The United States has announced the approval of the sale of more than $7.4bn in bombs, missiles and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect during the war in Gaza.
The state department has signed off on the sale of $6.75bn in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition to $660m in Hellfire missiles, according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).
The proposed sale of the bombs “improves Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serves as a deterrent to regional threats”, the DSCA said in a statement.
While I don’t disagree, I feel like we need to talk more about how disconnected the Democratic Party is from what their base actually wants. Them being diet republicans ain’t cutting it
True. But at the same time you’re not going to get any of that by not voting and letting Republicans get elected. I mean get you butts out there and primary these centrist lead weights.
This. Right. Here.
No they’d rather sit on the couch and complain that the dinosaurs are dinosauring and won’t switch to communist revolution like they believe everyone wants, even though they’ve never left the couch.
If they actually went out and tried to become local politicians to effect change they would probably see that their ideals are far less popular in real life among normal people outside of the terminally online crowd.
Ah yes, the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” argument for electoralism. It doesn’t matter who we vote for when they get laundered through the lobbying machine on the highest setting after or even before they get into office. Tell me, who is at the top of this list? https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?code=Q05&cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=M
I’m saying this as someone who has voted democrats straight down the ballot in every election I could. It doesn’t work when money is more powerful than any vote.
Money is only this powerful because people didn’t vote when it mattered to keep money out of politics.
Both democrats and republicans are in line with neoliberal thought about letting corporations get bigger and bigger and giving more freedom to capital than to people. A simple vote isn’t going to change this. Let’s pretend that democrats are opposed to money in politics, you’d have to vote them in every single time because there aren’t singular times when it’d matter since the assault on democracy is ever-present. This is impossible under the two-party system. Things will go wrong and people will blame whoever is in power. Things are constantly getting worse which is why we’re seeing this more frequent swapping of parties in power.
Per usual, another lie spread by leftists. https://www.vox.com/2019/3/8/18253609/hr-1-pelosi-house-democrats-anti-corruption-mcconnell
As to the rest of it, our current democracy needs many changes to protect it from becoming an autocracy/oligarchy. The ones ones who are committed to those changes are Democrats.
But seizing power as Trump is doing to dictatorially implement changes to prevent dictators would be highly hypocritical. And if the basis of such reforms were based on such a shakeable foundation it would just waiting for the next dictator to come in and do what they want. In that case, then yes, what you’d say is correct, every new elected official will just be a dictator pushing their new whims on the populace. This is why I don’t fault Democrats for trying to do things the proper way democratically through our voting process even if it seems slow or inefficient.
Sadly half of Americans have decided having a dictator isn’t a deal breaker or something to exercise their vote for so that’s left us here.
From the article you posted (emphasis mine):
Democrats love to bring up impressive-sounding bills when they’re confident they won’t actually become law. It’s part of the tag team play they do with republicans. I’m surprised people still fall for this shit. Please let me know when democrats pass bills like this during the times they have the power to actually bring it into law.
You call seizing power like trump hypocritical, but when you’re faced with fascism, you have to fight back and I mean actually fight back, not sit around and wail about “muh institutions” because those institutions will crumble under force unless you actually protect them with your own force. Doing things “the proper way” is just another tactic to look like you’re doing something while actually welcoming the fascists. It’s a dog and pony show.
If the DNC allowed that y’all wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. I mean hello? 2020 was four years ago.
2008 was the last legitimate democratic primary
Doesnt this boil down to the usual “the left falls in love, while the right falls in line”? hard to fall in love with your alliy’s ongoing war crimes and lefties are renowed for not falling in line even against their best interests. Makes it hard to win as an incumbent, though, how did Obama win reelection, he wouldn’t have been mistaken for a saint the second time round.
PS: got it, it’s because Romney still couldn’t make the right fall in line hard enough comparing with the love for Obama.
Have you actually looked at their platform? Or are you just repeating “Republican lite” because that’s what all your social circle says?
This kind of feels like a loaded question, but yeah, I’d prefer it be more progressive. I’d like for Nancy and the other old guard to accept that they’ve got to move out of the way for the next generation to take the helm. Instead she blocked the new blood from higher committee positions. The attacks on her insider trading stick for a reason. I wish the same ones didn’t bounce off republicans but they’re clearly scott free of any accountability from their voting base, unlike the left which is constantly infighting.
Did you feel this need before the election too? Because a lot of people did and that is who we’re talking about here.