Unaware7013

It's just that the only leverage they have is withdrawing support. It's a game of chicken.

I don't disagree with what you said, but this right here is the most correct. My only point was that their leverage amounts to holding a grenade and pulling the pin. Sure, they'll hurt the Dems for not doing the right thing, but they're still going to hurt themselves much worse.

Considering that literally the only other options would be objectively worse, and would give the openly fascistic party a better chance at winning, are they wrong tho?

I fucking hate the stranglehold on power that the 2 party system gives to both parties, and how it allows them to hold our votes hostage. But at the same time I'm a pragmatist who understands how electoral politics works, and also someone who understands that while voting won't get you to a utopia, not voting can absolutely help push the country farther and farther away (as we saw in 2016).

I'm absolutely not going to be the guy that tries to guilt people into voting against the fascists even if it means holding their nose for a party they don't like (which is where I've landed), but there really isn't a much better option available that isn't directly against peoples' better interests. I'd love to hear where I'm wrong or overlooking something better, but I haven't seen it yet.

Israel’s reaction is almost as bad.

Pretty sure bombing refugee camps and humanitarian corridors are objectively worse, as are cutting off all food/water/power/aid to the open air prison they've been running for decades is worse than what hamas' is doing.

You make it sound like that's not the express aim of the mainstream republican politicians. This isn't a bug to them, it's a feature.

I know it's journalistic standards to use "alleges" for shit we have seen them do in real time, but it never stops being annoying.

An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave.

Israel is a terrorist state, and they're so blood thirsty for Hamas commanders that they're bombing fucking refuge camps.

And they wonder what drives support for Hamas? Jk, no they don't. Israel knowsthey support Hamas because of Israel's actions, and Israel leans into it to give them excuses to marginalize and remove Palestinians from their land one way or another.

I don't support Hamas, but supporting Israel is unconcionable, and has been for years. But with so many things these days, the authorizations are going full mask off...

I was going to speak up against the murder of civilians in an open air prison by an apartheid state, but I didn't want to be labeled an antisemite.

• most of the world

I generally won't drink Bud, but I used to tolerate it at shows just to get something alcoholic that wouldn't break the bank. As is, I'd rather spend more than have two shitty tastes in my mouth...

And in trying to save the transphobe dollar, they pissed off everyone else. Maybe this will teach companies to just support them and ignore what the right wing/transphobes (I know, I repeat myself) complain about, because you know you can't count on them once you capitulate.

"Some people are antisemites, so that invalidates everything I don't agree with in this situation" is definitely a take. Not a remotely intellectual take, but it is definitely one of the takes to ever exist.

He's doing the same shit Elon does and is just pulling random bullshit out of his ass that makes his opinion sound less absolutely fucking stupid than it really is.

So glad my company downsized offices this last year. We're like 80-90% remote (I still haven't even been to the state my office is in), so there was no reason to keep a big office building that was mostly empty.

It's amazing what a company can do when they care about their employees more than a stack of bricks with shit in them.