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I'm legit confused

The grey guy on the left is all the shills on Lemmy pretending that not voting for Biden is helping the Palestinians, and saying they care so much about Gaza that they don't want to vote for Biden

And the guy on the right is pointing out that not voting for Biden will make things ten times worse for the Palestinians (as it will for many other people the world over)

Right?

Based on who OP is, I don't think that's what they meant, but that is for real the only semicoherent interpretation of this meme I can come up with

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I love how settled the black cat gets right after.

"Alright, that's sorted. Back to looking at the wall."

Maybe not directly related, but this talk makes to me a very compelling point about how magic should work in satisfying fiction.

"The Last Unicorn" has magic that works this way, and it's pretty good.

Or just pulled out of his ass. I'm pretty sure the Bernie Israel thing is just made up because of the impact it would have, not anything this person even read in some propaganda piece.

@anticolonialist@lemmy.world Answer me you perfectly honest person -- you say things like "I suspect everything you know about both countries has come from US propaganda" -- okay sure, where do you get what you know about both countries? And about Biden, or Bernie Sanders? Why would this straightforward question lead to sudden silence?

Material aid != Intelligence and coordination

For the last 6 months the US hasn't been able to give weapons, but there's nothing stopping us from lending satellite and human intelligence to the targeting effort, and giving strategic recommendations based on centuries of experience of being continuously at war. It would be weird if that all didn't produce a positive impact on how effectively Ukraine can fight the strategic war.

In terms of fighting courage and tactical knowledge they've been doing it all on their own, yes, and I'm sure they're better than the US at this point which is saying quite a bit. But I think on things like where to bomb the refineries, the US already has lots of footnoted maps and diagrams drawn up that saved some time and increased the impact.

(And the happy synergy of "Hey you know what would help this war effort? If you did a bunch of long term damage to Russia's economy in ways they can't sanction-dodge their way around" "Hey that's a really good point" is a fun thing from the US's perspective, I'm sure.)

This page explains the reasons and seems pretty credible (and also gives a date for the descrambling; it was fixed as of May 2000).

GPS is a product of the US military; its usefulness to them would be limited if it were North America only, since they mostly wanted it to tell where they were, wherever they happened to be in the world that they had no knowledge of but were actively fuckin' with.

GPS is equally available to civilians in Freedomland as it is to civilians wherever else in the globe. They used to arbitrarily fuck up the signal resolution for the non-military version, until they realized that all they were doing was (a) mildly inconveniencing tech companies who had go through the rite of passage of assigning a single junior programmer to determine how to mostly undo their resolution-fucking-with which wasn't that challenging (b) motivating every other country to develop their own GPS equivalents.

By the time they just let everyone have real GPS, people had cottoned on to the idea that maybe putting your navigation under the whims of the US military wasn't a great idea, and had gone to the pretty significant expense of developing their own. So now there's a bunch of them, and you can pretty much choose whichever one pleases you. But with the exception of NavIC, they're all available all over the world.

The warm and loving friendship between Bernie and the DNC, with him always agreeing with everything they wa

You know what

Even typing a sarcastic reply to this is a waste of time.

I looked over your profile. Long story short:

The US and Ukraine ripped up that treaty years before by refusing to abide by the terms of the Minsk Agreements. [emphasis mine]

Anyone with an ounce of integrity would be anti US, anti EU, anti Ukraine.

Navalny was ostracized in Russia because of his white nationalism, not because he opposed Putin.

Just curious -- what sources of news / world politics information do you usually read? Where did you learn this about Navalny and the Minsk agreement, for example, or about how silent Bernie has been on the Israel issue up until now? I am interested to learn to deprogram myself from all the Western propaganda that maybe I've been taken in by, and I'd like to be able to expose myself to some honest news. What would you recommend as a good place to get started where I could learn this stuff too?

I think it is fairly obvious that they're just deliberately saying weird and inflammatory shit to pollute the discussion. I mean, it worked on me.

But yes, if we're going to take it seriously enough to write down reasons why they are clearly not being honest, "all the people on the 'left' look the same to me, I put Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party in the same category, doesn't everyone on the American left do that?" is a fairly big one.

I thought about digging up the video of Bernie vigorously complaining about aid for Israel without any improvement in their behavior from the 1980s. But I feel like I've sent it to you before along with some others, the last time you raised this totally bizarre argument.

But something even more fundamental occurred to me

You're saying that Bernie Sanders is in lock step with the DNC?

Bernie Sanders?

DNC?

You, uh...

Are you under the impression Bernie Sanders is a Democrat?