KillingTimeItself @ KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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well you've got like, two options.

One of them is the swedes, and uh, it's not bad, the other is uh checks notes hm, well you've got the swedes at least.

Edit: not the swiss, i confuse the two, they're both european, don't @ me.

some amount of it would have to be migratory, it's more so a question of how much of that is going to be across the northern border. That's what would move it into canada.

it's pretty fundamental, there is only a fixed amount of land that exists in the country. A billionaire has roughly 1 billion more dollars than i do. I have roughly one billion dollars less than them, they, weirdly enough, don't have one billion more times land than me.

Theoretically they should have "1 billion times more property tax" than i do, but i'm going to imagine that's not even possible under current tax law.

Personal income tax is not a wealth tax, and there are myriad ways to avoid it without evading it.

yeah, because then it's not income.

literally, it's how this works, go bitch at the DNC or get legislators to do something about it lmao.

So first a lot more than 5% of the Democrat voter base cares about Gaza. I won’t get into the weeds, but there.

i'm talking about the voter base that actually cares enough to influence their vote over it. I'm sure if you polled the public it;s like 90% or higher who care about it at all, like 40% support israel, 60% against israel, and like 5% of those is "fuck israel i hope it burns to the ground and that palestine re conglomerates into israel" type of people.

No? She would’ve won at least two or three swing states if that was the case. Her economic policy (or lack thereof, more accurately) was horrible.

"her economic policy was bad" bro, did you see ANYTHING that trump said? Literally an irrelevant argument. Especially now.

She dedicated the final two months of her campaign almost exclusively to “Trump bad” rhetoric while not promising to do anything for her constituents.

I remember her talking about a lot of things she and walz were going to do, that was like a pretty big deal. Was their entire plan, not all of it was great, but it existed, unlike trump.

I mean this woman was asked what she’d do different from Biden economically and she said “nothing comes to mind”. Status quo politics just won’t cut it in this day and age.

yeah and? Biden had pretty good economic policy? Aside from the whole covid thing, but you have no choice there, unless you want a global recession, more like a depression. Again, trumps economic policy has been an utter disaster in comparison.

The Israeli public, at least 60-68% of it consistently supports genocide, even as they are direct witnesses and for the most part due to mandatory IDF enlistment, participate in it.

Is this stat literally "do you support genocide: Yes, No" or are we talking, it's not listed as genocide, but we're calling it genocide because that's the term we've decided to use? There's a large semantic difference here, and you're making it sound like they literally support genocide.

Most people in Russia hate their government and military, beyond some basic notion that they should be the toughest because they’re Russian. Most people in China, especially the military, have nothing to do with any alleged genocide.

and yet, those governments persist, even though the war in Ukraine bolsters the support of Putin in an election, where 80% of the population votes for him semi regularly, surely that population doesn't support the genocide of the Ukrainian people? Or maybe it does, and we're just ignoring it because it's politically convenient. I could say the same about the Chinese government, but Chinese society is a little bit more complicated, and it's not quite as directly influenced since most of the human rights abuses are, well, not war.

But the Israeli public is different. That is why they get less respect.

are they though? I would like to compare this specifically to the war against Ukraine, because it's a particularly apt example.

The Nazis were popular in Germany for a time, the Israeli government is no different at the moment. Both populations should not be respected even a little, given they have largely chosen and supported atrocities.

Last i heard, the current Israeli government ISN'T popular, that's why the far right is pushing the government further against Palestine, pushing BB into a bit of a rock and a hard place situation, because if he doesn't he's not likely to stay in the government for very long, and either get replaced by someone further on the right, or more popular among the public (due to an election)

In fact, if we're judging the level of atrocity by human casualties alone, the Ukraine war is FAR worse. We're talking in the range of 200k Russian citizens killed, some incarcerated, some enlisted, some contract. Plus the numerous Ukrainian civilians murdered for no reason. And the relatively comparable Ukrainian military numbers as well. In total we're talking about like 300-500k people in some capacity being severely affected for the rest of their life. Most of them Russian conscripts, most of whom are ethnic minorities (because that's why the war is popular in Russia)

"surely, it couldn't be me who is wrong, because i'm correct, and i've never been wrong, surely it must be EVERYONE living in israel currently AND everyone who supports them, as defined by my schizo statistics that im pulling out of my ass and misconstruing heavily to make a point. How could i possibly be wrong?" - not a single person on lemmy, because nobody has self awareness for some reason.

that video was so based lmao. Not every day that you get to see obama yelling at people.

Maybe it was too close to the election to take the time to go through the rigamarole of all that but I think even a cursory effort to do so would have gone a long way towards making it feel like people’s opinions actually mattered.

it was way too close for that, by the time you had found one, you would be weeks, if not one or two months prior to the election, with no VP, and only a candidate, you would've had to have started the primary at the time it normally does to pull that off, they took a gamble, and that gamble was that biden would ride it out, and im not really sure why they took that gamble, but they did, and they lost.

nice bait bro

i cant imagine its likely he would've even won in the first place, literally just schizophrenia politics.

TRUE I LOVE TAKING UP ONE SIDED POSITIONS LIKE FUCK ISRAEL I HOPE EVERYONE IN THAT COUNTRY DIES A HORRIBLE AND PAINFUL DEATH

this is satire, hi hello, im doing political satire

says the guy, responding to the guy who literally voted for that fucking party.

she was actually pretty ok? The one thing that was bad about her was the israel stance, which is like maybe 5% of the voter base that ACTUALLY cares about that enough.

based and true, thank you.

do you have ANY other solutions to the problem? Maybe idk, actually voting?

It might have something to do with consistent anti-voting narrative of a lot of the vocal leftists, coupled with their bafflement that they consistently don’t get a desired outcome.

i think its primarily age demographics, and the fact that the voter base is stupid, i.e. votes for the wrong people.

honestly that may have helped strategically, i don't think biden was "out the door" by that point, but it very well may have been a good look and given some needed press time to harris.

All the democrats had to do was field a white male opponent against Trump who can be charming and give good speeches. Instead they put up a biracial woman

she was literally the previous VP, about the best pick you're going to get, especially from a functional party, as much as people will tell you the biden admin didn't do shit, it's one of the more productive admins, in a long time.

yknow, i'm starting to realize that i think i respect the people of russia, and china, specifically those in the military, and government more than pro palestine people support/respect israelis, and im not sure how i feel about that one.

Ignore that the 2016, 2020, and 2024 primaries were effectively just for show! Ignore that they argued in court they have no reason to follow democratic policies in their primaries!

the law literally says they don't have to lmao, go take that up with the DNC or something.