Nixon: “Is the Viet-goddamn-nam War a joke to you?!”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/

Motherfucker was prolonging foreign invasions before his own election

Doing another Middle East invasion on schedule and just not hiring Kal Penn to make it sound necessary is horrible, but it doesn’t set trump apart from American presidents in the looseset sense of the definition of “modern”.

Now that the majority of Americans understand how fucked shit is, we need to use the momentum to fix shit, not just rewind to when people didn’t pay attention.

The “panda effect”!

Does anyone else remember when pandas were white with black spots?! We jumped realities!

/s

I’d say uniqueness more.

If one species of 47 different kind of European Swallows go extinct, it’s just not a big deal because the niche will be refilled in a few generations and in a decade they’d be pretty much the same as the OG.

If something like a platypus was threatened with extinction, a lot more people would care, because what the actual fuck is a platypus?!

That weird fuck survived when everything tangentially related to it except one animal half a world away that looks nothing like it died off long ago.

That shit we need to protect. And I’d go farther and say we should encourage diversification of those species so an entire branch of our planets genetic history is pruned.

Like those tiny pools of water that have been separated from all other life for millenia, it’s not enough to protect those organisms and their tiny natural habitats. We should be encouraging their growth and evolution, because absolutely nothing else would increase our planets genetic diversity as much as those weird living fossils.

Gee…

Maybe we shouldn’t have had presidents from both parties normalize “support this other country no matter what” for decades…

And that presidents from both parties didn’t say anything when Israel canceled annual elections the last five years. Like, Israel isn’t a democracy anymore, considering they’re the reason we’re having war in Iran again, they’re obviously just going to keep doing this as long as it works.

And trump has openly been saying for years he loves the idea and wants to do it to.

Even if this calms down by our midterms, he’s gonna start new shit before the election because he’d rather be at war and in power than out of office and in jail. Hell create whatever chaos and damage keeps him in power, there’s no line.

Just like Bibi, their only goal is to die in office. And they don’t care how many of us die in the process

not offering a realistic alternative

Not supporting Israel so that Bibi actually has to hold an election again instead of constantly starting new rules…

You know hes facing a corruption trial that will put him in jail. And his excuse to not hold elections is all the wars/genocides he keeps taking?

Like, that’s 100% an option…

We can at the least not help them do it.

Do you really believe, that if everyone stopped supporting Israel and they lost all basic ability to hurt anyone, all the groups that are attacking Israel are going to magically stop.

If everyone within 50 miles of Israel just left and let Bibi have it, he’d say that they need to secure the new border and start attacking their new neighbors…

You’re finally admitting that you’ve been advocating to increase the number of people that Israel is committing genocide against, so maybe you’ll start to understand that this scenario has been happening since Israel was formed

Their borders grow and then they claim they’re gonna be attacked and have to attack first.

But for some reason you keep repeating that they’re always being attacked.

And you’re still arguing for genocide…

Killing people, and displacing them are not the same. They may be both acts of “genocide” but they are not equally bad.

So to be clear:

1. You now understandstand that you were calling for an ongoing genocide, to genocide even more people.

2. That has not changed your opinion, and you still want more genocide?

So is genocide, pick one.

Yes…

I’m aware genocide is genocide, just like genocide is…

What don’t you understand about the fact that you’re arguing for genocide?

No. Palestine shouldn’t exist at this point. The people should be displaced to surrounding countries rather than killed, but Palestine cease to exist.

Literally a fucking crime against humanity…

And obviously still genocide

The term “forcible transfer” describes the forced relocation of civilian populations as part of an organized offensive against that population. It is a crime against humanity punishable by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The fifth punishable act of genocide is the forcible transfer of children from one protected group to another. The definition was part of a draft provided by the UN Secretariat that was used as the foundation for the 1948-adopted Genocide Convention.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/forcible_transfer

Literally a fucking crime against humanity…

The term “forcible transfer” describes the forced relocation of civilian populations as part of an organized offensive against that population. It is a crime against humanity punishable by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The fifth punishable act of genocide is the forcible transfer of children from one protected group to another. The definition was part of a draft provided by the UN Secretariat that was used as the foundation for the 1948-adopted Genocide Convention.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/forcible_transfer

It’s understandable for someone to be ignorant of that, absolutely inexcusable for someone to actual think it would be a good idea just because no one with a room temp or above IQ told them.

You’re out advocating for genocide as the fucking ethical path forward.

I hope you don’t actually believe what you type.

Prevented it…

Like, the story that they just didn’t see it coming was bullshit, they knew it just like Cheney knew about 9/11, they wanted it to happen to play a victim.

But even months/years/decades earlier…

The attack happened because they’ve been treating Gaza as an open air internment camp for decades.

You can’t just pretend they were neighbors with no issues on 10/6, there was still a genocide going on that had lasted longer than most Palestinians have been alive

There is a strategic purpose…

They don’t want peace, even if that’s because they won.

