US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with supplemental funding passed earlier this year.
The Senate voted 77-20 on Wednesday to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, voted for the bill. They were joined by Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, both of whom released a video last month calling on military personnel to disobey illegal orders—as Trump was sending the US military on a murder spree off the coast of Latin America.
Citing Trump’s statements about using troops to shoot protesters in America, Slotkin invoked the legacy of the Nuremberg tribunals, which convicted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against peace. But when it came time to vote, this invocation was revealed to be completely meaningless. Slotkin voted to hand Trump the resources to pursue his military adventure against Venezuela…
The sooner every American realizes that there is NO ONE in the government with the desire and the power to help us, the better.
Edit: VOTE and be educated, but don’t expect anyone therein to be accountable and reponsible. Get ANGRY about that.
This is a dangerous narrative. Many people are not voting because this narrative the two sides are the same. They can do a lot in common but they are definitely not same. This year alone proves it.
I simple don’t understand why anyone buys the sentiment that you are an expressing here. The unfortunate truth is that, in every substantive way, it is true that the two parties are in lock step. I am aware that Democrats will sometimes use rhetoric that implies that they have more enlightened positions on some issues. However, it’s not credible when they consistently cave, pre-compromise, and shift rightward at nearly every opportunity. I’ve been observing the party, from within and without for 40 years. I’ve come to the conclusion that as an organization, the party as currently organized, has NOT A SINGLE principled stand on any policies whatsoever. Let me be explicit: there is no issue on which Democrats organizationally are not willing to compromise or flip on including: abortion, civil rights, democracy, and so on. They are a loose conglomerate of self-interested corporate sell outs, period. Are there a few individual exceptions, of course. But as a collective, the party is trash, and they are the reason that fascism has been allowed to progress in this country for decades.
What is needed is a wholesale reconstruction of that party. Replace nearly everyone in power and completely reject corporate funding. BTW, accomplishing that involves two things: 1.) voting, and 2.) rejecting the voices that demand that we lower our standards for short term political expediency.
Yea it seems like a lot people don’t want to face the fact that US politics are a theatre drama. And of course they also presume that you’re implying that means one shouldn’t vote, indeed a dangeous (and irritating) assumption. I believe one should vote based on a politicians actions and character, and try to notice when they’re bought and performing. The preponderance of evidence that anyone with any power is bought out is defeaning.
They still do good things sometimes, they generally do fewer and less bad things. Definitely need to be entirely reformed, but practically that’s a future us problem.
Priority one is dismantling the other party. Blue collar Americans love socialism when you don’t call it that. Start a “right wing” party that’s just leftism wrapped up in Jesus and 'Murica. Split the right, let the neo-libs stabilize things for a couple cycles while the 'Murica party siphons the working class from Republicans. Then, after the Republican party is dead, hard shift on the left from Democrat to 'Murica, massive mandate, start passing sweeping socialist reform.
Priority one is
Passing electoral reform at the state level so more then two political parties can exist without a spoiler effect.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
That would be included prominently in the “sweeping socialist reform”. Absolutely a high priority, but negligible odds of success under the current composition.
Priority one is achieving a Congress that will pass RCV.
Bills like this come through when Republicans have power. It’s been more often than not lately because the DNC have had 48 or less Senators for over a decade.
Yes I understand and would not discourage voting. Its currently the only way to have any influence at all. Whole system needs to be turned over for anything to meaningfully change; vote as much as possible and get thoroughly educated, just don’t expect politicians to do anything helpful when they’re already owned by money.
I think the main point is “the desire and the power”. There are a few with desire, but without numbers they don’t have the power. The more people with desire we can get into seats, the more power they’ll have, collectively, to do something.
Right, not the same. One tells you they hate you, the other tells you they love you but fuck you over anyway and let the first get all the blame.
If the political parties are scared a narrative is going to reduce turn out they should probably stop enforcing that narrative with their decision making. Neither party can vote against their constituents then claim they’re the good guys.
The whole point is that we know they are shitbags and money hungry whores, but they are undeniably better for your everyday life and wellbeing than Republicans, full stop.
Lesser of two evils turned into lesser of two genocides and soon it will be lesser of two fascists and that logic is exactly why were slow walking into it. Other countries look at the US like we’re insane for this type of shit. It doesn’t have to be this way, but if you keep voting for evil you’ll keep getting evil.
Oh and the democrats you insist are better just helped the republicans pass a bill that legally invalidates intersex people, and the republicans could not have passed it at all without the dems help. There’s literally no issue they won’t compromise on if it’s politically expedient. Nothing.
There’s a time and a place for everything refraining from voting on election day is not a good time or place. You want to help get other parties in motion? Now’s the time. Abstaining your vote doesn’t do shit but help the least popular policies come to fruition every single time.
