During Tuesday’s hearing, Gabbard told Warner that the Signal thread didn’t share any classified information but refused to share its contents, or even admit that she was on the chain.
“If it’s not classified, share the texts now,” Warner told Gabbard. “Share it with the committee. You can’t have it both ways. These are important jobs. This is our national security.”
Bitch, we can smell the bullshit 500 miles away.
Wow that’s dramatic.
How is criticism a “lack of empathy”?
Egypt and Japan, but I won’t recommend the former. Japan is run by a bunch of conservative fuckwats don’t get me wrong, but they’re Reagan-era fiscal responsibility conservative fuckwats, not ethnostate conservative fuckwats (probably because Japan is already an ethnostate, but likely also because Japan refuses to evolve beyond the 80s).
It’s… not. Right now people will follow whoever promises to do things and then follows through on that promise. If liberals aren’t willing to be that (and they’re not), people will simply abandon liberals, but there must first be someone willing to publicly attack liberals and steal their base. This has happened before (see: 1917 Russia).
You literally admitteded to wanting to be wasteful. So it’s not dramatic to point out that over time, if all you do is wasteful things with your life, then it’s been a wasteful one. That’s how life works.
It’s not your criticism that lacks empathy, it’s your choice in who to criticise.
You’re taking the time to make your opinion public, and that time could be spent doing or saying anything else.
What you choose to say and do, is at the cost of what you could also be doing or saying with your time.
For example:
Libs choose not to say anything about drone strikes when it’s inconvenient.
Their choice to turn a blind eye, is why you feel they lack empathy.
The Right is attacking Democracy worldwide and has succeeded in taking over the US where they have recently enacted policies killing woman (abortion bans), incited LQBTQIA violence and murder, and readily exploit the elderly (antivax BS, removal of social security).
Recent estimates put preventable abortion deaths at 10,000 women a month in Texas alone, not to mention the GOP’s support of actual genocide in Isreal.
All of this, you have choosen to say nothing about. So just like the libs, it appears you’re turning a blind eye to it.
Because If you actually cared about those commiting mass murder, it stands to reason you would choose to express an opinion against the group doing it the most worldwide, instead of the group who has no power to do it any longer.
In choosing to be critical of libs for actions that others are doing worse on a far larger scale is what makes your opinion lack empathy. Because it quite literally could have more empathy if it was directed towards the larger group now doing all the mass murdering.
Libs don’t want to talk about drone strikes killing people (just the “terrorists” that do), and you don’t want to talk about the right killing people (just the “libs” that do).
From where I’m at, you both appear to be the same kind of hypocrite.
Both are already under Russia’s heel. Japan only recently.
Egypt gets 80% of their grain from Russia in exchange for guns. Russia has them by the balls and doesn’t need propaganda to influence their politics:
https://www.eureporter.co/world/egypt/2024/02/15/a-new-dawn-for-russia-and-egypt-and-a-wake-up-call-for-the-west/
And Japan is one of the 11 Democracies found to be under attack through targeted election interference in this report:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-intelligence-report-alleging-russia-election-interference-shared-with-100-2023-10-20/
So the mass murder people already have control of the Egyptian government, and are working on Japan.
And its working because:
This includes voting for people that don’t care about mass murder as long as they follow through on their other promises.
So all together, talking about how much you hate the Right and what they’re doing feels like an opinion you should have and be sharing if you truly cared about those who commit mass murder.
Libs are not in power in the US and very likely won’t have it in the same way ever again.
Do they suck? Yes.
But there’s bigger mass murders now that arguably warrant the same view you have of libs.
So why are you choosing to talk about the libs instead?
From my perspective, it looks like you just want to waste your time being angry at a lesser evil. Which if done over the course of your whole life, will unquestionably waste it.
You seem to have… Interesting… Opinions about stuff (I certainly don’t agree with your ideas about empathy). Unfortunately even I don’t have enough time to waste to respond to all this, so I’ll only respond to this:
So, setting aside how from my position talking about Western politics is already a waste of time, liberalism is not a robust ideology. It doesn’t have concrete offerings for the common person that will get them on your side in the fight against fascism (which does have concrete offerings, though it can’t follow up on them). Therefore, putting them in an equal, or even superior, position in your big tent alliance makes that alliance an ideological lowest common denominator whose messaging will fall flat on the ears of the people, who are hurting and in need of strong leadership. In a battle of ideas, quality will always trump quantity, because with quality comes quantity but quantity will never breed quality. And let’s not even get into how if you leave them be or consider them alies they’ll link up with capital and sweep the rug from under you.
