Bytemeister @ Bytemeister @lemmy.world

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Fuck god. We've got dibs.

It's a rounding error. The number of Republicans who voted against Trump in 2020 was like 1%.

TBF, that is a low bar to clear.

I feel like every house I was in had a set of encyclopedias, and a copy of "The Way Things Work". I'm kinda ashamed I have neither in my house today.

The point is that the "blame" doesn't matter, it was all something the byststander decided to lean into to justify their decision not to help. Yes, the good samaritan had to decide to leave someone behind. They made a decision, someone who could have lived died because of it. The samaritan has to live with that for the rest of their life.

Sure, the good samaritan had to leave someone to die in the fire because they can fucking carry everyone. Life is full of hard choices, and most of the time you have to pick the least bad option. Deal with it.

Maybe someday, we'll all get lucky and some large alien puts you in a stasis bubble you don't understand and then chucks you in the singlularity compactor.

Consider this. Israel and Palestine are gonna fight. They're in an impossible situation. There are only 2 ways they move forward. One is that they agree not to retaliate when struck, and to handle aggression internally and swiftly. The second is that one of them ceases to exist. No US presidential candidate was going to make one of those things happen.

So... the resolution of Israel/Palestine genocide wasn't on the table for the US presidential election in 2024, in the same way that the issue of Chinese treatment of Uyghurs wasn't on the table, or the UK rejoining th EU, or Mexican drug cartels foregoing violence. People who voted 3rd party, or didn't vote risked all the fascist stuff trump has done in the last 6 months, and all the shit he's going to do in the next 3.5 years, in an attempt to wash their hands of an issue that wasn't up to them to decide in the first place. So they took a large risk on everything for the extremely slim possiblity of at best gaining absolutley nothing, and now they go around crowing like they made the right decision. To me, it's like someone watching a burning bus , and as people are trying to rescue victims, they say "well at least I didn't decide to leave people behind on the bus, unlike those jerks" and the gesturing wildly at singed good samaritans who tragically weren't able to get everyone out of the blaze.

They risked everything, and then played to lose. I blame them equally to trump supporters, if not a bit more since they clearly aren't a bunch of brain damaged adult-age children like trump supporters are.

As a person that voted for Harris. Yes. And we should be putting pressure on her to condition any aid to Israel.

Meanwhile, with trump, we're too busy trying to keep all of our water reserves for crops from being dumped, and trying to keep US residents from being sent to extra-national slave torture prisons without due process to even think about having time to mount meaningful protests for what is happening in Gaza.

It matters to the cult that they were in.

Unionize.

-Put conditions on any aid going to Israel.

-Arrest trump and his sycophants in Congress for their litany of heinous crimes against the American people.

-Force Biden not to run in 2024, have an actual primary and don't put their thumb on the scale to nominate a corporate-owned bipartisan centrist.

I'm pretty pro-democrat, but they could have done all that shit in a day and locked in the next 8 years of federal elections.

He dithered and only reluctantly did this. And then when he did, he did it in a way that a corrupt SCOTUS could overrule. There were other paths he could have taken, but he chose the least-confrontational approach and ultimately the court negated most of his efforts.

I'm gonna gut check this, because I remember him trying couple of times to work out student debt relief. Also, what other steps would you have taken to get student debt relief/forgiveness pushed though? The only step I can think of is after the "president is a king" SCOTUS ruling he could have just canceled them and told everyone to fuck off, but using those powers was clearly something that he didn't morally agree with.

Yeah, pull a China and say, we're immediately on putting a 1000% tariffs on any American products. This will functionally stop any trade between our nations. Trump can retailiate with a higher one, but it would just be pointless dick waving. We're fine with waiting until an intelligent and capable person is able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU on behalf of the USA.

That's okay, then you dress as yourself and be super nice to crows. It evens out.

Honestly, the real answer is to dress up like ICE and then be dicks to crows. Trump's SS won't be able to operate in your city for years!

Right? The only thing on the market for EVs in the US right now is "luxury" crossovers and trucks. What people really want is an electric civic hatchback.

Hmmm. I think US cars can absolutely compete. Here is the problem. Foreign manufacturers make cars that people want to buy. American manufacturers make cars that they want to sell. These two things are not the same.

Better yet, give it to a friend who isn't attending the protest, and have them drive around with the phone. Pull it out and check some sites with it every few minutes, maybe send a few messages.