Yes, yes. So first it was, "theyee not doing anything!" now its, "its too late to do anything, get fucked."
Eugh. More, "nothing can be good" bullshit.
Yeah, because it's SUPER helpful to call for the fire to be put out after the house has burned down 🙄
As opposed to the actually SUPER HELPFUL option of letting the fire continue to burn and spread? Yeah, you're right, let's not bother at all.
It's politics, there will always be angry people because not everyone thinks exactly as they do.
"Ok so now calling for a ceasefire is wrong and bad because it's too late and I will be attacked by the left and right for it"
- the lesson politicians learn from posts like this
If they took advice from memes there would have been no genocide.
"Oh man, I really don't wanna be a scumbag Steve here..."
We need to push for electoral reform so we don't run into this tired ass same old situation "lol better vote for the blue conservatives or it gets the red fascists again!"
The same tired drum beat, the same tired song. Round and round we go like we are on a carousel because this clown car is the star of the circus. It must be so ridiculous, because not only is the bread not free, bu t its recently increased 20-30% in price!
Longer then I've been alive, quite possibly long after I thankfully perish. Glad I got that vasectomy, and I fucking sure as hell wish my dad got one. Thanks for the wonder of life: paying monthly tribute to a landed lord, exploitation in every workplace, and a scam around every corner.
Are yall really so unimaginative that you can't picture a world with more then two viable political parties? Perhaps we are special in the head. Me too, thanks.
Switching away from first past the post voting allows people to vote for who represents them best while still counting their vote against those they dont want to win. Just search for videos on FPTP voting if you want an explanation on how and why the spoiler effect exists.
Electoral reform is possible in each individual state (for now), we dont need federal reform! Maine and Alaska have already passed electoral reform.
So what’s the hold up with the rest of the states? Consider starting a campaign to change how we vote in your own state! Force our representatives to compete with fresh outside ideas. We deserve the best representation, not excuses.
Fuck Israel.
I've seen a steady call for ceasefire among parliaments of both the US and my own country. Sometimes MP join in sometimes other leaves.
Now lets stop being westoids and realise that this is useless because no fighting parties back in Gaza us down for a ceasefire
I mean, for the US, at least, this isn't useless. Israel is the reason fighting is still occurring, and we give them their guns and bombs. If our politicians shut off the tap, the fighting will stop.
Probably not, but we still should.
There are a lot of shoulds in US politics though.
Not done yet, still more rockets being fired and hostages being held. Would be good if they both listened to the UN, released the hostages and got the food flowing though.
My issue is that most of the ceasefire dialogue seems to imply the US isn't putting enough pressure on Israel to broker a deal.
That hasn't been true for a while at this point. The Biden administration more or less directly has called for the resignation of the Israeli PM. There are multiple reports of threats being made towards Israel to both deliver more aid and be more willing to negotiate a ceasefire.
The end result is that Israel has agreed to both deliver more aid, and offered to accept multiple different ceasefire deals. However they all fall apart once Hamas blows them up at the last minute.
The fact of the matter is that a ceasefire involves two parties. If Hamas doesn't want a ceasefire, the war is going to continue.
Hamas is not blowing up what little aid Israel lets through you dingus.
Biden admin is still playing patty-cakes with Israel, 6 months into the genocide. Putting pressure on Israel means cutting off the supply of weapons being used to implement the genocide, at a bare minimum, and we’ve seen absolutely none of that. In fact, Biden himself has circumvented Congress to send even more weapons to them.
Except when you look at the history of the ceasefire talks, it's very clear that Hamas has been advocating for a permanent ceasefire for months while Israel and the US have rejected them and called for only temporary ceasefires.
Israel does not want an unconditional ceasefire; prioritizing the continuation of its ethnic cleansing campaign over the safety of the Hostages and ending hostilities.
We can reasonably count the amount of time since Biden approved the transfer of billions of dollars worth of jets and weapons to Israel in hours.
This was always going to be a genocide - it didn't take the weight US security apparatus to know this, but the US's active defence of Israel from supplying the weapons being used to carry out that genocide, to vetoing various UN security council resolutions relating to the genocide, to taking inadequate action too late, Biden and the US government broadly have actively aided this genocide.
