Sure grandma...

Oh this is about Israel. I thought it was about Ukraine and I was very confused

- Well, I mean, Hamas is funded by Iran. Iran and Russia are good buddies. So…
- It only makes sense. Russia financing start of another conflict that takes attention away from Ukraine and has 110% certainty of making Jews (Zelenskyy) look bad because of the batshit cracy fascist Israeli government, and USA look bad because their history in middle east and they'd probably get involved directly in some way again (happening right now). Oh also Hamas attacked on Putin's birthday or some shit
  Call me conspiracy theorist but it seems so damn obvious
- I saw a video of an Israel official on RT blaming Russia and vowing revenge. I also saw some analysis that some of the weapons Hamas had were from North Korea and Russia would've had to have helped get the weapons there. There is all kinds of disinformation going on about the Israel war, so I take everything with a grain of salt.
  Calling for a stop to an ethnic cleansing campaign is not pro Russia. If anything, Israel's behavior has greatly increased the threat of harm to its civilians, and its image on the world stage may never recover. Same for the U.S. ever trying to claim moral superiority.
- An FSB time traveler going into the past several decades to start kicking Palestinians out of their homes and restricting their general access.
  Whoa dude Russia could be behind ALL CRIME EVER IN HISTORY
  Got any more big brain takes to share?
- If you’re curious as to how they are related, it’s because of over-accumulation of capital.
- It is not like Israel needs any help, and I don't think that we are all incapable of following two different events.
  If we are talking about theories, it can also be that west created it so that people's attention goes away of Ukraine since it is just a big fiasco.
Same

I've said it before: Every Democrat I know in real life seems like an empathetic person, so it's astonishing they choose these ghouls to represent them.

My running theory from observing from across the Atlantic is that participating in American politics is mentally destructive. You are confronted by two frankly terrible options, so you either accept you live in an undemocratic country or you have to convince yourself that one of the parties is actually good. No matter what choice you make, it breaks something in you.
- Maybe this is what leads to so much cultlike behavior and unquestioned loyalty to one party or the other. And if you're anywhere outside these parties, or you so much as criticize a sitting politician, then you're hated from all sides and accused of being a Russian bot, which is especially disappointing when you're someone who does hold your nose and vote blue, but that's not good enough -- you have to fully toe the line, or else it's perceived as interfering with a campaign, a campaign which never ends.
  We're not really a democracy, are we?
- You nailed it
That's because Congress has been piss-poor at being representative of the people.
It's usually not about who shares the policy positions of the electorate as much as who can scrape together enough money to buy enough ads to convince them that they're the one most likely to beat the other team.
That's how Pelosi became Speaker in the first place in spite of having no legislative accomplishments to speak of nor seniority: she was simply the best at collecting fat checks from rich people and their corporations.
- Our "democracy" does this by design. Looking at history, it's hard to believe we can ever fix this.
- Pelosi had literal decades of political experience, and was co-authoring legislation in the late 80s concerning the AIDs crisis. She became Speaker after Democrats won control of the house with her as minority leader -- a position she won in 2002/2003 after being directly under it for a couple years.
  I get not liking Pelosi, or fundraising I guess, but it's bizarre when criticisms are spun seemingly whole cloth.
You dont really get a choice on who the party chooses to prop up and runs. See, Bernie Sanders. But, hell, I've seen it ag the grass roots level in my state. The people with the power in the party decide who goes on the ballot.
- It's really not very democratic, in the strict sense of the term
  It's exclusionary by design
- Bernie Sanders almost won, though. I'm holding out hope that the Democrats can be reformed, but I'm still voting Green.
They're convinced that they don't have a choice.
In my experience they appear to be until you bring up some issues, then they turn into bloodthirsty monsters.
For example, my my goes completely Ooga booga genocidal when Isreal is brought up.
Or on housing: She won’t even entertain any solutions that don’t let landlords keep exploiting people’s basic need for homes. She gets all “why should they have to give up property? They worked for it! Shouldn’t they be able to make money?” She can’t possibly empathize enough to value the basic needs of most people over the right for people who already own more than they need to profit off of others who have less than they need.
Honestly, I think most of them just don’t like the aesthetic of the Republican Party more than they’re actually opposed to conservative politics.
- If your installation of Oobabooga is unstable, you might need to switch LLMs
- Yeah, that's probably why these horrible people end up in office. Most Democrats I know are my father, who says he's socialist and actually used to teach history, and local politicians who seem pretty good, but I imagine they're not necessarily a good cross section of the party.
  That's why it literally surprised me when Biden won the primaries, like what
A prerequisite for being a politician is also being a narcissistic sociopath. The few that aren't/weren't are the deviation from that, and usually get hamstrung if not just killed anyway.
- I've actually considered running for local office, but I decided against it for a couple reasons, one being my unusual work schedule, and the other being the fact that I can't imagine being around politicians that much.
  Anyway, it's pretty clear we need more than elections to fix whatever it is this is.

