And the United States
And the United States
Why does it really matter that issues can be “discussed” if the issue being discussed is as atrocious as what Israel is doing to Palestine.
Israel and the US know that what they’re doing is wrong. Them and their crony countries aren’t going to change course because of this.
It doesn’t exactly prevent WW2 if they tell Hitler to stop and he doesn’t listen…unless of course they choose to let him continue his goals unimpeded rather than go to war, citing their documented disagreement as sufficient counter action…
Damn, those Russian “orc hordes armed with shovels” sure are tough!
How many users does IG have that are registered as under 18?
I’m 25 now, but I still always say I was born in the 80s out of habit…
It’s a good step, but it won’t fix things.
The Zenocratic party
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The moment a US made and supplied missile lands in Moscow, you might just see how.
I used to find it utterly hilarious before I switched to Lemmy, how redditorshated twitterx and twitterx users, then would praise reddit and the reddit community lmfao.
You’re saying the Democrats, who are welcoming immigrants into sanctuary cities and fighting to protect the rights of legal immigration, are somehow also responsible for fear-mongering about immigrants?
I’m saying the Democrats who have accepted and now push the 2016 right wing framing on immigration and the border as a national security threat are fear mongering about immigrants yes. Her official platform literally has
Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe in tough, smart solutions to secure the border, keep communities safe, and reform our broken immigration system. As Attorney General of California, Vice President Harris went after international drug gangs, human traffickers and cartels that smuggled guns, drugs, and human beings across the U.S.-Mexico border. As Vice President, she supported the bipartisan border [far-right] security bill, the strongest reform in decades. The legislation would have deployed more detection technology to intercept fentanyl and other drugs and added 1,500 border security agents to protect our border. After Donald Trump killed the border deal for his political gain, she and President Biden took action on their own — and now border crossings are at the lowest level in 4 years [why is this good if people crossing the border aren’t bad], their administration is seizing record amounts of fentanyl, and secured funding for the most significant increase in border agents in ten years. As President, she will bring back the bipartisan [far-right]border security bill and sign it into law. At the same time, she knows that our immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.
That’s an interesting take. What do you call it when Republicans…
Whataboutism. “The Republican party are evil so it’s alright that the Democratic party is evil too!”.
Edit: Also, I call them the thought leaders for the future of the Democratic party as they shift further and further right on these issues in the name of "compromise " and “reaching across the aisle”
They’re the ones doing that, they’re in charge right now and conducting a genocide in Gaza while fear mongering about immigrants.
Yep, the Democratic party never learns that it can’t just shame voters into compliance while offering them nothing.
By competition and diploma.
What sort of competition and diploma?
Who do you compete with over what/in what way and who controls the competition/decides the winner? Is anything that influences this process political?
Does requiring that judges be elected remove requirements for diplomas? It definitely increases competition as you have to compete for the will of the people.
Why elect him on political bases?
Everything is political. The laws are determined by politics, every single person’s interpretation of said laws is determined by politics.
A better question is, how does your system actually effectively remove politics from the process? Or does it simply shift the political aspect from the people themselves to another third party?
Why shouldn’t the people themselves decide how they want the laws enforced in their own country? Who else should decide if not the people?
We do not elect an engineer on political criteria, we take the one who seems the best among the candidates.
Who determines which engineer seems the best off of what criteria? Is it political at all?
Example: engineer1 is great at building bridges but only alright at apartments, engineer2 is great at building apartments but bad at bridges.
The people of the city know the city requires more apartments but not more bridges.
Why should engineer1 get the job for simply being the “better engineer” when he doesn’t fit the needs of the people?
What’s the point to elect them?
Why shouldn’t a judge serve and be accountable to the will of the people? Who knows better? Why?
And how is it not an authoritarian, anti-democratic, political opinion to state that someone does better know what the people need than the people?
What happened on oct-7?
Edit: This is genocide apologia/victim blaming.
Gaza resistance isn’t to blame for Israels being a genocidal apartheid towards Gaza, and doubly so for the seperate region of the West Bank which Hamas doesn’t even control.
So how would the judges be appointed under this system and why is it better than having them chosen from the people?
If the current system hasn’t prevented political influence, then the method of choosing obviously isn’t guaranteeing unbiased judges anyway, so what’s the point in keeping it as opposed to elected judges?
Why not have elected judges and
Strong and diverse press, strong and enforced rules against politically motivated decisions.
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This is an inheritently reactionary and anti-democratic idea.
This is probably the worst option. Political leaders should be professional and not populists pandering to the public.
My neighbor told me that they think you are a racism apologist (aka a racist).
“My racist neighbor told me a racist lie based on common racist tropes and I repeated it on the Internet to a bunch of racists, not because I’m racist but because…”
And you defended them because…
Edit: from the cited newsgaurd link in the article btw.
Lee, who described herself to NewsGuard as a Democrat who supports Donald Trump, told us that she was “shocked” to see Trump repeat the claim that she had made in a private Facebook group. "Honestly, it blew me away,” Lee said. “I didn’t think that any of this would explode to the presidency.”
As for how the story has shed a negative light on the thousands of Haitian migrants who have settled in Springfield, Lee said she was “just trying to inform people, you know, again, not saying Haitians as a whole [are] bad.”
And yes, the neighbor who told the story is outwardly racist.
For her part, Newton, Lee’s neighbor, said she remains concerned that the influx of Haitians is negatively affecting the city’s healthcare and education systems.
“I think it was two years ago now, I went to the [Bureau of Motor Vehicles] to renew my license or my tags. I can’t remember, but I was sitting in the BMV, and the only way I know to describe it is I felt like … I was transported, because all around me it was people talking a different language. … I felt like I was the minority,” she said.
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-haitians-eating-pets-claim
What happened on Oct-7?
Imo It would be hilarious and not confusing if you just used a cutout of the real ron Swanson mustache.
Idk how legal that would be or other solutions around said potential legality though.
Nobody will stop them?