They're trying to get a specific guy fired. Focusing on the bigger picture doesn't accomplish that.
Nothing accomplishes that. We can't even stop them from killing people on our own soil.
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They're trying to get a specific guy fired. Focusing on the bigger picture doesn't accomplish that.
Nothing accomplishes that. We can't even stop them from killing people on our own soil.
Police brutality in the US has only gone up since the Black Lives Matter protests began
There is no viable party that is against the military industrial complex.
If you take a step back and look at the Democrats and Republicans, they agree and overlap on far more many issues than they differ. Indeed, in the context of a lot of foreign governments, both of our parties would be considered dangerously right-wing. Yet, there's no serious opposition in the US, as you say.
The issue has been falsely bifurcated in the USA where looking elsewhere is "throwing your vote away". Yet, without an alternative party, there are many problems in the USA which are just non-starters, like pacifism. Totally unthinkable under either party's operational guidelines.
“God is the Greatest. Death to America. Death to Israel. Curse be upon the Jews. Victory for Islam” -The Houthi Militia Slogan
I agree we need a new opposition party but it cannot be lead by the kinds of clowns who are so poorly educated that they think that the Houthi are the victims here. Those racist assclowns started the civil war that has been killing Yemenis for years now. Even Iran is telling them to stop attacking ships.
Yeah but you know "whatabout ..."
Apparently two things cannot be bad at the same time.
For other parties to spring up, we need to get ballot initiatives going in every state to move away from First Past the Post voting. This only requires getting enough signatures for a ballot initiative in about half of the states, for the other half, writing to your representatives and senators can make a difference. It’s not a fruitless effort either as Alaska and Maine both have managed to move away from First Past the Post voting, which is the main limiting factor preventing other political parties from springing up.
Ranked robin voting, STAR voting, score voting, and even Ranked Choice voting are better than First Past the Post for allowing better representation.
we need to get ballot initiatives going in every state to move away from First Past the Post voting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
Americans will look at the gerrymandering, the voter caging, the militant policing of minority voting districts, the Brooks Brothers Riots, Operation Eagle Eye, the SAVE Act, the dismantling of ACORN, the people getting snatched up off the street and disappeared to an El Salvadorian slave camp...
And they'll think to themselves "If we just changed our ballot to use a ranked scoring model, we could have avoided all of this."
why would they, %90 of democrats also think that Israel is just conducting military operations against terrorists and not mass slaughtering civilians or destroying civil areas as a part of their genocide and ethnic cleansing plan
According to Israeli polls, Dems support of israel is about 33%. Gallup polls say Democrat 21% compared to Republican 75%.
Total support of Israel in the USA is 46% and support of a two state solution is 55% with only 31% opposed and 14% no opinion. Independents and Republicans both have more favorable views of Israel than Democrats. As for support of an independent Palestinian state, despite being contradictory with the previous poll question, Democrats are in favor at 76% compared with 53% of independents and 41% of Republicans support a Palestinian state but 49% opposed.
Despite this, the Republican administration is supporting a Single State Solution in which Israel takes all, just as they did in the previous Trump administration.
Trust me, no other cultures saw those messages and thought about the incompetent opsec. They saw how Americans slay with accompanying emojis and not a single mention of the indiscriminate collateral human lives. Not as if they are concerned even about the optics. Just no mention. Not internal. Not external. Nothing. The human rights considerations are not evaded or even acknowledged. The conventions of war, even what the other nations might say, nothing. Operating anywhere in the world with emoticon decorated executions. It is notable for the rest of the world. This is the extent of the mercy of the few. Those that decide who lives. That the native opposition's persecution and domestic news coverage is exclusively over how it was leaked.. It is not something you can ignore when it can be you at any moment. And soon, Americans themselves will piece by piece learn that it could be them too. That fear means control. To be subject to this arrogance towards life will hopefully get a few of the sofa. God bless her and him that dare, the world is watching you hang in the balance. The well-being of your children and loved ones comes to question and at that point some of us will be forever immortalised, either for feeding or defying the wolves of this eerily completely broadcasted fascist cycle.
123 Murdered so far...
We need to burn the slaver's constitution and replace it with a modern document if anything.
They've observed that being anti-war didn't work, so they switched tactics. You want them to keep beating the same dead horse?
They've observed that being anti-war didn't work, so they switched tactics.
When, in 1980? Because that's the last time the Dem leadership was antiwar and a SHITLOAD has changed in the 45 years since.
You want them to keep beating the same dead horse?
The dead horse they've been beating is unconditional support of a fascist apartheid regime, which was one of the big reasons why they lost to the most unpopular presidential candidate in history the second time.
Another case of equine carcass abuse that cost them is their insistence on "considered voting for the GOP but might not" is the most important demographic and their stubbornly ignoring their own base and stated principles as a result.
When the hell did the Democrats ever try being anti-war? Are you talking about George McGovern in 1972? Because they've been rabid hawks for as long as I've been alive.
Anti-war coalition is what gave Democrats a solid majority to Obama. He kept at the wars and eroded the coalition until the RNC could field Trump and win.
There are literally several opposition parties who feel like this. They will never get power because of the first past the post voting system and this particular stance can be so easily argued as anti American that if this is all you have to run on, you’re screwed because we have Trump to deal with and destroying party unity for this would help him.
2016 called they want their propaganda back
I'm not voting for Neoliberals anymore. No matter how much they try to guilt me.
Sorry.
They have had 50 years of control and have only helped push our society further twoards the right and fascism.
If the Neoliberals want to vote with the leftists this time that's fine, but they have proven they are impotent leaders.
This is something the evangelicals understand that the left doesn't. Politicians are tools. You use the best available tool to do the job.
They're using Trump to get what they want.
You're proposing we build a tool factory on a ten year timeline to build a better tool, and until then we just do fuck all.