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Curious how that would play out if other countries did the same. Oh no we didn't declare war, it was this fat idiot Hirohito going rogue again, oopsie. Time for peace now, thank you for your attention to this matter.

I mean that's what they are doing in the middle east all the time. They literally attack each other endlessly but aren't technically at war most of the time.

OP is saying that there is a difference between actions that can be interpreted as an act of war and a formal declaration of war. It seems pedantic but I have to agree the difference is there. Iran has no interest declaring war on the US. Luckily there were enough adults making the decision that a retaliatory strike (with advance warning) was enough to call it a day.

He didn't say the world would be safer. But history kind of shows it is in each countries self interest to have nukes vs not having them.

Look at those water slides

I agree with you. I bet a portion of Jewish people also have an unfavorable view of Israel right now.

But it's not the same as saying those people would agree to a candidate that says they would cut support to Israel or pledge their support for Palestine. It's a spectrum, not either or.

Not completely.

It's also that this data is incomplete and it's a bad idea to draw all your conclusions from it.

For example, in the US, the Jewish voting bloc is very real, substantial, and influential. Compare that to the percentage of nonvoters or even just non political people who have a negative opinion of Israel.

Killing the public option and capitulating to republicans.

Yet we got the ACA, but i guess you prefer the old system where Americans can't get insured if they have preexisting conditions.

He was sure able to sell weapons to netanyahu without any problem at all. Bipartisan support, even. But codifying Obergefell wasn't a priority

Sure. Things are easier to pass with bipartisan support. Are you suggesting Obergefell would receive bipartisan support? Lol

Which is why Roe was never overturned.

Which is irrelevant to my point. Roe was a republican talking point for decades but they were never stupid enough to act on it. When they did there was immediate election fallout. We are still in the "finding out" stage and there can absolutely be more blowback from this down the road.

But they never will.

Which is why you should continue to support the Republicans. That'll show them

You realize what you are saying doesn't make things any better, right?

Republicans played on the fears and stupidity of the American people and promised to deliver something, anything.

Democrats are trying to explain to the American people than yes, there is a period of higher inflation and prices, but the Biden/Harris administration navigated us out of a pandemic and provided a wage increase that outdated prices from 2020 to Sept 2024. That provided all time high in wages in US history. And this was despite the typical republican obstruction from congress and the judicial. And if given another 4 to 8 years we can continue to improve on this.

And that the American people, faced with facts or feelings, chose to elect the ones that let that ruined our country by mismanaging the pandemic (which caused the economic issues)...again.

No i don't think we should agree with this logic. I want Americans to make smarter and more rational decisions and not have selective amnesia after only 4 years. Just because everything was not fixed in 4 years does not mean we should choose the dumbest possible option just because they delivered a "feeling"

When Obama had the majority, what did Democrats spend their time and political capital on? I don't know about you but healthcare seems pretty important and affects more people than gay marriage.

Biden used his to deal with a pandemic fallout and he was at least attempting to solve a educational loan bubble.

Keep in mind things like gay marriage and abortion were never in any immediate danger at any time. It has become socially acceptable and used as an empty threat by Republicans. That they were crazy enough to go through with it is just stupidity on their part.

Again, the democrats can be much much better, but you are absolutely ignoring the progress they made that would never have been made under Republican leadership.

Are we really going to pretend that if LGBT rights were pushed and promoted by the democrats in the 90s, the American populace was just going to accept it? The Republicans would likely have a supermajority and the presidency after Clinton's 1st term.

Look what happened when we had 8 years with a black president.

I'm not saying the democrats did everything right, but the logic on incremental progress is correct vs tear it all down if it's not a utopia already

You are viewing everything through the lens of now now now.

Inflation was at record lows from the housing crisis through the pandemic. It only spiked in 2021-2022. Before that, we had nearly 3 decades of sub 2% inflation. You are basing all your conclusions on 3 years worth of data instead of 30.

Look things suck financially right now. Everyone is hurting except the rich and it is absolutely stupid. But no it has not always been that way and social progress is not the reason we are where we are.

We are in financial trouble because we elected a far right party that is breaking everything. Because we would rather be cynical about the Democrats and blame them for the economic fallout of a pandemic instead of having realizing the fallout is due to abysmal mismanagement of said pandemic by the very administration we let back in power.

If you have been following politics from the Clinton era, then you wound have seen the progress and incremental change first hand especially regarding social rights.

Gay marriage didn't exist. They were denied their existence in the military, and on TV.

We went from that to adding new letters to the ltgb alliance every few years. To pronouns and kinks like furries being accepted.

A black president was unimaginable. There were still people alive that experienced segregation.

Most of what you are listing are reactions to the progress. The bigots pushed back, and they won partly because they convinced us to be more cynical and divisive. To ignore and forget the progress that was made and spin as negatively as possible all the change we see.

Incremental change is moving forward 3 steps after falling back 2, not giving up because we couldn't be at step 5 by now.

This is a thread about "leftists" who blame Biden for Israel aid but never say a word about Congress who actually has the role and responsibility to create and vote on the aid.

The person I am replying to claims he also blames the right for these things, but not once in his comment history has he ever called them out like he calls out the left.

You "blame" the Republicans so much you never once commented about their involvement in Israel until now, when you are called out on it.

Someone has to be ambassador to China.

It's probably going to be someone most on the left so not want.

So you choose the one that you can stomach while you have a vote.

Just to note, but even Republicans stonewalled every confirmation.

Why is this a shit post? This is like straight out of Silicon Valley.

I respect that name

Much less ok to pretend both are the same

We are not accounting for the percentage of people who read it but are still cool with forfeiting their soul.

And let's be real, it's ok to be emotional and want attention. That's human.

But I'm sure this can be done, and is probably easier to accomplish by not being a nazi, which is the real issue here.

Sure. But there is no way Elon is suggesting that he donated sperm to get her pregnant, but the doctor might have used their own sample instead.