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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh yes. The one that's defended genocide more or less explicitly the whole time, but doesn't like Netanyahu being too repressive toward the settlers themselves in some ways. Glorious institution of justice.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"Stand up and fight." While literally not even suggesting any way to actually do so, but talking about Bad President™. Meaning the status quo "solution" of vote for blue fascists is what he is truly advocating for.

Thanks, Bernie. Very helpful.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Not primary source, but (BadEmbanada) video which summarizes and cites them.

Jews Have Religious Right to Genocide, Says Israeli Supreme Court ["Israel is Jewish ISIS"]

Israeli Supreme Court cites the Bible to justify starving Palestinians, ethnic cleansing, explicitly refusing to follow international humanitarian law and distinguish between civilians and military targets, etc.

Quite a fucking confession.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

Hasn't this always been the case? think-about-it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

"Checks and balances"?! More like "cheques and baristas", amiritefolx?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In the immortal and soothing words of Douglas Adams: DON'T PANIC

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Whether he understands their messaging or not, it does reveal a bit about his own motivations, though. Not that it's exactly a shocking revelation to us or anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah. TBH this is more likely to be yet another big Shock-Doctrine-esque consolidation of wealth and power than a dismantling of capitalism itself.

No need to ascribe some kind of 4D chess strategy on Trump for this to be the case. It's built-in. Capitalists thrive on disasters for the working class. All it takes is some of them signaling to Trump that they've got his back when he talks about doing shit like this. And if the whole stock market is doing this as one and they are confident of their competitive place in the recovery, they're not likely to yank his leash.

I do suspect the capitalists might get cold feet at some point and do the leash yanking. It's just going to be a matter of when.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Been trying to tell people this. Read a mortgage contract sometime. Compare to a typical lease.

There's a practical difference, because the bank doesn't have people everywhere to monitor and control every house they lord over, like landlords and their property managers do. But in terms of the power they actually have over you if they choose to exercise it....

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Hell, capitalism has a problem when profits simply fail to grow at expected rates. Never mind actually falling!

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