Oh! I love Angela Davis!
That said, what a fucking weird world where she and Dick "Fuck You" Cheney are on the same side-- and somehow it's still a toss-up election.
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Ah, a Marxist who has taken actual lessons from past failings of those who adhere to the ideology. How refreshing.
“But genocide!” - Dude, it’s gonna be genocide either way. Voting for a third party or abstaining entirely isn’t going to change that.
But it could be a slightly less painful genocide if Kamala is in charge. Why not help make things marginally better?
You're a monster. "A slightly less painful genocide"? Do you hear yourself?
The reality is there are only two choices. Which will you choose?
US libs value Americans© lifes more than us nonyanks. Well I'm ever asked the same question, I will not show any solidarity with them. I hope you guys get the civil war you started in so many foreign countries.
So no actual answer then?
That's more of a general human trait than an American one. Yes, Americans are very fond of their exceptionalism, but valuing the lives of your own tribe and kin more than those of others is something most mammals share. I dont want war anywhere in the world. I hope you have a nice day.
Then please write your politician to tell them to force netanyahu to calm his tits.
My gf have friends in lebannon. She have friends from gaza. She hurts.
Please?
I've done so, Peter Welch is solidly against genocide and Bernie Sanders is trying congressional wizardry to try and cut off arms shipments.
Yeah you guys have been trying for a year now. Maybe stop trying and do something.
Dude, I understand that America is fucking awful right now but don't bullshit about shit you don't understand... Some people are just paying lip service or stalling but Bernie is really fucking trying.
I know he is mate but I do not believe the US governement will lift the pinky.
Admitting gaza is a ghetto would be admitting putting indians in reserves wasn't cool either
That's exactly the problem, no one can force Netanyahu to do anything. He's complety off his rocker. He's doing everything to stay in power, because the moment he's not, the courts will go after him. That's why he's trying to appease both those pushing for peace (Yes, I actually mean Biden here) and the warmongers (Israeli right wingers). Notice how he hasn't gotten all the hostages back? That's on purpose. The longer the war goes on, the better for him. Now, who do you rather want in the White House next year? A feeble old man who will go along with everything Bibi says? Or an experienced prosecutor who can put her foot down?
I'm sorry for your friends. They need to leave, now. If war came to my doorstep, that's what I would do.
Please. When the serbs did genocide the NATO bombed Belgrade. Kadhaffi was gone in a week. You're telling me the US doesn't have leverage against Israel? Come on now. Quit giving them weapons otherwise you guys are complicit, as simple as that.
I'd love to. Alas, all political power vested in me is in the form of a ballot. And I've already voted not to make the situation worse.
That's bullshit. That line of thinking makes you complicit with the atrocities committed in your name.
Voting is absolutely not the only way to make your voice heard. Quite the opposite. You ate the carrot, you're still obeying the farmer.
In my name? The only atrocities commited in my name are the ones I committed myself. And I certainly wouldn't call those atrocities.
Sure, I can go out and protest, which I do.
All right my friend Im sorry for lashing out at you. Take care of yourself <3
You too. I think we both spend too much time in internet comments. We should get out more ❤️
Yes we should. How are the protests? I heard they were cracking down hard on campuses in the US.
That's the great thing. I can vote without having to actually live in the US.
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People who say "Kamela Harris supports genocide!" keep forgetting Trump literally put the Israeli Embassy in Jerusalem and wants to nuke everything...
I randomly remembered that Ben Shapiro claimed multiple times that radiation was a myth liberals made up to get people to not use nukes.... These Right Wingers are crazy
America supports genocide. The political situation there is just accidental.
I hope they pay one day.
The yanks are crazy. Fix your goddamn country. Every four years you pick between the carrot and the stick and then proceed with the exact same external policy. You guys sucks ass. The angry part of me hopes for a civil war in the US. After all the time you coup'ed foreign countries, it would be a nice find-out moment.
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“But when you reach that level,” nominee of one of the two major parties, “you have to be the face of capitalism, militarism, and neo-colonialism.” Harris, Fernandez warned, “has told us she will be that face, that she will build the most lethal military apparatus ever.”
Shit's bleak
As dangerous as that reality is, however, she said, “There’s more to think about: Harris is not a fascist, and the other person running for president is.”
You forgot part of the quote.
The man who appointed Hitler wasn't a fascist.
Naive to expect Americans to know this. Or that "the man who appointed Hitler" was, despite formalities, a military dictator, and that the political opposition there got its share of extrajudicial executions, and political violence was normalized there before any kind of election success of Nazis. People don't like looking into details.
That the whole narrative of "good democracy turning fascist" in post-WWI Germany is bullshit - it wasn't really democracy.
But it was similar to most of the "flawed democracies" on our planet in our time, for which the narrative is that it's some new thing uncommon in history before USSR's breakup. So that narrative was intended to divert attention from similarities between Weimar Germany and those very profitable (for corrupt western politicians) partners.
But getting back to your parallel, it's correct. Kamala Harris is the "law & order & respectable establishment" type. She doesn't even promise solutions to actual problems, only to some symptoms, and those solutions seem like making fun of the general population.
Yeah he got democratically elected after he sent the brown shirt to intimidate everybody else and burned the parliement /s
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I didn't forget it, shit's still bleak
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She's someone I really want to deep dive, but I have never taken the time. Her monologue that begins at 1:24 minutes into this clip was my first exposure to her and I love that moment when you realize these awful examples she's citing are not just awful in their own right, but that they drive home her undeniable point at the end, in response to what sounds like it was a bullshit question.
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