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  • [Peace is] the goal that the Biden administration has been working towards

    Yeah totally, the guy who has shipped 300,000 bombs to a genocidal warlord is actually working for peace! And anyone who disagrees just doesn't understand the complexity of the situation. /s

  • Two years of a filibuster proof majority for a president elected on hope and change, and the best they can do is a conservative healthcare plan, packed with giveaways for the big insurers.

    That's when I lost all faith in the democratic party.

  • And that's exactly the benefit of having your aides leak answers instead of answering questions directly.

    The Biden team leaks "one term president" to quell the narrative about his age. This creates a news cycle so that a slice of the electorate, people like commenter Bipta, are led to believe it's a promise.

    But theres a tiny amount of plausible deniability so that people like you can come in after the fact and mischaracterize it as "an unknown advisor" (the story quotes 4 high level advisors, which is a very high bar for these types of leaks) and then dismiss the story as if it was just a rumor.

  • Bruh

    Jump
  • Alright most of this slang is overused and a bit outdated but wtf is "jitz"?

    What does jitz mean in slang? Noun. jit (plural jits) (US, originally prison slang, derogatory) An inexperienced, foolhardy young man.

    bruh.

  • Commenter is incorrect that he promised, instead he just strongly implied that he would stop at 1 term.

    While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise

    According to four people who regularly talk to Biden, all of whom asked for anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, it is virtually inconceivable that he will run for reelection in 2024, when he would be the first octogenarian president.

    “If Biden is elected,” a prominent adviser to the campaign said, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”

    Biden signals to aides that he would serve only a single term -Politico

  • The line from Kendrick's Meet the Grahams is actually

    He hates Black women, hypersexualizes ’em with kinks of a nympho fetish

    This part isn't about children, it's generally believed to be about Drakes alleged assault on Laquana Morris.

    The former stripper and Instagram model alleged: “Drake forced me to perform oral on him. It wasn’t your ordinary oral it was more so a fetish.” She then describes how he told her to spit into a cup “until he had measured it."

  • Yes we both agree that you can vote and also protest. My argument here was that voting for Dems does not move them left, so I'm not sure how protest is relevant.

    But since you asked for the alternative, I think the american labor movement of a century ago is the last truly successful model. It required a large peaceful protest movement, various forms of violent direct action, and a broad base of support in the populace who would not be swayed by propaganda. Those who died in that fight earned us the weekend, workplace safety, and dignified retirement. They planted the seeds for the most progressive era in American history.

    I think we have to reckon with the fact that recent protest movements all failed. George Floyd defunded 0 police departments. The Womens March was a punchline. After Occupy Wall Street, banks and hedge funds just got bigger. Anti-Iraq war protests may have curbed some brutality, but that war continued for 2 decades.

    These protests are on the right side of history, and changing peoples minds is good, but to change peoples material condition you need to change policy too.

  • So your idea is to keep voting for the corporate Democrats, and eventually the Republicans will moderate themselves in reponse?

    Mate, either you haven't been paying attention to Republican politics, or you are insane.

    This is a recipe for disaster. We can't afford to keep this status quo for another generation, we are destroying the planet.

  • Yes of course, but that's not really relevant to the broader point here.

    Democrats have won more elections than Republicans, yet they have moved to the right. So what will it take to move them left?

    The person I replied to suggested that voting can move the Dems left, but I disagree. At a national level, the Dems have been captured by corporate money.

    They understand the best way to get votes is through advertising dollars, and the best way to get dollars is corporate fundraising. Other countries call this corruption, but here we call it free speech.

  • You're not wrong, these Trump trial judges are bending over backwards to avoid any grounds for mistrial. In one sense they are doing the right thing inside the legal framework, but look at the downsides.

    The public is watching how a rich and powerful man can game the system, even as a criminal defendant the system is working for him. Every incarcerated person can see the reality: they were treated with default brutality, but Trump is treated as royalty.

    And even worse, they are allowing Trump to delay every verdict until after the election. If he wins the election he pardons himself, this is a horrible precedent for our democracy.

  • For any other country, state dept reports like this have to clear before we start shipping weapons.

    But for Israel, the Biden administration carves out exceptions and delays the reporting so the illegal weapons shipments can continue.

    This is the banality of evil, Palestinian children are starving and exploding and we are arguing over reports.

    This is why Biden has earned the moniker "Genocide Joe".

  • Im not trying to justify the crimes of Russia or China, Im trying to point out the hypocracy of the AP. I'm not sure this qualifies as whataboutism.

    Hiding behind legality isn't a convincing argument. In my opinion, what happened to Chelsea Manning was 'legal' in the same sense that slavery was once 'legal'. Its an absolute disgrace and a moral stain on the nation.

    So the remaining distinction is the violent violation of sovereignty, legality, and due process. When the US wants to violate these international norms, we label the target as a 'terrorist'. We have killed thousands this way.

    So maybe a better analogy to this situation is the murder of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16 year old US citizen dissident who was killed by Obama without a trial. Iran and China are following our example, and the way AP covers these stories shows their bias.