This comment has inflicted psychic damage on me, congrats.

Venzuelanalysis republished this artcle, what are you even talking about?

https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/nyt-advises-trump-to-kill-more-venezuelans/

radical groups

I think it’s bad they got their funding taken away, but I’m not gonna pretend this group was a radical group. Saying Free Palestine and doing climate change advocacy might be radical to Americans, but both of those things are only advocacy.

In response to the escalating climate disasters that our member groups are experiencing on the ground in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and North Carolina, the Climate Justice Alliance works with frontline groups on the ground to assess and rebuild with a collective vision for a Just Recovery. We are tracking ways to support frontline communities on the ground in the regions impacted by these climate disasters. We are also working with local grassroots groups and networks to provide crucial resources and support to those in immediate need.

Frontline leaders within CJA’s membership are modeling Food Sovereignty as an essential part of a Just Transition to healthy, resilient communities and a regenerative economy through the practice and scaling out of agroecology – a science, a practice, and a movement centered on growing food in harmony with ecological systems.

It Takes Roots utilizes the common frame to protect our land, water, homes, and bodies. We engage in both trans-local power building and mass mobilizations. We come together to share tools, exercise power, and engage a rapid response committed to building resistance and visionary opposition to oppression, extraction, and exploitation.

Currently, with thirty-four active Our Power Communities, our goal is to create living examples of how communities can put people to work transforming their localities, while reducing both cost and pollution burden for present and future generations. These local living economic models are being built through Just Transition. Our Power Communities (OPC’s) bring together the different sectors of a community to fight the bad and build the new.

Reinvest in Our Power is a collaborative effort led by CJA to address inequity and democratize wealth by moving capital and governance from the extractive to regenerative economy. By leveraging momentum and political power, RiOP, including CJA member groups, is moving money into The Financial Cooperative, a democratically-governed cooperative of local, non-extractive revolving loan funds that invest in projects owned/operated by frontline communities to build economic democracy rooted in ecological integrity.

https://climatejusticealliance.org/

Nothing they are doing is outside of the current system and everything they are doing requires grant money and donations to function in the capacity that they do. There was no “structural trap”. The organization needs state dollars to function, they lost $50 million dollars from this (that is a lot of money for a “grassroots” organization) people would largely not be willing to donate the money needed for this organization to be functional in it’s current capacity. Maybe now that they have lost the grants they will be able to fundraise enough to keep functioning, but the organization was never “radical” to begin with. Radical groups (at least radical US leftist groups*) are not being given $50 million dollars by the US government.

which isn’t exactly clear of bias.

that is why I said

you are a child if you think like that

I don’t think you should expect any reporting to be clear of bias, they link dozens of sources throughout the article each with it’s own set of biases, do you really need to link a source from every perspective to not disparage them for not being “clear of bias”. And I think they quite clearly elaborate why they have included the two Venezuelanalysis articles in the following.

However, Washington’s blockade ensured that the elections would never be free and fair. As the main factor driving economic hardship and migration, US sanctions meant Venezuelans headed to the polls with a gun to their heads, not unlike Nicaraguans in 1990.

It is the height of hypocrisy for US officials and their corporate media stenographers to claim the right to arbitrate other sovereign nations’ democratic legitimacy, even as they advance fascism at home and genocidal war across the globe. That sectors of the Western “compatible left” echo Stephens and his ilk, caricaturing the Maduro government as a “corrupt” and “repressive” regime, is unfortunate but not surprising (Ebb, 10/3/24).

The core racial assumption, going back to the 19th century, is that Global South states that refuse to bow to Western imperialist diktat constitute “tropical despotisms” to be toppled in a never-ending “civilizing mission,” with its anti-Communist, “war on terror” and neo-Orientalist mutations.

especially with

It is the height of hypocrisy for US officials and their corporate media stenographers to claim the right to arbitrate other sovereign nations’ democratic legitimacy, even as they advance fascism at home and genocidal war across the globe

The author is rejecting the premise of the US and other countries like the UK to “claim the right to arbitrate other sovereign nations’ democratic legitimacy” So why would they link articles like the ones you linked when the author is clearly saying they don’t believe in the premise.

