Mammal @ Mammal @lemmy.world

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To be fair: The Democratic Party isn't a viable political engine for positive social change or a working-class agenda. If Cuomo wins it will be yet another example of how untrustworthy, hypocritical, and vapid Blue No Matter Who voting habits are.

If he does try to do this, Democrats will fall over themselves to explain why they support the action, but quibble on how the paperwork was filed to implement it.

It's okay if this fails. It's okay if Republicans block this. The true crime is not trying constantly to impeach him ... besides, it's not like Dems are doing anything else.

OP implies that Israel is a genocidal, apartheid state. It is therefore antisemitic.

Proof:

It is well known that Harvard is ACTUALLY Hamas-vard.

Most elected Democrats are against this. But hey, I'm sure Lesser Of Two Evils™ thinking is going to stop making things worse eventually.

Oops. That went over my head. LOL.

Oh Derp!!! X-P

My bad.

Medicade is a single-payer healthcare program that is almost entirely for the poor. (eg: People that insurance companies can't squeeze money out of.)

Without Medicade most hospitals will go bankrupt - and what few social services & charities there are for the poor will be absolutely swamped to the point where they will be ineffective.

Moreover: Medicade prevents medical bills from forcing the poor from choosing between a rent & food and medication they need to live. So if Medicade gets gutted, the US homeless population is going to blow up.

Medicade is a piece of load-bearing social infrastructure that most Americans - who are not on Medicade and barely understand the difference between Medicare and Medicade - are blissfully unaware of it's ramifications for the entire healthcare system.

Put another way: The only reason we don't have hordes of people in the streets demanding universal healthcare - is because the poor have Medicade, so it's in their best-interests to behave.

How would that work? They are both nuclear-armed states?

How's that been working out over the last 40+ years?

The problem is that the 'Not Perfect' party refuses to actually fight or advocate for universal, popular policies. Instead, the "Not Perfect' party sits on their hands, bullies their base, and waits for everything to collapse so that they are the default option.

1. Republicans enact cruel and stupid policy.
2. Democrats refuse to reform cruel & stupid policy because it benefits their backers. In fact, Dems may even brag about how THEY are even better at it.
3. Cruel & stupid policy predictably backfires - and gets blamed on Democrats who pretend they had no control over anything.

What I suspect is happening is that Trump is attempting to give Democrats an opportunity to get in on DOGE while it still polls well.

They aren't wounded - they just don't have actual values or strategy beyond bullying people to vote for them.

Medicade exists so that poor people don't start demanding single-payer. This will backfire horribly if one's goal is to maintain the stranglehold private insurance companies have on US healthcare.

I was rooting for him until the last three words of the headline.

As best I can tell, the most racist zionists are usually American-born Israelis.

I do my best to always use the word Zionist before the word Israeli.

Israel's secularism is irrelevant to the overall racist ideology of Zionism that permeates Israeli society.

I'm not referring to powerless, mouth-breathing, NEETs who normally lurk forums.

But I'm referring to comments from actual members of the Israeli Knesset, public statements from people like the OP, printed editorials in mainstream publications, and modern Israeli celebrities.

When you read through the translations not meant for western audiences - the racism pops out disturbingly. It's such a part of their culture that they don't even notice it as such. Zionists really don't view people in the West Bank or Gaza as humans.

A few months ago I started using Google Translate to read what Israelis are saying amongst each other in their mainstream publications and forums.

My. God. Levels of entitlement and racism that would make a Klansman blush.

Sure, a lot of them want a cease-fire to get the hostages back ... and most don't like Netanyahu ... but the average Israeli Zionist is a racist monster.