HomerianSymphony @ HomerianSymphony @lemmy.world

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Trump has routinely intentionally mispronounced her first name – it’s correctly pronounced “comma-la”

I wish people would stop saying this.

It only sounds like comma-la for speakers who have the father-bother merger. (That is, speakers for whom father and bother rhyme.)

And while most Americans do have that merger, New Yorkers (like Trump) and Bostonians do not have that merger.

Yes. Absolutely.

Unfortunately, Israel doesn’t want peace as much as it wants all of Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Peace will happen when the international community forces Israel to return the West Bank and most of East Jerusalem (including the Al-Aqsa mosque) to the Palestinians and recognize Palestinian statehood.

And what guarantee is there that the Palestinians wouldn’t have it worse under Kamala Harris and Josh “Peace is not Possible” Shapiro?

But nothing is more suspicious than seeing someone go from limited mention to being called a zionist constantly

I think that’s a pretty natural consequence of:

1. Reports that he is the front-runner to be Harris’s vice-presidential pick (which pretty naturally takes someone from “who?” to the topic of national discussion); and
2. The Philadelphia Inquirer digging up an old op-ed where he says that the Palestinians are incapable of governing themselves.

I’m going to skip over everything else that has been reported about that op-ed and focus on that one line. Because that is bonkers.

I do believe people’s political opinions can change, and that’s why I’ll forgive most of the op-ed (my opinions have certainly changed since I was 20, and I’m not much younger than Shapiro). But that one line speaks to a bigoted, colonialist mindset that would have been more at home in the 1860s than the 1990s.

I honestly think it’s disqualifying. For someone to think like that at age 20 points to such a lack of empathy, it’s probably the sign of a sociopathic personality.

If Harris picks Shapiro, then I guess I’m back to voting third-party.

Winning an Olympic medal isn't a guarantee [of] having a winning personality or even being a good person.

But he also has a cat.

catgang

I believe it.

I think Harris is as good a candidate as any Democrat, but Biden always treated her like a work experience student. Because he’s an old racist.

In my experience, those people already know that the potential effects on their lives isn’t more important than genocide.

Upvoted for Riker meme.

Sure we do. Here's their contact information:

Firstly, that information is out of date. (And I have a feeling the state department won’t be updating the information anytime soon.) I googled that guy’s name, and he describes himself as the “former” director of consular affairs.

Secondly, that was never a real consulate. You see, after Madeiro shut down Venezuela’s consulates in the US, the US established its own fake consulate for Venuzuela allied with Juan Guaido. That guy must have “worked” for that place. Notice that it doesn’t even have a physical address or phone number.

The fake consulate shut down last year. Even when it was running, it was probably useless for actually getting a visa to enter Venezuela.

Venezuela doesn’t currently have diplomatic relations with the USA. I’m pretty sure it’s impossible for me to even apply for a visa.

No. There’s no way I would qualify for an immigration visa.

If the idea is a CCP invasion of the mainland US with said tanks, I do not find that very credible.

It would be nice if they did. Because when capitalism collapses here, it won’t be pretty.

its all about mass produced apartments, that cost equivalent of 200-250k USD for 60m2 in a large city.

Were they built by the Soviets?

I do not discuss specific personal details on the internet, just out of general principle.

Well, if you don’t own a house, you must realize it’s unlikely you’ll ever own a house, and I’m wondering why you’re so keen to defend a system that cares so little about you.

And if you do own a house… well, I guess I can see why you would defend this system. But aren’t you concerned about your kids or grandkids?

I don’t own a house. I’ve been looking, and I don’t think I’ll even be able to own a two-bedroom apartment. I might qualify for a one-bedroom apartment if I act quickly.

My field of work keeps me tied to a fairly expensive city. I was actually hoping to go back to school and maybe change into a better industry. But now I’m worried that if I do that, housing prices will rise again and I won’t even manage to get a one-bedroom.

Why should I care about this system?

I thought we were talking about tankies anyway. Do they have a realistic plan for how tanks can address rising housing prices in the US?

Communists want to eliminate rent.

The general principle of Communism is that rent is morally unjust and economically unproductive and unsustainable.

Rent is the primary mechanism by which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and that simply can’t go on forever, unless you want us to return to serfdom one day.

But whenever Communists manage to attain power somewhere in the world, the forces of capitalism, spearheaded by the United States, find some excuse to militarily intervene. (Well, nowadays they have to make excuses. Back during the Vietnam War, they were just honest about the fact that they were bombing a third-world nation to stop the spread of Communism.)

Hence the need for tanks.

So, do you own a house?

Are you ever going to be able to own a house?

they also tend to support using tanks to accomplish that

As if Western liberal democracies never use tanks.

A socialist wants to improve the lives of the poor.

A Communist (or “tankie”) wants there to be no more poor.

Also, LGBT activists are working for their liberty and pursuit of happiness.

So are the tankies.

In a very real sense, a person who works two minimum wage jobs and spends almost all their income on rent and transport is not free. They are a virtual slave to the wealthy.

The 5 day work […] was also influenced by a cotton mill employing both Jewish and Christian workers arranging work schedules so each group could have its sabbath off.

And if we all got Friday off too, that would be convenient for the Muslims.