I don’t think the elections were either “free” or “fair” and they probably did rig it, but that doesn’t justify invading a country, if you think it does you are just a warmonger. There are plenty of countries with similarly rigged elections that the US doesn’t consider invading and the main reason they are so interested in Venezuela is the massive oil resources American oil companies would be able to access if a government friendly to US companies would somehow get into power.

Both sources provided in this article about the election in Venezuela come from the same website, which isn’t exactly clear of bias.

No media is clear of bias, you are a child if you think like that. You just disagree with the bias which is fair, it’s your opinion.

c/nottheonion

I think the conventional wisom is diet is more important than exercise in losing weight, although I think most people would recommend working out once a week regardless if you would lose weight or not, basically any working out would be positive if you aren’t at all, it couldn’t hurt to do sit ups and push ups and see where that takes you.

“what about” it?

I have better things to do with my time, then debate MMT on lemmy, or debate on lemmy in general.

Everyone in the US is affected, regardless of whether they pay federal taxes, or how much. Not only “taxpayers” are affected. US federal taxes pay for literally nothing. Not figuratively: literally.

Regardless of whether I agree with MMT this is a much more useful thing to do vs linking two posts with no explanation

And fyi I have engaged with MMT enough to know I disagree with it, I have read Michael Hudson and engaged with podcasts with people who subscribe to it.

Why don’t you explain why you think this so if someone read this they would understand what you are even saying, instead of linking to a graph and a post about Milei with no explanations, I’m not reading that and I guarentee other people aren’t either.

And if this an MMT thing, I flatly disagree with MMT, so agree to disagree I guess.

Who knows what Eric Adams is gonna do though, he has been meeting with the Trump team to see about getting pardoned, so he might do something pretty messed up if they find some arcane way he can help ICE as mayor.

Just use a fake email then. You don’t have to do a confirmation.

You can give any fake email like aaaaa @ gmail . com and it will let you through

There is also a list published by the Trump White House

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/

I still wouldn’t advocate for executing them, obviously they should not be let back into society, but I really don’t see the point in killing them, it doesn’t change what they did, but as human beings they should at least have the right to live even though they denied that from other people.

I think it just feels worse in this hyper-capitalistic society, that everyone else is out working while they are “taken care of” by the state, but I think the better answer to that would be to create a society that isn’t so dire, that it doesn’t seem like prisoners are getting free handouts, as opposed to just killing the prisoners, as “it isn’t fair they get to live off the taxes of their victims”.

I probably wouldn’t go to a protest of their execution, I probably also wouldn’t protest people killing CEOs, just in terms of the operations of a state, I don’t think corporal punishment is ever worth it currently.

I’m sympathetic to people who were talking directly to a federal agent, except in the case of pedophilia. God forbid they just arrest the person for running an illegal business and not try to entrap them. By doing that they probably contributed to him getting the pardon in the first place.

Absolutely, he did pardon the vast majority of them, but the deaths of the remaining are on his hands, especially for someone who “doesn’t believe in the death penalty”. I haven’t looked into the specifics of the 3 people he didn’t pardon, but no matter what they did life in prison makes more sense than executing them in the richest country on the planet.

Amazing that he can simultaneously want to close both borders to prevent drugs coming in and then pardons the architect of the biggest drug selling website of the time. I would prefer the vast majority of people in prison including Ulbricht to be rehabilitated, and not locked up, but that is some real cognitive dissonance.

Donald Trump specifically has a long history with being friends with gay men, his mentor Roy Cohn was a closeted gay man (althought it was a very open secret) who died of Aids all the time denying he was gay, there was a movie released in 2024 called The Apprentice the delves into this. There is also other media made about Cohn like the play Angels in America.

It wasn’t shitty dw. I just think it’s important to use precise language when the action is targeted at a precise group of people. It is a reality that Peter Theil is a leading right winger and Trump nominated a gay man for treasurery secretary, things have changed from the Obama era where that would have been unthinkable.

I don’t even think that he cares about “the gays”, it’s pretty specifically targeted at trans and other non binary people, his coalition has quite a few openly gay men in it.