Throughout history, in the name of bringing civilization to Middle Eastern communities, colonialists have criminalized queerness and facilitated queer oppression.
If they think that most of the Middle East didn't criminalize homosexuality and oppress LGBT folks before European domination, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.
Perpetual war is how the US maintains hegemony. They have no interest in stopping Israel, because it both pays the US ruling class and keeps the wealthy Islamic nations busy spending money on keeping their own people alive and borders intact. If you and other Americans want your government to condemn genocide, you're going to have to do more than hope Ben-Gvir is irritating enough. Because the entire US economy banks on this continuing.
Yeah, a guy comparing getting his art exhibit canceled over a poorly worded tweet to Maoist China, where people were imprisoned, exiled, murdered, and worked to death for having wrong opinions, or wrong parents, or wrong possessions.
God, imagine our 40 year fellatio of Israel being ended because a couple of Israeli politicians were not just genocidal, but genocidal and assholes to their allies.
No Swiftie has ever endangered my basic rights or the functioning of my country, or the survival of other democracies abroad. I'll take Swifties any day of the week.
Also, I've never actually heard Taylor Swift's music.
While money is definitely key to the size of the support in Congress, this is also an extremely rapid change. Like, outside of a few foreign policy dweebs like us, most Americans sided with Israel nearly unconditionally as recently as November.
Damn, I really thought things wouldn't change this quickly. A rare pleasant surprise. Hopefully, this will permanently open some eyes on Israel, and allow us to finally change that stain on our foreign policy.
But hey, good for them. It's like why so much of Sub-Saharan Africa ended up with massive increases in mobile phone usage despite relatively low landline penetration - it's much easier to adopt something than to replace an existing infrastructure.
The EU and the US are deeply connected. If the EU becomes hegemon, the US reverts to the position of the EU in the current status - ie an incredibly important partner that the hegemon often acts on behalf of.
You might regard it as preferable, but it's not significantly different than the current state of affairs. Just a slight rebalancing of priorities, if you will.
Of course, that is assuming that the EU gets itself together in a way that it could act as hegemon, for the sake of the argument.
If they think that most of the Middle East didn't criminalize homosexuality and oppress LGBT folks before European domination, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.