gitgud

sudo fascist

Linux:

For starters, the democracy that permits a candidate like Trump to end it is perhaps a democracy worth ending, especially if it's a democracy that provides so poorly for its people that they genuinely believe he's worth electing.

Second, I think it's hyperbolic. Even with Jan. 6th, he still came nowhere near the coup that mainstream media made it out to be. The people who entered the capitol weren't hardened rebels or dissidents. There were a few with some means mixed in, but by and large they behaved like tourists, with some acting as vandals, and largely incited (read "entrapped") and monitored by the FBI. This also isn't out of character for the FBI, as it had plenty of Muslims they entrapped in the years following 9/11, including one man who was intellectually disabled.

Third and lastly, obviously the Democratic party doesn't think this is a big emergency, since they've had virtually no reaction to polls indicating Biden's flailing numbers. If they thought this was an emergency then they might do something like encourage primary candidates or for him to step down. If they're so confident Trump isn't getting reelected, then I am too.

In all likelihood, Israel already has nukes so that's pretty much a non-issue. Trump would likely give Israel just as much or more support (the only confounding factor is that he's extremely cheap but US money isn't his own money so this may not be a factor), but when a genocide is occurring and both candidates are pursuing a course of complicity, degrees of complicity approach meaninglessness. Your best bet is to reshuffle the deck in order to get a candidate who won't support genocide. Biden should be primaried, but the DNC functionaries likely won't permit this in practice (of course in theory the primary will proceed, just without party support or acknowledgement), so the sooner he's out of office the sooner he can be replaced by someone who might not be comfortable with complicity in a genocide.

Part of the problem is the lack of distinction between Zionism and Judaism, and even after that the distinction between forms and levels of Zionism. For instance there's been a lot of Orthodox Jews in and outside of Israel who protest against this conflict for varying reasons, most on a genuine moral basis though some for more mundane religious reasons. This isn't even to mention all the Jewish leftists who protest against the conflict as well solely on humanitarian grounds.

Unfortunately what doesn't get covered by the Neoliberal and Corporate (read: Moderate Fascist) media is all the suppression of these protests, especially within Israel by the Fascist Likud party-led government. Haaretz will occasionally do some real reporting and cover this kind of stuff from inside Israel but most Israeli left voices are strongly suppressed within Israel itself, and leftist parties are pushed to the margins of the Knesset. Because of this marginalization, the loudest anti-war Jewish voices come from outside Israel itself, where they have no direct influence over it, but at least are less likely to be jailed for their protests.

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It's almost like complicity in a genocide might potentially be unpopular in some segments of the American public. Crazy.

Huh, I never knew Tifa was 15 in the original scene. My just-world-fallacious brain at the time thought that because Cloud was old enough to be in the military in that arc that they must both be adults. This was also then inherently meaningless because the graphics at the time were worse than Tomb Raider and there was no perceptible sexualization, but now that they're good enough for sexualization to be possible I have but one response to these freaks complaining about not sexualizing a teenager:

Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately some systems are designed without compassion as an inherently necessary factor, or even discourage it.