And I suppose there’s nothing I can do to make you understand that she was the lynch pin in ensuring progressives lost the 2020 primary using the same neoliberal playbook they implement every primary. Good luck out there.

Democrats aren’t realizing it though. They are still playing games with our Democracy so they can try to force their own conservative candidates into power. Biden would rather support a child murderer than ensure he’s there to prevent Trump from getting into office.

With that kind of political strategy, where Dems are not signaling any genuine urgency, it’s hard to see a scenario where the far-right doesn’t take over, regardless of whether Biden squeezes out a win this time. Neoliberals can only play chicken with our democracy for so long before disaster strikes, you’d think they’d have learned that in 2016.

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You don’t trust her because she wanted to win a presidential primary, didn’t, and had a shitty response to it?

No, that’s not what I said or what happened.

She lied to play on a damaging trope made up by conservatives and right-wing media and then, even when she had lost, endorsed a far right zionist (you know, the guy whos sending our tax dollars to fund a genocide at this very moment) rather than Sanders when those were the only two options. I don’t care if she did it because she was a sore loser, that makes it worse, not better.

Elizabeth Warren has accomplished alot for sure, sabotaging progressives during both election cycles is one of her biggest and most wide-reaching accomplishments. Name checking a piece of legislation that was passed 20 years ago before she was even an elected official isn’t exactly the great testament to her record.

I don’t trust Warren because she’s been corrupted. I don’t care if a person used to give soup to orphans, that doesn’t erase their willingness to later support someone who murders orphans. A senator doing the basics of the job they were elected to do does not give them license or leeway to sabotage the progressive agenda, once someone does that the trust is destroyed and can’t be rebuilt with any amount of speeches and rhetoric.

That’s a real possibility, yeah, there is no doubt that he is a Zionist. And I don’t mean to speak with more certainty than it really warrants, it’s more just difficult to really believe he’s not coming around to the fact that the far-right “forever war” Israeli government is not only bad for the US, but even makes Israelis themselves less safe by perpetuating conflict and stoking the cycle of violence.

He is perhaps a Zionist without the stomach for ethnic cleansing that’s required to fulfill that world view.

Every Democrat can claim they “attempted” some progressive legislation, neoliberals make their entire career around attempting (and then failing) to institute popular progressive legislation. That’s the whole concept of having a rotating villain like Manchin or Sinema, you pick just enough senators or house members to stand in the way of the progressive agenda and then everyone else gets to vote for progressive legislation knowing that there’s no chance it will pass. They did it even when they have a super majority.

I don’t trust Warren because she has not once but twice kneecapped Sanders during his presidential run. That’s when her true colors show, when the chips are down and she falls inline with the rest of the DNC establishment.

There was no reason for her to not back the progressive candidate during a primary when it was only Biden and Sanders left. Instead she chose to try to smear Sanders by perpetuating a lie about him telling her that “a woman can’t win”, then back-peddled as it came out that was a total mischaracterization of what they talked about. It’s the same bullshit tactic neoliberals used during his first campaign with the “bernie bros” narrative despite him having a majority of his supporters as women.

I mistrust fake progressives even more than I mistrust the far-right, at least the far-right tells you exactly what they really believe. A fake progressive undermines our ability to push the party towards progressive goals.

Yup, American manufacturers are still treating EVs as if they’re this exotic new toy for upper-middle class people or silicon valley douche bros, rather than getting onboard with the concept of them just being a utilitarian thing that needs to be marketed to normal people.

Give me the EV equivalent of the Geo Metro and I’ll buy it in a heart beat. I’m not taking out a second mortgage for a car that tries to drive itself and whatever dumb gimmicks they come up with, but I will 100% buy an affordable, practical EV designed with efficiency and economy in mind.

Any geopolitical role that Israel fulfills could easily be filled by Turkey. Israel offers very little for the US, at this point it can’t even be said that they’re really an ally democracy (if they ever were). It’s a hyper-militaristic apartheid state.

But that’s kind of my point, Israel is indeed a client of the US and, whatever you think about US hegemony, Israel shouldn’t be calling the shots here in terms of the support we do or don’t give them. It makes Biden look so incredibly weak to tolerate the endless slaps to the face from Netanyahu’s tantrum and for them to dump money into our elections without a single Dem leader calling for a ban on AIPAC money. It makes no sense even from an imperialist perspective or a security perspective or however one wants to frame it, nevermind the clear moral depravity of continuing to send them aid.

