During Tuesday’s hearing, Gabbard told Warner that the Signal thread didn’t share any classified information but refused to share its contents, or even admit that she was on the chain.
“If it’s not classified, share the texts now,” Warner told Gabbard. “Share it with the committee. You can’t have it both ways. These are important jobs. This is our national security.”
Bitch, we can smell the bullshit 500 miles away.
So why should we spend any effort towards measuring what level we’re each opposed to mass murder, instead of actually opposing it while it’s happening?
Mostly because I’m mad. I mean this is the Fediverse not a council meeting that will decide the fate of the Free World™, there’s nothing wrong with doing wasteful things. Also since I’m not American I’m not a member of the coalition you’re trying to build anyway.
It’s wasteful at best, and creates fractures in a needed united front against mass murdering corporate narcissists at worst.
That united front will never happen. Ideologically committed liberals will always side with fascists against leftists or try to win on their own; it’s just how they’re made. The Gestapo ICE will be knocking on your door and they’ll still argue that a UBI is going too far and they can’t support your program. Don’t believe me? Look at what the Dem leadership is doing. Liberals simply don’t consider people to their left allies, but rather threats to their capitalist overlords. Not that that has anything to do with this conversation, but yeah.
Yet you’re enjoying the boot, and feel it’s earned, instead of aligning with the people it’s on who you clearly agree more with.
Huh? I never said anything about any boots being earned.
… there’s nothing wrong with doing wasteful things.
Agreed.
But I prefer to live a productive life instead of a wasteful one.
Especially when wasting your life involves picking on a currently oppressed group instead of their oppressors. If your anger stems from liberals lack of empathy, you are certainly lacking it towards them now that they’re oppressed.
So if you want to waste your life being an angry hypocrite in this way, I will not stop you, but I will point it out.
And let me know where in the world you’re living if you feel you are currently safe from the Russia fueled right-wing populist hate machine. I’d gladly move there to escape the grip they are tightening on the world.
Especially considering how effectively they dismantled the US, have now weaponized their military (the largest in the world by several factors), and have publicly stated their interest to take over Canada, Greenland, and Panama.
If there’s a safe place on this planet that escapes their grasp, let me know, especially since you already feel:
…that united front will never happen.
Seeing as a united front is the only way this ends well for humanity instead of Oligarchs, I guess we’ll have to wait 4 years to find out if you’re just being wasteful, or dangerously naive.
But I prefer to live a productive life instead of a wasteful one.
Wow that’s dramatic.
Especially when wasting your life involves picking on a currently oppressed group instead of their oppressors. If your anger stems from liberals lack of empathy, you are certainly lacking it towards them now that they’re oppressed.
How is criticism a “lack of empathy”?
And let me know where in the world you’re living if you feel you are currently safe from the Russia fueled right-wing populist hate machine. I’d gladly move there to escape the grip they are tightening on the world.
Egypt and Japan, but I won’t recommend the former. Japan is run by a bunch of conservative fuckwats don’t get me wrong, but they’re Reagan-era fiscal responsibility conservative fuckwats, not ethnostate conservative fuckwats (probably because Japan is already an ethnostate, but likely also because Japan refuses to evolve beyond the 80s).
Seeing as a united front is the only way this ends well for humanity instead of Oligarchs,
It’s… not. Right now people will follow whoever promises to do things and then follows through on that promise. If liberals aren’t willing to be that (and they’re not), people will simply abandon liberals, but there must first be someone willing to publicly attack liberals and steal their base. This has happened before (see: 1917 Russia).
I guess we’ll have to wait 4 years to find out if you’re just being wasteful, or dangerously naive.
Wow that’s dramatic.
You literally admitteded to wanting to be wasteful. So it’s not dramatic to point out that over time, if all you do is wasteful things with your life, then it’s been a wasteful one. That’s how life works.
How is criticism a “lack of empathy”?
It’s not your criticism that lacks empathy, it’s your choice in who to criticise.
You’re taking the time to make your opinion public, and that time could be spent doing or saying anything else.
What you choose to say and do, is at the cost of what you could also be doing or saying with your time.
For example:
Libs choose not to say anything about drone strikes when it’s inconvenient.
Their choice to turn a blind eye, is why you feel they lack empathy.
The Right is attacking Democracy worldwide and has succeeded in taking over the US where they have recently enacted policies killing woman (abortion bans), incited LQBTQIA violence and murder, and readily exploit the elderly (antivax BS, removal of social security).
Recent estimates put preventable abortion deaths at 10,000 women a month in Texas alone, not to mention the GOP’s support of actual genocide in Isreal.
All of this, you have choosen to say nothing about. So just like the libs, it appears you’re turning a blind eye to it.
Because If you actually cared about those commiting mass murder, it stands to reason you would choose to express an opinion against the group doing it the most worldwide, instead of the group who has no power to do it any longer.
In choosing to be critical of libs for actions that others are doing worse on a far larger scale is what makes your opinion lack empathy. Because it quite literally could have more empathy if it was directed towards the larger group now doing all the mass murdering.
Libs don’t want to talk about drone strikes killing people (just the “terrorists” that do), and you don’t want to talk about the right killing people (just the “libs” that do).
From where I’m at, you both appear to be the same kind of hypocrite.
Egypt and Japan…
Both are already under Russia’s heel. Japan only recently.
Egypt gets 80% of their grain from Russia in exchange for guns. Russia has them by the balls and doesn’t need propaganda to influence their politics:
And Japan is one of the 11 Democracies found to be under attack through targeted election interference in this report:
Concerted Russian operations between 2020 and 2022 sought to “undermine public confidence in at least 11 elections across nine democracies, including the United States,” the report said, adding 17 others were targeted by “less pronounced” efforts.
So the mass murder people already have control of the Egyptian government, and are working on Japan.
And its working because:
Right now people will follow whoever promises to do things and then follows through on that promise.
This includes voting for people that don’t care about mass murder as long as they follow through on their other promises.
So all together, talking about how much you hate the Right and what they’re doing feels like an opinion you should have and be sharing if you truly cared about those who commit mass murder.
Libs are not in power in the US and very likely won’t have it in the same way ever again.
Do they suck? Yes.
But there’s bigger mass murders now that arguably warrant the same view you have of libs.
So why are you choosing to talk about the libs instead?
From my perspective, it looks like you just want to waste your time being angry at a lesser evil. Which if done over the course of your whole life, will unquestionably waste it.
