leftist, Discworld fan
Hear hear, well said, as a 52 year old, (albeit I’m Lebanese and had my fair share of Israeli wars), it’s been obvious from day 1 Israel has long been practicing blatant apartheid policies in the Gaza strip, and providing IOF support to terrorist settler pogroms in the west bank. The vile entity that is the Israeli government today needs to be torn down and rebuilt to allow for a viable Palestinian state.
I too am taking a side and fuck Israel and the IOF.
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Oh I know that, hence that it won’t do shit, as you rightly indicated, rule of law, with bug guns. Just another average day for countries like the US and Israel.
Colombia should take this to the ICC, it won’t so shit, but they should anyway.
I truly hope more judges grow a pair and actually do their jobs as per the constitution. Agreed he’s not untouchable as made clear with the Kilmar Abrego Garcia fiasco. I’m crossing my fingers for all you normal people!
Armchair doomer, I like that. I’m not an American, I just have family and friends there, as I write this from a west African nation where I am a foreign worker, we had a supposed coup attempt. I’m looking at Europe vis a vis Russia and things don’t look peachy. I’m originally from Lebanon, and the entire Middle East is fucked outside of the petro bubble that are the Gulf Dictatorship Monarchies. So forgive me my pessimism when the supposed “Leader of the free world” is trying to dismantle the democratic state which will have far reaching effects on the world as a whole.
Well, to the outsiders looking in, it looks like these protests are non existent and not effective. Doesn’t seem to be much stopping Trump, with the courts now siding on Trump regarding deploying the national guard. I gotta be honest with you, it looks like your democracy is on life support at the moment.
Protesting every day might be less effective without economic disruption going with it Ideally there should be a general strike, get the workforce out in force, this administration only cares about the bottom line, once the billionaires start feeling it then maybe. Unfortunately I don’t think this is possible in todays America, for various reasons including size, reliance on work for health reasons, etc etc etc.
Crowds make a difference when they are out in numbers on a daily basis, one massive protest every month or so won’t make a bit of a difference.
Unfortunately, so many Americans are being held hostage by the fact they live paycheck to paycheck, and health insurance for the most part is dependent on your employers. This republican policies have been a long time in the making and seems to have worked for them. God (s) help you all.
We are in a new world, it’s very hard to compare the grip billionaires have on policy with what was happening in the 70’s onwards.
You guys need a sustained general strike, Trump and his billionaire backers only care about the bottom line $$. Unfortunately regardless of the size of the peaceful protests, once a month just won’t cut it.
It’s now or never for Americans. Either step up, cripple the country with strikes, or live in whatever Trumps backers vison for America is.
Meanwhile Americans are holding peaceful protests that will change everything… Just like the Pro Palestinian protests changed everything, just like the massive global protests stopped the second Gulf War… It’s time people realise that while protesting peacefully does bring awareness, it changes nothing, especially when the administration is purposely working against the interests of the majority of the population.
It’s nice to have confirmation that the world is heading in the “RIGHT” direction. The capitalist system is doing what it can to maintain profits and authoritarianism is the only way forward for it. As is said, we are living in “interesting” times. What an absolute cluster fuck.
Likely the same reason I used to be able to smoke in cinema’s, airplanes etc. The same reason wearing seatbelts wasn’t legally required.
Nazi’s doing Nazi shit.
Who’s to say Trump doesn’t say we all have three eyes now and governments fall over themselves to convince us it’s true.
And now with this chatter coming from the US about retaking Baghram Airbase it’s likely a deal will be made with them, you know, turn a blind eye…
I agree that we shouldn’t stop fighting, but it’s very uneven when you fight the people controlling the entire narrative. They own the TV’s, the social media, The majority of the press as well as pumping money into disinformation.
I grew up in Nigeria and am here now after an absence, there is a problem in the north with Boko Haram, who are terrorists, however they are not targeting Christians, they are killing people randomly, they will attack Churches, Mosques, schools, etc. They are not waging a holy war against anyone, they are terrorists full stop.