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Donald Trump Stuns With 'Maybe We Shouldn't Even Be There' Admission About Iran War
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It's Iran's terrority, and Iran is defending it after being attacked...
But I really think he's getting pressure from Christian extremists to abandon Israel. Their endgame was always Israel getting wiped out by its neighbors to start Armageddon and rapture Christians.
If no one joins against Iran, trump will likely try to slink away and Bibi holding the bag.
And he threatened NATO, who by all his accounts "stood back from the front lines" When Article 5 was called during the bullshit second Gulf War. And now he DEMANDS they help. Sure buddy.
I just love the quote:
He starts with needing help, starts to say he just really wants it, then pivota to demanding it.
The fact that he went thru those steps shows how much pressure he's facing.
His two biggest wings of influence has been Israel and American christo-fascists, if they start pulling him in opposite ways, he can't hold onto both.
He's fucked, but so are the rest of us by extension. Hopefully just till midterms at least.
The thing is, as a foreigner, and speaking bluntly, this is on the entire American population, voting him in once was one thing, but not dealing with Jan 6 harshly under Bidens administration did nothing more than encourage them and their billionaire backers. IF there's no false flag operation to cancel the midterms and IF presidential elections are held and the democrats get into power, you lot are going to have to overhaul your entire system to ensure another Trump doesn't happen. And honestly speaking I can't realistically see that happening.
No problem.
To put it bluntly I don't expect Americans to understand our political system, so I'm not surprised when foreigners clearly don't. Shits complicated and nonsensical
I just wish more would ask questions instead of sharing uninformed opinions as facts, but maga thinking isn't reserved for Americans...
In the age of misinformation and people using influencers and podcasters as "news and information" it's become the norm unfortunately. I tend to try and get as broad a view as possible and filter out the bullshit. And admittedly I don't understand the PAC system or the electoral college, and I can't condone lobbying as we've seen it's detrimental effect on general rights to Americans as well as pushing policy. Again, these don't affect us as foreigners, but they tend to push certain policies that end up with wider reaching effects.
That's the part that's relevant...
Whether a state goes 51% of 100%, counts the same.
This leads to depressed turnout and obviously no elections being on "all Americans". Most of our votes for president don't matter because most states go one way or the other.
That's rather f'ed up.
That's not even the worst...
Our House of representatives is supposed to make up for it, but each rep represents over 20x the people they did when the country was founded.
The reason we lost so much representation, is the room they occasionally meet in would be too cramped if they kept adding chairs to it.
But just in general, it's almost always best to blame political leaders for a government's actions and not just blame every person living there.
Good and bad.
the cap on House seats was a deliberate move to restrict the power of cities/progressive forces of the time, it wasnt some accident/short-sightedness
make it more expensive to campaign (because you have to reach so many more people) and you effectively force out independent canidates
even if House seats were increased to something sane like 150-200k pop/seat (currently at 800k+, iirc), the senate effectively gives 2/3rds of national political power to 1/3rd of the country. there is no means for the House to completely bypass the Senate
While the Electoral college has it's own major issues. Awarding of the votes is done because 48 State Legislatures believe all the votes should go to the winner. Maine and Nebraska award their vote on a semi-proportional system. A true proportional system would go a long way of addressing some of the major issues such as a someone's Presidential vote being utterly meaningless. A Republican in California or Democrat in Idaho. (https://electoralvotemap.com/which-states-split-their-electoral-votes/)
This is the problem when people say "Vote Blue". Sure voting Democrat/Republican for US House or lower elections does matter, Senate and Presidential elections? If you live in a Red State, a vote for the Senate or President is completely meaningless in having a say of who gets elected.
Sure, states flip from red to blue and vice versa. However, that only happens if Parties really invest in that state to change it. Parties don't have unlimited funds, they pay attention to swing states which would have a better return on investment.
It's the inherent flaw of first past the post/winner take all style of voting.
considering the state of mainstream american news, pretty sure those listening to "influencers" are better informed. especially as far as iran/isreal/american imperialism in general is concerned
The PAC system is legal bribery with the added bonus of the public being unaware of who is doing the bribing.
Nations use it to "influence" our representatives, from Israel to Saudi Arabia; the USA is open to all interests with enough cash involved.
Corporations and billionaires also prefer Super PACs, as what they actually want can be very unpopular publicly (like keeping minimum wage down to seven dollars an hour).
So, for example, if your (the briber) position is right wing, you contribute to the R party; if the R party won't accommodate your position for some reason, the Ds will (but it will cost you a lot more); if your position is left wing, you contribute to the D party; if the D party won't accommodate your position, the Rs will (but it will cost you a lot more).