Jeffries is toeing the same line.

There is a huge generational divide in the democratic party between those who benefit from the US police state and those who are suffering from it.

This seems to map very cleanly onto whether people support the Gaza genocide.

Jim Jeffries? I knew that cunt was up to no good!

What has she done?

What ceasefire? Which one, of the numerous conflicts now on Earth, is referred to here?

Pretty sure it’s in reference to this past weekend she got approached by someone demanding a ceasefire, and Pelosi’s response was for that person to go back to China because they are also genociding Uygurs. She later claimed she thought the reporter was a Russian plant or some unhinged bs.
So, not even the usual ceasefire bad because right to defend. Just ceasefire bad because whataboutism.
- The news source of "menzmag" is reporting about her freak out on the pro Palestinian protesters on her driveway this weekend.
- This still does not answer which ceasefire you’re referring to. Could refer to Ukraine, for example.
Pelosi said that pro-Palestine protestors should be investigated by the FBI for ties with Russia
Allow me to explain what they were going for: demoncrats bad, orange fan mad
- Ah yes because anyone that doesn't like democrats must be republican!
  Libs are such a joke, but you don't even understand the punchline.

Meanwhile does more shady stock trades while everyone is looking the other way

Let’s hope the trial is handled swiftly before the The Hague invasion act is activated.

She told activists to 'Go back to China where your headquarters is' which uh. Is interesting to say the least.

The propagandists aren't even trying to pretend here lol.

Right? I can't believe this blatant disinformation is getting upvoted. She said it was Chinese propaganda smh.
- She also said it was Russian propaganda that should be investigated by the FBI in an interview on CNN.

No, she literally replied to a protester who asked her if she would call for a ceasefire fire, and I quote, "Go back to China where your headquarters are". Stop defending people who are complicit of genocide (an actual crime btw).
Russia benefits from this conflict. If the US wasn't supplying Israel with weapons, they would give it to Ukraine.
She didn't call the protesters violent

Ukraine gets their land back excluding most of crimea yes they get armiansk but a Crimean state for the non Slavic crimean people that is peacekeeper and Russia gets a part of tuzla island for a border checkpoint

She's right, but in this rare situation the Kremlin's propaganda is pushing for something good.

She's right that some of the vocal criticism of Biden over Gaza is probably pushed by Russia. The Kremlin's propaganda is pushing for chaos and dissent in US politics. It's not because they care about Gaza.
- She is wrong complaining about Russia interference of domestic and international affairs since she takes money from Israeli loppyist to shape the foreign affairs policies disregarding the good of tax payers.
  She is also never pushed back against US government support in other countries such as meddling in China bussinus, went to Taiwan, meddling in Russian bussinus, meddling in Iran bussinus, and many many other countries that doesn't get coverage.
  She want to throw rocks at people and complain when someone throw a rock back.
- Exactly, minus "probably."