SpaceCowboy

Neither because I'm not a fascist. Nor am I an idiot that thinks of countries like sports teams to root for or against. Unlike most of the people in these Israel threads.

Maybe read a history book. Tip: the Nazis were the guys that hated the Jews. They also liked to accuse others of that which they were guilty of.

History doesn't repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes.

The Democrats are the minority party. They have little power to do anything other than write strongly worded letters.

The constant attacks on the political opposition to fascism is something the fascists want.

Really how are the Democrats any different from the Liberal Party of Canada? They're both equally lame, both have problems with corruption, both have sleazeballs in them. The Democrats are a political party, it's weird people think they're going to put on a bandolier and a beret and become guerilla resistance fighters or whatever they're imagining things will be like.

But Americans are narcissists that believe themselves to be exceptional so they think the Democrats being kinda lame dorks is different from parties in other countries.

The problem is when Americans were given a choice between a fascist and a pretty normal political party, 2/3 of them either voted for the fascists or just didn't bother to vote at all. The American people just didn't care enough about democracy. It's likely too late to be expecting the democrats to fix things because they can't... not enough Americans voted for them.

Americans are narcissists and they'll blame anyone other than themselves for everything. Which is why they attack the Democrats instead of doing the obvious thing and attack the GOP and organize resistance to them. But that might include voting for the political opposition which would mean voting democrat which might be admitting they were wrong for not voting for them in the last election. And a narcissist can never admit they're wrong.

So the current state of things is Americans are blaming the party that's not in power for not stopping the party that is in power because their narcissism prevents them from admitting they made a mistake. Will Americans get over their narcissism before the next election and vote for the opposition because their government sucks? That's what would happen in a nromal country, but they're obsessed with being exceptional. Will there even be an election? Or will they somehow find a way to blame democrats for Trump cancelling elections, ending any kind of opposition to his power and completing their journey to becoming a full ledged fascist country?

Yeah, it seems to me Americans are a bunch of selfish narcissists ruled over by a selfish narcissist. Even those that claim to be against Trump are too obsessed with their self image to even vote for the politcal opposition, let alone do anything more significant to resist fascism.

They don't really need to make or sell products, they just need to create the appearance of selling products to attract investment from billionaires. They've got all the money, why would they care about the small pittance of money everyone else has?

I think Israel is a country of millions of people, some of those people are terrible, but many are good people. It's disturbing to me that people can so easily think that millions of people are evil.

It's very fascistic to consider entire countries as "good" or "evil". There's many indications that post-Trump fascism will be anti-Semitic and very anti-Israel. How many people you see here in this thread do you suppose will jump on board an anti-Israel fascist movement? Will you jump on board?

Yeah, so have you dug into the stats to find out the percentage of those people that are dying from heart disease that are over 70?

Also what is considered an article about terrorism? If the NYT mentions 9/11 in one sentence in an article does that become an article about people dying of terrorism?

The methodology of gathering and compiling data in statistics is relevant, and that's before we get into analysis.

As Mark Twain said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." This graph is likely way more biased than the implied accusation of bias leveled on the NYT could ever be.

It's only been 4 months since Tucker was glazing Nick Fuentes in an interview.

Or are you sticking up for Nick Fuentes too?

How many overt anti-semites are you going to defend while pretending you're "anti-zionist not anti-semitic"?

There's an old joke in Germany: What do you call 10 people having dinner with a Nazi? 11 Nazis.

So you want the US and Israel to enter into as close of a relationship as the EU countries have, or are you just being pedantic?

Ideology is bullshit. Politics is primarily tribal, ideology is just a rationalization about why your tribe is better than the other tribe.

There are issues to be sure, but if you talk with someone about politics for 15 minutes you'll usually find all kinds of ways their ideology is inconsistent and hypocritical... unless you consider that they're just repeating the talking points their tribal leaders told them to say. The only consistency about politics is "my tribe good, other tribe is bad."

This comic exemplifies that. There's no actual issue being discussed, it's just green vs. orange. You're expected to agree with green, and hate orange. And have even more disdain for anyone that seeks compromise. Which green issues does the character agree with and which orange issues they agree with, there's no discussion on any kind of issue. Unquestioning loyalty to the tribe is consider good, considering any ideas from outside of the tribe is considered bad.

It's obvious to anyone outside the tribe how counterproductive it is to attack anyone that might consider ideas outside of the tribe. You cannot build a broad coalition needed to accomplish anything in this way. It's so painfully obvious. Even as the other tribe grows it's numbers by not being so judgemental, even as your tribe shrinks and is manipulated into helping the other tribe you don't notice because you've been conditioned by the tribe to never question tribe.

So what are you saying about being a loyal member of your tribe? You're just saying you don't actually want to think about the issues, you certainly don't want to discuss issues, and you don't want to be effective. You only want to prove your status to the other narcissistic people in your shrinking tribe.

Having family members die of these things doesn't make people aware heart disease exist? It's only if it's reported in the New York Times reports on it that makes people aware of things?

And no it's not all that flashy when my grandfather dies of a heart attack at the age of 87. That's part of your stats on the common causes of death, right? It's sad for those that knew him, but do you expect a story about an octogenarian dying of a heart attack to make the front page of the NY Times? What would that accomplish more than an obituary stating people should give to a charity in lieu of flowers? Maybe with some more funding to medical research my grandfather could've lived to 88 or 89! But the damn NY Times decided it was more important to report on someone dying in the prime of their life instead of elderly people dying. Those insensitive bastards!