Even Ronald Reagan withheld munitions from Israel when they indiscrimately bombed Lebanon and literally described it as a holocaust right to the Prime Minister’s face. It literally took less than a half hour after that call for the Israeli PM to halt the bombing.

I despise Reagan, but if even someone as despicable as him can understand how to wield political power to bring the Israeli far-right to heel, Biden has no excuse. Which is why I think there has to be something else going on here.

I have little trust in Warren to mean anything she says.

It astounds me that Biden is still in thrall to this guy. He’s basically deliberately sabotaging Biden’s re-election chances and Biden just keeps protecting him.

I’m not for American hegemony, but the fact is that Israel is dependent on US, not the other way around. Biden needs to flex that power to shut this idiot up.

The only explanation I’ve been able to come up with for why Biden refuses to do anything but jerk Netanyahu off, even as Netanyahu spits in his face over and over is that Israeli intelligence has some kind of destructive kompromat on Biden. It’s the only way it makes sense.

Insanity. Literally just a form of derangment. That or they’re troglodytes…

…if we cut emissions it stops climate change from getting even worse, killing even more people, destroying even more property and causing more mass migration, causing even further ecological collapse.

You’re literally just asking “Why mitigate climate change?”

What is it going to solve if the companies responsible for more than 70% of the world’s emissions are stopped from producing those emissions via regulation? That’s your question?

I just laid them out; regulating the most destructive industries and forcing them to stop releasing greenhouse gasses, same way we force them to stop dumping mercury in estuaries or how we stop them from destroying national parks etc.

Climate change is not going to get solved by people buying local and making their clothes out of hemp. The responsibility for sweeping change lies with the government ultimately to get industries in line.

It’s like blaming someone who uses AC during a record heat wave when our grid itself isn’t using green sources. You fix the power source that the AC draws from and you fix the AC. It’s the same across many industries, dumping the decision-making onto average people at the end of the line is super inefficient.

It’s sort of a first step into adulthood and just a way of marking a coming of age threshold as people head out into the wider world.

Most proms aren’t that crazy, I think the real thing you’re noticing is more the distorting effecf social media can have on any cultural tradition or practice. You’re seeing people who would go overboard about anything they thought might get them attention. Kind of like people who have insane weddings, the majority of people still have totally normal weddings for the most part.

There are solutions, they just threaten the profits of the 100 or so top polluter companies and the majority of politicians are bought out by those companies. The author kind of continues the old trope that this is somehow the responsibility of every day people to solve through their individual actions. While individual action and less consumption does help, it’s still a drop in the bucket compared to the effect of the industries themselves. If we want to mitigate the effects of climate change that has always been the most efficient way to go about it; forcing industries to change, even if it costs them.

The biggest issue though is, if the world solved that political issue, China is still dumping a third of the world’s greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and are still building more coal plants at a record pace. They are fixated on their geopolitical and imperial goals, scaling back to focus on domestic necessity just isn’t a possibility for Xi.

I’d say Biden is in an even worse position, his push to the far right on immigration, economics, genocide etc. because he thinks he has voters over a barrel has alienated and demoralized a lot of voters. He’s quite literally to the right of Ronald Reagan at this point on so many issues, it’s a tall order to ask non-conservatives to vote for him when he’s literally just a Republican.

His inability to change course very well might cost him the election, and even if he does squeak out a win it guaruntees that the Democratic party will continue to see moving right and supporting genocide as the way to win elections.

US democracy is kind of a walking corpse at this point I think. People just don’t want to acknowledge what the problems are and think kicking the can down the road some more will help.

This one is timeless.

What’s an updog?

And the assassination of a high ranking Iranian official.

As much as the Iranian government is authoritarian dogshit, they have been undeniably tolerant of some pretty extreme provocation from both Israel and the US.

It may be because they simply don’t have the means to retaliate in kind, but the escalation of tensions in the Mid East is still clearly being stirred up entirely by the Israeli far-right government that needs there to be a “Forever Threat” in order to retain power.