• rayyy@piefed.social
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    5 hours ago

    Maybe sinking fealty but the support will still be there - too much money flowing to both parties.

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    It would be really nice if one day we could stop associating with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

    Israel is going to have to get more covert going forward. AIPAC carries too much baggage. Maybe they’ll hide behind JStreetPAC or something for a while, or have their donors reclassify as some other FEC title, which I suspect they may already be doing.

    Either way, anyone who starts to carry a legislative record of putting Israel First over America can no longer hide behind simply being opposed to antisemitism; nothing wrong with that if genuine of course (for it was always conservatives under the Republican banner causing violence wrought out of hate crimes) – but we all know that was just a veil for increasing far-right strength in Israel.

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      AIPAC are already covering their tracks. They now do most funding through the united democracy project. Though that’s been pro-israels Super PAC for sometime, AIPAC funding was still high.

      Their donation model has also changed. Now they encourage their members to do individual contributions rather than through the org. Which is much harder to trace to their specific lobby group.

      That’s why it’s important to ask the politician if they support Israel, because it 100% is a litmus test on their morality, both governance morality or human morality.

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    Cut them off cold turkey. Let them learn to get along with their neighbors, instead of being bullies to everyone, with the USA being their big brother.

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    This will change nothing internally for Israeli politics. They did not develop the mental illness of fascism out of thin air. They are one of the most heavily indoctrinated and radicalized populations on the planet, and it’s been going on for more than a century (zionism started well before Nazi Germany).

    Even after dozens of widely reported crimes against humanity — including the rape, beastiality, torture, and murder of “suspects” — the result was Israeli extremists committing domestic terrorism and storming a military base in defense of releasing the suspect charged for raping a Palestinian so badly they needed emergency hospitalisation. All domestic polling I’ve seen indicates that somewhere between 70-90% of Israelis are pro-genocide; pro-extermination; irredeemably mentally ill nazis…

    Israel and Zionism in general need to be sanctioned, blacklisted, and ostracized for decades to crack their fascist psychosis.

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      You should add that Saudi Arabia is holding back the rest of the Muslim world from coming to rescue. The House of Saud is also complicit.

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        It’s not just the Saudis, in fact they’re one of the few who haven’t signed on to the abraham accords, it’s the entire ruling class of the Arab world who would rather get US money and weapons then confront the terrorist state destabilizing the region.

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        You should add that Saudi Arabia is holding back the rest of the Muslim world from coming to rescue.

        Not at all, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have that much influence. They’re all selling out Palestine for Euro-American dollars.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    it’s time for the Democratic version of America First, where we spend our money at home, on our people. When we’re strong and healthy, we can go out and fix the world. But right now, we need to concentrate on our own problems.

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      When we’re strong and healthy, we can go out and fix the world

      no thanks, retreat to within your own borders and maybe cooperate with other countries without trying to be “the world police”

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      I guess the next 1-3 decades will bring a lot of change especially to the USA. What made the U.S. so strong is that everyone in the world used their systems, e.g. communication, payment system, currency, military/weapons, alliances, etc. But I think no-one really wants to continue using it. Of course this is easier said than done. But nevertheless countries will try and succeed at least to a degree to use non-usa systems.

      Nevertheless USA is an impressive powerhouse, but part of that power comes from the whole world relying on U.S. systems. Which will change for sure.

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        part of that power comes from the whole world relying on U.S. systems.

        Trump has never understood soft power and has ruined US soft power in nearly all aspects.

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      A few had already started jumping ship a couple of months or so ago. But not because they want to tell the world that they’re sorry, but because they had already thought they saw the writing on the wall, and figured getting out early might help them in the future. Many will deny ever supporting Netanhayu or Zionism.

      Saying that, it still feels a little like counting chickens before they’re hatched.

      This:

      Vice President JD Vance, assessing why his Republicans fared poorly, listed four ways to bring voters back, including ending the Iran war and changing “our relationship with Israel”.

      If that was to work on any level, then there is no hope for the U.S. at all.

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        I have doubt that people will reject Zionism. They’re indoctrinated into it from birth and it’s intense brainwashing. That doesn’t just go away, you need professional help.

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          I don’t think that they will reject Zionism, I do think that many will deny subscribing to it/believing in it though.

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        I really really hope people don’t forget the shitpile this administration has been and don’t vote R again in their lifetime.

        My fear is that the neocon wing of the party grabs the power back and pretends they’re all different in the 2030s.

        R presidencies are always such incredible clusterfucks, and yet they get voted back every few election cycle.

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          They time their legislation to kick in during Democratic administrations, then blame Democrats. The morons fall for it and there are a lot of morons in this country. We need Democrats calling out shit like this all the time, teach people about these strategies.

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          Because there are only two options. Think of aggregate voter sentiment as being “If things are good/ok, vote incumbent. If things are bad, vote for change/the other guys”. It doesn’t matter who the ‘other guys’ are, just that they’re recognised as ‘the only alternative’.

          Eg. Canada’s third largest province just elected a totally unknown conservative leader – like the ‘real’ leader stepped down a day before the election was called, and a temp got put in place… who then ‘won’ the election. That cycle wasn’t about “voting for the random temp” / supporting conservative values, it was a repudiation of the previous government. People just didn’t feel like there was any other viable alternative.

