Viking_Hippie @ Viking_Hippie @lemmy.world

Posts

131

Comments

9,302

Joined

2 yr. ago

That's far too generous. At the very most, 10% of congress is on the right side of history when it comes to America's favorite fascist apartheid regime.

The public in general is closer to 65-35 the opposite direction.

Because he's a true believer who's drunk the Zionism kool-aid.

Plus it probably helps that he's received more money from AIPAC throughout his political career than his current net worth.

And I love people who make condescending assumptions based on absolutely no data the moment you challenge their preconceived notions. So refreshing! So original! So smart!

Turns out that your references, priorities, and values are about 30 years behind the times. Who'd a thunk it?

Wrong. Not sorry.

Both, actually. Turns out he's just as bad at sports as he is at long distance cursing!

This you?

Fact is that yours is the majority opinion of the rich donors and their pet politicians, but mine is the majority opinion of the people in general.

you would be doing is making the job suck a bit more

Fine by me. There are far too many cops. The ones most motivated by money and impunity quitting because they're being held criminally and financially responsible for their crimes is the mother of all win–wins in my book 🤷

Or they get a pay hike to compensate.

Not likely since wage per cop is the one police expense that the center right to fascist spectrum of municipal governments don't want to increase.

Besides, cop "unions" aren't ACTUAL unions that are funded mostly via union dues. They're political pressure groups funded mostly by donations from the rich people whose property cops exist to protect from the masses.

All you would be accomplishing is making it that much harder to get done

Not really, no. Can't get harder than impossible and the future politicians who would be willing to do it all would be just as willing to do it my way as yours, if not more. Let's not commit the classic neoliberal mistake of making unacceptable concessions before we even start negotiating.

Once the insurance is in place, then you can start taking the excess payments out of the cops pockets

Yeah no, that's not how it works. At least not when we still have Neoliberals in charge. They'll do a tenth of what people ask for and then declare the matter settled forever.

Real transformative change doesn't happen in tiny bits. There's always regressiveness chipping away at progress, leading to it all fallen to the ratchet principle if we don't go far enough on the first try.

Incrementalism isn't the "reasonable" path. It's the path of least resistance from the owner donors who corrupt politicians care the most about to the detriment of everyone else.

and reward the well behaved cops

Don't forget the unicorns and the good billionaires! 🙄

Good, because the Pinterest warlock I originally hired totally dropped the ball!

I agree except for the "paid by the city" part. That would mean that the tax payers foot the bill for them.

Much better to make cop "unions" pay for it so they actually have to use their vast funds on something other than protecting criminals in uniform from the consequences of their actions for a change.

Again falsely assuming that the only Democrats possible are the crappy Republican Lite Neoliberals that lost everything to the fascists 🙄

They still do. They're just even less justified than they used to be.

Aiding and abetting crimes against humanity by supplying weapons and funds while knowing EXACTLY what they're being used for.

Nope. I'm 41 and as appalled by the atrocities of the fascist apartheid regime as most people on the left.

It's a Left/Right and principles/realpolitik divide rather than one based on age.

Especially now that Joe Rogan and troglodytes like him are winning millions of young voters over to fascism with their false demagoguery and misinformation disguised as entertainment and "hearing out both sides".

The only answer of the DNC and their apparatchiks every time their 1992 strategy fails:

The logic is outstanding.

You mean the logic of just ignoring that primaries exist in order to prop op the false dichotomy that led to losing all parts of the government to a literal fascist party?

Yeah, your logic IS outstandingly bad.

Russia also supports the fascist apartheid regime and, if anything, the genocide emboldens everyone who's already opposed to zionist colonialism.

There's no upside to the people of the US or the rest of the west, only the politicians being bribed and blackmailed by AIPAC and similar de facto foreign government agencies.

TONS of downside, though, not least of which that what they're doing is more morally repulsive and indefensible than even the atrocities that we rightfully despise the Putin regime for doing.

A real frood.

Hey now, no need to body shame the conspiracy clown. That fascist grifter has plenty of things we can criticize without acting like Republicans.

Like how he's an extremely pathetic bigot who keeps making up obviously fake anecdotes about his favorite scapegoats fearing him and everyone else adoring him wherever he goes.