All other considerations aside, that’s one of the most stupidly tone deaf things this stupidly tone deaf administration has done yet.

Yes - Mamdani has integrity, principles and a genuine desire and intention to work for the benefit of ordinary people, so stands in direct opposition to the values of the current Democratic party.

Which neatly illustrates why it is that I say that Trump snd the Republicans are either impossibly stupid or are actively trying to destroy the US economy and position in the world.

EVs and alternative energy are the future - fossil fuels are the past.

So Trump and the Republicans are effectively handing future hegemony to China.

So the zionists are going to help build the American Reich, and even help load the next set of detainees on the boxcars

At this point, I’m not even vaguely surprised.

I’ve never understood Microsoft’s design and marketing strategy.

They appear to exist in some sort of mirror universe in which quality is a bad thing, so they mostly build OSes that are bloated, clunky garbage and do everything they can to fool/coerce/force people into using them. But then every once in a while it’s like they accidentally let an actually decent OS slip through, and they immediately panic and start trying to kill it. Like they can’t cope with having an OS that people actually want to use, and can’t wait to get back to where they’re comfortable - fooling/coercing/forcing them to use bloated, clunky garbage.

Early on, I sort of wondered who was going to be the American Gestapo.

Of late, I’ve been pretty sure it was going to be ICE.

I’d say this cinches it.

I have no idea.

I just…

i think the only vague hope we have of stopping America’s slide into plutocratic tyranny is a leftist groundswell, and that the single most dangerous and determined enemy of leftism in America today is the Democratic party.

If they can, as they painfully obviously intend, sabotage Mamdani, I don’t think there will be any stopping them.

Yes - the Democrats would rather lose than risk an actual leftist winning.

And it’s really very, very simple - they’re corrupt shitweasels who are wholly owned by wealthy donors, and they’ll do anything to keep that money flowing into their greedy little fists.

Which is exactly why I think that every leftist in the country has to do whatever they can to make sure that Mamdani wins. Granted that it’s not a national race, I still think this is the time for leftists nationwide to take a stand. Now, before it’s too late.

Cowards.

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The Israeli government and its international sponsors/defenders have been telling people for decades that if they oppose the oppression and murder of the Palestinian people, it must be the case that they hate all Jews, so effectively that support for the oppression and murder of Palestinians is a position universally held by all Jews.

It was inevitable that some steadily growing number of people were going to believe them.

Teto the hero of the people.

And “Eat the rich, eat the rich! Itadakimasu bitch!” is sheer brilliance.

Mm… yeah.

I’ve long assumed there was some guilt component involved for some of Israel’s international supporters (and particularly among Germans), but I could never quite work out how it could extend to supporting obvious genocide.

I think this sunk cost idea has some merit, particulatly in light of the fact that having to ignore inconvenient facts in order to continue that support actually dates back at least to the bombing of the King David Hotel, so that’s actually 80+ years of sunk cost.

That’s a much more detailed (impressively so) description of just what I was alluding to when I mentioned, as one common cause, “Middle East destabilization.”

I long ago became, and remain, convinced that that’s the goal of a great deal of western policy in the region - that the process of undermining and even overthrowing stable governments (Mossadegh in Iran is a near perfect example) is deliberate and intended primarily just to keep the region unstable, since their wealth and cultural connections administered by strong, stable and widely supported governments would be a direct threat to western hegemony.

It’s a conclusion I reached on my own though, and have fleshed out, to the small degree that I have, on my own. I’ve never before seen it expressed in academic terms or in that much detail, so thanks for that.

I love the audience just sort of standing there, not realizing they’re seeing history in the making.

Why are so many different politicians and officials in so many different countries so keen to enable the mass murder of Gazans?

I mean - yeah - military/industrial complex and Israeli lobbying and disinformation and Middle East destabilization and even that screechingly insane christian zionist armageddon thing - there are lots of ways that Israel coerces support for its patent evil. But even all of them added together don’t seem enough to explain the scale on which they’ve managed it, nor the range of different countries they’ve done it in.

It’s as if we have a worldwide epidemic of contagious psychopathy, with Israel as the reservoir.

So the US is actually banning people for daring to oppose mass murder.

This is such a grotesquely insane timeline.

At the least, that should qualify as manslaughter.

Entirely regardless of the specifics, it’s unconstitutional anyway because it’s the exercise of a power the executive branch was never granted.

Or in other words, Trump reveals himself to be a lying sack of shit. Again.

Probably not even the first time today.