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Tinidril ,

I have a hunch that “working” would not exactly be a top priority.

Tinidril ,

He’s never even been all that funny. I’ve always seen his entire shtick as making fun of bad comedians through imitation.

Tinidril ,

Brain fart. My bad.

Tinidril ,

That’s how foreign policy works. When Biden has that “maybe” in hand it gives him more leverage over Netanyaho. As long as he avoids the most populated areas, it might not change to “definitely”. If it goes that way, US law says that weapon shipments end.

This is something that should have been done ages ago, but it is the right move. Cut off all support and Israel buddies up with China, India, or possibly even Russia. (The latter is becoming unlikely as Russia begins to unravel). Cut off some token support and use the rest for leverage and it works a lot better.

Biden did try this earlier with delays in small arms shipments, but that was way too subtle.

Tinidril ,

When did I say the US gives a rats ass about the Palestinians? Check your assumptions maybe? Palestinians have no strategic relevance to the US one way or the other. It is, however, inconvenient to be connected to a genocide. The conflict is also fucking up US plans to leave the Middle East to Israel and Saudi Arabia so it can focus on Africa. It really doesn’t want Israel’s actions bringing the rest of the region into the conflict.

BTW: Not that I would expect you to check, but I literally said exactly the same phrase about the US not giving a rats ass about Palestine.

There are three regional powers in the Middle East. The US has Israel and Saudi Arabia. Russia has Iran. You don’t think Russia would want to become dominant? You don’t think China has interests in the Middle East?

If you can’t see that Russia is no longer a top tier power, that explains a great deal.

Tinidril ,

Well yeah, it ain’t happening since the US ain’t cutting off all support for Israel. That is known and countries have shaped their strategies around it. The US abandoning Israel would be a table flipping event.

Russia would be importing weapons tech from Israel. Israel can’t come close to matching Russia on production volume, and Israel’s needs are a sliver of what Russia uses in Ukraine.

Tinidril ,

It’s a lot of things. Graft is rampant, especially in the upper levels of Russian government. Almost half of government spending goes to graft. That means that a lot of things don’t get done, or are done to lower standards. There has been massive flooding from failed infrastructure with tens of thousands of homes destroyed, and the government response has been almost non-existent.

Russia can’t control their airspace so pretty much every day Ukrainian drones destroy another oil refinery. These make great targets because they supply a lot of the boom themselves and because Russia needs western tech to rebuild them. So far it’s down 14% of capacity, and Russia doesn’t seem to have a solution.

Morale among Russian troops is non-existent with many incidents of soldiers “fragging” superiors, and “barrier” troops ordered to fire on retreating storm troops. Men are being sent in with ridiculously bad equipment just to soak up bullets. US estimates are that Russia’s losses are around 90% of the original invading force. Much of Russia’s military is back filled with inexperienced conscripts. There are reports of pilots sabotaging their own planes to keep from flying suicide missions, and of course the whole Wagner fiasco.

There is a lot more that could be said, but I don’t want to write a book here.

Tinidril ,

What does “left” have to do with it? Is it only leftists who object to genocide?

The number of voters dumb enough to switch from Biden to Trump is insignificant. What’s going to happen is a whole lot of voters are just going to give up and stay home, and it won’t have anything to do with how far left they are.

Just like every damn election, the left is telling the establishment how to attract voters, the establishment is ignoring the left, then the establishment will blame the left. The vast majority of those engaged enough to call themselves leftists are going to vote for Biden. It’s the barely engaged working Americans who are going to check out.

Tinidril ,

They don’t get called antisemitic, they get called “self hating Jews”.

Tinidril ,

It’s really not. US long term strategy is to disengage from the Middle East to focus on bringing freedom™ to Africa. The plan is to leave Israel and Saudi Arabia to babysit, which is what the ill-fated Abraham Accords were for from a US perspective. The US doesn’t give a rats ass about the Palestinians, but being implicated in a genocide is inconvenient.

Tinidril ,

Gawd, it’s exhausting how many people just lock into the bullshit frame of mainstream news.

Try to understand this please. Most Americans don’t give a shit about left vs right politics. They give a shit about their kids, or the mortgage, or figuring out that issue that has there boss turning weird shades of purple.

