Police everywhere are the enemy of the people.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-militaries-jointly-drilled-iran-strike-during-biden-administration-report/

Where do you get that idea? The Trump admin has only been in place for five months. The strike the US just carried out took years of planning. Trump’s attack on Iran was just a continuation of Biden admin policy.

All the evidence I’ve seen my whole adult life is that the Democrats, or at least the Democratic leadership structure, are just as bloodthirsty and warmongering as the Republican leadership.

We don’t actually know that Dems wouldn’t have been pushing an Iraq war. Ultimately the real push for the war came from the Israeli leadership, and the Israelis control both the Democratic and Republican parties. Israel ultimately decides US Middle East policy, not the American citizens. What party you vote for has very little impact on it. That’s the conclusion you reach if you look at the actual evidence, not just the vibes that each party likes to portray. The Dems like to portray themselves as some 1960s peace-nicks, but both parties let Israel control their entire Middle East policy. Israel wanted to invade Iraq, and that was going to happen regardless of what party was in power.

Maybe the Dems would have handled the Iraq war a little more competently, but Saddam had been a villain in the US media for years. People were talking about invading Iraq while the bodies at ground zero hadn’t even cooled off.

Most damning of all? Al Gore supported military intervention in Iraq. He just wanted a more international effort than what Bush did.

Gore supported invading Iraq. The majority of Democrats in the US Senate supported Iraq. What evidence do you have that a Democratic president wouldn’t have invaded Iraq? I think the only case is vibes-based.

Sure, but in this political climate, I’m very very skeptical of a message telling people not to change themselves and to just accept themselves as who they are. The metaphor is so obvious that denial of it seems in bad faith.

There’s a particular form of toxic positivity on the left, a form of transphobia that tries to maintain respectability among the left. It says, “you’re valid. I respect your identity. But also, you don’t need medical care to change your body, and kids especially don’t need access to that care. You’re heckin’ valid and I support you 100%. But I also need you to not change your body. I respect your identity, but it’s also extremely important that I be able to tell who is trans just by looking at them. It’s important that you accept yourself so that I can identify you.”

Iraq War resolution vote in the Senate.

The problem is the Democratic Party isn’t a working class/labor party. The Democratic Party’s primarily purpose is to occupy space on the political spectrum and prevent the rise of a true workers party. There will never be a time to walk away, abandon a clearly irredeemably broken edifice, and build something new. It will always be the most important election of your life, and you will always be a traitor to your nation for daring to suggest it’s time to scrap the morbidly obese old man, fused into his couch, sucking up all the oxygen out of the room on the left side of the political spectrum.

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No. We need on the left need to focus a hell of a lot more on people we can hurt. Aka, who we can bring to justice and hold accountable for their crimes against the nation. This whole “live and let live, all is forgiven” attitude that Obama and Biden practiced led us directly to our current moment. Dick Cheney should have died in prison, not been featured in the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate.

We need to send these people to Gitmo.

I don’t have to worry about being drafted, I’m officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation’s armed forces!

Have red pandas just been little people in fur suits this whole time???

Try thinking about the actual throughput and mechanics of an oil refinery, and your error will be revealed.

What immediate actions can be taken TODAY to reduce air pollution?

Oil refineries are highly flammable.

Frankly, I do want Iran to have nukes. The region is so unstable precisely because there is one aggressive expansionist military power in the region, with no other nuclear power to balance them out. Iran hasn’t declared war on another country for over two centuries. Israel is currently invading, occupying, or bombing the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. And they’re led by a radical religious movement explicitly hellbent on expanding Israel’s borders from the Nile to the Euphrates, gobbling up entire nations in the process.

You’re damn right I want Iran to have nukes. All evidence suggests they will be far more responsible with them than Israel is.

Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.

Do you know what the truest expression of conservative American values and bravery is?

Human wave attacks against machine gun nests.

Eh. We can use some of the good things from the past without using the bad as well.

I like this look. It has this aura of beautiful golden light about it. It has that aura without going the full gaudy gilded look like you would find in something the president built.

People vote based on principles and strategies different from yours. Bitching about it won’t change that fact or help you win elections. Enjoy your 5 minutes of hate.

If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.

Or maybe I’ll just feel even older, as I can’t believe we’re still doing this shit.