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Musk claimed that a journalist just posting their names was committing a crime. Doing real harm to his little twerps would probably put you first in line for the Gulag

The one whose name sounds like a printer model

Nothing will fundamentally change

For the record, every major country is enagaged in Political Warfare against their enemies so I've said nothing controversial. Secondly, China is not inherantly bad or inherantly virtuous. They participate on the global stage just like everyone else, so you should ask yourself why you immediately dismiss China's agency here. Finally, and most importantly, China's approach to Political Warfare is laid out in the Three Warfares doctine, and has been well-documented. You can read more about it here if you're really interested acting in good faith: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/01402390.2013.870071

If not, you can continue to label people who say things you don't like as conspiracy theorists. Oh and I'm not a Democrat, I'm probably further to the left than most people on this app but I don't worship or apologise for vast and powerful nation states. Whether that's China or anyone else.

Edit: spelling

Or sarcasm, even

Their comment history is literally just Fox News. Covers the full gamut from trans athletes to Hunter Biden conspiracies. I didn't know these people existed on Lemmy

That's the perfect way to explain this

I think it's important to make such arguments without neglecting to point out that some very real, very desperate people are counting on the assistance USAID currently provides. People will die because of this.

A much less evil way to handle this is to reroute the funds to some benign organisation who will carry out the existing functions of USAID. But that's not what Musk is doing. There's no nuance. Much like his first month at Twitter, he's just taking a wrecking ball to the government and seeing what's left standing. Unfortunately the largest imperialist arms of the US government (State Department, DoD) are still left standing, while the one that is currently relied upon by some of the most desperate souls on the planet has been destroyed.

It was no secret that USAID was an arm of the State Department and used as a smokescreen for CIA business. But that won't matter to all the mothers who will watch their infants die because Musk pulled the plug with no warning

Never understood this point. There's no way you can move your account (including full history) to another instance, right?

That's literally what USAID was for. For spreading anti-communist, pro-capitalist, sentiment by feeding the needy. Until the world's ~~evilest~~ richest man got rid of it and showed how nakedly corrupt the US political system is

The Israel lobby has a stranglehold on politics in the US. Both major parties are beholden to them, and need to bend over backwards to try to keep these groups happy, otherwise their campaign is dead in the water

The assertion that the Israel lobby would destroy Biden for simply calling a ceasefire after unequivocally supporting Israel's post-October 7 actions, is utterly unfounded. The kind of strong condemnation of the Zionist project that would make AIPAC walk is something Biden/Harris would never do.

On the pro-Palestine side, my view is that all the Harris campaign had to show was progress, either a ceasefire or a policy break with Biden, to get most of the protesters back on side. But I'm not 100% on whether she had the political skill to walk that tightrope.

I do think you make my point for me, though. The party did the calculus, and came out on the side that they see AIPAC support as more valuable than the pro-Palestine vote. With that in mind, the party should own that decision and not vilify the voters they scorned for not supporting them anyway. People would be a lot less angry if they just accept that they got the strategy wrong in Michigan and commit to doing things differently next time. But they won't, because this is a party that never learns its lessons.