I didn’t abstain from voting so you’re welcome. I like how you have no argument against helping slow walk fascism to the US other than being patronizing and assuming I didn’t vote. The least you could do is not parrot decades of American lesser evil propaganda that has been the dominant voting culture while the US has been regressing, maybe take a critical long term look at that.
Did you forget the thread you’re arguing on? This is about voting and not voting.
Get involved in other ways than this if you want real change, you being right isn’t going to accomplish that.
“Reinforcing the narrative” in this case is not letting the annual military budget lapse.
The dangerous narrative is that Democrats are different. The number of people killed under the Democrats is staggering. Stop propagating this narrative that somehow voting for Democrats is better.
Mm, I’d be willing to bet that there are some who really are America first. It just so happens that includes waging war and extracting resources from places too weak or otherwise unable to defend themselves.
The choice U.S. citizens are being given is clear. We can extract resources from you or we can extract resources from someone else. Resources will be extracted either way.
We can extract resources from you or we can extract resources from someone else. Resources will be extracted either way.
They’re doing both.
Correct, the difference is which will happen first. Given the option, the American people will choose the latter. They just need to be coerced into it first.
Well, more like 20 people out of 100, so not many.
I think we should redesign the system so candidates are nominated, and anyone who has ever expressed a desire to hold office is instantly disqualified.
Basically make it more like jury duty, except make it pay very well.
We have the tech right now to do direct democracy. We dont need to hope some representitive surfaces our needs someday. Politicians and lobbyists need to be job categories that get eliminated due to tech improvements. Then we wont need political parties either and we can end them entirely. No more dems, no more repubs.
But god forbid we give people food, housing, or health care.
More war = less people = more food for the survivors. It’s simple maths {taps head }
But those aren’t fReEdOmS according to all the fragile egod snowflakes in under armor and grunt style tshirts
Regardless of the article source, here is the actual bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1071
And who voted Yay and Nay: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00648.htm
Schumer is such a douche bag
Schmuck Schumer
Cuck Spooner.
Goddamnit I thought better of the astronaut.
A lot of politicians like Mark Kelly and Mark Warner have good views overall but are fairly militaristic.
Yeah I know, McCain was relatively ok until dementia made him pick Palin but still a total warhawk. It’s just fucking infuriating to have voted for both Sinema and him on a straight blue ballot and then see they’re all just in it to play the game, not create positive change.
The world under capitalism is so twisted that war is good for the economy. Let’s start using ecology as a measuring stick. That money thing is old and worn out and it shows us humans to be fools.
war is good for business
peace is good for business
volatility/uncertainty is even better, for those who know how the casino actually operates
We live in a purposely unbalanced hell for profits.
Well said. I hope this happens in my life time.
No one can eat money.
The rich will eat other humans without question if it meant getting fresh meat.
They came come take my meat from my cold dead hands.
Yeah. I said it, lol
Two wings same facist bird
Well, so much for universal healthcare.
The world socialist website parrots Chinese Communist Party propaganda only, they even support China’s aggression against Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, among other things. This is not a reliable media source.
You then certainly agree that essentially all western media, given its support of Israel’s genocide, is not reliable and shouldn’t be listened to? Or those standards are only to be applied to the evil leftists?
Calling the CCP leftists is amusing. They’re totalitarian state capitalists, Han nationalists and imperialists.
China doesn’t have colonies and hasn’t waged a war in 40 years, hilarious that you’d call them imperialistic likely coming from a western nation.
Han nationalists is also very funny, I’m from Spain, a country where the police recently literally went and violently repressed a vote for independence from Catalonian people in a clear violation of the right to self determination. But sure, multiethnic China is totally Han nationalists. How many non-Han Chinese living in China have translated this opinion to you?
Keep yapping western anti-China propaganda, useful CIA tool.
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I am yet to encounter a link to Chinese state media in lemmy.world.
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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-socialist-web-site/
This site says it’s a mostly factual American leftist outlet with zero failed fact checks in the past five years. Even highly factual outlets like Reuters have distributed state propaganda.
This is a propaganda site as they intentionally seek information supporting propaganda and information supporting propaganda only. They have a strong article selection bias, and they support China’s aggression against Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, among other things. We must clearly say that this is not a reliable source.
I think the title reveals their bias and honestly they are not wrong.
WSWS is run but trots, you can say a lot about trots but being pro CPC is definitely not one of those things lmao
Choose your political flavor (must choose one or self righteous assholes online will blame society’s problems on you for not voting instead of the neoliberal billionaires who control the politicians)
Republican: 🇺🇸✝️💣 Democrat: 🏳️🌈💅💣
Isn’t this the site with the socialist AI garbage?
It’s literally the propaganda arm of a fringe political party. Like, the party runs it. Not just aligns with it to make money like Fox and conservatives.
All of their articles are opinion pieces. But they are open to discussion with other viewpoints, so long as those viewpoints align closely with their own:
The partisanship of the World Socialist Web Site by no means excludes objectivity or honest debate. We welcome a broad exchange of viewpoints with workers, students and intellectuals who are seeking an alternative to bourgeois politics and capitalist economics.
