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If the Israeli war crimes would stop, then there would be no need for Lebanon to attack.
If the Israeli war crimes would stop, then there would be no need for Lebanon to attack.
By “surprise” I assume you mean a capital-friendly, poorly implemented solution that does not solve the underlying problem. All of your examples illustrate this.
The first black president was a war criminal who enacted a right wing agenda.
Gay marriage is likely to be overturned by our billionaire-owned, unaccountable Supreme Court.
Legal marijuana is a patchwork- the best states have inefficient and nonsensical cannabis regulations, and the worst states still have inhumane, draconian punishment.
Despite the small amount of forgiveness, the total amount of student loans owed is rising. Currently we are at a record high of $1.75 trillion in debt.
And as for universal healthcare, the number of uninsured and underinsured keeps rising. The number of deaths due to lack of access keeps rising. And there are many people, like myself, who have had their lives destroyed by medical bankruptcy. The entire system is designed to maximize profit, patient health is a secondary concern.
For any other country, state dept reports like this have to clear before we start shipping weapons.
But for Israel, the Biden administration carves out exceptions and delays the reporting so the illegal weapons shipments can continue.
This is the banality of evil, Palestinian children are starving and exploding and we are arguing over reports.
This is why Biden has earned the moniker “Genocide Joe”.
Civil war? Not even close.
Outright corruption? Business interests have always ruled the country, this is not new.
The bigger picture is that America is the most violent country since Nazi Germany. No other country comes close to our death toll. We spend $1trillion each year on violence and weapons- and those bombs must be dropped, because we need a reason to spend >$1trillion next year.
A huge round of layoffs as he pushes for a $56 billion dollar pay package is no surprise.
Theres this conflict of interest when a person only gets paid in giant stock options. His job isn’t to make cars or manage a profitable business, his job is stock market manipulation.
And the pro-business, deregulatory financial hellscape we all inhabit makes his job very easy.
…Look in the mirror: The horror, the horror! The butt of your M-16 on my cheekbone The yellow patch it left The bullet-shaped scar expanding Like a swastika, Snaking across my face, The heartache flowing Out of my eyes dripping Out of my nostrils piercing My ears flooding The place. Like it did to you 70 years ago Or so.
I am just you. I am your past haunting Your present and your future. I strive like you did. I fight like you did. I resist like you resisted And for a moment, I’d take your tenacity As a model, Were you not holding The barrel of the gun Between my bleeding Eyes.
…The very same gun The very same bullet That had killed your Mom And killed your Dad Is being used, Against me, By you.
Mark this bullet and mark in your gun. If you sniff it, it has your and my blood. It has my present and your past. It has my present. It has your future. That’s why we are twins, Same life track Same weapon Same suffering Same facial expressions drawn On the face of the killer, Same everything Except that in your case The victim has evolved, backward, Into a victimizer. I tell you. I am you. Except that I am not the you of now.
I do not hate you. I want to help you stop hating And killing me. I tell you: The noise of your machine gun Renders you deaf The smell of the powder Beats that of my blood. The sparks disfigure My facial expressions. Would you stop shooting? For a moment? Would you?
All you have to do Is close your eyes (Seeing these days Blinds our hearts.) Close your eyes, tightly So that you can see In your mind’s eye. Then look into the mirror. One. Two. I am you. I am your past. And killing me, You kill you.
Sorry to be pessimistic. Voting local is a good thing, but I just dont see how local elections could ever add up to large systemic change that we agree is necessary. There is no way to vote out the military industrial complex.
What else is there to do? I think broad-based protest movements, like the moment for Palestinian liberation that we are watching today, have a shot at changing things. It’s a long shot though - the same forces that crushed George Floyd, Occupy Wallstreet, anti-WTO, etc. will be back again with their winning tactics.
Overall I think our best hope is with organized labor. Join a union or create one.
But the roots of the compromised DNC are its corporate donors, not your choice of county commissioner. How do you suggest we actually tear it out by the roots?
Hamas would be in a far superior negotiating position if the released hostages were saying that they were treated kindly and cared for
You should read the accounts of released hostages then, many of them have publically stated they were treated kindly.
This horrific recounting of captivity and rape is an outlier.
I dont understand why Israel, deeply reliant on US military assistance for its defense, also routinely humiliates the US in public.
They are busy drawing up plans for their new beachfront condo in Gaza.
I’m not trying to say Jesus was a pacifist, but all of those quotes are Old Testament, written centuries before Jesus supposedly existed…
Declassified documents show that former presidents like Reagan and JFK were on extreme cocktails of drugs.
Trump famously had that pic showing his oval office desk drawer full of Ephedrine (the good EU kind, not pseudo)
I would be utterly shocked if Biden was drug free.
But does it matter? Biden’s energy level and coherence were well above expectations.
It’s hard to imagine what it feels like to watch your newborn baby starve to death.
It’s hard to imagine the desperation, the sorrow, the helplessness.
It’s hard to imagine the rage, the impotence, the desire for justice and revenge.
Its hard to imagine that Hamas will ever run out of new recruits.
Imagine the returns if that wealth was invested in education and healthcare instead of yachts and empty luxury housing.
It’s not racist to be aware of the fact that the US supported the Taliban after the fall of the Mujaheddin.
The Taliban were US-backed and US-funded long before 9/11.
Sanctions are just a tool, they can be used for good things (as you mentioned) but also bad things.
I think sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine are valid. I think sanctions against Cuba are unjustifiable and a crime against humanity. I think sanctions against North Korea are justified given the actions of the Kim regime. But the sanctions also perpetuate the problem by punishing and isolating the innocent NK populace.
Sanctions are an act of war, they should never be used lightly.
Also using sanctions, no matter how valid the reason, has been shown to significantly deteriorate human rights in the targeted country.
Depends how you measure “safety”.
Here in the US life expectancy is declining.
I can’t afford a home, healthcare, or retirement. My parents generation could.
Climate change is doing significant damage, and it’s just getting started.
But yeah, I’m less likely to be murdered. I got that going for me, which is nice.
Literal genocide denial.
May these 269 monsters get the fate they deserve.