A Lemmy client with the ability to tag Nazi members as Nazis when they like to defend the regime that has raped multiple hospital directors to death has been really useful.
And yet you won't respond to the comment that points out that this awesome plane that only works a third of the time cost 7 times more than the entire fucking Apollo program from start to finish.
It was a grift.
A scam.
A con.
The sole purpose of that plane is to steal the money that you work for and pay taxes on and give it to rich people.
The F-35 program has so far cost us 7 times (adjusted for inflation) what it cost us to go to the fucking moon for a plane that only works 30 percent of the time.
You don't need to be a 'tankie' (a word I doubt you could define) to recognize that that is a ripoff.
Capitalists should be furious about this obvious fucking grift to funnel tax payer money to the board members of defense companies.
Gee.... I guess the ongoing genocide the Democratic party is complicit in committing had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Nor the undemocratic primary selection of a geriatric without the ability to even debate that the the DNC knew was going senile back in '21 per their own leaked internal reports.
Nor was it the undemocratic selection of the person that ran a campaign around getting the support of fucking Dick Cheney, and said she didn't disagree with a single policy decision of the afore mentioned senile old man.
No. It was the economy. The economy that was good as the entire DNC tried to continuously tell us, going so far as to call it the Biden recovery.
And the DNC has no responsibility for the economy. They certainly didn't end every single very popular Covid era program and raise the interest rates so quickly, even though most of the inflation was provably mostly (more then 50%) from collusion of companies raising their prices. They even bragged about it during shareholder calls.
Your comment is so pathetically uninformed it is ludicrous.
You aren't a responsible citizen, as you put it. A responsible citizen should be informed of current events to help them make the decision on who to vote for.
Go pedal your ignorant defense of the people that handed the election to Trump somewhere else.
No. It's the campaign consultants that drove a failed strategy based on tacking to the right, and people like you that try to protect those consultants jobs by shaming others.
Saying politicians have to earn votes is not a moral statement in the same way that saying the sun rises in the east isn't.
It is a statement of fact about the game board that politicians play on. Complaining about that is useless for actually winning. It just serves to protect those that failed you. ie the DNC's campaign team.
EDIT: What does your view give you? A brief moment of self-righteous joy, with no improved chances of winning. You think trying to shame people you want something from will get them to give it to?
Or do you think treating the people you require something from as a power bloc that has concessions made to it is more likely to get you what you want?
'Logic' like you just posted is what gave us Trump.
A political parties job is to win elections.
If you know a significant percentage of the population thinks like the person you responded to, and you don't do anything to win their votes, then you are intentionally trying to lose as effectively as if you worked for the Trump campaign.
You actually need to learn the various types of logical fallacies. Just calling everything strawmanning just makes you look like a Raman that started, but didn't finish, Logic 101.
And no, it isn't hyperbole. It happened. If you know any Palestinians at all, and you bothered to show an ounce of human decency and asked them about it, you'd probably find out was true for you, too.
Travel bans don't do a damn thing for people that can't leave the area they're being genocide in.
Gaza's borders are forcibly closed by Israel.
So, that argument is meaningless.
Secondly, the US could end Israel's genocide with a single phone call, just like has been done EVERY OTHER SINGLE FUCKING TIME BEFORE!
That argument "but we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" is either ignorant beyond belief or made in bad faith to argue for continuing the genocide.
A Lemmy client with the ability to tag Nazi members as Nazis when they like to defend the regime that has raped multiple hospital directors to death has been really useful.