The population of Syria has been brutalized by the US, “israel”, and their rebel proxies in Syria. Keeping that country out of the game is the reason they’ve been terrorizing Syria for years now.
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as low as 20 meters
jfc imagine being underneath that as it flies by…
But my point is, what does it even matter? Like, let’s just say the CPC is as “authoritarian” as American libs think they are. If the people of China overwhelmingly believe in their democracy and trust in their government, what does not having western liberal “democracy” even matter?
Biden tried to bribe them with a border policy that was more fascistic than any president - D or R - had implemented before. He gave them everything they could want and they turned it down because why give him a “win”?
What I have found most effective in arguing with American libs about China is to point to the polls about how more people in China feel they live in a democracy than the US, and A LOT more have trust in their government than Americans do.
You can argue with them all day about free political expression, democratic centralism, de jure one party versus de facto one party, etc. But at the end of the day, if more people believe their system is democratic, they like it more and have more trust in the government… that should really be all that matters.
And it backs libs into a corner of either saying they think Chinese people are too afraid to answer honestly (strains credulity) or that Chinese people are brainwashed (racist).
Certainly that, but also in the 50s “the machine” was humming along well. By “the machine”, I’m specifically talking about the process of capital buying off the white working and middle classes with houses, cars, and consumer goods; and allowing them to feel the privilege of being settlers i.e. getting to feel superior to non-white people. Both parties operated on keeping this white supremacist process going. The 50s were amazing if you were white. Neoliberalism and the Civil Rights Act (one bad, one good) brought an end to “the machine” and now white people are sad they don’t get as much settled privilege as they used to.
and may try to elect a better candidate
It’s a long shot, but I could see the GOP closing ranks and refusing to pass anything with money for Ukraine but say they will pass whatever Biden wants for Israel, essentially calling the bluff. Because if I were them, I would recognize that Ukraine collapsing before November only harms Biden and the Democrats, and doesn’t hurt them at all.
Biden can try all he wants to tie Israel and Ukraine together, but the GOP doesn’t have to go along with that, I think. And if I was AIPAC, I would be telling Biden to get fucked. They don’t care about money going to Ukraine, they want that money for Israel now and they know Biden is holding it up.
And Ukraine is a losing issue among voters. No one really wants to give Ukraine more money, GOP would be smart to play hardball on this one.
The entity and the US are desperate to keep up the facade of Israeli defensive invincibility.
I really worry that “israel”, like the crybullies they are, are gonna take it out Gaza, the West Bank, or Syria instead of a direct shot at Iran.
This is actually more unhinged than the evangelical “timeline of Revelations” chart I almost posted the other day.