So you’re saying they both did horrible things but one party did it in a way that gets their team to vote for them and the other party did it in a different way that was designed to get their team to vote for them?
Not really beating that Blue MAGA accusation
So then the US model needs to end and be replaced with something else?
Any good IDE and source control should convert spaces to tabs. QED
Tabs are better than spaces
Ideologically abhorrent to people who imagine themselves to be more compassionate than Ebeneezer Scrooge
It’s literally less expensive in every single experiment ever run to give the poor money than anything else we have ever done, including not giving them any money (because we spend the money in cops, courts, prisons, hospitals, sanitation, etc)
I’m pretty sure 20 years is an overestimate, and more than half of those years the USA was engaged in violent racialized slavery and indigenous genocide.
It’s not even abstract theory. Literally every single experiment ever run on this shows that the best way to address violence, homelessness, and malnutrition is giving the poor money without strings attached
You’re allowed to criticize Western power because you’re not a threat to Western power. You’re a joke. Obviously that wasn’t always true. If you were a communist you were blacklisted, censored, and if you were a successful organizer you were on a target list for the cops to kill you. Once they successfully purged all the communist organizers and sent them all running, you could say whatever you wanted.
Until recently. Now that communist consciousness is raising in the West once again, the Rs and the Ds are working together to denounce it and fight it, with the Rs in power throwing people in prison for 75 years for the crime of publishing communist literature.
It really requires you to fully disengage with history AND the present to believe that the Western media is not completely controlled by the owning class and that suffering no consequences for being an angry brat with no power means that therefore there is no censorship
What never studying anything and then talking about it does to a motherfucker.
Won’t someone please stop the truth from being contextualized in history! We have to protect the Western news media from undue critique! Let’s all band together and protect Bezos, Weiss, Ellison, Murdoch, Zuck, Musk, Dorsey, and every other rich fuck and dynasty that owns our local newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, and mass social media!!
As opposed to English language media which is has been controlled by the merchant class so long that it was responsible for the Opium Wars?
So now it’s 40 years, and not 60? Pretty explicit. The last party realignment was 1968, by the way. Which is why you’re previous pick of 60 was so difficult to defend. I would expect you to know that, because you’re such an informed voter, but I guess I should never underestimate the ignorance of my fellow Americans.
Regardless, in PR it’s important that one plays their role. The Democrats need the Republicans to start the wars in order to maintain their grip on the anti-war vote. The Ds are obviously not anti-war, as evidenced by the fact that they don’t ever reduce the military budget and they never hold Republicans accountable for breaking the law to launch wars. The Democrat stance on war is “well, we have to finish what our opponents started!” That includes genocide against Palestinians as much as it includes launching net new campaigns that were planned by Republican administrations, like Libya.
But we can also look at non-war deaths too. Economic sanctions from the US have killed way more than wars have. The research published by the Lancet showed an average of 800K dead per year for the last 50 years. Bi-partisan consensus in those sanctions, by the way. Way more devastating than wars. And sanctions kill children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the sick way more than war does.
And before you ask, the solution is ending the USA entirely.
So you’re not using the legal definition of wars, and you’re not using the coloquial definition of wars. You’re using an idiosyncratic definition of war that proves your point. Well done. Someone should capture that technique. It’s gold. Defining terms to match your objectives. Why didn’t I think of that?
Yes, exactly. Deciding that whether or not the bus crashes should be the outcome of vote is what crashed the bus. The scenario painted in the image is absurd. There is no voting in that scenario. You ignore the fucking dweebs trying to get you to vote for the bus to stay on the land and you fucking stop the bus
Libya. Yugoslavia. Syria.
But also, you are proving the both sides problem. Eisenhower sent a few hundred soldiers to Vietnam. It was the Democrats that escalated and went hog wild and it was the Republicans that signed the peace accords. Somalia followed the same patterns.
The numbers have been inaccurate for years across every administration. The annual job numbers always have a revision in October. Some years those revisions are so bad that it means everyone was operating on wildly inaccurate data for an entire year. And it’s worse during economic downturns. Revisions like this happened under Biden, in fact the 2024 revision was about equal with a revision down of about 815k jobs.
LOL, so fucking funny. As though you’re going to accept the outcome of a vote in this scenario.
LOL, “rule of law”. Are you honestly saying that without even a shred of awareness? The rule of law is a euphemism for murdering the poor. Immigration limits are needed because the Western world has been totally destroying the homes and lives of the global majority for 600 years.