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I posted this elsewhere but pasting it here as well for visibility:

Interestingly enough I've not seen a single outlet link to her letter in the paper. I couldn't tell you why

You'd think the international news story would be lead with the actual words she's being imprisoned for.

There's probably nazis at their table right now

That was in February

They can't do anything until it affects the outcome of the election so once the nazi judge is on the bench they will take the case and find him not in violation of the constitution because the people decided

In america we learned that laws don't apply if everyone in power agrees to not apply them. The french are lucky enough to know how to force their government to comply, let's just hope they ensure the laws are carried out and le pen is removed from politics permanently. They have a front row seat to see what happens when you let the law apply itself. The french government would be wise to heed the warning.

Horrifyingly enough this actually happened lmao

Hamas is not evil dawg lmao I would be hamas if the shit happened here. Any reasonable person would take up arms in defense of their land whether they agree with the organization fully or not.

If American bombs destroyed your entire neighborhood and killed your entire family along with all your neighbors and everyone you went to school with you would rightfully seek out a way to fight the party responsible.

It's disingenuous to call hamas evil. Israel broke a ceasefire, killed 500 people(mostly children), kidnapped rescue workers and executed them, and has refused to allow aid into Gaza for over a month. That is evil. Any resistance to that in any form is just and righteous.

To call it evil is covering up Israel's decades long war crimes against Palestinians. A hundred thousand deaths on Israel's bloody hands? That is evil. Reducing an entire civilization to rubble for giving you a well deserved black eye after 70 years of oppression and apartheid is evil. Any evil you percieve from hamas is an in-kind response.

Resisting is human nature.

Stop playing their game.

Any time you feel tempted to condemn hamas, condemn Israel for propping them up and creating the conditions for Oct. 7th. Anything less is giving them cover to continue this genocide. If hamas is evil then killing all Palestinians is rational and necessary. You are unwittingly manufacturing consent for genocide when you do this.

Very cool and informative! Sorry for the late reply this message ended up in the "mentions" tab instead of replies. I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that lemmy is also technically kbin lol the whole thing is fascinating, thank you for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response to my silly request

Exactly, that's my whole point. We got duped because we really let ourselves believe the candidate the DNC chose was going to actually be progressive. Hindsight shows we were wrong to believe in his campaign but it also shows the democratic party knew full well what they were doing when they put the establishment behind his campaign specifically

In the fervour of trying to ensure an absolute crank like Dr. Oz wasn't allowed to hold office we all collectively bet the house on democrats meeting the moment and putting forward a progressive. In reality, they saw the moment for what it was and used that opportunity to get a slam dunk institutional stooge into a seat for 6 years.

The problem isn't that we were duped, the problem is that we were made to believe anything other than a heel turn was the desired outcome. He was selected specifically for his ability to fake being progressive and have zero shame when confronted about it.

We cant take their word for it anymore, if your candidate isn't openly a socialist they might as well be a republican. Until our institutions work for us we cannot rely on them to do the work to get there. Go look at the zohran mamdani campaign and what they are advocating for to see what an actually progressive campaign looks like so you don't get duped ever again. If your candidate doesn't talk like THIS you are being lied to about their beliefs.

When people tell you who they are, believe them. This is what israel stands for.

Oh for sure, this leads us back to the real issue at hand which is democrats choosing the most unfit, corrupt, or republican candidate they can run in any election that is being used as a "referendum on extremism" see henry cuellar in Texas for this same exact scenario in even more explicit terms

Fetterman should've never been allowed in the party. If they truly believed in progressive values instead of optics and looking "moderate" someone with actual, tangible values would have been chosen to run. Anyone with the party machinery to run oppo research on fetterman should have said then and there that he has proven himself antithetical to progressivism. His behaviors both personally and in office are incompatible with the stated desires of the people he was chosen to represent AND his own claimed political beliefs. They just chose to keep it hidden and lean into "common sense."

There are plenty of people in Philly that could have blown the doors off dr oz and actually delivered for the state in congress. Not that Fetterman was worse than dr oz, he was just the literal next worst option there was. THAT is why he got the campaign money and not anyone who was going to argue against the DNC.

Everyone let themselves be fooled into believing the dems were trying to move the needle. It would have made no difference if they just said "this guy is basically a republican but you're gonna have to vote him in bc the other option is dr oz." But they decided it would look better if he campaigned as a progressive and then betrayed that constituency once in office.

Watch the NYC mayoral race closely, you see the same happening again. Propping up a proven sexual abuser with the money and media coverage and organizing power from the Democrat institutions just to destroy the campaign of a open socialist running to pass laws to benefit real new york workers. All because Cuomo would be running against Eric adams in an almost guaranteed loss for adams. Its disgusting. This is how fascism won.

Idk what to do but call it out for what it is. We have to build an entirely separate power structure for real candidates like Zohran to make sure people like us have the backing to win these races against democrats in their own strongholds. All the political power and will is unified against allowing truly progressive candidates to run. Until there is a new national workers party fundraising for working class candidates we won't see anything but more neoliberal-centrist "progressives" who vote to continue the orphan crushing machine out of loyalty to the structure and utter lack of loyalty to any constituency.

Sorry for the rant, I'm just attempting to make a record of my frantic screams as water fills the lower decks

Only two years too late! Great job everyone

Ooh do me next!

Is there an extension that shows account "karma" somewhere? I dont care very much but I would be interested to know how I'm getting along here since there's no notifications for reaching upvote Milestones.

Now that I think about it; I don't get notifications from lemmy at all. Maybe I should look at my settings..

Don't worry, liberal media is going to save the day here by passive voicing genocide and offering comfort to fascists being "unfairly criticized" so they can remain fair and balanced. The revolution will be televised, as they always say.

Youre right, the correct terminology here is "doublethink"

The whole thing was computer, he was expecting an automatic I'm guessing

I'm glad someone understood what I was getting at lol

Fuck ronald reagan, fuck the entire apparatus that allowed him to get into power, and fuck all the cowards in congress who refused to convict him for deliberately betraying our nation time and time again while in office.

The bow was my entire reason to play this game

Youre either lying or stupid https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-child-recovering-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-undocumented-rcna196049

President carter just did nothing while those hostages were stuck in iran and Reagan got them out!