Bytemeister @ Bytemeister @lemmy.world

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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!

Right? The only thing on the market for EVs in the US right now is "luxury" crossovers and trucks. What people really want is an electric civic hatchback.

Hmmm. I think US cars can absolutely compete. Here is the problem. Foreign manufacturers make cars that people want to buy. American manufacturers make cars that they want to sell. These two things are not the same.

Better yet, give it to a friend who isn't attending the protest, and have them drive around with the phone. Pull it out and check some sites with it every few minutes, maybe send a few messages.

I know this sounds crazy in 2025, but you can still buy standalone digital cameras. You can even get discreet devices that record constantly.

Huh. Usually refurb them and offer them up for free. E-waste recycling is a fancy term in my area for "trucking it across the country to a port, loading it on a boat, shipping it across the ocean and then having a 6yr old without PPE burn it and bury it." Honestly, throwing it in a landfill is less damaging at that point.

Usually, you have a National weather service that estimates rainfall for an area and warns you about possible disasters so you can issue warnings and pre-stage response teams... Wonder what happened to all that.

He is running it like a business, problem is, he runs most of his businesses straight into the ground.

Consent is a social construct created by humans

Consent exists outside of humans, it just what we've decided to call "respecting autonomy".

I don't think it is forced birther ammo. Something that does not exist cannot consent. A fetus is just a collection of cells, it has the same ability to consent as a finger or a liver, in the vast majority of abortions it has no more individual identity than a tumor. Consent of the fetus shouldn't be a criteria for abortion anyway, it's consent of the individual that it is taking resources from that matters.

Haven't got the balls to kill myself. Other people depend on me. I'm bought into the life ecosystem. Functionally, I think dying is much more stressful and scary than never existing. I'm also not a defeatist, I'm working to fix those things, but I don't exactly have a lot of say it how it plays out.

That was the joke. We know precisely down to the second when the sun will be shining. We've been able to calculate that for over a century at this point.

"Oh, what about storms and clouds!?!"

Let me introduce those naysayers to the national energy grids. My house can get electricty from a producer thousands of miles away, so even if clouds are covering my whole state, we're still getting power from sunny areas.

Some rough math says pretty much all of them, and you'll need to stop heating your house too.