Palestinians were very much already in danger. Both sides in america are so tied to Israel that biden refused to stand up to bibi even while he was openly campaigning for trump
It’s the difference between being in a burning building and being the same burning building while people throwing Molotov cocktails through the windows.
Both are dangerous but one is worse.
In this case if you pick just the burning building then the group keeping you in that building are saying “we can’t let you out of there but you better support us or the guys with the molotovs will show up”
I understand that logically you’d pick option A but would you have enthusiastic support for the people keeping you trapped in the building?
Candidates have to get people motivated to vote and “we won’t do better but the other guy will do worse” is not motivating enough. We saw how that plays out yesterday
Quick analysis: the US flushed itself down the toilet.
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Likely fact: Republicans now control all 4 towers of the castle (president, senate, house of representatives and surpreme court).
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Conclusion: the situation allows Republicans to steamroll legislation into force.
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Further conclusion: US voters really don’t understand what they are doing.
Climate: it’s bad, but one president’s rule is short. Trump will withdraw from the Paris treaty and sabotage domestic attempts to curb emissions. Europe and China will continue their attempts because they haven’t changed, and they want energy independence. Climate is a system with great inertia. We are beaten by the mistakes of previous decades, new generations will be beaten by our mistakes. Increasingly hard.
Ukraine: the situation is very bad. The Biden administration won approval for 60 billion of support in spring, but according to Zelensky, only 10% has been delivered so far. Unless the DoD hurries the hell out of itself, Trump will close the tap on aid that Biden secured. Trump will try diplomacy, but Putin’s administration is made of a different sort of people. They are running for life while Trumpists are running for lunch. Putin will politely send him where sun doesn’t shine and continue grinding meat, now with an added flavour of North Korean. Ukraine faces a very difficult choice: fight a retreating war in conditions of decreasing aid, hoping that revolutionary conditions arise in Russia… or make peace with the attacker, giving them territory. Ukraine will need all the assistance it can get from anywhere. Knowing this, and knowing the risk of a Trump re-election, I started developing a drone system 6 months ago. It has gone through many iterations and might be capable of combat in the coming month. I didn’t sign up to live in a world like this, but hey, you take what you’re given. :(
If the war in Ukraine gives Putin territory and peace as a result, Putin and his heirs know that you can get territory and peace with war: any place in Eastern Europe could be next.
In summer, Congress locked away the keys for leaving NATO, but Republicans now control both houses and Trump has cleansed the party of dissenters. Trump can credibly threaten to withdraw from NATO or actually do it.
Taiwan needs to find more alliances, because the US might become unreliable, and China knows this. The rest of the world needs to think if they can do without electronics during a Chinese attempt to conquer Taiwan.
Democracy in the US: will be dismantled in favour of something like Hungary. We will see ministers who are oligarchs like Musk or irresponsible liars like Kennedy. Since the storm is near-perfect, I predict that democracy will give way to oligarchy. Risk of disturbances, repressions and internal conflict will grow.
Until now, only unstable people wanted to assassinate Trump. Given these conditions, I predict that stable but ruthless people who see a danger to their future will join the game. They will reason as follows: “risk has reached certainty and there is still time to prevent outcomes”. If I was working in the Secret Service, I would increase protection on Trump 10 times (unless I hated him).
For the EV part of the upcoming climate catastrophe …. If he’s successful at stopping growth of EVs, the biggest impact might just be the destruction of the Detroit based automakers. If they can’t compete in the rest of the world due to no EVs, there’s only so long they can stay in business selling coal rolling trucks to yahoo Americans
One big difference between Hungary and the US are guns. It’ll either can lead to a revolution much easier than in Hungary, or a Krystalnacht that is followed by the return of KKK-style lynchings.
For Ukraine, peace is not a real option. They can choose between war and being oppressed by Putin. And now, how they want to go out in history: in a war with glory, or under Putin’s boot who tells them: “no, you’re Russians, speak Russian”. I refuse to call “ethnic cleansing” peace. At best, it’s just the illlusion of such, because tanks are not crossing state borders.
Fascists like Trump choose their henchman based on loyalty, not skills. He will just get a lot of badly trained soldiers as basically meat shields.