          So if the dems don’t markedly improve the living conditions in the USA somehow during their term, and get people thinking “Yeah, things are good!”, they’ll be kicked out again, and replaced by whatever monstrosity the R’s have dredged out of the Trump Ocean.

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          That’s because D presidencies (and Congresses) have failed to meaningfully deliver for decades, so people pick the other guy by instinct. When the Dems delivered they had national politics by the balls for thirty years.

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            It depends on your definition of meaningful delivery. W started a hugely expensive war that Obama had to manage. He pushed trough healthcare reforms (that I am not qualified to judge) and in general kept things stable. Biden had Covid to manage and made substantial investments in green technology, again keeping things stable and bringing the Afghanistan war to it’s inevitably bad conclusion. Ds typically also are able to balance the budget, whereas Rs always overspend and give tax breaks to the rich.

            Ds have also been the party of civil rights and minorities, but they always face relentless and shameless propaganda from Rs, aimed only at riling up the voters in anger. So I would argue it’s more a matter of how things are perceived rather than how they actually play out.

            The problem with the perception of Ds is that R voters see them as a strange caricature, and independents and D voters don’t give them enough credit for what they achieve (and for just not being R in a two-party system).

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              He pushed trough healthcare reforms (that I am not qualified to judge)

              I’m pretty qualified to judge: It’s not good.

              I don’t really blame Obama too much, but he shouldn’t have compromised. The result was worse than nothing. It allowew our broken healthcare system to keep getting worse, and now we’re getting close to catastrophic failure

              American healthcare is effectively a massive bubble. There is so much inefficiency that we now have a significant portion of the population employed in healthcare that will lose their job with any healthcare reform

              We live in a society where frequent flyers waste healthcare resources every single day. An ambulance to and from the hospital daily, an ER doc to check them out and determine they’re faking yet again. All because they refuse all mental health treatment

              We also live in a society where healthcare professionals feel they have to dodge the ambulance after a serious head injury, simply because they can’t afford it

              I’m thinking of two specific cases here, but the whole system is broken. We have hospitals going bankrupt at a record pace, while paying more for healthcare than any other country, by far

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                Thanks for the insight. Just recently I read elsewhere that it’s still better than what is was before. But yeah, I can’t judge, so happy to hear opinions.

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              I accidentally deleted my long-ish reply so I’m gonna be brief here, but basically you’re assuming you know how people are doing better than they do. Democrats have scored some wins, but given the timescale and the sheer magnitude of crisis facing ordinary Americans most of it is too little, too late (the Affordable Care Act, originally Romneycare, being a good case in point). Virtually every stat tracking how people actually live (as opposed to how much money they have) has been declining over the past two to four decades and people are feeling it in their wallets, and Democrats have near-universally failed to address that. There’s a reason progressives have gained so much momentum over the past decade. Compare to someone like FDR and you’ll see why modern Democrats are perceived as useless.

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                basically you’re assuming you know how people are doing better than they do.

                Can you point out where I am assuming this? I understand things are bad, and in case you haven’t noticed they have gotten significantly worse under R presidency once again.

                There’s a reason progressives have gained so much momentum over the past decade.

                Also, in case you haven’t noticed, the progressives come from within democrats. This is great development and I hope it continues, but it needs people to participate and think of Ds as their party that they take control over. Otherwise there will be just corporate democrats who struggle to win against R. But even they are better than Rs, by a wide margin.

                Compare to someone like FDR and you’ll see why modern Democrats are perceived as useless.

                Interestingly, FDR got the presidency after the great depression had started. That sentiment and economic hardship allowed him to carry radical changes.

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      Or time to start the real genocide, since they have less to lose, and people cried wolf anyway.

      Also, they will have less budget for fancy interceptors from hamas rockets.

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        people cried wolf anyway.

        Ah yes people cried wolf, it’s not that two thirds of Gaza was razed to the ground, nothing of the sort.

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              Are you … like … trying to justify the 70k as a small or in any way reasonable number?

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                Russia is losing 2000-2500 men/day invading Ukraine.

                1-2 months of those casualties seems to be non-excessive in an operation to destroy a military that given the chance comes to murder and rape unrestricted (as proven on October 7th).

                To quote wikipedia

                A May 2025 investigation found that a classified IDF database listed 8,900 Palestinian fighters as dead or likely dead, or 17% of the 53,000 death toll at the time

                Which seems sensible since hamas likes using human shields.

                Should Isreal have the goal to exterminate all Palestinians, the numbers would be much much worse.

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    14 hours ago

    🚨 TRADE OFFER 🚨

    I get: billions of dollars worth of guns, planes, and other military equipment

    You get: loads of bad press, occasional dinner with Bibi (while supplies last, no cash value, void where prohibited)

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      Chuck already has his beach front property picked out in Gaza. Dude personally helped get bulldozers for Isreal. What did Isreal need several hundred extra of those chuck? Fucking ghouls. Jeffries is no better.

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      They do have about 100 representatives that would support cutting funding for Israel but the other 400 will be against it.