How about they move.out of the areas that Israel agrees are Palestine and into the areas they're less blatantly stealing for a start. Your interjection is nonsensical when Israelis are, right now, seizing more and more from the Palestinians. Why is this "Where do they go? 😞 " question relevant only now and only one way? No one asked that question when the Palestinians were displaced, and now they're just supposed to deal with that because it would suck for the colonizers to have to move back to where they came from? There are multigenerational refugees from Palestine, people whose parents and grandparents were also stateless refugees, and we're supposed to feel bad for settlers? Fuck off.

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always find it funny how hung up the media class has been on Keshoggi. Its a fairly intense bit of class solidarity I suppose. Like in terms of pointless and evil acts of the Saudi Arabia state it doesn't even rank but its seemingly the only thing journalists remember

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or call me when Russians start kidnapping children like the Americans did in..oh wait that's unique to Russia

What the actual fuck is wrong with you. The US has had policies of child kidnapping in every single war zone it's been in for the last 50 years.

How about when America stops using rape as a tactic in war..oh shit they did that a century ago but we are STILL WAITING FIR RUSSIA TO ABANDON RAPE AS A WAR TACTIC.

The evidence for this being a tactic that the Russians are using is that there is a lot of rape happening and that the Russian state does nothing to stop it. A measure by which of course the US has still not stopped either.

The US participated in a giant network of child trafficking for the purpose of child rape for decades in Afghanistan.

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guy dude pal it was already pointed out to you that he was the cause/excuse for the bill being watered down AND that the bil did not need his vote. Like it wasn't even close to needing his vote. It passed the senate with double digit votes.

You were also already given those examples of what the party could do.

You're doing a little thing called lying, and it's not very nice.

Again, if Joe Manchin is functionally a republican why does it matter if he loses? And Joe Manchin is unpopular in his own state, he's not a person who is uniquely equipped to hold the state. Like you're just gaslighting yourself into supporting a Republican.

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All my other points you ignored

Because they're nonsense dude. The senate majority only matters if the party in the senate actually votes as a unit and they don't.

including the $55 billion dollars infrastructure plan

Not only would it have passed without his vote, he was the reason/excuse for the infrastructure bill to be watered down as much as it was.

He contributes NOTHING to the Democratic party except an excuse to not fulfill their party platform.

You like the latest scotus judge? Senate.

Joe Manchin has openly said he will not vote for a Biden nominated SCOTUS candidate. What's left? What does he contribute to the Democratic party?

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Withdraw any party support from them, kick them from the party, and fund their opposition. The Democratic party can absolutely do this when they need to try and stamp out anyone to the left of the blue dogs.

West Virginia is extremely conservative and risking a seat can be quite dangerous when you are trying to govern against literal fascists

Before Shelley Capito got elected in 2015, the last time West Virginia had a republican senator was during the eisenhower administration. And if Manchin votes as a republican anyway why does it matter? Like he's straight up come out and said he won't vote for a Joe Biden pick for the supreme court.

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Joe Biden can be given credit for the actions of legislators, surely he must also take the blame. Biden's total inability to enforce any kind of party discipline is on him and the rest of the Democratic leadership.

It seems they also have a tendency to consider NATO as cartoons villains

If NATO did not want to be considered cartoon villains, they shouldn't be so cartoonishly evil.

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 114 points 1 year ago

Never get on board a helicopter, and never go on board a plane if you just pissed off a guy famous for offing his political enemies. Come on guy, that's politics 101.

The nazis hosted the olympics, no imperialist war has ever stopped the olympics from letting someone compete. Even in the worst possible interpretation of Russia's actions in Ukraine, barring them from the Olympics for it would be an entirely new precedent.

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