Like, obviously we can have restrictions. Basically Id say shift the age requirement to time as a citizen instead. But I really don't see why a kid born in Uganda and moving to America at 7 years old (Like Mamdani) and running for president at 42 is really any different than a kid born in America and running for president at 35.
I don't know when he got his citizenship. But shift the age X years to whenever he got it.
The plan of having a 35 year long sleeper agent living in America is fantasy. That's significantly too much work when you can already buy our politicians right now and not wait 35 years. (APAIC comes to mind first)
I feel like all Citizens should be able to run at some point. I really don't care what patch of dirt you were born on.
Only if the world makes them regret it. I wish I could say that with the mountain of documented evidence (mostly by IDF soldiers themselves) that the history will bring justice for Palestine.
But, I didn't think we could be 655 days into a genocide and still have the New York fucking Times running articles saying "it's totally not. Because not enough babies have died yet. Israel could kill so many more babies if they wanted to".
The one thing that will be true with time though is that Israel will collapse. Fascist Ethnostates are by their very nature self destructive and cannot maintain themselves.
I just want to live long enough to see it fall and the children of Palestinian today be able to serve out the justice to the western world that they deserve.
I want everyone from Israeli officials all the way to New York Times writers to be brought to justice and answer for their crimes.
One day; everyone will 'have always been against' this.
And those people that today still spread genocide propaganda will pretend they were always against. It is important we don't let those demons get away with it.
Yeah. MAGA has always been a symbol of white supremacy. It has pretty specific meaning. The dude walked down the escalator and started calling Mexicans criminals and rapist. He said on a major TV network with half the world watching that immigrants are eating people's pets.
MAGA is white supremacy. MAGA is Nazi shit. Always has been.
Dude said that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our nation".
Lost any ounce of respect I might have had left for him (which really wasn't much) and his wife when they started pushing Genocide propaganda for Israel.
Nothing says "rock and roll" like supporting Israels right to genocide I guess.
True rock and roll would be pissing on his grave. Maybe Kneecap can do the honors.
I'm a 6'3" man weighing 230lbs. I couldn't hold back tears with that little kid (who obviously represented Palestine) holding the Superman flag in the face of tanks and an army.
Like, fuck me dude. I have been looking for some level of solidarity after 2 years of hearing a death count repeated every morning from Amy Goodman.
It's just a film. It's not going to change anything about our garbage world. But if anything it made me feel a little less alone when contrasting my time spent at protests with my time spent having to listen to idiot coworkers.
If you were explaining quantum mechanics you'd probably start with the fundamentals of understanding momentum and position.
It's funny you make an analogy like that. Because you're completely ignoring both the position that the Democratic party is in AND the momentum they have in driving discourse.
Do I have to explain it to you?! Do you think the comparison between "online leftist" and the Democratic party is in the same "quantum level"? (Yes I'm stretching the satire here it's a joke don't take it too seriously.)
But seriously, it's not about "guilty parties" it's about the degree in which they are able to influence the political landscape.
You are critizing the smallest sliver of the nearly non existing left in order to avoid criticism of the only party that had any chance of preventing the rise of fascism we are experiencing now.
And that party did absolutely fuck all to prevent it. So, please. Explain to me you're "enlightened centrist" take on why the failure of the Democratic party and it's outright genocide were the fault of the "online left".
Why is the blame placed on individuals that would be lucky if they made up more than 1% of the population that makes up the "online leftist"?
Seriously. How is the only opposition party not the one that decided they would "play chicken"? You blame people for playing "chicken" but ignore the actual political party with money and organization that clearly decided to play chicken themselves. Hell, they're the ones that literally decided to play that game.
Somehow the criticism and blame is placed on unorganized "online leftist".
It wasn't the online left. It was the vast majority of normies that thought about their vote for all of 30 seconds and said : "Yeah, I don't like all the dead babies I keep hearing about. I'll stay home or vote Trump i guess"
Stop pretending it's some cringe online leftist. You're delusional.
Yeah. That's bull shit. I don't know why people like to pretend that there were not massive amounts of the population that saw slavery as immoral and cruel.
Hell, they literally had to invent "whiteness and blackness" as racial constructs to justify continuing to enslave the African slaves that converted to Christianity. Suddenly their rules in place about not enslaving other Christians needed a workaround written into them.
These were not "moral for their time" people in any sense of the word.
Edit: I don't know if you were actually making this point or just saying that quote. So sorry if this came out hostile.
One of the most disappointing things is seeing how excited libs are for some "abundance" policy. Like, they see the rise of fascism and maga voters regretting their choice and think to themselves "what if we did MORE neoliberalism?!"
I can't believe they can fall for the same vague promises with zero policy over and over and still think the maga voters are the only dumb ones.
I mean the comment they replied to is literally downplaying the involvement of other pedophiles just as involved as Trump was. It doesn't matter if it's using sarcasm to do it or not. That's the intention.
The entire point people should get out of this is that defending rich pedophiles (much like defending Israel) is a bipartisan issue that both parties will always agree on. Do they spin it differently. Sure. But come the fuck on.
The person doing "whataboutism" is the person that made the initial sarcastic comment. Literally bringing up other sex pests for the exact same reason their comment is making fun of. To compare the sex pests between parties and downplay their involvement by comparison.
You can't say "whataboutism" when the literal comment your replying to was responding to and criticizing a "whataboutism" in the first place.
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