With enough money, you can actually change the major parties political platform. See the history of unions, for example. The Democrats were once the "labor party", when unions were 40% of the workforce in the 1940s. Over the decades, it's now down to 10%. Or "state's rights", the Republicans position for many decades. Now, today they are all about flexing federal power.
This has absolutely nothing to do with what the American voters actually want at any time.
Electoral college? Oh dear God I won't even try to explain, it's different for every state (like a province, and there are 50).
you still think voting will get you out of the fascism you invited in?
i've been loudly condemning trump for well over 10 years, losing relationships with friends and family because of it. I didn't "invite" shit, and i accept zero responsibility for the bullshit fascist...whatever the fuck you call this place now. this country is full of fucking racist brainwashed sheep and/or just plain gullible morons.
agreed... sorry you are caught up in the generalization
Of course not. If the first move on a chess board was to simply take your opponent’s king, that would always be the first move in every game.
Having the midterm vote suppressed is just one sacrificial pawn in the direction of what needs to be done to eradicate fascism.
Knowing what to do isn’t that valuable if you don’t time it correctly. It’s not just one person or party. It is systemic and requires a critical mass of history to be successful.
Invited in? I didn’t invite any of this in. Not by my vote, not by my letters to government officials, and not by my protests.
Maybe if people actually showed the fuck up it might. But there's so many "voting doesn't do shit" people that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The way I see it, there are 3 choices.
Vote (effectively). If you still have a glimmer of hope that things can be changed for the better, you need to be doing this. Job one is to keep republicans out of power, vote for whomever is going to beat them. Job 2 is to push Democrats further left in the primaries. Mamdani showed us that this can happen, reluctantly at first, but the party will respond to its voters. Key word there is "voters" if you don't vote, they don't know about you, and won't give a fuck about you.
Disruption. I can't in good faith call for violence, but if you genuinely believe it is impossible to fix the system by voting, you need to be in the streets disrupting day to day operation of the system that oppresses you. Protest, strike, squat, whatever you gotta do, but you can't do it halfway. If you aren't literally ready to fight for your life then, this option isn't for you.
Do nothing. You can just sit around and bitch about things. Whatever happens is (almost) equally your fault as it is the people who voted for it. You'll end up against the wall just like the other two groups, but it will take the nazis you left the door open for, a little bit longer to get around to you. I've got no respect for the people in this group, no one should TBH.
I feel like it is more basic than that.
I think his quote transitioning from asking for help to demanding others “step up” just reveals something he was taught early on—“never show weakness”.
Along with “never admit wrong doing” and “deny ‘til you die”, if you just set a simpleton up with a few basic, immoral, rules and hundreds of millions of dollars, you get Trump.
NATO: "Get Le Fucked".
The rest of the world is outraged about the pedophilia.
Man I am so fucking ready for the Nationalist Christians to become huge fucking pariahs as a direct result of all of the idiocy that they’ve been pushing
by then the world may be literally cooked.
Oh boy do I have terrible news about runaway climate change
It was 80 degrees here yesterday and its snowing right now as I type this.
And this is the best our climate will be for the rest of our lives 🙃
we had roughly the same (only with a non-oppressive temperature scale). Last night I had to toss snow onto my driveway so i wouldn't have a sheet of glare ice where things had previously melted.
Waitasec, I'm no expert, but I thought the whole Rapture thing required all the Jewish people to be gathered into one place first. So, they literally require every Jewish person in America to be deported to Israel for their whole process to even begin.
Did I misunderstand something?
Yeah, the fact that the Rapture is 19th-century snake-juggler fanfic which has no biblical basis besides insane free association based on a few ambiguous phrases here and there. Also, the guy who wrote Revelation was definitely mentally ill and obsessed with revenge.
Sure. But it's legitimacy is irrelevant so long as they believe it, which they do.
I'd say the provenance of those beliefs is relevant, since it tells you what kind of rubes we're talking about. A 2000-year-old religion is one thing, even if its foundational beliefs are mythical. Some half-assed bullshit cobbbled together by a gaggle of late-19th-century and early-20th-century hucksters doesn't even have the excuse that at least they built a few cathedrals, wrote some good music and did some good paintings, along with all the life-denying superstition and oppression.
I think the point is if what they believe in is a string of randomly connected bits of fiction, it’s not too much of a leap to think that they would omit or include a new bit of fiction to fit whatever the situation currently is.
You know that the Revelation is a political pamphlet, right? It's actually amazing that it got included in the canon.
The guy that wrote Revalations was more than likely in the throws of ergot poisoning.
The Christian leaders also see their parishioners spending all their money on gas, on the way to church, instead of on tithing.
Sure, you fucked up everything, but other countries have to resolve the situation that you created.