GarbageShootAlt2 @ GarbageShootAlt2 @lemmy.ml

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The Biden admin has corrupted "ceasefire" to mean "pause in the fighting to get the hostages back". Biden has made a big show of cursing out Bibi on the phone and other performative bullshit, but he has not strayed from Israel's side even as they've betrayed him and promoted Trump. Harris is the same, giving lip service to human rights activists and bombs to genociders.

Yeah, the same one Harris does, because they both unconditionally support the genocide! It's not like Trump would invade Palestine (short of a broader regional conflict)

If the rapist gets into office

We currently have one in office, another issue Democrat voters rolled over on. MeWho?

OP asked how to explain socialism, not how to do anticommunist apologia for social democracy.

christo-jihad

"What are we, a bunch of Muslims?"

In a country with many vocal boot lickers ("play stupid games . . .") it seems like a fair term to have in your lexicon

Slave labor didn't stop being integral element after the Civil War. It was scaled back, but it's still both locally an integral element of the economies of many states (via prison labor, to say nothing of how under-the-table migrant dealings go) and via imperialism, etc. used abroad.

I'm not attacking Smith. The "invisible hand" thing is silly and short-sighted, but his work more broadly was the foundation for Marx economically. I'm attacking capitalism as it has existed in history, where it has virtually always used slave labor as an integral element.

Can you not try to construct a syllogism for me? Stating one obvious fact is not an argument.

You're asking me to make your argument for you. Use you words.

People frame it so innocently as "uwu the smol bean Jews just want a state" to be obfuscatory of the fact that it is an ethnostate, a thing that categorically shouldn't exist. Not only that, it's an expansionist and evidently exterminationist one at that.

People might have an easier time understanding a statement if it's a full sentence.

Then why does the US government constantly do it? Are they stupid?

Isn't this the official story? That they're a clumsy giant who just keeps oopse whoopsie-ing into all these atrocities with no selfish motive?

Next you'll say that you like capitalism, but not the kind that uses slave labor as an integral element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_profiteering

The government isn't something that exists above society, but is a facet of it. The MIC directly profits from wars, it pays politicians, politicians are motivated toward hawkish positions, the taxpayer is made to subsidize this. There are many other circuits discussed in the article, as concern the impact war has on the consumer market, how it's used for imperialism, etc.

Ultimately, wealth comes from labor, but the arrangement of war profiteering is extremely good at extracting wealth from labor in all sorts of ways.

It's certainly true that politicians and the owning class oppose environmental action very strongly, but that doesn't make it hopeless. We, the working class, are the basis of their power and wealth; we concretely have the power to force them to cooperate or topple them entirely. Clearly, the enviromental movements aren't that strong yet, but they are getting stronger and the decaying environment will provide a basis for accelerating their growth as more people like you and I begin to take these issues seriously.

So you're saying you condemn the rapist soldiers at Sde Teiman, the mob that rioted in their defense, and the administration that fostered an environment where that would happen?

Because surely you aren't refering to the fabricated hoax about Hamas doing mass rape. You'll reject it out of hand, but I guess for anyone else reading this, another good breakdown.

and there’s apparently nothing to be done to fix it in our lifetimes,

This really isn't true, and treating it as true will lead to a much nastier future than "it feels really hot out most of the time". It has implications for agriculture and ecological collapse, with entire societies being destroyed and some of the more privileged ones turning to eco-fascism. It's a much darker future than you give it credit for, but also much less inevitable.

(at which point Peter Thiel’s next Moldbug inspired ghoul will present themselves)

It's almost like this mindset is more of a stalling tactic than a strategy, because there will always be some new Threat to Democracy

Having a rapist for a president is a joke.

I've got bad news for you

There might be another Capitol Riot-style clownshow, but like the first time, nothing of real significance will happen. A few zealots and or cops might die, but nothing rising to the level of a "blood bath", let alone a "civil war".

I don't think Trump was being literal when he said bloodbath though. It's a common English idiom.