If you only want to consume news that someone with a bunch of spare money is willing to pay to have you hear, you're embarking on a process that eventually leads to you and lots of other people not really knowing what's going on.
mozz
joined 2 years ago
I feel like I talked about this before
Biden has NOT tried to order the National Guard to fire on the Palestine protestors with live ammunition
Caring about Palestinian lives is a big reason why I think Trump coming to power again would be a disaster.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-israel-finish-problem-gaza-1234981038/
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/muslim-ban-what-just-happened
But anyway, enhance
https://www.newsweek.com/pence-refusing-get-secret-service-car-jan-6-chilling-raskin-1700341
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
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With Gaza, I think this is completely accurate (and even then there's a disconnect between the huge level of outrage and the tiny little concessions to humanity that the Democrats have enacted as a result under that pressure).
With most things, it's not. You can't possibly tell me that sweeping climate change legislation, creating a small amount of support in the tiny minority of people in the US who are aware enough of what's going on to care, but incurring the anger of the incredibly powerful fossil fuel lobby, was done because of cold political calculus. I think it's actually borne out of genuine concern (which makes sense -- these politicians' kids and grandkids have to live on the planet in the future too, and they don't have the Republican luxury of living in a pure fantasy-world where they think somehow that it won't impact them.)
I love when there's a comment that's so wrong it's not even necessary to post anything disagreeing with it
Like what's the point. I'm gonna come in here with some kind of fact check like "As a matter of fact, Biden has NOT tried to order the National Guard to fire on the Palestine protestors with live ammunition! Or told his followers to attack the capitol to kill anyone who stands in the way of him seizing power anyway, if he loses in November. It's a common misconception I know!"
And listen to all of them laughing
Let's take all that "You can't POSSIBLY vote for GENOCIDE-adjacent person even if the alternative is LITERALLY A HUNDRED TIMES WORSE INCLUDING LOTS MORE GENOCIDE" energy
And apply it to "You can't POSSIBLY sit around typing on the internet while the world is falling apart, let's get involved in direct activism to make the US a better place instead of hoping that voting is enough which it definitely isn't"
While also, yes, voting for "not the end of the world"
I'll only speak for myself. I don't think anything "romantic" about the medium-scale farming operations that in the modern day grow most of the food; I think that a lot of them probably fuck over the actual farmworkers, and I don't imagine them as a little 10-acre farm operated by a happy rosy-cheeked couple.
At the same time, I do think that the people who run those operations deserve justice and protection against the behemoths who actually keep all the money and ruin the food supply, and that we should change the system so that small farming operations can exist in the modern day without having to become industrialized whether they want to or not. The food has to come from somewhere.
Get a gift card and a proton.me address, maybe? IDK