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Well no. I'm not parroting anything, it is my own opinion that supporting Israel's genocide is bad. In fact my own country (Holland) is a very big Israel supporter and I hate that and I often criticise that.

In fact the republican outrage wasn't genuine because they stopped complaining when they won and their own leader started doing the same (in fact he is bigger bros with netanyaho than biden was). I called out their hypocrisy with their "Genocide Joe" statements which I don't support (because it flattens a complex issue to a slur).

When I say "supporting evil" I mean supporting netanyahu. I wouldn't stay silent on criticising this even if the alternative is worse. I just don't believe in black/white discussions and I'm not a team player, I don't get told what to think. I mean I wouldn't support the democrats supporting Israel even when the republicans are worse (and they also support Israel).

If I were American I would still vote for the democrats but I would protest their support of Israel. Though if I were American I'd leave and renounce my nationality tbh.

Now I understand you sorry 🫶

I came from reddit and I'm kinda used to every comment being an attack. Sorry.

I'm not bot :P

I mean I see where you're coming from, all the right was shouting "Genocide Joe" at the time but now that Trump is in power he's best buddies with Netanyahu and they are silent :(

But really the democrats unrelenting support for Israel was unjustifiable and it was right to be called out. You don't support evil just because it's the least bad option or something. I guess there's a lot of money filling the coffers from there or something but it doesn't matter, it is wrong.

I'm absolutely not neoliberal :)

I struggle to square the statement in the scope of “democracy”. It reads like you don’t want to compromise to reach a solution at all. That’s not democracy. There will always be people who hold positions different to yours and one side is going to have to bend their principals to reach a compromise.

No, I'm not an active part of politics. My only input is to vote. Hence I vote which party aligns with me the most.

The actual compromise happens by politics, I'm not involved of that.

I’m not asking you to accept any particular position here, but if we take a step back from the actual policies of our current time it sounds less like you want a democracy, a system where different views are blended together, and more like a system that only meets “your” views.

To be honest I don't know what I want. I'm just trying to make the best of the shit we have now. I do know one thing: When it comes to the extreme-right (like the PVV in Holland where I live or the republicans in the US), there is no way to make any kind of communication work. My vision is purely to live alongside them with as little interaction as possible.

I don't know if it was clear but I don't subscribe to any ideology. I just align loosely with them based on my own values.

It was indeed very bad for the democracts to support Israel so staunchly. This is the problem with the US 'left'. They're not really left, they're neoliberal. Money is all that matters to them.

You really need a real left there.

I like this point a lot. Thanks!

As an example, you may be the scion of the left in terms of your electoral ability but if you say women’s sport should be protected from those born with a potential innate advantage of a higher amount of testosterone, you’re pissing off a part of your base who now would rather anyone but you got into power.

Absolutely. Because we still have principles. And copying right-wing talking points is not one. The whole toilet and sports discussion are complete BS to get themselves angry about stuff that doesn't actually happen in real life.

Maybe this puts us at a disadvantage but giving up our principles for a common goal is not really how this works. We'd be giving up too much of ourselves. We don't live by anger and hate that unites us. And I don't believe in being told what to do/think. I guess for a lot of conservatives this is less alien a concept because they have been brought up in churches which do exactly that.

Personally I also don't have any loyalty to a political movement. I temporarily align myself while our goals are the most similar but I feel free to flip whenever I feel (or when they do something I don't agree with). I used to be a member of the socialist party in Holland but they did a few things I didn't agree with (like firing their entire youth movement for being too left) so now I joined the animal party. Which is also progressive.

I'm very left-wing but the thing with 'us' is, that we still have principles. The extreme right is long past any kind of principle or fact. They just live in a fantasy world inventing things to get themselves angry about. Anyone who disagrees in the slightest with today's narrative will be cancelled from their community. But for us the facts still matter. And that meand we sometimes disagree.

I wouldn't call someone like Newsom 'left' though. He's left by US standards but for the rest of the world he would still be pretty right-wing. And strongly capitalist/neoliberal.

Anyway you can rant all you like but I'm not going to 'fall in line'. It's just a concept alien to me. I have my own goals and principles and I don't align with others. I might join forces temporarily but that's about it. I still remain the only one who decides how I feel on each topic. And I will change my political alliances as I go.

I often get situations where umount -f doesn't even work :( Especially on a full desktop (not server) where some stuff is probably crawling the drive to make thumbnails or whatever.

I think they already came