If your idea of empathy (which I still don’t het) prevents you from criticizing liberals (despite how they’re very much willing to criticize you), then you’re gonna have to be more ruthless to beat fascism.
Just to be clear -
It is not your criticism of liberals that lacks empathy, it’s your choice of timing in when to criticize them.
They deserve criticism, unquestionably.
But that criticism made more sense to discuss when it was the late 2000’s and libs were turning a blind eye to mass murder. They clearly aren’t now. So why shit on them as if they are, or ever will be able to again?
In short, modern Libs:
A) Are doing the right thing for once (by kinda being mad about mass murder) B) Not doing as much mass murder as Trump / Russia. C) Might not be around much longer due to Democratic party infighting and Trump working up towards arresting his political rivals.
Which means libs are now:
A) Choosing to be on the right side for once B) Not murdering anyone, and actively fighting Trump / Russia from doing the same. C) Are being openly oppressed.
And all that admittedly, in your very first response, “makes you mad.”
You have now spent days judging them for bullshit they are no longer doing, and haven’t done much of in decades because of Trump.
Which means, simply put:
Your are choosing to express hate towards them, instead of:
If this was 2009, the above wouldn’t be true, and your cticism of libs would be valid and warranting of empathy.
But the above now IS true, which means you are choosing to criticize the libs at the opportunity cost of criticizing those who are now actually doing mass murder.
So frankly, your entire opinion comes off as:
I only care about mass murder when the libs do it.
As that’s all the mass murder you’ve managed to talk about for days despite quite a lot of it being done by worse people now.
Your hate towards libs is clearly more important to you than those now being mass murdered as you only care to talk about one of these things.
If you want empathy, talk about the mudered, who the libs are now actually trying to help, instead of how much you hate them for existing.
Because no offense, the brain washed MAGA in the US blindly hate the libs the same way you do. So if you want to come off as having an opinion worth listening too, maybe have sympathy for the devil now that they’re clearly not as bad as the President that was just elected. Until then, you’re no different than a MAGA influencer blindly hating libs. The only difference is their reasons are made up, and yours are outdated at best.
Hate is addicting. I’ve watched decades of propaganda turn decent people into idiots who hate each other. So if you want to waste your time, I recommend doing it on something that doesn’t make you so angry for no reason. It’s clearly affecting your ability to act with empathy, as you seem to lack any towards libs despite their clear change in behaviour that caused you to hate them in the first place.
Okay I think that’s where you got me wrong. While empathy is still not what I’d call it, you’re kind of right in that it would make no sense to criticize liberals for their hypocrisy right now (though in an honest to goodness power struggle it is good ammunition if the left decides to go down that route). However, that’s not what I was criticizing; what I was criticizing is how liberals are still not mad about mass murder. Liberals are mad about the incompetent manner in which the mass murder was done, the bad opsec, but they don’t give a shit about the mass murder itself. That’s what’s ticking me off. Like these fuckers killed 53 people to protect their best buddies’ genocide and they’re getting worked up over bad opsec‽ If you’ll notice, liberals—both rank and file and leaders—are not calling for an end to the actual mass murder; they’re calling for the incompetent leadership to be removed so that competent leadership can come and do the same mass murder but competently. And when you point out that it makes no sense to call for better leadership for the mass murder machine you get downvoted to oblivion. If they were calling for an end to the mass murder (which they won’t because of “freedom of navigation” and “US interests in the region”) you’d be right and it’d make no sense to get mad at them; libs being hypocritical isn’t exactly news.
Here’s liberals, both rank and file, calling for an end to actual mass murder in 2022:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-democrats-urge-biden-overhaul-drone-strike-lethal-force-policy
Unfortunately, seeing as libs lost the recent election, there’s no way of telling the outcome this kinda of pressure would bring. But based entirely on the momentum Bernie and AoC are gaining, the flavor of lib you hate the most is fading fast from the favor of the Democratic party.
Even now, there’s fighting to change their leadership as the “New Lib” defense they’re putting up is about as effective as a wet paper towel.
Here’s a great article about the rise and fall of the “New Libs” that you hate (rightfully so, they suck), but it outlines they are indeed falling from grace at this very time:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-new-liberals-how-the-democrats-lost-their-majority/
A popular base like their 50+ constituents calling to reform mass murder policies.
