When Israel falls, they should just combine with Israel and Palestine to get access to that water lol.
SevenSkalls
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I think any smart bourgeois liberal politician knows that taking a tens of thousands of people off of Medicaid and Medicare is dangerous, you're flirting with revolution territory, or at least more Luigi posting. We can't forget that the ruling class does still have their disagreements with each other over the best way to steward the empire.
Personally, I think the Democratic establishment would prefer to fund those programs while doing imperialism and war abroad to make up for falling rates of profit, rather than the Republican fascist techniques of bringing the imperialism home so early, getting rid of immigrants which a lot of businesses owners use, the white supremacy shit, taking the copper out of the walls, etc. They want to give the minimum concessions, like the Build Back Better bill, to let them know his country keep floating along while delaying the inevitable as long as possible.
Which is to say, I honestly think they're just that incompetent and it's just a byproduct of the old are just too entrenched and have all the money and name recognition.
It would've been nice to delay it a bit more, get some more organizing in before the Florida concentration camps. But the Dems were determined to lose. I know they blame the voters, but it's on the Dems and their strategists and the lobbyists and donors that pay their strategists.
All the establishments Dems speaking out against Mamdani's election proves that the kind of big picture changes people are asking for are anathema to them, and they would rather lose than win with a socialist, even a milquetoast Dem Soc. They're the same people advising her to yell about having the biggest lethal military or that Iran is the #1 enemy while a genocide is going on, or to hide the guy who gave kids free school lunches and not to advertise that, while instead advertising how many Republicans are on your side. To put your best proposals on your website where no one cares. To say the economy is doing great and you'd change nothing about what Biden did while everyone is saying groceries are expensive. To match the Republican playbook of fear instead of trying to inspire people with what's possible.
Sorry for that rant, I'm just pissed. Every bad thing that happens does seem to increase awareness of communism, so at least there's that. I just hope left groups can still organize with the level of oppression they are going to get and that the poor and working-class aren't too distracted just trying to survive under these cuts.
100%. I hope all these hit pieces backfire. It reminds me of when people said Bernie Sanders was going to execute people in Central Park lol. And every interview they berated him for saying the word socialism or praising Castro's literacy program. It made me wonder what was so bad about socialism because the essence of his policy proposals and what he said all seemed good to me, they just insulted his vibe basically. It made me look into Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, and socialism in general.
Now look at me, I'm a full blown commie.
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Well I'm glad they're aware of the reality. But the US will shift to China even if without Ukraine ending. Trump's gradual lessening of aid and demanding Europe ups their contribution is an obvious sign of that.
I'm no expert, but it feels like the smart thing would be to help Russia end the war as soon as possible so Russia can begin to prepare to help China when they need help against the US. Also lowering their dependency on the US dollar with Russia. It's a liability to depend on the import economy of the country that keeps saying it will go to war with you, who keeps sending military support to Taiwan, and encircling them in the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea.