queermunist

queermunist , 2 months ago

A Gallup poll at the end of April found that 27% of Americans view immigration as the most important issue facing the country, topping the economy and inflation.

Piss off your own base to appeal to less than a third of the electorate that isn’t going to vote for you anyway.

queermunist , 2 months ago

The part of the base that this anti-immigration move will anger is the same part of the base that’s already angry about the genocide.

It’s like he’s trying to piss them off specifically and as much as possible.

queermunist , 2 months ago

He doesn’t seem to care about people’s concerns over the genocide. He picks and chooses which concerns he addresses.

queermunist , 2 months ago

It’s not like the Dem base will switch their votes to Trump.

Treating them like guaranteed votes is going to result in people staying home. It’s bad strategy.

queermunist , 2 months ago

Yes I’m sure he’s not just doing this on a whim, but we’ll see how this pays off in November.

If he loses it’s his fault alone.

queermunist , 2 months ago

Also a they’re a lot less restrictive to asylum seekers.

The OP is about an executive order to crack down on asylum seekers.

queermunist , 2 months ago

Infinitely worse? Try somewhat worse.

They’re not nearly as different as they should be.

queermunist , 2 months ago

Cynicism. A majority of Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza. 55% disapprove to 36% approve.

If this goes on until November it will only get worse, but Biden doesn’t care.

queermunist , 2 months ago

Progressively doing genocide.

queermunist , 2 months ago

If you don’t donate to Biden’s campaign and Trump wins, you are culpable. 🙃

queermunist , 3 months ago

If Israel is not defeated we will never uncover the true death toll. We’ll only be able to make estimates and inferences.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Why do you think they’d even want to?

queermunist , 3 months ago

It’s our laboratory for new mass surveillance and border control technology.

It’s our training ground for LEOs, FBI, ICE, ect. who literally go to Israel to learn urban warfare tactics.

It’s our unsinkable aircraft carrier in the most oil rich region in the world.

It’s our shield of plausible deniability when we want to act against our enemies without drawing backlash at home or abroad.

Israel really is the gift that keeps on giving!

queermunist , 3 months ago

Notice how CBS calls it a “displaced persons camp” and not a refugee camp.

queermunist , 3 months ago

No idea, some kind of… concentrated camp of persons?

queermunist , 3 months ago

Yeah, to be fair they do say “Israeli airstrike” and not something ambiguous like “blast”

queermunist , 3 months ago

Too busy blowing up refugees to target artillery.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Why is Biden making it easier for Trump to get reelected?

queermunist , 3 months ago

He could choose to do what his supporters want him to do, but he won’t. A majority of Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza. A majority of US voters want a permanent ceasefire. The numbers are even more stark among his own base. There’s no constituency for this genocide unless he’s trying to win over Trump’s base.

queermunist , 3 months ago

I just posted polls that clearly show the opposite.

If he lets Israel drag us into WW3 he will certainly lose in a landslide. If he does what Reagan did and force Israel to back down, he’ll maybe lose some support from hardcore Zionists (who are mostly Republicans anyway) but he’ll gain back a lot more from the majority of Americans that oppose this genocide.

People like me.

I’m not voting for genocide and you have no one to blame for that but Biden. Deal with it.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Biden is doing genocide. We’re already in Hitlertown.

This November is a choice between polite Hitler and rude Hitler. If you vote for this, the Democratic Party is going to learn one lesson: they can kill as many children as they want and not lose a single vote i.e. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” If Blue MAGA wins, they will put me in a camp and you will vote for it because the other party would be ‘worse.’

queermunist , 3 months ago

I am not speaking in hyperbole!

Biden is already cracking down on peaceful protesters who support Palestinians, it isn’t much of a stretch to start going after people more broadly. Biden has already "put every single university and college president on notice,” and Republican congressional members are doing McCarthyist witch hunts.

If you actually pay attention, the stuff Trump says he’s going to do is already happening.

By the time we get to the election it’s already going to be much worse than it’s already gotten, and you will vote for it.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Examples of the hundreds of people being rounded up at dozens of pro-Palestine protests? I suppose Biden has plausible deniability here since he’s not sending in National Guard, but these are cities controlled by Democrats in states controlled by Democrats at schools predominantly supporting Democrats. With as heavily armed our cops are in this fascist country they don’t need National Guard to crack down anymore.

queermunist , 3 months ago

I think we can blame the planet for being born. 😤

queermunist , 3 months ago

Who could have seen this coming?!

queermunist , 3 months ago

Not only does blue MAGA want me to vote for genocide, they want me to vote for genocide denial and the destruction of international law.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Blue MAGA isn’t the mummy. It’s the Party.

What do you think happens if Democrats, as a Party, know they can always just use the boogeyman to scare us into voting for them?

