He was also very concerned about how completely unhinged the CIA was and how it operated with total impunity. No such concerns from any president since, somehow.
"We should vote for Strasser instead of Hitler because they'll both kill the Jews anyway, but Stresser would be better for us"
Man, Americans really are way too comfortable supporting a genocide as long as they don't have to be reminded too often.
With the state of western software development and how ingrained the US and Israeli security state seems to be there, plus how much China seems to be prioritizing top-to-bottom self-sufficiency in tech, I wouldn't be surprised if a Chinese fork that welcomes Russian contributors becomes a force unto itself.
An ecosystem where India, Russia, and China based coders take leadership is an ecosystem that has a bigger chance for mass adoption in the biggest manufacturing economies in the world.
Because democrats are deathly afraid of any mildly progressive party getting funding and being on the ballot nationwide, because then their entire blackmail scheme falls apart. You can't go "you fucking better vote for us, or else" anymore.
The democratic party has been suing to take PSL and the Greens off ballots in multiple states (which also serves to cut into their budget, which is almost entirely small contributions). That's the party trying to save democracy apparently.
Everyone knows that he's a fascist. We also know Kamala and her cabinet is gonna be hardly better, so if you're gonna vote, don't waste it on a genocide enabler.
We already know all the talking points of "pushing her left", we know y'all ain't gonna do shit, because you didn't do it with Biden and you certainly wouldn't have done it with Obama, it's always people who voted third party out there organizing while y'all wait for the next election to come around for you to pretend you're doing something.
In fact, the Democrats since the 60's have run campaigns WAY against the threat of late-stage Capitalism.
Bruh what world are you living in lmao. Obama reached to bankers uncaringly tanking the global economy by giving them money to do with as they wished (and, as always, they wished to give themselves a bonus).
This. As long as they have a base big and dumb enough to buy any and every excuse to go further right (and blame progressives for it), they'll keep doing it.
This is what the democrats have always been, just now they stopped pretending to care about people abroad or the issues that matter to the voters (and not the donors) and surprisingly that's still good enough for the blue no matter who crowd.
Whenever you think the government is stupidly wasting money when there's a cheaper and more humane solution, you can bet your neck it's to funnel money toward corporations.
They usually jump through those hoops to obfuscate the trail and pretend there's some economic complexity. There ain't, it's just laundering a corporate subsidy.
Donald Trump is a threat to democracy 😭😭😭 now shut up and vote for the candidate, peasant. You'll have a primary when you earn it.
"MEDIA PERSONALITIES LIKE" is a pretty important part of that sentence that you shortened to sound conspiratorial. It would do everyone well to read the entire article rather than look at the shortest quote for a gotcha.
In April, he won the prestigious White House Press Correspondents’ Award “for overall excellence in White House coverage”
That's like the fourth paragraph. So, yes, even if you don't know him, that's very influential. The article also goes over plenty of examples across Meta, CNN, NYT, Google and many others.
Just because it's not CNN or the NYT saying it (they would never go against the state department unless public opinion has already massively shifted) doesn't mean it's a bad source.
Le monde is one of the most "reputable" sources in Europe and they're corroborating, is a good source only a US source? For a conflict on the other side of the world? There's literally video evidence of the kidnappings.
The fact that this thread replies to facts by going "b-but, Russia" like it's still fucking 2016 is just peak political literacy from USians. Not only do they vote for candidates everyone hates, they get absolutely piss mad if a candidate tries to run on issues their voters believe in.
I thought the issue with reddit was that it was full of idiots and bots, turns out it was just full of Americans lmao.
The funny thing is, there's more of a symbiotic relationship between us and plants.
Those plants that exhibited favorable traits for human consumption were carried far from their native ecosystem and through biome barriers they couldn't have otherwise. In the same way peppers with capsaicin (which allowed birds/reptiles to eat and spread them around while deterring mammals that would otherwise ruin the seed) became more successful, wheat, corn and other grasses became more successful when the kernels got bigger because it encouraged humans to harvest those and maybe keep some for later/spread them around.
Plants may not have any agency but the fact is some of them evolved traits that made this upright monkey eventually toil away to guarantee their reproduction year after year.
Lmao. Don't lecture me on what Donald Trump is gonna do to the rest of the world when it's been both parties robbing us in the global south. Many of Trump's most atrocious policies have just been happily accepted as the new normal by democrats. That's their function, one does the dirty work, the other pretends it has to stay this way now.
Any metric that doesn't include Joe Biden – the guy directly responsible for the mass incarceration of PoC via the 90s crime bill, a segregation advocate, a guy who has increased the number of children in cages in migrant camps, who keeps shipping weapons to a state in the middle of a completely broadcasted genocide – as a fascist, is a worthless, arbitrary metric.
You're telling me Bush, who greatly enhanced the ability of the NSA to spy on every single citizen in America, who had a torture camp in Guantanamo where they knew they were torturing innocent people, who had black sites in abu ghraib, who gave finance capital carte blanche to rob people with predatory mortgages and securities built on air, that guy isn't a fascist?
All this tells me is that the US has a far greater tolerance for fascism than anywhere else in the world as long as you don't use the word, and provided the fascists aren't targeting them specifically.
Everyone I don't like is a Russian asset, the Democrat's guide to political discussion
Is this the democracy Trump is threatening? One where you're berated for not doing the duty of voting for a candidate you hate and next time they'll get an even worse one? Where voting for the candidate you actually want is treated as sabotage?
The GOP gives their base the candidate they want, if the democrats don't, thats their own goddamn problem and those who vote blue no matter who should think about the responsibility they bear in making their own party the fascist lite option.
No more children in cag- uhh I mean no more war in the middle- ah fuck surely no more fracking at least??
It's very convenient measuring ideological abstracts rather than the objective number of votes those parties got.
Vote for the candidate that aligns to your politics. If genocide and climate disaster is compatible with those, stick to the GOP or the Democrats.