Bytemeister @ Bytemeister @lemmy.world

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Feed the alligators bacon. Once they have a taste for pigs, the ICE agents will no longer be able to work there.

Look, if you put people in "concentration camps" until they die, wouldn't that be an extermination camp, even if you aren't doing anything to accelerate their deaths?

"You should be in church right now!"

"If I was, then who the fuck would be serving you at Cracker Barrel right now?"

...if they don’t convert you, you’re going to burn in hell for eternity when you die.

Some like it hot. Leave me alone.

Yeah. It would be applied equally. Being an asshole "I got mine fuck you" politician shouldn't be something we tolerate, regardless of party affiliation.

I'd like to see a law in place that says if a congressman votes against aid for another state during a disaster, then they must resign immediately after requesting aid for their own state during a disaster.

Put your money where you mouth is.

Frankly, Cali, Oregon, and Washington ought to form a Western Coast Pact, where if one of them gets unfair treatment from the feds, they all lock down their ports. Trump's tariff tax on Americans, plus shipping delays and extra shipping costs would make the general public pretty mad at the situation. Hypothetically, companies can (they won't) absorb tariff costs, but supply line interruptions are immediate total chaos, and can have knock-on effects for decades

Fuck god. We've got dibs.

The point is that the "blame" doesn't matter, it was all something the byststander decided to lean into to justify their decision not to help. Yes, the good samaritan had to decide to leave someone behind. They made a decision, someone who could have lived died because of it. The samaritan has to live with that for the rest of their life.

Sure, the good samaritan had to leave someone to die in the fire because they can fucking carry everyone. Life is full of hard choices, and most of the time you have to pick the least bad option. Deal with it.

Consider this. Israel and Palestine are gonna fight. They're in an impossible situation. There are only 2 ways they move forward. One is that they agree not to retaliate when struck, and to handle aggression internally and swiftly. The second is that one of them ceases to exist. No US presidential candidate was going to make one of those things happen.

So... the resolution of Israel/Palestine genocide wasn't on the table for the US presidential election in 2024, in the same way that the issue of Chinese treatment of Uyghurs wasn't on the table, or the UK rejoining th EU, or Mexican drug cartels foregoing violence. People who voted 3rd party, or didn't vote risked all the fascist stuff trump has done in the last 6 months, and all the shit he's going to do in the next 3.5 years, in an attempt to wash their hands of an issue that wasn't up to them to decide in the first place. So they took a large risk on everything for the extremely slim possiblity of at best gaining absolutley nothing, and now they go around crowing like they made the right decision. To me, it's like someone watching a burning bus , and as people are trying to rescue victims, they say "well at least I didn't decide to leave people behind on the bus, unlike those jerks" and the gesturing wildly at singed good samaritans who tragically weren't able to get everyone out of the blaze.

They risked everything, and then played to lose. I blame them equally to trump supporters, if not a bit more since they clearly aren't a bunch of brain damaged adult-age children like trump supporters are.

As a person that voted for Harris. Yes. And we should be putting pressure on her to condition any aid to Israel.

Meanwhile, with trump, we're too busy trying to keep all of our water reserves for crops from being dumped, and trying to keep US residents from being sent to extra-national slave torture prisons without due process to even think about having time to mount meaningful protests for what is happening in Gaza.

It matters to the cult that they were in.

-Put conditions on any aid going to Israel.

-Arrest trump and his sycophants in Congress for their litany of heinous crimes against the American people.

-Force Biden not to run in 2024, have an actual primary and don't put their thumb on the scale to nominate a corporate-owned bipartisan centrist.

I'm pretty pro-democrat, but they could have done all that shit in a day and locked in the next 8 years of federal elections.

He dithered and only reluctantly did this. And then when he did, he did it in a way that a corrupt SCOTUS could overrule. There were other paths he could have taken, but he chose the least-confrontational approach and ultimately the court negated most of his efforts.

I'm gonna gut check this, because I remember him trying couple of times to work out student debt relief. Also, what other steps would you have taken to get student debt relief/forgiveness pushed though? The only step I can think of is after the "president is a king" SCOTUS ruling he could have just canceled them and told everyone to fuck off, but using those powers was clearly something that he didn't morally agree with.

Yeah, pull a China and say, we're immediately on putting a 1000% tariffs on any American products. This will functionally stop any trade between our nations. Trump can retailiate with a higher one, but it would just be pointless dick waving. We're fine with waiting until an intelligent and capable person is able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU on behalf of the USA.

That's okay, then you dress as yourself and be super nice to crows. It evens out.

Honestly, the real answer is to dress up like ICE and then be dicks to crows. Trump's SS won't be able to operate in your city for years!