The tiny sliver of Americans that are politically astuit enough to even realize that they are leftists are not what swings elections. This is exactly as dumb as the Republican delusion that it’s poor brown people fucking them over.

It’s the same tired bullshit every single damn election. Leftists tell the establishment how to rouse working Americans. The establishment ignores the left and loses. The establishment blames the left. Rince and repeat.

Tinidril ,

That doesn’t explain the city/rural divide though. It could well be that listening to reactionary right wing rhetoric leads to an enlarged amygdala.

Tinidril ,

I’m not sure there is a distinction of kind between trauma and listening to right wing media.

Tinidril ,

At least I get to live in the US where the right to protest is protected. /s

Tinidril ,

I’m not a tankie, and it’s not a good thing, but this isn’t exactly a great time for the US to puff it’s chest out about our right to protest and protections for whistle blowers.

Tinidril ,

Has anyone heard about FISA being expanded?

Tinidril ,

I see you’ve been relying on the mainstream news narrative. There was nothing illegal about the protests until after the police started cracking down.

Then there was UCLA where pro-Israel counter protesters were dragging protesters out and beating them with sticks while an army of cops half a block away stood around with their thumbs up their asses.

It’s the neoliberal way to keep protesting legal while making it all but impossible to actually do so without breaking some minor law. Then the police come in huge numbers with riot gear, rubber bullets, and chemical agents that aren’t even legal in a warzone. Suddenly it’s a “violent” protest.

Neoliberals are always on the side of the protesters starting about 10 years after the protests are over. Until then they always wring their hands and whine about how the protest was done. This is all the exact shit they said about every protest of the civil rights movement.

Tinidril ,

By referring to “tankies” it was already an implied comparison between Cuba and more western democracies, and this is the Midwest instance. Accusations of “Whataboutism” are way overdone.

Tinidril ,

First of all, I never said it was. Second, the results are not that far off, it just looks different. Don’t forget that there are states where it’s now explicitly legal to drive over protesters, and I already mentioned protesters getting beaten with sticks while the police stood by and watched. The US has just privatized much of the oppression.

Tinidril ,

Also, if you have any evidence of an actual crime happening before police crackdowns start, I’d live to see it. (Not something lame like loitering). If you think I’m biased, then show me I’m wrong.

Tinidril ,

The big oil corporations have been busy buying up all the competing charging networks, so that much tracks.

Tinidril ,

For all the carnage that’s happened and all the carnage that’s about to happen, we need to (rhetorically) beat the neoliberals over the head for the 2020 primary. I don’t know if Bernie could have stopped any of this, but at least our hands would be clean. Fuck the notion that neoliberals are somehow “good enough”. They throw us a bone from time to time, but ultimately the only thing they are capable of generating in the long term is absolute disaster.

Tinidril ,

LOL, like Congress isn’t complicit. The Republicans are fully behind Israel starting WW3 to bring Jesus back, and Democrats are split, but will never impeach Biden over it.

I have no idea what to do about Biden, but an impeachment over this is a fantasy. The 2020 primary was our shot, and we blew it. The Biden presidency will be what it will be, but we can’t let Democratic voters forget their failure. Neoliberalism will end, or it will end us. It might already have done so, but time will tell.

Tinidril ,

I’m almost certain that Harris was the establishment’s first choice in 2020, but the only time she generated any support at all was when she went after Biden for racist bussing policy. They couldn’t throw it to her, so they picked Biden and gave her the VP spot. I honestly doubt Biden has a whole lot of say in the matter. It was probably part of the deal when they had the rest of the establishment candidates abruptly drop out and endorse Biden. I don’t think the establishment has given up on Harris yet.

Tinidril ,

The same cell might be even better.

Tinidril ,

She was certainly on the “acceptable” list. Then Biden turned around and called for increased police funding. They are clowns.

The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system.

It’s easy not to trust a system associated with charging you $500 for Tylenol. Much easier (and occasionally even safer) to just smell some lavender and hope that helps. Go to an ED and you could just die of a stroke or heart attack in the waiting room or even get run over by somebody who died of a heart attack while driving...

