What a terrible website. I went through the ridiculously convoluted process of rejecting unnecessary cookies only to be immediately told I had reached my free article limit. I’d never been to the site before.

Frankly I didn’t realize how much of myself I was masking by trying to maintain relationships with people who have anti-civilizational worldviews. I thought I was being open minded and accepting, but I was actually just dimming my own light and giving their horrific beliefs legitimacy.

It feels liberating to have solid boundaries.

I also have “lost” “friends” because they couldn’t pull their heads out of their asses.

Many won’t. And that is understandable. But our only hope for the Star Trek future I’ve wanted since a kid is international solidarity among average people, regardless of what their stupid governments do.

You’re not responsible for being born on the same plot of land as a bunch of morons you don’t even know

It was on Al Jazeera

I think their point is that Iran’s targets are legitimate while the US/Israeli targets are children

Man I stroke once or twice a day. Didn’t know it could be fatal!

There are no institutional mechanisms in American politics to make that happen. We don’t have a parliamentary system. (I wish we did).

Maybe it’s making two points. Do you think you can handle that?

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. We are well and truly overdue for a general strike.

As if that were the reason people don’t go to Burger King

Trust me when I say I have wrestled with this for a long time now, having to live among people who either voted for the fascists or didn’t vote at all. There are a few key factors in the US that just don’t make it that simple:

• Our population is heavily propagandized to accept fascist behavior and rhetoric as normal, or even patriotic
• People in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods/cities struggle to see much of a difference between the parties because they are often living under full time military-style occupation by their local police force, even when their local government is run by Democrats. The tactics ICE is using against middle class white protestors are not new. They’re just new to middle class white people
• A lot of people with multiple kids and jobs, especially in states controlled by Republicans, are not reasonably able to vote because they don’t have the time and their state/local governments go out of their way to make it difficult

Agreed

You sound just like MAGA people talking about immigrants to The US.

There are also a lot of otherwise decent Americans who are propagandized beyond all reason. The machinery for manufacturing consent in this country is sophisticated and very well funded.

It’s perfectly legitimate to vote third party in a non-swing state to express your disgust with the state of The Democrats. However, doing that in a swing state is basically just punching yourself in the face.

In no case should you choose not to vote because that registers as apathy rather than disgust with the choices.

Their class solidarity is international, and so must ours be.

Asinine reasoning. If Harris had won, they’d all have been a vote for her.

I assume you’re counting the non votes as votes for Trump. Disingenuous at best.