Hiding and denying the anti-Biden news is what got us to this point.

Compare the polls now to 4 years ago: Biden is 10-15% behind where he was when he (barely) won. To win now, Biden needs a miracle.

Our only hope of stopping Trump is to replace Biden ASAP.

International courts have told Israel to stop many times and they rarely, if ever, listen. Why would this time be different?

Maybe NYT should question how a Zionist ideologue with no experience was put in charge of this important story, or how her uncorroborated opinion piece got past the editors and sold to the public as real news.

But of course they wont, and the damage is already done. Genocide deniers will be pointing to this discredited article in perpetuity.

One of the main guarantees of the US-led world order is that the Straight of Hormuz will stay open for commerce. The fact that the Houthis can shut it down is a huge blow to US hegemony.

In the modern age of drone warfare, US aircraft carriers are a liability. Sure, we can send in the USS Medical Bankruptcy carrier strike group and launch a few million dollar missiles, but the blockade stays in place.

There seems to be only two options to stop this blockade: End the genocide, or invade Yemen in a war against the Houthis. Genocide Joe can’t afford to start a middle east war in an election year, so this tit-for-tat will continue into the near future.

Sanctions are just a tool, they can be used for good things (as you mentioned) but also bad things.

I think sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine are valid. I think sanctions against Cuba are unjustifiable and a crime against humanity. I think sanctions against North Korea are justified given the actions of the Kim regime. But the sanctions also perpetuate the problem by punishing and isolating the innocent NK populace.

Sanctions are an act of war, they should never be used lightly.

Also using sanctions, no matter how valid the reason, has been shown to significantly deteriorate human rights in the targeted country.

I prefer my doomerism to be vague.

Precise doomerism is just too depressing.

That’s a lot of words to say you support genocide.

This is an article about dead children, it’s rather shocking to see such bloodthirst in the comments.

Everything you mentioned is an NRA talking point.

The NRA started out as a well respected advocacy group for hunters rights and environmental protection. Then they were captured by the arms manufacturing industry, so now their only goal is to sell more guns.

And after every major mass shooting there is a significant uptick in sales of guns and ammo, so the arms industry is financially motivated to contribute to the culture of gun rampage.

The plan was to close the horrific, abusive insane asylums and replace them with community mental health centers.

Then neoliberals got into power and said “nah, I dont think so” to that second part.

So now our most mentally unwell people live their lives in prison and on the streets.

There was a massive outcry from the world. It sounds like this: “Its horrible that rockets are getting fired at you! Here is a multi-billion dollar rocket defense system! But if you want the rockets to stop, end your brutal apartheid regime!”

Sadly, the Zionist response is to install the rocket defense system and increase the brutality. Then they smear any critics, including most of the UN and nearly every human rights organization, as biased and antisemitic.

Sadly your comment could equally apply to both sides.

Great question!

I would have held onto the moral high ground instead of instantly bombing civilians.

I would do everything I could to rescue the hostages, instead of ignoring them and bombing them.

I would negotiate with Palestinian leadership, offering them a path towards autonomy and freedom from their open air prison in return for handing over every single Hamas terrorist that attacked on Oct 7th.

Of course there is no magic solution. Even if we find the best possible course there will still be bloodshed and deep resentment. But with the current Israeli strategy, for every Hamas terrorist that they kill, they are creating 2 more to take their place.

It’s not complicated at all. Bombing a residential building is a terrorist act.

It doesn’t matter what you claim is hiding underneath.

In American presidential elections we only get to choose from 2 shitty candidates. Many well intentioned voters view it as a zero-sum game; thus any criticism of Biden is seen as pro-Trump rhetoric.

I agree that Trump is worse than Biden, bit this politics-as-teamsports mentality is a race to the bottom.

Judging by policy, I believe the last left-of-center president was Nixon. He finalized the Civil Rights Act and created the Environmental Protection Agency. He didn’t do it because he was a leftist (he wasnt) or because he was a good guy (he wasnt). He did it because he was afraid of the massive protest movement happening at the time.

I wish we could apply this same broad based, mass protest energy to every president including Biden. But America(and Israel) has written the modern anti-protest playbook, and it’s super effective. Anti-Iraq war, Occupy Wall Street, George Floyd, etc. were all marginalized and crushed.

It sure feels like things will have to get much worse before they start getting better.

Remember when Biden said he saw “confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading babies”? Then his office had to clarify that actually no, he didn’t. What a horrific and oddly specific thing to lie about.

I was pretty shocked when he said the Oct 7th attacks were “like 15 9/11s”. When did we become so sycophantic to Israel that a president could downplay the most sacred American date and receive so little criticism?

Now he wants to give away another $100 billion for war, and I can’t afford healthcare. Remember Bidens campaign when “public option” was his #1 talking point? Maybe Grandpa Joe forgot about it, or maybe he was lying the whole time.

Why would you calculate this as a percentage of population? Do you really think the population numbers of a nation have any relevance to the value of a human life?

Mate, the US is directly funding all of Ukraine’s civil service. We pay for their police, firefighters, ambulances, etc.

If an uninsured person in America needs an ambulance ride, they will get a $1300 bill (on average).

If any person in Ukraine needs an ambulance ride, dont worry it’s free of charge, Uncle Sam got you covered.

Yes yes, we colonized America and genocided the natives. No one is arguing otherwise.

And most of our advances in rocketry came from Operation Paperclip. From ICBMs to the moon landing, we have Nazi scientists to thank.

But what about computers? The postwar generations used their wealth to fund pure science (something we deeply neglect today). It was very costly and took decades, but we invented microtransistors, the internet, wifi, GPS, etc. Every major technology that powers the computer you are using now was funded by hardworking Americans tax dollars.

And I’m not sure what Israel has to do with this, but yes they are following the “war on terror” model that America pioneered. Bomb civilians, label all the victims as terrorists, turn a blind eye to the consequences, and act surprised when your victims desire revenge.

We supported social mobility during the New Deal era. Many of the New Deal programs continued to pay dividends until they were dismantled by Reagan and the neoliberals.

As for home ownership, the vast majority of new homeowners in the past 3 generations were significantly subsidized by the federal government.

I’m not suggesting these programs were perfect. Take the most glaring example: most of them explicitly excluded black people. Without opportunity for homeownership, our precious black neighbors were ghettoized and locked into poverty. The echoes of this racist policy reverberate loudly to this day.

So I guess what I’m saying is that we need to Make America Great Again. Obviously the charlatan Trump presents no solutions. The neolib and neocon policies are proven failures. The solutions offered by Republican and Democrat parties are cynical and shallow. We need to go back to the policies that make America flourish - New Deal policies - just with a few modern upgrades and significantly less bigotry.

We used to be world leader in education, then we defunded our schools.

We used to lead the world in scientific research, but the funding was cut.

We used to have the world’s best infrastructure, then we stopped investing, now its crumbling.

We used to support social mobility and home ownership, now most can’t afford rent.

Spending money to fight climate change is looked down upon as an unrealistic hippy fantasy.

But somehow we always have a blank check for war.