I’m betting we’re about to see the Venezuelan political pendulum swing with the impertus of a howitzer shell towards fascism.

Implying it’s not already fascist?

Yeah, don’t fucking come here. Not now, not in the future. We can’t be trusted again for a very long time - longer than just an election or two.

if Progressives are supposed to vote blue no matter who, then Centrists can too. If someone like Mamdani beats Newsom in the 2028 primary they can suck it up and vote for him.

They should. But like the many left-abstainers in 2024, it remains to be seen if they will.

If someone like Mamdani runs in the 2028 primary (Mamdani himself being sadly ineligible), they will have my general and primary vote. God forbid a shithead neolib like Newsom gets through.

But ‘Blue No Matter Who’ is an expression of desperation against the fascists in the GOP, not a magic formula, as much as we wish it was.

Peaceful protests won’t get rid of the regime. What they’re good for is connecting, organizing, demonstrating opposition is a viable size to uncertain bystanders who fear being part of a tiny minority and getting crushed, and generating enthusiasm for further, more ‘strategic’ work.

It’s funny that they’re so frightened when the release of the files will change next-to-no-one’s minds.

It’s like they don’t even understand what bootlicking depths their own cult is in (PROTIP: it’s the same bootlicking depths every GOP congresscreature is at)

That’s from the blog post, which cites the article I linked - which says nothing of the sort.

But I understand that facts aren’t important when there’s a narrative to peddle. Misinformation is okay as long as it’s against Bad Camp, huh?

If you actually read the article, and what it links to supposed ‘disproving’ the claims of sexual violence, it leads to…

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/israel/hamas-israel-sexual-violence-rape-war-oct-7-rcna217401

She added that the U.N. special commission appointed to investigate "found patterns indicative of sexual violence against Israeli women at different locations. The Commission was also unable to independently verify specific allegations of sexual and gender-based violence due to Israel’s obstruction of its investigations."

In March 2024, a report compiled by Pramila Patten, the U.N. Special Representative on sexual violence in conflict, stated that it had found “reasonable grounds” to believe some victims of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 were raped and sexually assaulted.

There was “clear and convincing” information that some of those taken captive were subjected to sexual violence, the U.N. team of experts said in their report, including rape and sexualized torture — violence it said “may be ongoing.”

… oh.

No no, Americans savages, liberals bad

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However, a UN mission concluded in March 2024 that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attack in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape, and that there was “convincing information” that hostages had been subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexualised torture.

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Bruh, Hillary Clinton managed to win the popular vote in 2016. Sanders or AOC are not automatically disqualified from forming a winning coalition in light of that.

“Just go left and you’ll automatically win 😊” idiocy from people on Lemmy is incorrect, but “Leftists can never win, no matter what!” is fucking stupid as well.

Now’s the fucking time to criticize Dem candidates, before and then during the Dem primaries. Our options going forward aren’t “Newsom or a fucking Republican” yet, so don’t fucking resign yourself - and all of us by extension - to fucking Newsom.

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Even less bootlickingly pro-Zionist administrations wouldn’t have put significant pressure on Israel over the blatant murder of a US citizen, the Trump administration is certainly not going to fucking do anything.

(Note: all administrations post-Carter have been bootlickingly pro-Zionist, but some are more bootlicking than others)

Rare Iran W.

That’s how the world should be treating us. Fuck us.

https://aeon.co/essays/germany-became-a-tolerant-nation-only-by-painful-small-steps

In the mid-1950s, nearly half of all Germans polled said ‘yes’ to the proposition that ‘were it not for the war, Hitler would have been one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century.’ Until the late 1950s, nearly 90 per cent gave an answer other than ‘yes’ when asked if their country should recognise the Oder-Neisse line, the new border with Poland. Perhaps most revealing of all was their stance on Jews. On 12 June 1946, Hannah Arendt hazarded the opinion to Dolf Sternberger, one of occupied Germany’s most prominent publicists, that ‘Germany has never been more antisemitic than it is now.’ As late as 1959, 90 per cent of Germans polled thought of Jews as belonging to a different race – while only 10 per cent thought of the English in these terms.

People are less likely to change their views than they are to be shamed into silence, and then die off in quiet misery.

All bets are off, man. “It couldn’t happen here” is an old and tired refrain, I’m afraid.

“It’s a good thing that our current situation couldn’t get any worse.”

Situation: [gets worse]