Congrats, dipshits, you let the fascist fuck get away with everything, just like everyone predicted.

What an utter failure of a justice system we have.

Local manufacturing is politically advantageous and may employ some people at the same time, but that’s where benefits end.

There are legitimate strategic concerns with sourcing things long-term from potentially hostile states.

Europe should absolutely take advantage of current Chinese production to improve their own green energy efforts, but looking into local production in addition is not just a ‘for-show’ move. As sanctions on Russia show, dependence on markets that can potentially turn hostile can be very damaging.

Do they really have absolutely nothing to show?

They don’t want to find out. The backers are coming into office in two months’ time.

Average American political literacy.

It would be really awful if Trump voters were dragged and demonized in public.

“I just want you to think about what the alternative was,” said Abbas, referring to the current administration’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon. He added, “What did you expect from myself or many members of the community to do?”

“Think of what the alternative is” is exactly what we were saying.

People are stupid. And because of that, we’ll suffer an incredible amount of harm that very easily could have been avoided.

Oh hey look, there’s the ultraconservative Sulla, why does he have his entire army with him?

Doesn’t matter, though. The US’s leverage in restricting weapons is the relationship with Ukraine and continued supply of aid. With Trump in office, both are nonexistent; there’s little reason for Ukraine to comply with any US restrictions going forward from that point.

“I feel you are both outsiders compared to the rest of DC, and less ‘establishment’,” said one. Another, “both of you push boundaries and force growth”. And: “It’s real simple … Trump and you care for the working class.”

“You are focused on the real issues people care about. Similar to Trump populism in some ways,” said a fourth. Lastly, a respondent said: “You signaled change. Trump signified change. I’ve said lately, Trump sounds more like you.”

Utterly brilliant. Complete geniuses with a firm grasp on current politics. I see why you count these as intellectual kin.

Nothing to see here, just politics as usual, the liberals are just trying to scare everyone. /s

People are dumb as shit.

Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Because Biden and the rest of the leadership are a bunch of Cold War fossil fucks.

Either way the end result is the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people.

Not unlike the past 20 years of genocide, but hey, who cares about the speed up in the past year? Same end result, right? /s

No shit. She’s there because it’s the closest she can get to COP29. She didn’t intend to come there to support your agenda and made no secret of it.

That seems to be the problem, though. If someone comes by and uses your protests as a platform for their own causes under the guise of allyship, is that not a reason to be irritated?

Each side is trying to wear down the other rather than make massive territorial gains as in the early days of the war.

The end result is the fucking same and you’re here arguing over pointless technicalities as if they mean anything.

Ah, that explains it, you think that speeding up the genocide of Palestinians is a ‘pointless technicality’. How… charming.

It’s funny that you accuse me of being bad at abstract thinking when you couldn’t understand the simple point I was making that just like the US has the capabilities to make things worse, they also have the capabilities to make things better, which biden has not used at all.

Okay? That’s not at all relevant to the fact that things can get much worse, something you denied, and what we’re arguing about.

This may be shocking, but biden’s support for the genocide is already “to the hilt”.

Don’t know why I expected any sort of consistency from you, though. Anything to peddle your fascist-enabling genocide-supporting “BOTHSIDES” shite, self-contradiction be damned.

I’m well aware of the US’s capabilities, but apparently biden isn’t because he bent over for a fascist in a foreign country to supply their campaign of genocide with billions of dollars in weapons.

How does that in any way contradict what I said?

You don’t understand how it can get worse because you think the current level of support is the most the US can do to support the genocide. In the next four years, though likely it will gruesomely end sooner, you’ll see hard evidence of just how much more support the US can lend to this atrocity, since apparently abstract thinking is not your strong point.

This may be shocking, but biden’s support for the genocide is already “to the hilt”.

That reflects a severe paucity of understanding of the US’s capabilities in this situation.