Unfortunately, Democrats currently have no power in any part of the US government. Trump is the only one in charge, and stopping him involves focusing on the part of his job he fucked up, particularly the Opsec.
That is something liberals DO have control over at this time. So it is what they are focusing on.
But if you look at what they were calling for when they were recently in power, it’s very much what you have been asking them to call for.
Okay you only seem to be interested posting liberal apologia rather than engaging with my point, so I won’t respond further. I will, however, note that I’m interested in what they’re doing now, not the one thing a minority of them did three years ago that, I should say, amounted to fucking nothing.
Any chance I could get enough of your empathy to explain what part of my comment is “liberal apologia?”
Because you just shifted to attacking me as an “apologist” instead of attacking the evidence I provided that you are wrong about your assumption of modern liberals.
Comparatively, if you were Israeli, and this conversation was about the Palestinians, you’d be telling me how much of a Palestinian apologist I am for pointing out that there’s some clear evidence that not all Palestinians are terrorists. I just provided some decent evidence to suggest that not all Libs are terrorists either.
Hate is addicting that way. Makes you assume the world is black and white when it’s always been shades of gray.
If you can’t admit it’s even possible your hateful assumptions about Libs are now outdated when presented some clear and unbiased evidence they very well might be, then you are choosing to believe your hate over reason.
Here’s another opportunity where you can choose to:
A) Have empathy and engage with the evidence I provided that your assumptions are wrong.
Or -
B) Have hate by dismissing me without evidence or good reason as you are now.
I guess we’ll find out in your next response if you like the way hating on Libs makes you feel so much that you’ve never stopped to considered when a good time to stop hating them would be.
Because someone with the political knowledge you have could certainly be doing a lot more with their life.
So in a nutshell: It’s the exact same rhetoric liberals use to whitewash Biden, Harris and the Democratic establishment’s support of Israel, and while that not may not necessarily be you 99% of people who say this either fundamentally don’t care about the people whose murder they’re justifying or are actually braindead. The citation of a small minority faction that cares, the appeal to some vague “pressure” that will cause change if we just have patience, and the implication that just because they don’t have official power they can’t and don’t need to do anything, you might not notice it but if you switched a few words you’d sound exactly like someone arguing that the Uncommitted Movement is literally Satan in August.
For more details, you took one action from three years ago that a minority of Congress democrats did that was not followed up by anything and that had no effect as evidence that liberals are calling for an end to the mass murder of brown people, but that’s literally not what’s going on. Some Democrats (which aren’t all liberals; AOC is a democratic socialist) wrote a letter saying they don’t think the president should have the unilateral power to murder brown people all over the world and when he ignored it did nothing. The so-called Congress Progressive Caucus has over 100 members so the fact that only 50 congressmen signed this letter is fucking pathetic. If any of these people actually cared, they’d do something about it. If signing one letter three years ago is supposed to convince me that they care beyond an extremely superficial level, then… uh… no.
Also, you raised Bernie and AOC as examples of a new trend within liberalism, but that’s straight up false. AOC is a (I think) democratic socialist, and Bernie ie a straight up socialist. These aren’t new flavors of liberal; they’re simply not liberals at all. The only thing liberals have done concerning these two is fight them at every turn.
Then you said that neoliberalism is in decline, which is not true. The people who actually run the show in the Democratic party are still all neoliberals. Schumer is still Senate minority leader, Jeffries is still House minority leader, Pelosi is still Pelosi. Maybe we’ll see neoliberals losing power in the midterm election if there’s even a free and fair midterm election, but now? Nope. And in places where neoliberals are being removed from power, they’re not being replaced by nice liberals (those don’t exist; the neo in neoliberalism is basically for show); they’re being replaced by socialists and other progressives. The existence of those people doesn’t make liberalism “nice” because these are also not liberals same as Bernie snd AOC.
And finally, the idea that criticizing the Trump admin’s opsec will somehow help stop him is laughable at best, dangerous at worst, because his supporters don’t give a shit. The arguments that Hegseth needs to be fired and all that do nothing to actually hurt Trump (who can just nominate whoever the fuck he wants). There’s no 5D chess game being played to oust Trump here.
I couldn’t be assed to write all this, so I just said liberal apologia and moved on, but there.
Dude I fucking wish. The math changes a lot for authoritarian states, particular ones where political apathy is as common as it is in Egypt. I do intend to he there if there’s ever an opportunity to change that, but for now? Nothing to do but wait.