Look at OPs history. It’s full of this crap.
So you dismiss the content just because you dislike the source?
I also dismiss people when I don’t like their tone
A “socialist” using a fascist, capitalist tool. Fuck outta here tankie.
You may be surprised that the “tankies” over at lemmygrad and hexbear have been having a field day mocking the “socialist AI” for the past days, here’s an example post. The majority of “tankies” in the so-called “tankie triad” are Marxist-Leninists and not Trotskyists, the latter being the ideology best characterizing WSWS (org behind the “socialist AI”) to the best of my knowledge. So yeah, you’re late to the party of criticising this organization, the “tankies” that you so hate have got you covered on that front.
However, “tankies” aren’t afraid of sources by their country of origin or ideology because we can do good analysis of the source and of the material in question, and if they bring something important to the table we can pick it up and agree with them.
How is that any different from what the guys in your camp do?
I do personally dislike the wsws but there is nothing arguable about the headline here, it is publicly accessible information. I will question western sources when they make unsupported claims about geopoltical adversaries, as much as I’ll question state propaganda from another country when doing the same (such as Russia claiming genocide of Russians in Eastern Ukraine for example).
Your claim was, “So you dismiss the content just because you dislike the source?”, and my retort was that people in your camp, that is the ml instance and the other instances from the triad, also do the same because they disregard UN or Reuters sourced info on the basis of sumply being bourgeois.
If you personally don’t do that, then the argument doesn5apply to you and you can ignore it
Hey, aren’t you the same person complaining about red herring on another comment thread? Instead of following your logic of answering with the Wikipedia list of logical fallacies, I’ll answer to your point:
Tankies like me don’t generally refuse all information coming from UN or Reuters on the basis of being bourgeois. If Reuters reports on domestic events in western nations with evidence, that’s generally trustworthy. When it comes to geopolitical topics, the thing changes from “journalistic reporting of easily provable stuff” to “geopolitically charged claims without serious journalistic work”, and that’s when tankies like me are careful of western sources.
If you believe otherwise, you can bring me some examples instead of generally referring to something tankies do that I don’t think we do
Wikipedia list of logical fallacies
I think you should go look at that link again.
and that’s when tankies like me are careful of western sources.
Right, so only taking the points that they agree with you on.
If you believe otherwise, you can bring me some examples instead of generally referring to something
Here’s one:
https://lemmy.world/comment/20878099
Here’s another doing this when asked to cite the UN or Reuters as a neutral source:
The Wikipedia list of logical fallacies was a meme exaggeration. It’s a trope that edgy redditors will answer to serious comments by discarding their content according to one of the fallacies in the Wikipedia list. But sure, I’ll answer to you accordingly: fallacy fallacy. Even if my comment were a fallacy (which I disagree), that’s irrelevant because a logical fallacy can still be true. How about you answer to the content of the comment then, and not to a logical structure.
Regarding the other stuff about western sources and tankies, my claim was this:
If Reuters reports on domestic events in western nations with evidence, that’s generally trustworthy. When it comes to geopolitical topics, the thing changes from “journalistic reporting of easily provable stuff” to “geopolitically charged claims without serious journalistic work”, and that’s when tankies like me are careful of western sources
And you bring me one link about Venezuela and one link about DPRK, the former including links to western “Freedom Burger Eagle association” type organizations, not even to journalistic or UN claims. This seems to align very well with what I claimed.
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Slotkin will do whatever is best for Israel, every time, as will Schumer.
Why am I suddenly reminded of that moment from Attack of the Clones when Chancellor Palpy was given unlimited war rights.
I live in NW Ohio and the Ohio Air National guard has been flying maneuvers daily for months. I have the disturbing thought in the back of my mind this is all a military buildup for when the orange nazi pulls the US out of NATO next year to “celebrate” the 250th bday of the nation and starts doing what Germany did with the outbreak of WW2
The Empire in Star Wars literally represents the US. The rebels represented the Vietnamese.
No, that’s just silly, of course Democrats would hold the line and vote against such measures!
Unless…
Too many of them in the Epstein files, too?
It is just a distraction from the epstein files /s
WHY DIDN’T THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY STOP THEM!!!¡???
What? The news calls out dems because it’s already safe to assume that the R’s are doing everything their dear leader demands as always. The dems betrayed their constituents again, that’s the only thing news worthy thing here.
no shit.
Well great - a customary /s would have left no doubt.
fuck you and your customary slash s
C’mon, this isn’t reddit.
No, but it IS still the internet, where nobody can hear your tone of voice or see your facial expressions. How do you suppose anyone is supposed to tell the difference between OP and someone saying the EXACT same thing, totally serious?
For me it was the upside-down exclamation mark that gave it away. And I’d rather see it as satire.
