they’re too busy sanewashing totally normal ideas like seperating children from parents, tariffs on every import, and mass deportation. Totally rational positions squarely in the overton window.

What will they say about the concentration camps those immigrants are rounded up into? What will they say about the military being deployed to round up residents? I guess we’ll find out.

Taxing billionaires though, how radical

The Democrats have been spoiling elections plenty on their own

The abortion issue is part of fascism. It creates a lower unequal class out of women.

wouldn’t it be nice if the profit motive wasn’t the only driving force of the economy?

it’s easier to raise tariffs so that efficiently produced foreign electric cars are just as expensive. God bless America

an eye for an eye is more restrained than the Israeli response

hey it’s an American acknowledging “outside of the US” let’s look on the bright side

out of the principle of charity I chalked it up to the type of person who fixates on the wrong thing but I suspect you’re right

People are explaining the nuance to you and you’re not getting it, maybe it wasn’t an act.

Don’t deprive German consumers of Coca Cola they did nothing wrong

You are adding degrees of indirection that don’t apply, the playing dumb act is one thing but all you can say with your reasoning is they shouldn’t play in Afghanistan or China which people might agree with.

Nobody’s saying they shouldn’t play in Germany because Germany supports Israel.

granted, I should have given more thought to my hyperbolic hypothetical.

point being I dread to think what “lesser evil” we’re looking at when the time comes

let he who is without sin cast the first stone isn’t really about encouraging everyone to cast stones simultaneously and at will

I’m (truly) not sure if this reasoning applies to the people of Israel at large. To be fair, the same can increasingly be said of Americans who continue to support Republicans as they go mask off.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-netanyahu-likud-israel-election-poll

https://en.idi.org.il/articles/56081

If there was a strong unified labor force we could use general strikes and other collective action to fight back. I don’t know why the American left isn’t trying to organize something like this.

if we’re imagining a better place why not go further? private ownership over collective production is the only way such gross amounts of wealth are possible.

A 100% tax bracket is fine and all, but why don’t we reimagine the economy so that individuals aren’t controlling so much of it? We built the infrastructure, we built the factories, we invented the machines and algorithms.

20 years ago it was Bush and the Cheneys that were so bad we would have been told to vote for anyone running Blue.

Can’t wait to vote for the Democratic candidate in 2048 based on the idea that they’ll only conscript first-born children into mandatory asteroid farming and have Barron Trump’s enforcement over Megahitler.

If we want to uphold the principle of international diplomacy and the summit represents a huge bloc of the world’s population then yes he really should. If Israel is hosting an event for dozens of countries he should. He’s not just visiting his buddy Putin or Netenyahu. He’s the main diplomat of the UN.

The UN is a diplomatic organization that represents the entire world and exists to provide non-violent outlets for issues between nations. Being present at BRICS, which is rapidly adding membership and represents a counter-bloc to Western oriented alliances like NATO and the G7 (which expelled Russia in 2014.) is part of that mission.

Guterres was at the G7 summit https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2023-05-21/secretary-generals-press-encounter-g7-summit

Why shouldn’t he be at a similar summit representing:

Combined, the BRICS members encompass about 30% of the world’s land surface and 45% of world population

The UN isn’t (rather: shouldn’t be) a Western organization. It’s a global organisation. His attendance there is a necessary part of his duties.

From the perspective of any nation on the receiving end of US aggression his participation at the G7 would have been seen as equally upsetting. You’re letting your bias in favor of Ukraine color your judgement.

Anarchists famously love Democrats enough to incorporate them into their graffiti

Read the second sentence in that comment slowly