Ryan Grim speculates it's because he has the ear of "his friend Joe" and believes that Biden is helping him push stuff for domestic issues. Thus, he doesn't want to break that relationship.
If this is really the case and it's not because the CIA threatened to give the heart attack gun another try, then this is just absolutely the most perfect encapsulation of socdem politics to ever exist
Pocket has strong "weird toolbar that secretly installed itself with some freeware program you found online" energy
That was really eye opening, I hadn't realized how extensively his mind seems to have changed on this issue in such a relatively short amount time.
they've gotta have some Epstein shit on him.
Fuck, I'd really rather it not be the case that Bernie is a secret pedophile or some shit. I wonder if that's the most likely option or if it's more likely that the CIA just outright threatened to kill him and his family
And yet the United States continues to slide into fascism despite having elected Biden. What horrific Trump era policies did the Democrats even bother to repeal after they won in 2020 and held both the senate and the house?
They are still funding the construction of border wall segments. They never repealed the Republican tax cuts. They have done nothing about the concentration camps on the southern border for fuck's sake. They never codified Roe v. Wade, we literally lost the right to abortions while Biden was in office. They could have stacked the supreme court but they didn't.
The Democrats and the Republicans form an obfuscated one party system in the US. Republican leadership aggressively ramps up the oppression of marginalized people, then Democratic leadership does nothing to restore our rights nor proactively prevent the same thing from happening again. Instead they just use their time in office to suck all of the energy out of people's movements that could actually effect change.
And much more importantly than all of that, Republicans and Democrats are virtually identically evil when it comes to foreign policy. When the US is dropping bombs on you and destroying your country, you'll tend not to care whether it was a Red MAGA or Blue MAGA administration pulling the trigger.
In some specific cases it might be worthwhile to vote for Democrats in local elections where there exists much more leeway for politicians to stray from the party line, but voting for them in national elections is just lending your voice to legitimizing their bullshit good cop/bad cop routine they play with the Republicans.
I kinda wonder if Zelensky would even listen if the US told him to negotiate a peace deal at this point. I suppose that would heavily depend on whether he's more afraid of being lynched by Banderites or if he's more afraid of whatever consequences the US would realistically dish out for disobeying.
Wtf is it with the lib idea that Hamas is some kind of corrupt, ruling gang that heavily exploits the civilians of Gaza as human shields just to stay in power? Do libs even hear themselves speaking? That doesn't make any fucking sense. Somehow they have this idea in their head that being in a leadership position of a resistance group inside a literal concentration camp is a cushy enough gig to warrant fighting an all out war with Israel solely to perpetuate their position.
The most charitable way I can interpret such a profoundly incorrect reading of Hamas is chalking it up to another consequence of the fact that the vast majority of liberals do not know even the absolute barest, most fundamental basics of Palestine's situation. They must think Gaza is just another Arab country on Israel's border and that it has a corrupt, antisemitic government with little popular support. As such, they've totally missed the fact that it is an open air concentration camp in the first place.
I practically did the same a few days ago, but then all the hyped, cinematic trailers made me think that maybe shit was actually going down, fuck
Veritasium
Sucks about this guy, he used to actually make interesting pop-sci videos without mangling the concepts and conclusions too badly. It was a breath of fresh air compared to the bullshit other science popularizers like Michio Kaku were dreaming up at the time. But nowadays his videos all have these extremely vague clickbait titles. And much worse than that: he clearly shills tech from sponsored companies. Not with marked sponsorship segments, but with entire videos that are essentially long form advertisements with all of the disinformation marketing entails. Other than the word sponsor being highlighted and placed before the title, there is no indication for his audience that they shouldn't view such sponsored videos as normal Veritasium videos.
The most blatant example of this was when he shilled for Waymo self driving ride share cars in an 18 minute video they sponsored. It was about two years ago, the title:
Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now
Here's a video detailing the ways in which Veritasium misleads his audience to produce corporate propaganda using the driverless car video as its main example. It's an hour long, but I still recommend giving it a watch because it's so thorough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc
I'm sure Veritasium does still make good, well researched and well intentioned videos, but after seeing the way he intentionally manipulates his audience in certain videos, I can't help but be distrustful of everything he says elsewhere.
i swear to god , after all of these literal cinematic hype trailers i'm going to be so fucking pissed if the speech ends up being another strongly worded open letter
I had to stop watching entirely after they had that adam someone guy on. Around then I noticed Alice and Liam in particular would have a new, anti-communist, historically illiterate take on the USSR to parrot in practically every episode. Really glad I didn't stick around long enough to see their takes on the Ukraine war, I'm sure that only made this tendency of theirs a million times worse.
I used to really love the show, it sucks it turned out this way.
I also want to say we came up with it, but tbh Genocide Joe is such a generic nickname for a guy named Joe aiding and abetting a genocide that I wouldn't doubt if it arose independently more than a couple times throughout the internet
I can't imagine that they even try differentiating. They'll shoot everything that moves, then they'll bomb everything that doesn't.