority of people do not vote on the basis of harm reduction or lesser evil. Most people are too busy working paycheck to paycheck and tuned out of politics. Unless they are offered concessions, they have no interest in politics. That said there any plenty of popular policies that would gain their interest, policies that would improve their material conditions. Good policy, good communication, and good politics are all needed to follow through and deliver those concessions to the American people.

Foreign policy on facilitating genocide, the economic hardships that every working American is experiencing, and immigration were all and still are critical issues for voters. Which is exactly why in order to win an election, a campaign needs to offer concessions to voters to earn as many votes as possible. Something the Democratic Party’s Campaign decisively chose not to do, and in fact did the opposite.

Instead of trying to secure hundreds of thousands to millions of constituents by supporting a permanent ceasefire and weapons embargo, a policy vastly supported by the Democrats own voter base (in addition to the majority of also independent and Republican voters), they instead alienated those voters by more than just ignoring their valid concerns. They instead chose to arrest thousands of student protestors, gave billions of dollars to a genocide at the tax payers expense consistently for 15 months, actively suppressed the voices and representation of the main victims of the genocide, and campaigned with Liz Cheney (who was actively involved with the Bush-Cheney foreign policy in the middle east and enthusiastically pro ethnic cleansing of Palestinians). They chose to do all that instead of represent the view of the majority of their constituents and abide by domestic/international law. And that was just one of the major issues, along with going right-wing on immigration, and continuing neoliberalism economic policies, that tanked the approval of the Democratic Party.

Under the policy spoiler you can find a whole bunch of policies that are overwhelmingly popular with every American and would improve people’s livelyhood (Such as codifying abortion rights, universal healthcare, good public housing, renter’s rights/protections, cracking down on price gouging, trust busting, public infrastructure projects). It would be the best way to fracture the Republican base of support, but it would require going after the bottom line of corporations. What was more important for the Democratic Party during the election? Doing everything possible to gain votes to win against the fascist Donald Trump, or prioritizing monied interests at the expense of public support and the election?