i don't think debating this online is productive, but fwiw i've been radicalized over decades of trying to engage with the system, and i'm not unfamiliar with how it works. it's not like i haven't heard this kind of party boosterism a million times. anyway there are more of us than you might think.
this is a bourgeois democracy driven by capital interests. the idea that one major party is above the system in which it exists is not convincing to me.
well the dems certainly did what they could to protect him regardless of whom you think is corrupt
Manchin was always nakedly corrupt and pro-his own capital interests, which made him very easy to read and potentially defeat in a primary but the party always protected his "independence" and fought against challengers
ben shapiro, gad saad, james lindsay, eve fartlow lmao
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Why did the other seven voted for selling them? I guess there's only one reasonable conclusion.
These bulldozers have literally one purpose and one only and that's to violate international law via the systematic destruction of civilians property. That's why 40 out of 47 Democrats voted against selling them to Israel.
Democratic members of the Senate who voted to give Israel more bulldozers
Even during the "ceasefire", the Israelis are still demolishing entire villages in southern Lebanon with armored bulldozers. In fact, civilian contractors hired by the army receive pay which is based on the number of buildings destroyed.
Schumer voted against blocking the sale of these bulldozers.
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A rare quadruple-tap which killed four medics and wounded six more.
In total over 90 healthcare workers have been assassinated by Israel since the beginning of the intensified strikes on Lebanon by Israel.
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
International journalists have been barred from Gaza for two years and seven months.
It's been seven months since the "cease fire" came into force, and two months since the Rafah crossing started to operate.
Israel continues to prevent the entry of journalists.
BTW one can quibble about the length or if another state of occupation is longer or shorter but from my understanding Said was referring to a state of martial law in which the sovereign more or less disclaims responsibility for the subjected people.
Indeed, and as @karnesmellagio.bsky.social and @notthedarkweb.bsky.social have noted there is also a general confusion at the fact that many eastern countries simply do not place the Holocaust at the center of their moral historiography like the West. It doesn't bear the same psychological weight.
That was 26 years ago.
A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.
lol
My extremely even-tempered brother got into an altercation in a bar when one patron claimed Gaza was rightfully being bombed, by telling the patron he would have been a japanese collaborator โ an insult that is way up there. The bar kicked the other guy out lol
Since 2023 I've been constantly rattled by the similarities to family lore from both the occupation period and the Korean War.
my sense has been that although up until now, politicians were pretty quiet about it and protests were a marginal feature of korean life, a lot of people did see a clear parallel (excluding the church cult psychos, but let's not get into that).
Lee Jae-myung drawing parallels between Palestine and the colonial occupation of Korea by Japan has started shit abroad and afaict resonated with the party and the public
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OFFICIALLY 40 out of 47 with Padilla voting YES
NO
CCM
Blumenthal
Gillibrand
Rosen
Schumer
Coons
Fetterman
This means 36 is the new floor for votes against certain provisions of military assistance to Israel and 40 is the current high.
36 out of 47 Democratic senators have voted to block a separate weapons package, specifically a $150 million set of 12,000 1000-pound bombs.
List below
It is official, 39 out of 47 Democratic senators have voted to block weapons to Israel, specifically $300 million in armed bulldozers