If you vote for blue MAGA the Party will realize they can kill anyone they want and you’ll still vote for them. Who’s next on the menu?

First they came…

queermunist , 3 months ago

There has to be a limit or Democrats can just do whatever they want, because you’ll always vote for them. Hence, blue MAGA. That’s a cult.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Why would Democrats fix anything? They can just use the threat of Republicans to get reelected. Fixing things is not in their interests, because you will vote for them even if they don’t fix anything at all.

queermunist , 3 months ago

I didn’t say that he didn’t do anything. I said he doesn’t need to do anything. Even if he did literally nothing at all you would still vote for him. You are a completely captured voter, you have no choice but to support the Party. They have you hostage and you love it.

Also this graphic is misleading. The three that jumped out at me:

Forcing police to wear body cameras is good, but the number of fatal police shootings has only gone up under Biden’s term in office. In fact, even though the Washington Post’s Fatal Force database has shown fatal shootings have increased, fewer fatal police shootings are recorded by the federal government every year. These fatalities are being covered up, despite the cameras.

Stopping the Keystone XL pipeline is good, but oil production hit a record under Biden. He stopped one highly visible project to satisfy protesters and continued to put us on the path to global catastrophe while people were looking away.

He “secured the border” by reaching across the isle to pass fascist legislation so he can keep putting kids in cages. He doesn’t seperate families, so now they all get to sit together in cramped prison conditions as the number of detentions has soared. You think this is a good thing? This one really pisses me off, what Biden is doing to migrants and asylum seekers is as bad as Trump ever was.

Don’t get your political news from memes.

queermunist , 3 months ago

I’m voting Dem in the downticket races, I’m just writing Aaron Bushnell in for President.

If Democrats think they can kill anyone they want and get away with it then they will. They’re only a lesser evil because they think they need to be to win over voters. If they realize they can be as evil as they want, why would they ever stop?

queermunist , 3 months ago

I’m trans. I’m not going to vote for other people’s genocide just to maybe protect myself.

But will we be protected? If my red state decides to forcibly detransition me in Biden’s second term he wouldn’t do shit about it.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Your claim Trump’s genocide will be “much” worse ring hollow, because you must realize Democrats will look at the election results and realize they need to obstruct Trump’s genocide or face even more losses in 2026. Democrats will become the resistance again, instead of being complicit collaborators.

queermunist , 3 months ago

First they came for the Palestinians and you won’t speak out, because you are not Palestinian.

queermunist , 3 months ago

🤡

Israel has killed hundreds of times more children than Russia has in Ukraine. It’s the deadliest conflict for children in the modern world.

queermunist , 3 months ago

This genocide is only possible because of our government’s logistical, technical, and financial support. It’s only possible because we protect Israel from its neighbors, who would have long since intervened if it wouldn’t put them into conflict with the US. Israel is the 51st State, what happens there is possible only because of us.

Furthermore, Foucault’s Boomerang always comes home! Palestine is where we test border technology, policing tactics, facial recognition software, military AI, new weapons and defenses, and methods of political repression. We send our actual police there for training! IDF come over here to teach tactics to us! They’re talking about giving Americans that serve in Israel full veterans benefits! We are not safe.

You think you’re safe? This will come back for both of us, the things learned in Palestine will be applied to us when it’s our turn. It’ll start at the border, then come to the cities, and before you know it they’ll come for you too. That’s what that phrase is supposed to be warning us of, take your head out of the sand. The empire always comes home.

queermunist , 3 months ago

I’m complicit! If I had an ounce of courage I’d do something that matters, not fucking post. I’m crushed by my guilt. Why aren’t you?

When our time comes, no one will be left to speak out for you.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Things that make you go 🤔

queermunist , 3 months ago

Nothing to see here.

queermunist , 3 months ago

That was about the time we started hearing about bird flu infecting seals, wasn’t it? Seems like marine mammals were the bridge species, and then it went from them to cows.

The next jump might be ferrets or mink (I remember from COVID that they have very similar respiratory systems to humans). Or it might just jump over them right to morons drinking raw milk I guess.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Imagine not just being a refugee, but one that has to keep running and can never settle down anywhere. Forced to become nomadic, essentially.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Does this impact those Americans at all? Or is this a victimless crime?

queermunist , 3 months ago

Israel will use this as an excuse to reduce the number of trucks coming in to zero.

queermunist , 3 months ago

It’s about fucking time.

queermunist , 3 months ago

They about to find out the only reason people don’t use Linux is because Windows is ‘convenient.’

queermunist , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Pweeeze give us more money, we’re soooooo far behind! 👉 👈

queermunist , 3 months ago

We don’t have time for this shit 😒

queermunist , 3 months ago

If we don’t see it, how do you know he’s going hard on diplomacy? Is giving Israel more fucking weapons to kill children “diplomacy”?