wonderingwanderer

Cronyism. They always say “There’s no money for that” when it comes to helping people who need it, but as soon as it comes to helping their rich friends or building monstrosities of vanity, suddenly they find the money for it.

At this point, ordinary income-earners in america should just stop paying taxes, because they’ll never see that money come back to help them in anyway. It’s all getting funneled directly to the rich, who also happen to be receiving enormous tax cuts.

It’s stealing from the poor to give to the rich…

I wonder how many staff members are Hispanic immigrants. Is ICE just gonna save those for last because they’re changing their sheets for them, and round them all up the morning before they move on to somewhere else?

Don’t worry, you’re protected by France’s nuclear umbrella

A lot of them are self-proclaimed leftists who have no practical sense of realpolitik, and are so focused on their purity tests that they’ll never put forward a viable candidate.

A lot of them bought into the tiktok propaganda that Biden and Harris were responsible for Gaza, while ignoring how much worse it would get under trump. They simply (and rabidly) accused anyone who supported the Democrats of being complicit in genocide.

This time there’s not an incumbent democrat, so hopefully the same people will blame the current administration and vote accordingly. That is, if the entire hype wasn’t socially engineered by the US’s adversaries to get trump elected so he could weaken the country…

A robust Democratic primary will also help reduce boycott voters, although some will likely always complain that the nominee isn’t perfect enough for their liking. That can’t be helped.

But at least some of the fence-sitting centrists will come out in force against trump, since it’s so obvious how shitty everything is.

So I think there’s still hope. As long as states maintain control of their own elections and keep them free and fair…

Dictators around the world are getting too comfortable. They’re seeing too many examples of other dictators getting away with war crimes, illegal invasions, and other atrocities.

Putin emboldened Netanyahu, Netanyahu emboldened trump, and I don’t even want to think about who’s going to feel emboldened by trump.

Rules based order, multilateralism, and international law seem to be crumbling with no enforcement. Arguably the greatest achievements of the twentieth century, disappearing like vapor…

Not really, although they want you to believe that. In reality, over a third of registered voters abstained from voting in 2024.

More people didn’t vote than voted for either candidate.

Is this why people like Elon Musk are crying about how the EU supposedly isn’t giving them enough “freedom” online?

The EU should confiscate every US-owned company’s data servers and digital infrastructure located on EU soil, just like the US did to tiktok.

And I say this as a USian…

I didn’t know all that, thanks for the explanation

That’s true, and I was hoping everyone would conveniently ignore that fact. But most of the Muslims hated by western bigots are from Arab-majority nations, and Benjamin Netanyahu certainly hates enough Arab people to be called anti-semitic nonetheless.

A lot of americans don’t even realize there are Arab Christians…

That was a lot longer than five years ago, before I was even alive. I’m talking about the major protest movement that swept Iran in 2021 if I remember correctly…

You’re right though, US meddling started the whole catastrophe that destabilized Iran. It’s really sad to think about…

How much does instance really matter? I’m new to lemmy but so far it seems like I can view content from any instance just as easily as the one my account is made on.

Also, fuck tankies

I was cheering for the “New Iran” movement about 5 years ago, and I’ll cheer for these protesters today.

The Iranian people deserve self-determination, freedom from an oppressive government, and the sovereignty to elect their own officials in a new form of government. The world will be a better place when they have it.

Let Iran become the cultural hub that it once was.

Mamdani has expressed support for the Jewish population of NYC.

The only thing he did here that Israel is criticizing him for, is reaffirming the distinction between Jewish identity and the state of Israel. The definition he scrapped conflated the two; it was a bad-faith definition aimed at obfuscation.

It’s entirely possible to validly criticize the actions of a nation’s government without promoting hatred of its people; the fact of Israel being an ethnostate doesn’t change that.

It’s also harmful to conflate Jewish identity with Israeli politics, because there are many Jewish people who don’t support the actions of the far-right, ultra-orthodox government of the state of Israel. Conflating them results in the dispersal of blame for Israel’s actions across all Jewish people everywhere, and that is anti-semitic.

Also, Arabic is a semitic language, so doesn’t that make islamophobia a form of anti-semitism? That would mean Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest anti-semite alive today. Just food for thought…

If only the POTUS would wait to hear from his intelligence officials before making public comments based on the word of an evil, lying, psychopathic dictator…