noescape
@noescape

You can either pay up or you can donate it to the IFRC, your choice.

No but this is exactly what I'm fucking talking about. I'm tired of some vote-blue-no-matter-who dildo jumping into a comment section or my mentions or my DMs like "um excuse me sweaty it's just the Republicans' fault." It's not tho! Democrats hold power too! They hold federal fucking power right now, just because Republicans hold the house doesn't mean Democrats are powerless! The entire Senate voted on a resolution - introduced by Chuck Schumer! - in full-throated support of Israel just this week! 97-0! When rubber meets road Democrats have proved time and again that they are not the "harm reduction" option.

These milkfed motherfuckers are condemning groups like Jewish Voice For Peace, likening them to Hamas supporters, for being ideologically consistent and protesting a genocide. People are being arrested, they're being fired from their jobs, they're being blackballed by universities and other institutions for doing the right thing and supporting Palestinians in defiance of "the West."

So let's talk about sides. My side is actively antifascist. My side is against white supremacy. My side is against colonial oppression and border violence. If your "side" routinely gives ground to khaki-wearing shitheads bearing tiki torches and cheerfully funds genocide then we're not on the same side.


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

It was Dems and liberals who actively undermined the 2020 anti-police uprisings. It was Dems and liberals who did the same in 2016, and 2011. It was a Democratic president who dropped illegal cluster bombs on Serbia, after another Democratic president laid the groundwork to put Milosevic in power in Serbia in the first place. It was a Democrat administration that gutted the last remaining welfare state in the US. It is presently, as OP pointed out, a Democratic president completely hand in arm with the overt fash supporting apartheid, occupation and genocide in Palestine!

There are no Republicans in Seattle government. It is not Republicans who keep sending the cops to point guns at my friends and neighbors. It was not Republicans that sent a known child rapist to infiltrate a fucking anarchist coffee shop. It is not Republicans who continue to kill people sleeping outside in encampment sweeps.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.


BridgeUnit
@BridgeUnit

Also, the current us president, democrat Joseph Robinette Biden, harm-reducer extraordinaire, has in the past 21 days:

Pledged unreserved support for israel

Increased the us military presence in the negev desert

Pledged 2,000 us troops to fight alongside the idf

Handed over 14 billion dollars to israel so they could buy another squadron of F-35s and asked to give them 100 billion dollars more

Sent an aircraft carrier battle group to the Palestinian coast to make sure no one messes with the genocide

Sent NERVE GAS to the idf along with special forces troops to observe its use

Accused the Palestinian health authorities of LYING ABOUT THE NUMBER OF MURDERED PALESTINIANS, prompting them to release a full list of the dead by name, age, and ID number.

And I’m sure there’s more I’m not remembering or haven’t heard of yet



yrgirlkv
@yrgirlkv

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it had completely lost contact with its operations room in Gaza and all its teams operating on the ground.
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The Palestinian telecommunication company Jawwal said in a social media post late on Friday that mobile phone and internet services have been shut off.

“We don’t have any internet, we don’t have any kind of signals on our phones, we’ve become totally isolated in the territory,” Al Jazeera Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Khan Younis in Gaza on Friday. Residents were “terrified and afraid,” he said.

don't usually newspost but this one doesn't seem to have made its way to cohost.



In the mirror universe, wouldn't the Ferengi be communists? I know mirror Brunt is nice, but mirror Nog's whole subplot gives the distinct impression that, in general, the Ferengi are pretty much the same in both universes.

In fact, wouldn't the Klingons be pacifists? The Cardassians anarchists? Now that I think about it, the DS9 mirror universe episodes could have been very interesting if the Terran Empire was still around and Sisko and the gang were traveling back and forth to help the Klingon/Cardassian anarcho-pacifist alliance defend Terok Nor from the bloodthirsty Terrans. Could have been an interesting juxtaposition with the prime universe Dominion War.