I find in endlessly funny that we've been screaming at the democrats to leverage Israel more to end hostilities in the ME without any real movement from them, but suddenly Trump is willing to say 'fuck it' just because the right people happen to be bribing him.
If the right people keep trump's palms greased for long enough we might actually end up on the right side of history by accident, and if that's not comedy I don't know what is.
Lmao at the number of downvotes, another W for lemmy.
If you're actually curious about why someone might see a group like the Houthis differently than the US state department does, here's an excellent explanation by a well-known and respected Israeli political scientist on the matter. You're free to disagree with him, but there's good reason to be skeptical of the terror designation and more reason still why recognizing their support against a genocide certainly shouldn't be viewed as an endorsement of their ideological perspective.
He explicitly supports Palestinian resistance
“America kidnapped civilians”
It would actually read something more like "US Navy detains cargo crew in violation of blockaid"
I don't think most Americans know just how much they're propagandized, even through mundane things like headline word choices.
Do you not think what they did was terrorism?
Operating a shipping blockaid is a boilerplate armed conflict strategy. No, this doesn't qualify as terrorism IMO.
A catholic fundamentalist will only support marriage as a universal right when not supporting it becomes a liability, for the same reason catholicism and christianity writ large legitimized and supported the institutions of slavery and segregation for far longer than they were publicly popular for
Biden, for all his notable progressive compromises, will drag his feet against doing anything insufficiently popular, no matter how unjust the alternative is.
I'd be ok with old if it came with socialist.
Someone go get that guy complaining about 'bothsiders' on lw last week.
Biden was a fundamentalist catholic who thought homosexuality was a sin and abortion was murder.
Everything he did that could be considered progressive he did as a compromise to his own values - that's what makes him a moderate.
That's exactly the type of person this article is talking about.
American liberals fucked themselves and the rest of the world.
American capitalist democracy has been failing for more than a decade and liberals have done nothing but defend it from reform.
A candidate being third party precludes them from being 'viable' in our system, at least in the federal elections. It's more advantageous for an independent or progressive democrat to take the primary, but they'll always be at a disadvantage under the DNC. Maintaining a high populist energy through the midterms and into 2027 will force them to recon with it. Hopefully Bernie and AOC can keep up the oligarchy tour and keep it in the headlines, and maybe if they do more democrats will join the cause.
Tell me you don't know who Ahmed al-Sharaa is without telling me you don't know who Ahmed al-Sharaa is.