They want a constant war as an excuse for why they can be the only ones in power.

Killing a bunch of kids, makes sure the other side won’t surrender. Even if the government does, you can claim all the people who want to kill your for killing kids are terrorists, and that they didn’t surrender.

Which makes it even worse.

They already could…

Now they get to do it to random people and not just inmates.

We didn’t stand up for prisoners rights, and now we’re losing ours too.

This is all the result of not standing up for human rights, it makes people think they’re not a big deal as long as it’s against “them” and that definition can change

I mean, the CIA got him in power to begin with…

Iran had a relatively progressive democracy before we installed their authoritarian theocracy in exchange for cheap oil. Khamenei was very involved in that.

Israel has been trying to kill him ever since.

Yeah, don’t take anyone’s word on this stuff.

But Ken Martin ran Minnesota’s state party for a decade, so he’s got a long and public track record you can look into.

I wouldn’t just blindly put faith in him, and definitely not the party.

But he’s legit. He won’t influence any primary, but the second Mamdani won his primary, Martin immediately said that’s the type of candidate he wants for president, both in policy and charisma.

why would you say they have changed?

Because I’m talking about the DNC and that is ruled by the chair with full.power and no accountability to anyone until 2029 when his term is up…

You’re talking about Schumer and Jefferies…

They were elected to congressional leadership positions a few weeks before Martin was elected chair.

They got their position the same way neoliberals always have: threatening to cut off funding to an entire state party if they’re not supported.

That threat had weight and decades of history that they’d follow thru, so they got their spots.

Then just a few weeks later they became lame ducks after the chair election broke from neoliberals for Martin. That’s why no one cares what they say, and politicians are comfortable criticizing them more.

When the next Congress gets seated in less than a year, they (Schumer/Jeffries) have absolutely zero chance of retaining leadership, and with Martin at the helm of the DNC and dumping all that stolen money back to the states, the fresh congress can elected congressional leadership that reflects who they actually want.

There’s a lot of shit to be negative about right now, but the party is in better shape than it has in generations. Just don’t expect billionaire owned media to tell you any of this.

it seems likely some of them would be space travelors by now.

You just said:

There are billions of areas in the universe that are millions of years older than us

And:

amount we’ve advanced in the last 125 years

Logically, you understand that with two vastly different times scales over that much distance…

The chances of overlap is infinitly small?

Maybe they passed by before our solar system even formed. Maybe after our sun burns out they stroll by.

But why would they choose to spend their time wandering around in a spaceship anyways?

Even if they had instant travel making distance and time absolutely meaningless. If life is so plentiful and there’s so many that are that advanced, exponentially more at our level, and innumerable planets supporting more basic forms of life…

Why would they care about us?

We’re one in trillions to them.

Quick edit:

Back to the point, in that scenario we’d never be “no contact” because they wouldn’t care.

Any one planet wouldnt even be a rounding error.

We wouldn’t be one of the few they want to study. We’d be one of a huge number

What?

You’re literally ruling out the most likely scenario:

Life is spread out all over, but even if they knew we were here, they’d never get to us.

Like, there could be a planet on the exact same level as us, thinking the same thing about aliens. But if they’re 1,000 light years away, all the know about Earth is it has water. Something they might not even consider relative in the search for life if they don’t need water.

And even if they wanted to send us a signal and could figure out where to send it, best case scenario we get it in a thousand years and they have to wait at least two for a response they’d have no idea if we’d be capable of sending back.

Even if every planet tried to contact the first 10 planets with life they find, eventually the novelty would wear off and they wouldn’t keep wasting all the resources just to add another tally 2k years from now to the list of planets with life.

Everyone gets hung up on aliens wanting to interact with us, because we want aliens.

If an alien civilization is advanced to know about us, they don’t give a fuck about us. And they wouldn’t, except if they’re planning on such long timelines that their procedure for finding life is to just steer a couple giant asteroids at us.

A civilization capable of noticing us, just wouldn’t have anything to gain from interacting with us.

Now that the DNC is out of Bibi’s pocket, we got a real chance to flush every pro-Israel hypocrite with a D by their name out of office.

It can’t be both, you can’t support Dem party values and support Israel.

The issue was while neoliberals were running the DNC, the only metric they cared about was how many donations you could bring in. Which basically guaranteed the worst people rose to leadership.

Now that voting members pivoted to Martin, the focus is back to votes over money.

We just need to do our parts in the primaries and get good candidates to the general and not just let the ones with the most donations have it without a fight.

China…

NK…

And like a true WW3 it won’t just be two sides.

NATO and rational countries, Russia, Africa and South America, who knows where they’d fall or if they’d take the chaos to re-arrange their own borders. Think of all the governments these rightwing authoritarians have been propping up in random places

We’re going to see some treaties disregarded, new ones spring up.

This could just be lobbing some bombs, it could very well be WW3