and the only good that comes out of it will be Americans will finally have first hand experience of real war torn violence.

Hey, it might result in the dissolution of the US, which as a firm believer in “death to America” I’d welcome gladly. Anyway in case anyone thinks a peaceful resolution is possible, yeah no.

No, it gets money; it evidently does not get votes.

the political machine we’re building to combat the Trump administration will flatten the DNC old guard pretty handily.

Except no such thing exists. MAGA hasn’t created any meaningful surge in independent progressive (let alone genuine leftwing) politics; it’s only compelled the center left to close ranks with the center against the rising tide of the far right. There’s zero momentum for “flattening the old guard;” if you want to do that you’ll have to actually try.

And anyone who didn’t vote for Harris over Palestine has now not only doomed the Palestinians,

I keep seeing liberals saying this, but it’s just not true. There’s no metric by which Trump is worse on Palestine than Biden (and by extension Harris, who has was virtually indistinguishable from him on the issue). As for everyone else, what, did you think Harris was going to do anything for poor Americans and minorities? Jk she wouldn’t have done (or been able to do) shit because centrists kill down ballot elections. More fundamentally, though, fascism was inevitable under the political status quo; the choice was between fascism now and fascism later. If meaningful change doesn’t come from the left, people will look for it on the right; thinking 2025 was fluke is nothing short of delusional.

Solidarity among evil people, never fails to make me want to puke.

Haiti? Hawaii? Honduras? Philippines? All this shit? The US went from 37 states after the civil war to 50 less than a century later. Surely you could’ve thought of a few examples yourself.

It might have originated as such, but in practice it defined a sphere of influence where America had a carte blanche to do whatever it wanted to enforce its interests. and would eventually become a form of unilateral vassalization, as seen from nonsense like the Olney interpretation and the Roosevelt corollary.

He extended the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine, which had previously stated merely that the Western Hemisphere was closed to additional European colonization: "Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition…[1]

Sounds like an empire if I’ve ever seen one.

Literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine?

Why not both, but also no way this is happening without the permission and/or direction of the billionaire class so oil is definitely involved.

Did… did this person just say that unemployed people shouldn’t get to vote?

Anyone who thinks this is a good idea and makes less than 200k$ a year shouldn’t have passed their 8th grade civics exam.

This technology is supposed to be for disaster response (sending cockroaches to check for survivors under rubble and stuff), but yeah that sounds about right. I wonder how long it’ll take until they put bombs in these.

Wouldn’t the market just expand to absorb the extra demand?

According to betteridge’s law: No.

Okay I’m not sure where you got this from, but you’re wrong on both counts. Socialists absolutely want to do more than just implement progressive policies (you’re thinking of social democrats); the definition of a socialist is someone who believes the working class should seize the means of production. Some socialists believe that can be done through capitalist democratic systems (we call those democratic socialists), but still the goal is a lot more broad than just implementing progressive policies; on the other hand you have more militant or even revolutionary socialists, who usually advocate direct action (sometimes but not always including violence). Meanwhile communists are a subcategory of socialists who believe in the creation of a moneyless, classless, stateless utopian society as described by Karl Marx.

If they could do that they wouldn’t try to get people to avoid unionizing. They still need people to work for them, regulations or no regulations.

Cough cough will no one rid me of this turbulent bitch?

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about? The fucking satellite imagery showing half the strip being reduced to rubble isn’t made up.

Over the last 40-50 years, pro-Palestinian news bytes have shown one thing: the Palestine cause is great at marketing, especially to youn people.

Absolutely not. Palestinians and pro-Palestinians are absolutely terrible at marketing. There’s a reason that with few exceptions the only places where Zionism didn’t find purchase were the ones where people were reading about the Nakba in the daily newspaper and it took a livestreamed genocide for anti-Zionism to become something resembling mainstream elsewhere.

it simply shows the complexity of the conflict

Nothing is complex about this.

And why is every democratic presidential nominee like this?

Money.

Hurwitz also claimed that Holocaust education was “confusing” young people into sympathizing with “weak, skinny Palestinians” instead of “powerful Israelis.”

What. The. Fuck.