It is a route towards self preservation that is not an uncommon strategy, this environment especially.

Country buys foreign material, uses security.

The zionists won. It doesn’t need reminding.

A movement tried to make Palestine a relevant political issue for the electorate. It got stomped out. I don’t get this sentiment to keep stomping.

There’s a jobs program in there somewhere.

The Iberians genocided the fuck out of south and central america.

There was that whole media cycle about the Irish woman who was detained. That first wave was likely testing to see which groups resonated in the media before moving onto raids.

There’s a whole camp of folks on Lemmy that appear to disagree with the verdicts of Nuremburg, which is something I never expected. When it comes to Julius Striecher, a couple people feel injustice.

Like I get strict death penalty abolitionism, but damn if that’s the example to hold onto. A hell of a test case.

children’s railway

I had to look this up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_railway

Damnit I want these for America.

One of the most insufferable people I have ever known lives in her district. He moved there willingly because of politics. I cut ties entirely over a year ago and it’s been great.

I almost feel less bald for it. (A lie.)

So what are the odds the DNC runs him for 2028 we thinking?

Yeah, there hasn’t been a KGB for 34 years. In four years it will have been dissolved for longer than it existed.

AI, much like the internet it has spawned and suckled from, is for porn.

They’re being lobbied to pursue charges against a children show host for expressing sympathy for starving children.

Precedent shows they follow the instructions of the lobbyists with the biggest and/or most recent check.

So it’d be a strongly worded statement of support for the extrajudicial slaying of a human rights activist, because that’s already the norm.

I am surprised she didn’t refer to her constituents complaints as “squealing”.

Yeah my comment was of the cynical type towards their strategy, not a support of it.

I got a Father in Law that tithes his retirement income from the military to his church and votes hard republican. But he abstained from Trump voting so he considers himself enlightened.

They are social decisions.

Exactly.

By the time you win the game, the prize money will have been looted so the chips are worthless and the tires will have been stolen off your car.

Indeed. There are no leftist oligarchs, pretty much by logic and definition, which is a significant disadvantage in electoral oligarchy.

If populism is ever associated with right wing politics it is typically by design of the oligarchs.

He is primarily a single issue politician focusing on gun control and the party cannot court Republicans with a tangible gun control policy.