Israeli forces clashed with Hamas militants across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Israeli military said, deepening its engagement in the decimated enclave even as the Palestinian death toll from relentless airstrikes in 12 weeks of war soared higher.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported Saturday that 165 people had been killed in Israeli airstrikes and artillery attacks in the previous 24 hours, adding to the ministry’s toll of more than 21,500 people killed in Gaza since the war began with the Oct. 7 Hamas-led raids into Israel.
Genocide Joe just bypassed Congress for another 150 million in artillery and 13.000 tank shells to blindly fire into every building they see and destroy as much infrastructure as possible.
Not sure what pressure he is putting on there.
I’m not sure if you never opened a history book, but when has the US not provided weapons to someone for money?
Then tell me why he needed to bypass Congress to force this through?
The difference is that the US gives israel tens of billions of taxpayer dollars for free to “buy them”. Even the current “sale” is probably just gojng to be “paid” for by a loan which will be refunded within a few months.
America is not gaining any money from this. It’s only losing them money.
I don’t think the US’ “We have your back!” actual actions add up to something in the same universe as “pressure”.
The US posture in all this has been the equivalent of somebody watching a bully pummelling a toddler, whose response to it is say “naughty boy” to the bully with a fake frown whilst winking and passing him a baseball bat.
People really shouldn’t believe the words coming out of the mouth of US politicians and their hired minions - the only ones that aren’t liars by trade and sociopaths by nature lack the stomach for sticking knives in people’s backs to get that high in the first place or if they actually get there as a combination of merit and luck, soon leave.
Sadly the Nazi-supporting US Administration has a veritable army of usefull idiots going around saying “Yeah but you have to vote Biden because otherwise you get Trump”. Sounds a lot like the kind of “better accept that things are as they are, don’t make waves and work within the system” kind of messaging you get in dictatorships with a “voting system” everybody knows is nothing more than Theatre - the subservient trying to convince others to also bend over.
Greatest “democracy” in the World my arse.
saying “Yeah but you have to vote Biden because otherwise you get Trump”.
This is true, though.
The way the US elects presidents is terrible. It’s basically certifiably insane.
There’s an election in each state. The winner of that statewide election gets all the electoral college votes for that state. If no candidate gets an absolute majority in the electoral college, then it goes to the House of Representatives. However, each state delegation gets one vote.
Functionally, that means that if the election goes to the House, the Republican wins.
Third parties have never done well in the US because the system structurally disadvantages them. This is mostly because the US was the first modern democracy, and social choice theory was in its infancy when the constitution was written.
If you want to vote Biden out in favor of someone more progressive, the only chance of that is to primary him.
It’s pretty obvious that if you keep playing the character others have determined for you in that charade and cast a vote for the evil candidate whilst telling yourself it’s the “lesser evil”, it’s not going to get better, only worse.
The reason it’s obvious is because that’s exactly what’s been happenning for decades now, possibly all the way since Eisenhower - you get alternance of ever less representive and increasingly evil politicians, with at best “one step forward, three steps back” kind of change (even within the mandate period of the same President as the early hope quickly turns into the usual shit).
The only way that fake democracy will change is if the electorate starts doing the unexpected (3rd party voting, voting for independents, refuse to participate and vocally deride the whole process and so on) rather than predictably bending over: politicians don’t care why you vote for them, they only care you vote for them, hence why almost all of their campaigning nowadays is not about “here’s what I’ve done for you and here’s what I will do” but instead it’s “the other guys are worse”.
Sure, Tactically it’s always “we have to take that hill over there” but Strategically you should’ve figured out by now they’re always taking you in the direction they want, never towards the heights you need to conquer to actually end up in a better place: notice how almost all discourse in present day US politics, from both faces of the political duopoly, is about morality, not about - say - quality of life or more evenly shared prosperity.
(3rd party voting, voting for independents, refuse to participate and vocally deride the whole process and so on)
What exactly do these acheive? How do these improve things? Why would this cause literally anything to be fixed? Why wouldn’t this just entrench the current system?
Trumpism didn’t take over the Republican Party by the alt-right voting third party or staying home. It took over by the alt-right showing up in droves at primary season to drag the Republican Party kicking and screaming in their preferred direction. Look at what Republican senators said about Trump just before and just after the primary.
AOC didn’t get into congress by running third party. She did it by successfully primarying a more centrist incumbent.
It seems to me that to win, you need to do one of two things:
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Win under the current rules. Show up at primaries to get progressives on the ticket, then show up and win.
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Change the rules. Get your local and state governments to switch to using halfway- decent voting systems like instant runoff, or good ones like 3-2-1 or STAR. Get enough bottom-up movement on that to eventually change the way the president is elected.
Keep in mind, the president is only so powerful. President Sanders would still be limited by whatever he could get past Manchin.
The winner of that statewide election gets all the electoral college votes for that state.
Which is actually optional. States can split them (but iirc only 2 out of 50 do…). It just doesn’t make that much sense in a two-party-system mostly split in the middle. That’s the bigger problem.
“21500 people killed” while when they report about Russia attack they use the word “murder”
They fail to say that the 21000 a number estimated a few weeks back where there were functional hospitals.
This is fucked up.
Who’s “they”? The New York Times?
“Ukrainian Missile Attack on a Russian City Kills at Least 22, Officials Say”
“In one of the war’s largest bombardments, 35 missiles slipped through Ukraine’s air cover on Friday, killing dozens. Ukraine responded with shelling on the Russian region of Belgorod, killing at least 22.”
Both were published today, describing both Russians and Ukrainians as having been “killed” in bombing. The word murder isn’t used in either article.
What fucking US pressure? They just overrode congress to throw even more money into the genocide.
Fuck’s sake.
Selling them $150M worth of weapons is pressure, eh?
