The part about the moral case against Russia isn't an opinion. Here's the Financial Times a year ago:
“We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”
“What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the senior G7 diplomat added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”
Just four weeks before the Hamas assault on Israel, leaders from the US, EU and western allies attended the G20 summit in New Delhi and asked developing nations to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians in order to uphold respect for the UN charter and international law. Many of those officials told the Financial Times they have had the same argument read back at them in demands for condemnation of Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza, and of its decision to restrict water, electricity and gas supplies there.
I actually sent this article to my representative last year. She responded to it with the most insulting and dehumanizing response imaginable. I thought I had made progress with her in prior visits. I actually started talking to her about Palestine years ago, before COVID I even sent to her office two books one by Jimmy Carter and another by Ilan Pappe.
If you’re are forced to choose between two pro-genocide candidates I’m afraid we have already passed fascism. Or maybe Palestinians don’t count as humans so there’s still time to save the US before fascism gets to the real people?
The new Hummer EV is even bigger and heavier. GM somehow missed the point of an EV. They were so close to getting it right with the Spark EV a few years ago.
I wanted to vote third party but I read that the Democratic Party got third parties banned from the ballot. I guess if there’s a write-in option I still might.
And this is why I don't think there will be a civil war. Even the last one at least had two capitalist groups with different interests: industrialists vs. agriculturalists.
I hated and feared Trump enough to vote for Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Now I am indifferent to what he might do to me personally. I am no better than the young girl who was filled with bullets or the young boy who burned alive with weapons Biden sent Israel. I personally have accepted that if I am lucky I am next, and if I am not lucky I will live to continue witnessing it without being able to do anything about it. Losing my citizenship, being deported, being thrown in a prison camp or tortured, doesn't scare me or concern me anymore.
I don't know if I am communicating clearly how dead I feel or not. Biden made me want to leave and want nothing to do with the US in a way Trump never did despite my fears.
Not just in Michigan, I'm in Pennsylvania and I'm staying home.
No one should be upset that [some] Arabs and Muslims are not voting for the Democrats. The Democratic Party doesn't need our votes and they made it clear to us. They care about white suburban voters and former Trump voters. I told my representative a year ago if the genocide doesn't stop I am not voting, she responded back with a long email about Israel's right to defend itself. I still feel a punch in my gut every time I remember her response.
The part about the moral case against Russia isn't an opinion. Here's the Financial Times a year ago:
source: https://www.ft.com/content/e0b43918-7eaf-4a11-baaf-d6d7fb61a8a5
archive: https://archive.is/TxkRb