NoneOfUrBusiness

You’re not supposed to say you’re boycotting Israel is the point, I think. Look up anti-BDS laws; this is already a thing in quite a few states.

Not that I disagree, but username checks out.

In case anyone needed proof that intellectual property is a dystopian concept.

I’'m not American so I couldn’t vote either way, but calling out assholes like Pelosi and Schumer for being oligarchy and AIPAC stooges is not and was not disinformation. Voting for Harris is its own conversation and has nothing to do with that. Also your link’s information ends in 2022.

(they’re not, because Harris wouldn’t have advocated turning it into a riviera, cut USAID that helped Gazans, or escalated in bombing Iran, leaving aside the fact that Bibi explicitly wanted),

Slightly less fascist rhetoric doesn’t matter if it’s not accompanied by actions, I haven’t heard of significant USAID involvement in Gaza during the war, Democrats haven’t opposed the bombings much* and fascists aren’t the smartest bunch, respectively.

*This is a valid point, but I disagree. I know about the war powers resolution, but no establishment Democrat leaders have actually indicated they’d use that to stop the bombings. Schumer simply wanted the bombings to be done with congressional approval. The bombings are much better understood in terms of Israeli domestic politics given that Netanyahu’s government was facing dissolution. If anything Trump did get Netanyahu to stop; I’m not sure we could expect the same from AIPAC Democrats.

In a binary choice election with the inevitable choices being Harris or Trump, one opted to assert both sides / false equivalence Harris being obviously better on:

Okay but the very real problems that depressed Democratic turnout weren’t disinformation; the Democrat pitch was legitimately terrible. Whether that justified not voting aside, scathing criticism of the Democrats was justified and not disinformation.

I said right-wing, not Russia.

Oh you’re right, my bad.

But now that you mention it, the MUh boTH sides false equivalence fallacy is textbook Russian IRA troll farm tactics though.

Because the Democrats weren’t supporting Israel’s genocide just as vigorously as the Republicans? Remember the North Gaza offensive? The war with Lebanon? Bombing the shit out of Syria? Bombing Yemen? Sometimes equivalence can be true, too.

disinfo ops

Just saying, this destroys any point you might have had. Genocide isn’t Russian disinformation.

That’s… hopeful…

I can’t stand that this piece of shit gets to dictate what most of the world does in their own fucking countries…

Eh, the only new thing to most of the world is how obvious he is about it.

At that point you might as well just go full socialism; 1000 people is just a mid-sized factory.

Tax wealth, not income.

I’d imagine it’s just the argument for capitalism. You know, profit incentive increasing efficiency and productivity and all that. Now this stuff is true to an extent (though a lot of politically active Lemmy likes to pretend otherwise), but all the good stuff happens before a single person reaches a billion dollars so if that’s the idea it would pretty much fall flat on its face.

Yes, they passed Obamacare, a Republican policy thought up by Heritage Foundation. Also note that they only passed the ACA when they should’ve damn near rebuilt the country from scratch. If this is the kind of policy Americans can expect when the Democrats have a trifecta and a massive grassroots movement, then you’re basically making my point for me, but that’s beside the point. The bigger problem is that they kept the filibuster and keep keeping the filibuster when they could’ve abolished it twice. Keeping the filibuster is a choice, so the whole talk about a filibuster-proof majority is nothing more than “sorry I shot myself in the foot so I can’t come help you even though it’s literally my job, now give me more money”.

Sucks to be the small minority of anti-genocide Israelis, but yeah you reap what you sow.

The Nazis started as a terrorist organization.

True, but they evolved into something more terrible than that, just like Zionist militias did in 1948. I feel that calling the IDF a terrorist organization, while catchy, is an understatement of the depth and scale of evil they’re committing and have committed. They’re closer to the raping, pillaging and murderous hordes of Genghis Khan.

Mostly yes, but the point is that the filibuster is/was their excuse for not doing shit to help the people when they could. DNC party hacks like to say “but they didn’t have a filibuster-proof majority!!!” when people point out that the DNC has done exactly zilch to remedy America’s long-term problems, so it’s important to remember that keeping the filibuster was a choice by the DNC made for that purpose.

Counterpoint: The IDF isn’t a terrorist organization; they’re the Wehrmacht.

As a wise man once said: Never get high on your own supply.

So we agree they should’ve done away with the filibuster?

I’ve seen evil before, but what the actual fuck?