The sycophants that help the CCP still are Hong Kongers, like it or not. And it was passed in Hong Kong by Hong Kong legislators. Just that it’s not been done so democratically.

I think you mean 45? Or is that cuz of his charges or something

But yeah honestly the entire GOP apparatus is currently at the very least complicit if not actively belligerent in the attack on democracy.

cat tax!!

Ben Gvir needs to be locked in the Hague forever.

Against people that want to see the people of Palestine not be constantly bombed into oblivion. Trump’s US will be significantly worse for women and minorities, so most people in those groups will end up better off under Biden because at the very least the Democratic Party aren’t literally white supremacist fascists. Those that don’t vote for Biden will largely be doing so as a protest vote or through apathy, which is significant (especially when you can see the size of the uncommitted vote, which is quite significant, and I hope grows), but also self-defeating — so it makes sense for the Democrats to pander to the type of person that would vote for Nikki Haley (which unfortunately somehow has a demographic much bigger than the left) instead, since they wouldn’t necessarily be endangered as harshly by Trump and so need incentives to vote for Biden.

The ones that will suffer most under Trump are the ones threatening to get him elected. The Dems know this. If anything, that’s leverage Biden has and is using, unfortunately.

At the end of the day though we just have to see whether current strategy works out come election day, I feel. Or if/when, God willing, a peace is attained.

Yes, but it only works so much as that leverage exists. When the alternative is Trump, that leverage isn’t gonna be realistically useable come November — and there are definitely folks who don’t just say they won’t vote for Biden over this issue (which is imo good, since that’s the whole point of a democracy). I just worry that this strategy actually does extend to the general election and make even more people suffer even more… IMO, focus should be on bottom up — specifically the legislative branch, where there’s quite a few especially in the House where a primary campaign could do well and force the issue at hand.

There’s been a Gaza for decades, it’s not going to stop just because the genocidal Bibi tries to, even if it is being turned into rubble. The primary uncommited campaign is good, and I support it, but people saying that they’re gonna vote for Trump over Biden / that they’ll abstain entirely are just not going to help either present or future atrocities — wiping your hand clean doesn’t save lives.

Honestly though, at the point where only two people would need to flip for the majority to go to the Democrats, it seems crazy that no one’s tried.

Write-in campaign huh. Wonder if some people will accidentally vote for him and whether that would count

I read “brutish” as “british” on first glance

Is it any better than DesMuMe?

Both sides have said the same thing and offered peace deals that the other side is unwilling to accept, doesn’t really matter if neither side wants to negotiate. Sucks that the civilians just have to suffer while two assholes fight it out.

Yeah, I assume in general that nothing on the internet ever goes away. At least makes it somewhat more annoying though.

i did the thing that means it’s probably less archived (by editing all the replies before deleting), but i assume some of it probably remains out there. Nothing I can do about that.

One thing i miss about Lemmy is shittymorph tbf

Glad I deleted everything on there. fucking hell.

I mean, if you are to judge the country by the worst amongst them, there is basically not a single country with an ounce of morality — but Ben Gvir and Smotrich etc. would never manage to get that to happen because the West Bank means more to them and Bibi knows it, and it’s also more strategically wise for them to leave Gaza alone and quietly continue settling the West Bank. Even during this war Bibi has claimed that they won’t try to settle Gaza, and again, why would they? Most Israelis don’t want it, the US doesn’t want it, not even the fairly right-wing Netanyahu wants it, and it’d cost massive political capital for very little gain.

I do agree that it is bad; but you do need both sides to negotiate to actually get peace. Israel unilaterally offered a de-escalatory move, and what ended up happening was Hamas taking over from the PA. Nothing happens in a vacuum — just like how Israel’s action there wasn’t without cause either, but designed to put the issue on the backburner. But it was still a move towards what could have been a peaceful (though likely uneasy) coexistence which Hamas made impossible