PhilipTheBucket

I think you have a skewed understand of what outcome "no peace" will lead to. There is only one, and that's not it, and we're moving towards it pretty quickly at this point.

The kind of dickheads who run television networks have been selling out "their own people" to the cattle car brigade since roughly 1990. This one's just a little more stark because it's now it's literal concentration camps and there's a racial component that throws it into sharper relief, but it's no different than Sinclair telling people that agitators against the cancer plant down the street are domestic terrorists. And when their kids get some of the cancer, oh well, that's not my problem.

Or, you know, whatever.

It is. It's not like rat poison, but a single clove can be enough to poison them, so yes they should absolutely not eat garlic bread.

"Hey Likud can we have our check now pls, we did what you asked and we're getting low"

"Ssh not until after the press conference"

"Oh OK"

Honestly the whole fuckin' thing is stupid. Palestinian state, are we going to have a ceasefire, "human shields," was the rape "widespread" or not. The whole fucking country is starving now, on purpose. They're dying. This is all just dancing around until they all drop, and the world shrugs and moves on to other things while Israel gets ready to move on the West Bank in a big way.

The US's beginning levels of public education are probably some of the worst in the Western world, but its higher education at the high levels is some of the best in the Western world.

As is often true of the best things, the bestness is not because of the bestness of the thing, but because of what it connects with. The universities themselves honestly really aren't great. But what happens in them is often extraordinary, because they're able to attract the brightest people from across the world, and give them a place and let them shine.

Well, until now.

https://literarydevices.net/analogy/

Absolutely fucking not.

It doesn't matter if the food court is usually pretty good, all things considered, but the mall is currently on fire. Do not visit.

Not only that, but FPTP mathematically will always pull the two parties to the center, a hair's breadth apart from one another, because anyone who wanders off into "their" territory will start to lose elections because of it.

I mean... well, that's how it works mathematically. It's not even really applicable to modern US politics. What's happening in modern US politics is that:

1. The voters are so addled by propaganda that they can't even really tell what's going on, and mostly make decisions based on pure engineered fantasy instead of based on anything that's actually happening ("Immigration is a problem! Trump is going to fix that problem!" and similar beliefs)
2. Even through the fog of propaganda, there are some things that they're able to figure out (health insurance companies are a massive problem and we shouldn't let billionaires keep all of our work output while we're struggling to pay rent and buy eggs). But, the people in Washington by and large don't support fixing any of those things, because the people who pay their bills don't agree with the obvious solutions that 85% of the people would support.
3. Party machinery and media monopolization (and now, social media propaganda) prevent anyone who's invested in those popular things -- the "center" that FPTP math would normally be pulling the politicians towards -- from gaining any traction or being able to put anything better than a cruel caricature of it into practice (see also the ACA).

Basically, we fucked. But, if we someone managed to unfuck those massive problems, then we'd still be faced with FPTP pulling everyone to "the center." But, on the other hand, "the center" would be way better than the current American system of one conservative party running against one openly fascist party and like 5-10 rabble-rousers on the left running around Washington and making noise about how really in a perfect world it shouldn't be like that.

There are some fucking ridiculous people in these comments lol

It would be convenient to write them off as psyops

Fun, too.

, but the unfortunate truth is that there are people on our side of the political spectrum who have bad but sincerely-held beliefs too.

Completely agree. I actually think most people who say this are real people who believe it (whether or not they picked it up from Russia propaganda originally.) I'm just saying that I don't think this blog in particular is some earnest person who just really feels strongly about NATO and BRICS, and also likes piping a very-sloppily-put-together script saying the same through an AI voice to create an overall vibe I would summarize as PREPARE TO RECEIVE MY POLITICAL VIEWS, FELLOW HUMAN.

Were you aware of this? I was not. Anyway, I edited the title; how's that seem?