Gaza is quite literally mostly chldren. Average age was already ~18 before this latest stage of the genocide started. The adults have mostly been killed, imprisoned or driven out.
Idiots were saying the same exact thing during the primaries. They're saying it right now as AIPAC pours millions into races to unseat democrats using Republican money.
Also, you know, the Dem primary in my state was literally canceled this year so there's that.
I'll go ahead and send the message in the general since that's the choice neolibs left me. If they don't like it then they need to not field unelectable conservative candidates.
Candidate so unpopular they're neck and neck with literally the worst president in the countries history.
Candidate's diehard supporters when their guy loses: "surely this isn't my candidates fault for alienating the bulk of his base while supporting a far-right fascist genocide. This must be the fault of the Democratic base!"
Give me a break. Neolibs only have themselves to blame if Biden can't win against the single most beatable opponent in history.
Fear and threats don't work anymore, you guys have got to actually allow non-conservative candidates out there or Dems will just keep losing. Most of the Democratic base is not going to vote for a Reagan Republican in Dem clothing.
Honestly this sounds like some kind of PTSD response. This kind of irrational turn, especially after witnessing first-hand what homophobia leads to, doesn't make a ton of sense otherwise.
Doesn't absolve them, since they're promoting hate and is a complete betrayal of those who were killed, but I wouldn't be surprised if this were some kind of semi-conscious attempt at self-preservation.
Watching these two old fucks sweat and strain to have a coherent debate while some corporate journalist moderator stammers in the background is probably the last thing I'd ever want to do.
Isn't this meme throwing their rhetoric back at them though? It highlights how absurd it looks when they make this crazy religious political rhetoric that makes a criminal out to be some "godly" man.
This cynical use of religion is a pretty good satirization of what right-wingers do.
People already materially demonstrated that you're incorrect though during the primaries in multiple states, that's what the Uncommitted vote was, a message saying "I will only vote for you if you resist this genocide." And they did this in numbers that are comparable to his win margins from 2020.
Now, it could be argued that Biden has wasted too much time and let too many people die since then, but there is no sign that not supporting the genocide would hurt him.
He's not making up the ground with his push for fascist immigration policy either, he's literally just alienating more voters the further he goes to the right because republicans are not ever going to vote for him, and anyone in the progressive center isn't going to go for illegal asylum denial policies.
It's not uncharacteristic. The simpler answer is that Biden is and always has been extremely hawkish on immigration and is further to the right on many issues than even traditional Republican figures like Reagan.
"Should men be allowed to participate in sports events for women and girls?"
Really the most appropriate response to this framing is that men aren't participating in women's sports.
We all have both sets of the genes that control whether our bodies express male or female secondary sex characteristics. We're born with both male and female genetic code and it never goes away, it's simply a matter of which are being expressed and which are not.
The reason HRT works is because tipping the hormone balance from majority male to majority female or vice versa is telling the trans persons body "express female/male genes now" which results in real biological change, the same changes that cis people experience, the same genes that would be active were the person born as their target sex. After transition, trans people are biologically closer to their target sex than their birth sex, the literal tissue of their body has changed.
I think it's more that you don't get many right-wing extremists and the mods don't protect the ones that do exist from seeing things they don't like.
There are still a lot of neoliberal kind of conservatives on lemmy, and then also right-wing types in the form of tankies, but for the most part I think the light touch by most of the moderators means that facts (which favor the "left") tend to be allowed to persist in a way they don't on many social media that see profit in extremist content.
Good. His immigration policy should be opposed the same as Trump's, since it's identical and the courts already ruled that denying people asylum and punishing them for seeking it is illegal.
Gaza is quite literally mostly chldren. Average age was already ~18 before this latest stage of the genocide started. The adults have mostly been killed, imprisoned or driven out.