lennybird @ lennybird @lemmy.world

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Ok. That's what I thought. Projection at its finest.

Protecting his Brownshirts.

I hope every single post hereon out has a pinned comment saying, "If you sat out for whatever bullshit reason and didn't vote for Harris, don't say a fucking word, for you enabled this."

Sure it is, buddy. Great counterpoint, by the way.

I'll dance all day with you and I'll show you just how naive I am ;)

It isn't when the vast majority of media and social media is controlled by the Right.

Democrats need to overperform in fundraising not only to offset dark money & SuperPACs, but to offset the free attack ads coming from Fox News in every lunch room and doctor waiting room in the country.

Your argument is contingent on the notion that all money taken from billionaires means the candidate themselves must become corrupted; that's simply not true. Whether someone like Bernie takes money from billionaires or not doesn't change Bernie's platform. If those billionaires choose to believe in universal Healthcare then so be it. If they like Buffett and Gates believe in higher taxes for the rich then go for it.

But Logistically it's war. And the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Can't do purity tests if you want to fight fascists.

Nordic Dem here. I'm not opposed. Until you're in a position to actually change the rules of the game it would be dreadfully fucking stupid to limit your supply for the war effort hinged on an overgeneralization when there are billionaires who seek to change the system for the better.

Does anyone truly believe Dems can win without big money of their own in the face of players like Musk dumping $70 million into PA on a whim? Fuck no.

If you disagree then you better have a very fucking solid, tangible plan to take make media and advertising without $, post-citizens united no less.

I appreciate your actually unpopular opinion. Should be noted since you brought him up that even Warren Buffett says he has too much money and that he and billionaires like him should be taxed more heavily to the benefit of society.

I wish that were true.

Privitization about to go off the rails. I'm seeing the mafia-oligarchy of Russia that arose there 2-decades-ago.

The Judicial System has collapsed.

The media ecosystem has collapsed.

Democratic elections are... Likely there as well by next election cycle.

Leaving aside the fact that nobody questions that Roth was detained for 20 hours by the Chinese government and quite possibly bribed or blackmailed.

I'm still chuckling that people are trusting anonymous Arabian sources and not recognizing this for the obvious political theatrics it is. (Hint: this is the Circular Reasoning fallacy part, where one has yet to prove the original premise before leaping to illogical conclusions).

I mean, really, do you think he's this TOUGH NEGOTIATOR after all these years and not a complete Reality TV star phony playing games of optics with Bibi behind closed doors? Hahahahahaha!

The ceasefire hardly even matters anymore. The vast majority of civilian deaths have already occurred and Gaza is nothing but razed ruins and rubble. Trump told Bibi to "Finish the job" with Gaza, and Bibi basically did just that.

Man I was really hoping I wouldn't have to see the word Trump in my feed every day for the next 4-8% of my lifetime on this Earth... Or more.

"finishing the job," as Trump instructed.

Yep. Additionally Russia also utilized their larger ICBM and deployed inert MIRV payloads, mostly as a demonstration and fear tactic.

Obligatory fuck the Russian aggressors. Slava Ukraini.

We all knew it; it's just that he (and his cabinet) was clearly better than the guaranteed alternative.

Your fallacies are:

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
• Begging the Question / Circular reasoning

Try not to construct your beliefs atop a flimsy house of cards.

It's a question I've thought about a lot. Not only to me but the limited time I have left with my parents.

YOLO'ing only works for those without responsibilities to others or foresight. If you actually knew your life was ending, that certainly changes priorities. Life becomes a sprint instead of a marathon.

To those who say without knowing the future, "Live every day as if it were your last," I like to tack on, "... But there's a fair chance you may actually live for another year or more!" Stay grateful; seize the day, sure, but you still need to tread water.

LOL look how fast he pivoted to paying lip-service to Putin.

Ukraine genocide? "Naw, Bucha didn't happen. Mariupol Theather bombing didn't happen; STEALING thousands of Ukrainian kids didn't happen." Those genocide charges by the Criminal Court (that so happens to have the same charges levied against Netanyahu) clearly have "no evidence"

hahahahahahahahaha!

Now who sounds like an Israeli apologist.

These do not change my points. I promise you that I pay closer attention than you and that is made all the more clear by one's incapacity to uphold a cogent, logical counter-argument without myriad fallacies.

do not give a fuck about Ukraine period.

Ladies & gentlemen, bystanders reading — I rest my case. Your ignorance — and apathy — is not an excuse for exacerbating not one but two genocides. Complicity in genocide remains. How ironic that your own claims on Biden are now being put against you, isn't it?

It is also not on the same scale,

Thank you for proving my point that genocides are not boolean and can indeed worsen. We're learning, I see. Now if only the dots could be connected.

Biden cannot unilaterally send aid to Israel without apportioned money being approved by Congress. You may have forgotten this was the stumbling block to getting aid to Ukraine in the first place that stalled for a year thanks to Republican obstructionists?

Yes, AIPAC plays both sides. They still preferred Trump as president. Connect the dots as to why.

I'll just repeat what was obviously, desperately deflected:

Genocide (a) has a spectrum of severity and is not a boolean function, while (b) Gaza isn't the only place an attempted Genocide is currently being carried out; Ukraine is another place — and it is abundantly clear that both Biden and Harris were better than the Putin-sympathizing puppet that is Trump. So now YOU are complicit with blood on your hands of WORSENING not one but TWO genocides. So I'm sorry but your logic still is not holding any amount of water. Read again: If Biden is indirectly complicit in Palestinian Genocide, then so too are you for voluntarily making it worse in both Gaza, AND Ukraine.