The more he talks about this topic the less enthused I am about his candidacy. I mean, the alternative is fucking horrible. But it would be nice to have a better choice than between ‘bad and terrible’, at least when it comes to foreign policy.
I refuse to take any advice from the people that spent like a full decade shitting on Al Gore and the idea of global warming. No, I don’t care that they pivoted well after global warming was settled science and public opinion started to shift to viewing it as cringe to be a climate change denier.
They made an episode trying to make up for that where I think one of the secondary characters is trans? I couldn’t tell you the specifics of it because I haven’t watched it, I just remember it being decently received at the time by a fair amount of trans people that I follow on various platforms. Not beyond reproach but not the fucking nightmare that the Mrs Garrison shit was.
And my expectations are rock bottom. All he needs to do is just step back and not take a side rather than proactively support Israel’s genocide. The people who organized the “uncommitted” drives would love to instead organize for Biden, but he just keeps popping into the news to remind them the job isn’t done and he’s still bad on the issue.
The American people can ignore foreign war crimes in favor of domestic issues. Africa’s got some going on right now that haven’t even warranted a mention in the presidential race. We’d just like to not be proactively supporting them.
What do you call indescrimate shooting at civilians in the hope to kill terrorists, the systematic displacement of civilians, the cutting off of crucial infrastructure and aid?
I’m pro-Palestine, I think what Israel is doing in Gaza is definitely a genocide, but seriously, what do you think would happen from a geopolitical standpoint if Biden said “yeah, I think the ICC is right, please stop this genocide Bibi”? The US can’t afford to lose Israel as an ally so it needs to be subtle.
The US can’t afford to lose Israel as an ally so it needs to be subtle.
Israel is not in any way a critical US ally. Their influence in the region is basically non-existent and their inclusion in our various Middle Eastern adventures would do more harm than good so they’re never asked. They’re a client state heavily dependent on US arms and diplomatic protection, not some highly desirable ally we need to carefully court.
This is not true. Israel is most certainly America’s crucial ally. Are American politicians funneling money into Israel (more so than any other country in history even ukraine) just for fun?
This is a sick way of thinking, that we would have allies in spite of them committing genocide, but neither is it new territory for the US. That said, what is the ‘realpolitik’ reason that we “can’t afford to lose Israel as an ally”?
Seriously, we already left Saudi Arabia get away with chopping up a journalist for a US publication for that reason. And have a base in Iraq. And ostensibly Pakistan is our ally. And Turkey is in NATO. How many allies do we need in that area? And why do they all have to be terrible?
Israel and the US share a lot of Intel and military technologies.
I’m not saying that the US shouldn’t ditch Israel - they should, but they need to undo a few ties first. People here expect it done in a few weeks and that won’t happen.
What terrorists? Israel legally speaking Israel does not have the right to defend itself. Oct 7 was a success MILITARY operation and no, mass rape and the other atrocity propaganda did not happen.
They may not have done the biggest atrocities that were rumored, but they still purposefully kidnapped civilians, which I’m pretty sure is a war crime.
Everyone in this thread worried because of how we handled the “last” pandemic… you should be more worried about how we’re handling the CURRENT pandemic you’ve been convinced is over because the rich people wanted you back in the office.
Covid is top 4 leading causes of death, makes you more susceptible to die from the top 3 causes, is disabling millions of people every year still, and destroys your immune system / Tcells similar to HIV. Aids wasnt discovered until around 10 years after people were first getting HIV
While “next” is technically correct, it’ll be far worse than Covid was/is.
Covid was our practice round and we failed.
Not only is Bird Flu orders of magnitude more deadly than Covid, people are so thoroughly sick of pandemic protocols that we’ll never get the kind of mask adoption we saw during Covid and even that was abysmal.
Employers will never allow people to work from home again if they can help it, they’re still Fighting to claw the rest back now.
I don’t know that it’s that dire. “More deadly” doesn’t mean a disease will kill more people. A virus or bacteria has to be infectious enough to spread quickly, not kill enough people that are infected to allow people to spread it without causing it to die with them, but still be deadly enough to be noteworthy. COVID ticked all of those boxes. Bird Flu might as well, if it becomes human-to-human transmissible (which seems more likely every day), but I guess we’ll see.
That's an interesting but grim point. Ebola, for example, is both very deadly and very infectious, but that combination means that outbreaks tend to burn out before spreading widely. One of the early things that scared me about COVID in late 2019 was the rumors of "asymptomatic spreading" that were coming out of China.
That wasn't the only "oh shit" thing about COVID and the way things were handled early on, but it was a bad one.
I hate that people try to lecture others on how bad the last pandemic was handled but they haven’t even understood this very basic and intuitive property of infectious diseases.
To me it’s just ridiculous to somehow speak for “rationality”, “facts” or “the science”, only to proceed to ignore basic facts and evidence and resort to fearmongering instead.
I saw a documentary on stuff like that. Happens regularly in some parts of Asia.
One example is a specific drink from a fruit, that can carry that virus. The only reason for that: bats liking those juicy water nuts as well and are on them, before harvesting. Wasn’t India I think… but yeah.
Given that it straight up says everyone infected has had close ties to the poultry industry, and a doctor who works at the farm in question is quoted in the article, I think its safe to assume the infected doctors are 1: not human medical doctors, and 2: worked at the farm.
Yep. I still worry about that fucking asshole’s pro-virus fan club, though. You just know they’ll go out of their way just to contract H5N1 and “prove” it’s just a cold. And they’ll die in droves again, taking Innocent people with them.
You mean the current one? The covid pandemic is still raging killing 2,000+ a month in the US alone and disabling millions a year. Its in the top 4 leading causes of death and makes you more susceptible to die from the top 3 causes
This is almost as bad as instead of being the son of an elected official you were actually the President of the United States after admitting on camera that you’ve sexually assaulted women, some married, or been caught on camera coked out partying with a pedophile.
Can’t find anything on Biden so go after his son. That’s classy folks, keep it up. Keep licking trumps a-hole. This country has gone to shit and you are part of the cause.
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