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The most annoying thing over the next few years is going to be listening to:
“What happened to my helthcare?” "You voted for Trump who promised to take it away. " “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”
“Why are the prices of groceries so high?” “You voted for Trump who promised to deport all the illegal farm workers who picked your food for low wages.” “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”
“Why did my daughter/wife/girlfriend/mother die in a hospital parking lot?” “You voted for Trump who promised to make life saving healthcare for women illegal nation wide.” “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”
“What happened to the minimum wage?” “You voted for Trump who promised to lower it.” “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”
“What happened to the Palestinians?” “You voted for Trump/voted for a third party candidate which allowed Trump to rise to power then he gave Netanyahu the go ahead to wipe them out.” “But I didn’t think that would happen to my family!”
Suck it up. This is your bed. You shat it in. Now lie there and be quiet. We’re tired of your bullshit.
“Why did graphics cards quadruple in price?”
“You voted for Trump, who supported China steamrolling Taiwan, and now all of TSMCs foundries are bricked.”
I wonder if it’s the US or Taiwan that donates the thermite grenades on the machines? If it’s the US Trump might just order them not to donate them as a gift to Xi.
From what I’ve read, TSMC themselves take a hardline anti-China stance. If Chinese jackboots set foot in Taiwan, they’ll brick all of their foundries, or at least they say they will. Whether they actually will when push comes to shove is the bigger question
I don’t think it’s an issue of bricking them. I think they thermite grenade them. It’s the optical technology that sets the ASML machines apart. They have to destroy the machines.
That’s semantics
Uh, no it isn’t. Bricking would be to render them inoperable. The machines need to be completely destroyed to keep the physical components of the optical path out of the hands of the Chinese. Thermite grenades on the optics and C4 to make sure
I’m pretty sure thermite will render them inoperable; it tends to render most things inoperable
No, I’m sorry, I just don’t think Kamala is making Gaza the number one issue, which is why I think the only reasonable choice is to either not vote, or vote Stein.
edit: I cannot believe I have to add /s
Literally every fucking election they pull this same shit, and every fucking election WE FALL FOR IT LIKE MORONS!!!
The morons on the other side fall for “Trump is obviously a good Christian!”, but we fall for this which is almost as transparent as “Hey, look over there!”
“We have the Palestinians and we have everybody else rioting all over the place. You talk about Charlottesville. This is one hundred times Charlottesville,” Trump said during a presidential debate in July, equating pro-Palestinian activism with a 2017 attack by White supremacists in Virginia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/donald-trump-middle-east-foreign-policy
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/trumps-plan-quell-protests-deport-hamas-radicals-rcna166168
I hope you enjoyed your high horse. Because this might be the last Palestine protest you can effectively make.
You will never be forgiven
Edit: with all we’ve seen sarcasm may be a little hard to detect
Not saying you are either a Russian or just a fucking idiot, but in my opinion someone that holds this view point, is either a Russian, or a fucking idiot. I repeat, this is not towards you, it is towards the Russians and fucking idiots that hold this view point.
I’m literally saying so many people fell for the russian trolls, and now we’re all fucked.
Yep. And Palestine is about to become a crater. They have no idea what they did.
I’m not quite this pessimistic but am still holding onto people think US has a lot more say over this situation than it does. Israel will eventually decide to stop
Yes they will.
Three days after Gaza is a crater.
Can’t wait for the trump dictatorship aparratus to get started thanks to takes like this. Im sure Gaza will appreciate the sentiment all the same since trump has made clear his policies are even worse.
That’s literally my point if you can’t tell sarcasm.
You needed the /s
I don’t see how… But then again, we’re post-sarcasm again :(
Mostly because that’s how those fuckers sound.
Btw, you think I was being serious?
THOSE FUCKERS ARE QUIET NOW!!!
We’ll see a few gaza stories, maybe, but all the voices screaming are gone, they’re getting wasted on vodka and whatever else you do in St. Peterburg after a massive victory.
There’s a few smug “we told you so!” clowns still around.
Sounds like “hey look over there” is exactly what you fell for
Sorry to piss on your parade but… Uh… Your attitude (the one behind the sarcasm) is the reason democrats lost this. That aside, at this point it’s probably less about Gaza and more about Harris campaigning with the brainpower of a 5 YO. Like if Trump is winning this badly then yeah it was hopeless to begin with.
Yup, my attitude is exactly why.
Not the endless screaming voices of ‘BoTh SiDeS!!!’ and voting for anybody but stein is a vote for genocide, it was all me.
Mwa ha ha, my evil plan has been successful, and I’ve finally enslaved the world’s greatest superpower to a elderly rapist in a diaper!!!
Fucking stupid children, I swear.
This is exactly what I’m talking about.
