GivingEuropeASpook 4w ago • 97%
Macron really going out of his way to fuck over the French people, eh? Calls snap elections right after the far right wins big in eu elections, then refuses to follow the will of the people when said election backfires.
Part of my thinks the left will be better off in opposition, though.
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
All they care about is their base
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
But it isn't the same as if the entire working class had a collective say in the capital, not just those who choose to and have the resources to pay in. It isn't the same as the workers of that company having a say in their working conditions, shift lengths, compensation, etc.
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
A better way to say it would instead be the inverse: "If you don't work for a paycheck, you probably hold enough capital"
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
They want a shutdown lol this idea that negotiating will avert it is silly since you don't negotiate for things you don't want.
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
Captured implies that the State didn't already function as a tool of capital
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
All this because Republicans in the US don't like that sending arms to Ukraine makes Biden look good to the general public.
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
I know, I was joking
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
Yes, although the US pulled itself back enough with some of FDR's reforms that it kicked the can down the road a few generations, whereas the Weimar Republic actually collapsed.
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
I know right? This quote in the headline makes her out to sound so tepid like "please mr president could you maybe be more confrontational against the fascists who want to kill me and my allies? 👉👈"
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 90%
Too busy trying to court centrist voters and uphold a dying status quo
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 50%
Nah if Trump was in office in the last four months there'd be open conflict across the Middle East with thousands of US troops bound for Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, etc
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 87%
Oh yeah, if he started talking like half of his most rabid supporters do online then he'd be way more popular.
If people could quote President Biden's personal attacks on white supremacists, book bans, etc then they'd get a lot farther with the politically disengaged.
Imagine if you had Biden (or his social media team) out here on the daily constantly mocking GOP culture war shit as inherently un-American and out of touch with normal people?
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 92%
What matters is perception and public messaging and that is currently one of a centrist president incapable of reigning in a foreign ally or continually calling out House Republicans for their shenanigans that put American lives at risk at home and abroad.
Conservatives have constant control of the conversation because they have zero qualms publicly stating how their political adversaries stand in their way. But instead it looks like Democrats trying to win Republicans support by adopting republican policies instead of bullying them into accepting the plan of the majority party of the upper legislature and presidency.
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
Such an idea is impossible anyways, because to ensure a benevolent society you need to incorporate the wide range of viewpoints and experiences of the people within it, something a dictatorship, by definition, precludes.
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 38%
Man if only someone at the DNC would see this...
EDIT: y'all I was being sarcastic
GivingEuropeASpook 8mo ago • 100%
They're banking on the 6-3 conservative majority being willing to use their power.
When organized labor is crushed, what comes next is never pretty (see: 1930s Germany).
GivingEuropeASpook 11mo ago • 100%
Reminder that 10 years ago Russia passed a law banning LGBT representation in books in order to "protect children".
Just some food for thought for Americans who support similar laws here. (Looking at you Florida)
GivingEuropeASpook 1y ago • 100%
"We can afford anything when it comes to protecting our international position and pursuing national interests."
Unfortunately, international relations has never really cared about poors - if you study diplomatic relations they literally teach you that "human rights" wasn't even a concept to foreign relations between nation-states until the 20th century.
GivingEuropeASpook 1y ago • 100%
I don't know how to confirm this myself but I have read and heard that before anything else, after it was known Hamas fighters were inside Israeli territory, the IDF first move militarily was to start bombing Gaza. No one can argue honestly that the IDF defends Israelis - its literally just the most reactionary of religious Zionists that they serve.
Secular Jewish Israelis? Nah they can fend for themselves for a few hours, we've gotta attack Palestinian civilians, says the IDF. And that's not even bringing up that 20% of Israeli citizens ARE ARABS, some of whom were also attacked in their homes in Southern Israel 10 days ago, but of course the same people calling Hamas human animals will go after them next (not to suggest they aren't already, only that Gazans face more immediate extermination).
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/7791489 > Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph: > > "The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."
Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph: "The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."
The headline should read something more like "Florida students to return to schools after fascist-overhaul of the curriculum" but that wouldn't be "objective" enough for NPR. Students will literally be watching Prager U Kids videos, require parental permission for a *nickname*, and be forcibly misgendered by even their closest, favorite, teacher as a matter of State Law.
Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.
The project has been delayed for years, but perhaps with Amtrak (and Andy Byford), the line will finally progress.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4580386 > From the article, my emphasis added: > > "Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."
From the article, my emphasis added: "Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."
Sure, updating patients rights would help but how fucked is it that our system allows this by default in the first placd?