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What Isreal is doing in Gaza is inexcusable, particularly doing it with our guns.

But the above poster is right, the US would never drop them. Isreal is too important to the US MIC for maintaining control in the middle east. If we abandoned Isreal, neighboring countries would (with good justification) most likely ally to invade them, led by Iran. Then the US has to deal with an allied ME bloc, possibly backed by Russia, China, or both.

Really, the US is pouring money and arms into its own "defense" via Isreal as proxy. We should step in to stop them being genocidal, but I think the worry is that we'd just stir up a bigger shitstorm if we tried to actually deploy.

Not that it's going to matter soon since Iran ramping up aggression will "force" the US to step in.

In a multi-way ballot, Harris’ lead widens, receiving 47% to Trump’s 41% among registered voters, and 50% to 42% among likely voters.

Yeah, I've been wondering about this. People talk like RFK and Stein are spoilers for the Dems, when it seemed really obvious to me that RFK and Trump must share some of the brainworm-victim demographic.

Not as bad as those osmium-heads, plus we've got sparkle and color!

Always been more of an iridium man myself

You currently owe Oracle $500MM in unpaid licensing fees for this floor.

I'm very amused that (so far, on my client) you seem to have no up or downvotes, but an upvoted response. No programmer kink shaming, but no one else wants to be nice to Java either.

If you weren't there, it's hard to describe how Americans were after 9/11. It broke people. We got a lesson in vulnerability and humility that most Americans learned nothing from, instead sinking deeper into paranoia, rage, greater entitlement, and vengeance.

Fu-goat-abut-em

Big news sites will do things like write up a story announcing a presidential win for each of the candidates, then only publish the one that matters after the election. This way they can have a story on the front page within minutes (seconds these days) of having official results.

I wouldn't be surprised if Vox had 1 of these lined up for each of the likely VP picks. If not that, it certainly wouldn't be unusual for a journalist to do their homework on all of the candidates and to have the rough outline and some key facts ready to go for each. If you've already done most of the research, assembling the final story shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.

I feel like the tankies make all leftists look like uncompromising lunatics. We are capable of taking small wins, negotiating, and working with moderates.

His stance (and Harris') on cops looks pretty bad, as a leftist, but Americans fucking love cops so being ACAB isn't a safe political position. Kind of the same issue with Isreal: a US politician can't be anti-Isreal, they have to take a mediated stance. But it seems like Walz knows how to navigate the nuance of those issues.

On other issues, I'm flexible myself. I'm a southerner, and I'm pro-gun-ownership. It seems like Walz is too, and has over time changed his pro-NRA stance to something more moderate and acceptable: guns ok, with regulation and limits. That's a reasonable stance on guns, one that I also share with my deeply Republican (anti-trump) parents. And that excites me because now I have talking points to try and push them towards a D vote.

spicy

I don't necessarily think that the VP spot being a lead-up to a presidential run should be one of the top considerations right now. We need to win this race, 2028 and 2032 can wait their turn.

Beyond that critique, there's a lot the Harris-Walz ticket can do to line up future Dem candidates for many races. For one, this is a big leftward shift for the Dems. That opens up the board for the Squad to make a run in the future. That opens up a path for other, more progressive candidates to fill other positions. We have no idea what the Harris cabinet will look like and a strong cabinet position is also an excellent prelude to a presidential campaign.

Plus, I don't want to get my hopes too high here and indulge in fantasy, but look at what this is doing to Republicans. What if that party shatters post-Trump? Maybe in two: a returning center-right party and an actual fascist party? If the Republicans try to retake the center, that could drive the Dems further left longterm.

tldr, a Harris presidency could go many ways, and I'm not ready to be a pessimist yet! I think this is a good thing especially because it sets us up to do even better in the future!

It's a copy-pasta from a weird t-shirt.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/born-to-die-world-is-a-fuck-kill-em-all-1989-i-am-trash-man-410757864530-dead-cops

1985 is the year the NES came to America. The huge number is actually most of the "emergency number" from the IT Crowd, unrelated, I just think it's a funny reference when I need a huge number. (I also used to have an NES cartridge themed IT Crowd shirt, probably why I have the mental association, which I trashed after Lineham lost his mind and went full terf.)

Colorism comes to Lemmy at last

The "mushroom" part of any fungus is a very small proportion of the overall organism. Mushrooms are just the "fruit bodies", the reproductive organs, of the fungus. The fruit runs off to spread spores. The real body of it is spread out underground in a vast mycelium network. Trust the fungus.

Your revolution is over, Mr. Trump. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Donald?

The bums will always lose!

Yeah! I was so worried she'd tank her momentum by picking Shapiro and ham-handedly presenting it. I continue to be impressed with the Harris team's ability to both politic and stay tapped into the people's sentiments.

BORN TO DIE

KINGDOM IS A FUCK

Squash em all 1985

I am jump man

118,999,881,999,119,725 DEAD MARIOS

I'm not ready for 4D, just let me try out C Lattice on a few smaller projects first.