NoneOfUrBusiness

Wait you wrote this? If so man you have some real talent there.

This is peak Onion. If we’re gonna get satire like this for the next four years then Trump 2.0 might be almost worth it. Almost.

So there’s one problem with your position: The current strategy is throwing elections to whoever the Republicans happen to be running. The DNC fossils won’t learn their lesson by 2028 and it’ll be another repeat of 2024 and 2016 until democracy in America finally dies.

You didn’t say anything; that’s the problem here.

I mean yeah why not? Having wrong beliefs, even really wrong beliefs, doesn’t prevent one from making a good point.

I mean it is true, though… Well not completely but a good 80% of the way there. The reason the establishment will go after you for criticizing Israel (if they can, anyway) is because they’re getting Israeli lobby and MIC money. I’m not sure what the dog whistle here is supposed to be. The “Jews control the world” thing? Obviously that’s not true but Israel does exert a lot of control over US politics.

Which antisemitic dog whistle and in what way?

I mean I have to wonder how it took you so long to come to that conclusion, but better late than never I guess.

Israeli Nazis killed more than a thousand babies and this guy is still trying to whatabout their war crimes.

Far-right manipulation is so effective that they can reasonably compete with everyone else combined.

Far-right manipulation is effective, but even more than that is how the DNC offers no viable alternative. And no, their rightward shift and status quo economic policies are not a viable alternative. This depresses voter turnout on the Democrat side and results in the GOP winning election after election.

Your annual reminder to BDS from Google. Well it’s basically impossible to boycott them, but you can still divest.

who should the Democrats be trying to court?

Solid Democrat voters who are disappointed with the DNC and therefore don’t vote. The Democrats’ noncommittality makes them unappealing to everyone.

And result in president Vance? Nope, absolutely nope.

America doesn’t have a law forbidding the Nazi salute. It’d be against the first amendment.

I mean imagine if you could impeach the president without a majority. That would be the death of democracy. Just to put things in perspective: The GOP democratically won both houses of Congress and the presidency and because of DNC incompetence also has the Supreme Court. Them being able to do whatever the fuck they want is, in a way, democracy working as intended. It’d be weirder (and much more undemocratic) if there was a way to remove a sitting president without the Supreme Court or Congress.

An Israeli sniper just shot a kid. Yesterday or today I think.

That is, unfortunately, just what happens when Israel accepts a ceasefire. It’s definitely not good, but it’s better than when the genocide was going full steam ahead.

They also air-struck a refugee camp in the West Bank, which hasn’t been happening recently.

The ceasefire doesn’t cover the West Bank. Again not good, but this is how Israel does things and isn’t an indication that the ceasefire is going to fail.

So your answer to the question is “nothing”? And yes, the sum total of four settlers Biden sanction do qualify as “nothing”.

And I’ve found nothing indicating we have sent any more 2k pound bombs since May of 2024. So if we had, please provide a source reporting it.

Apparently there haven’t been any shipments since may, so my bad there.

Trump’s actions are empowering the genocide because they are clearly supportive of both Israel’s bombing and occupation.

I mean the problem is that this doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. You either do things or you don’t, things like empowering or slamming or come to Jesus moments are all rhetoric and rhetoric only matters when it starts affecting the real world. We’ll have to see if the ceasefire holds; if it does then it makes sense (in US foreign policy terms, I of course hate it) for Trump to continue shipments, if not then we can start talking about leopards eating faces. The settler sanctions had zero effect on the real world, so they don’t matter no matter how “empowering” lifting them may be.

He’s approving one shipment (Israel has been using 2000 pound bombs since October 7th and I haven’t heard anything about them stopping after that shipment was paused) and lifting sanctions on the four West Bank settlers Biden had sanctioned. This will only hurt Palestinians about as much as the original moves by Biden had helped them, which is to say: not at all.

Yeah, why not? Again, apartheid states don’t deserve to exist. Also I’ll note that this is not the same as “should Israelis be all mercilessly slaughtered”, that’s a different question with a different answer.