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[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

Obama has absolutely absurd charisma. He's the Democrat version of Trump - knows exactly what to say to his base and knows how to convince moderates he's not insane.

Clinton and Biden have the charisma of a limp noodle. Sanders has absurd charisma, but he's seen as too big of a threat to Democrat lobbyists and big corporations.

Sanders would've mopped the floor with Trump because he would've actually been able to grab the 18-44 demographic (which last saw peaks in 1992 Clinton/Gore and 2008 Obama/Biden, both to unseat a Republican and, coincidentally, a Bush).

Sanders would have been able to avoid the collapse in turnout from working-class Black people in 2016.

Sanders would've stopped the increasing right-wing radicalization of the youth of America, or provided a counterweight for left-wing economic radicalization.

The US federal elections are basically a pony show and the DNC doesn't know how to play the game without throwing out their playbook.

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[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago

Casual racism? From a same place that casually obliterated the languages of the indigenous people of the island in favour of Mandarin? Say it isn't so...

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago

US news, but a public safety warning. Stay healthy, everyone!

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 51 points 8 months ago

"the Chinese"

Not China (the country), not the PRC (the country), but "the Chinese."

Because that's what the US ambassador thinks of Chinese people.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 months ago

There's record of ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon playing a role in orchestrating the coup. Tell me more about how America isn't intervening in foreign democracies.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 29 points 9 months ago

The US wanted to strike Iranian targets without retaliation in order to not lose face globally. Tehran says no. If I were serving on a US military base in the Middle East, I'd be looking for ways to take leave because things are about to get hot.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago

I mean I too would not be happy about a two-state solution with a "state" that's releasing snuff films of my people.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

Given that ships are reporting ties to China to avoid getting targeted and state-owned COSCO has stopped serving Israel in exchange for Red Sea transit, I'm not really sure what pressure the US hopes to apply here.

China doesn't care about the Houthis because they're not interrupting Chinese trade.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

North Korea supporting the side committed to ending illegal Israeli occupation and genocide, let's go!

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

Not internationally significant. This is US news.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Explains why Canada is so happy to dick around in the Middle East.

It should either fall under "not our problem" or under "conflict bad please stop fighting." Those are the two reasonable humanitarian positions.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago

Perfectly normal thing for independent media to do in support of a healthy democracy.

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