the things i consider bad and not polical stance are : for instance i just don’t like trump because he is against t lgbt and being racist etc. Which are geniunly bad in my opinion and not just difference in opinions

I haven’t run into anyone with a racism or anti LGBT stance on .ml, or grad or hexbear, unless you include shittalking white people. The only time I’ve seen Trump come up is to mock him, they just hate Joe Biden for his long list of crimes too.

Those instances have been the quickest to remove transphobia, meanwhile in other places it will often get straight up ignored/denied.

This rules, critical support to the shithole of Texas in its war on America

Oh boy liberal vs conservative, what a wide variety of political opinion allowed for by the “financial times”

He’s got a point, totally illegitimate for the tzar to sell land that didn’t even belong to him. The only rational move is the unilaterally land back all of Alaska to Indigenous administration.

Catastrophically unpopular incumbent shows interest in social issues when its 10 months away from the election. If you think anything will actually come of this please DM me your credit card info, I will credit back if he actually does something useful.

From my perspective the people out of touch are the ones who are asking everyone else to disregard the extremely obvious horrors being perpetrated as if there’s some nuance which ever could excuse what’s happening.

The occupation is enforcing its “maximum demand” every day under the protection of the US and accepting that as a given is itself a position which you are taking.

I have lots of issues with the social conditions of the various colonized countries surrounding Israel, but I still offer them critical support in their resistance against colonial occupation.

I really don’t think that highlighting the historical culpability of the US/european interests in the current situation is robbing any nuance from the discussion. Across many different colonial occupations there has often been some social issue pointed to as the “reason” why it’s “ok” for the savages to be colonized, because it’s bringing civilization.

It may sound benevolent, but it that’s just european chauvinism, creating the terrain for poverty, then acting like the social reaction rising from poverty and occupation as some sort of inherent characteristic in a post-hoc justification.

the ethnostate apologizer has arrived. It is an apartheid state, that’s why South Africa has felt so compelled to call it out for its actions.

Before the british and french showed up, there were muslims, christians, and jews living side by side across the ottoman empire. Sure it had its problems, but consolidating all the jews into a US-backed military ethnostate is not the answer.

It served British, and now US geostrategic interests.

If you want to take concrete steps toward the US murdering fewer brown people, the question IMO would be “where do I have the most leverage with my vote?” If you think that voting neither for Biden, nor for Trump does that, that’s perfectly fine for me and it’s your right, of course. I doubt that voting for a 3rd party in the US has any leverage at all but surely I’m no expert.

US “democracy” is structured so that most people living in it are essentially disenfranchised. People make a big stink about voting online, but there’s no popular vote, if you live in a “blue” or “red” state your presidential vote is pretty much purely symbolic. If you’re not a white suburbanite basically all of the centrist elected representatives you will have will smile at you, but ignore 100% of what you say.

The conditions for the unlimited military aid were “do not negotiate”

That’s why Boris Johnson was airlifted into Istanbul to put a stop to things when they almost had an agreement at the outset of the war.

they’re actually intentional, it adds to the ambiance

Sadly it’s very hard to persuade people with rational arguments if their behaviour is driven by emotions.

I would like to take concrete steps towards the US murdering fewer brown people. As a trans person things have got worse under Biden (I don’t care about being able to serve in the fucking military lmao).

For all the fashy rhetoric from Trump (he almost literally demanded a kent state during the floyd protests), the squishy center pretended to care about opposing the government when it was doing terrible things. From my perspective that opposition was clearly all coming from a sense of tribalism, because our government is doing worse things now and we’re getting memes about how baller joe biden is.

When the Republicans end up in power they’re like the dog catching the car because they have to do all their unpopular stuff in the open and everyone hates them. When Democrats are in power everyone stops caring when they do demonic shit, so it’s full steam ahead with world war 3. Clearly nuance is lost on liberals and they need a BBEG (painted red) in power in order for them to oppose their own government.

Additionally, the initial civilian casualties on the Israeli side were also largely self-inflicted due to their indiscriminate use of force:

https://popularresistance.org/how-israeli-forces-trapped-and-killed-ravers-at-the-nova-festival/

A major reason Hamas launched the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was to take Israeli captives that could be exchanged for the thousands of Palestinians held captive in Israeli prisons. But Israeli forces were determined to prevent Hamas from taking captives back to Gaza, even if this meant killing the captured civilians.

An investigation of Israel’s long-controversial Hannibal Directive concludes that “from the point of view of the army, a dead soldier is better than a captive soldier who himself suffers and forces the state to release thousands of captives in order to obtain his release.”

I’m planning on voting for Hillary again, it’s her turn

It’s quite a complicated topic and I’m not an expert myself, but many takes on it out there just completely disregard reality in favor of catchy slogans and appeals to emotion.

It’s really not, ethnostates are categorically shit and there’s no fucking nuance there. You said it yourself “Israel” is a geostrategic interest of the US, because of its location.

if “Israel” didn’t exist, the US would have to create it. That’s a direct quote from Joe Biden.

The “pressure” they’re applying is just for the cameras to spin and gullible rubes to believe. The actions speak far louder. 3 aircraft carrier groups mobilized because the second-poorest country in the middle east was trying to interfere with “Israels” genocide. They could stop weapons shipments at any time, they have instead sped them up.

bots are when you have opinions that genocide is bad, got it.

Joe “brown person slayer” Biden

“far left nutjobs think joe biden hasn’t done anything, check out this list of things that are either fake, symbolic, or terrible”

The problem is that centrists seem to actually think the following are ‘good’ things:

• Enabling and supplying Israeli genocide

• Bombing Yemen for trying to interfere with the Israeli genocide

• Prevented negotiations in Ukraine

• Over a million COVID deaths

• Most active border concentration camps ever

“Militarily, there are many more steps to be taken to get where we want to be for our collective defense,” said Bauer, citing Ukraine’s war as a critical conflict that “will determine the fate of the world.”

Poopins coming right at us! better send all our money for healthcare, housing, and education to get set fire in a big pile on the steppe 🙄

STEM (both technical university and workforce) has been a cesspit of misogyny from my personal experience.