Tinidril ,

Just wait for what’s coming. The ACA set us up for monetization of healthcare on steroids, and it’s just about to hit critical mass. I think anyone engaged with the healthcare system today can see the enshitification accelerating.

For just a sampling of what’s to come, there is a projected shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036. It seems like doctors aren’t interested in joining the rest of us in working for slave wages to benefit Wall Street.

Tinidril ,

Or go to work at an insurance company denying claims. It’s better money and less hassle.

Residency is almost just a hazing ritual for gatekeeping . I honestly don’t think it makes doctors better. However, residency is not new, but the building doctor shortage is. My primary care physician of 20 years just retired early because the corporation that bought out his office was pushing him to take so many patients for such little compensation that it just wasn’t worth it.

Tinidril ,

I might put it more violently, but… Yes.

Tinidril ,

As bad as FISA is, it at least has the value of hindering Russian intelligence. Democrats took the poison of the neoliberal elites, and Republicans took the position of Russia and Putin. Neither party is fully aware that the rest of America even exists.

Tinidril ,

Please, can we not go to war on behalf of Israeli fascists? Please?

Tinidril ,

Despite being born into money, he managed to take on so much risk that it society had to bail him out. Even so, I’m certain that his net worth after bankruptcy was significantly higher than the vast majority in gen-z.

Tinidril ,

We are effectively in an information war with Russia, and that’s really driving up the trolling. Not that every troll is a Russian bot, but they are really driving the trend and giving inspiration to terrible people. A lot of it is also laundered garbage from anarcho-capitalist “think tanks”.

Tinidril ,

It’s mostly about right-wing virtue signaling.

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Tinidril ,

It’s been a staple rhetorical strategy for fascists to both be entirely serious and “totally joking” with the same exact statements. It allows them to consistently push the boundaries of acceptable prejudice while always having a fall-back. “You took that seriously!?!?”.

Tinidril ,

That’s awesome. They had no significant development costs and still racked up a $15m loss in the last year. Yep, definitely a Trump enterprise.

Tinidril ,

Well sure, but I could provide a platform for Nazis and conmen for a hell of a lot less than $15m/year in operating costs.

Tinidril ,

Some version of Jesus absolutely existed, since is was a pretty common name. Street preachers were not uncommon either, so it’s very possible that there was one named Jesus.

The real debate about whether Jesus existed is whether any of the biblical stories are at all accurate. There is No reason to think they are.

Tinidril ,

“Jesus” is a Latin translation of a Greek translation of the Hebrew name Yeshua so, yes, “Jesus” wasn’t literally a common name in Israel. It was actually Yeshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ,) that was a common name.

Tinidril ,

Except they were two different claims. “Some guy named Jesus existed”, and “Some guy named Jesus was a street preacher”.

Tinidril ,

The amount of weapons Israel actually needs is miniscule compared to something like the war in Ukraine. Russia is currently producing around 250k artillery shells per month. Munitions used in Gaza are measured in the hundreds over the entire conflict.

Tinidril ,

Yet Ukraine has been successfully armed by the west, so it’s clearly manageable. The scale between Ukraine and Israel/Gaza is also a huge difference.

The one thing that Russia couldn’t replace would be the iron dome. I’ll agree that’s no small thing.

Tinidril ,

You might be absolutely right. All I’m talking about is maximizing the leverage the US has. That’s no guarantee that it’s enough leverage to control Netanyaho.

Tinidril ,

Maybe it’s a reaction to the ignorant self righteous ignorant fury that’s been flooding every discussion on Palestine for months. That kind of mass delusion doesn’t respond to carefully parsed polite responses. In any case, I’ve gotten tired of pretending it’s not idiotic.

Tinidril ,

When someone says that an abstention from a vote is “kissing Netanyaho’s ass”, it seems pretty apparent that the consider a lack of a yes vote as a moral failing.

Tinidril ,

How did you get from a vote on a particular wording of a particular resolution to “not supporting Israel”? Where did I say that anyone said the revolution would “fix everything”?

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Tinidril ,

It’s actually a pretty liberal court that made the ruling.

Tinidril ,

Start putting together a leadership team for as new American rebellion, and at least one out of every ten recruits will be a fed.

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