Why would they come to America if they thought poorly of it? Immigrating to the US is no trivial matter and requires a large commitment of time and effort. Of course immigrants think highly of the US. Whether or not their perception of America is based in reality is another matter entirely.
Or maybe… It is the realization that we exist in such a sad state of affairs, that an absurdist performance is nearly indistinguishable from the legitimate politics of a non-negligible voting bloc.
Since higher number is obviously better, the entire world should just be like the USA.
I see no problem with this.
Yes, this answers all my questions. I now understand completely.
What do you mean “palestine”?
Do you not recognize the Palestine Authority, but instead believe the entire region has always belonged to israel via biblical predestination?
It was “palestine” before it was ever “israel”, unless you mean the mythical (biblical) “Kingdom of israel”, of which there is no evidence of its existence.
The fact is, Zionists invaded “palestine” and took the land and homes of the then-current native Palestinians for themselves.
But sure, free “palestine” from those who murder civilians and children.
Are you trying to equate the ideology of a political regime with a minority population of South Africans?
South Africa had no right to exist as an apartheid state, and Israel has no right to exist as an apartheid state.
After apartheid ended and living conditions improved, black South Africans didn’t go and slaughter every white South African as retribution, so when Israel says freed Palestinians would slaughter all Israelites, why should we believe them?
If the occupation ended today and Palestinians were allowed to live fairly and given ample resources to rebuild, what reason would they have to seek further conflict? If treated fairly, why would Palestinians act any differently than the South Africans freed from apartheid? This conflict is ultimately the direct result of unfair treatment after all.
Do you think people who speak English, would have read the text in German? No.
The words are slightly different, but they have the same meaning. What do you think he means by it? Or when he calls immigrants criminals, murderers, rapists, animals, and “not human”?
These are fascist statements. Nazis called Jews these things as well, rounded them up, put them in camps, often separating parents from their children. The US is already rounding up migrants, putting them in detention camps, and separating parents from their children. Trump wishes to expand these programs, and Biden refuses to end them.
They are literally doing eugenics at migrant detention camps. “A for-profit ICE detention center forced sterilization procedures on immigrant women”
What about when Trump had dinner with a well-known antisemitic fascist?
Why do you think white supremacist, neo-nazi hate groups choose to support Trump?
Project 2025 lines out a set of actions very similar to those the German Nazi party did to install an authoritarian regime after gaining power.
To say Trump is Hitler would of course be ridiculous. However, their ideologies are similar, and modern day fascists are rallying behind Trump.
It’s gross.
Trump is quoting and agreeing with part of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf, a book entirely dedicated to fascism.
If you read the NBC article I linked above, you can compare the original from the text with Trump’s quote and see how similar they are.
Systematically discriminating against and causing harm to people based on their identity or race is fascism. You would be correct in saying that around the globe, many of the laws and actions around immigration today can be called fascistic.
Criminalizing the rescue of drowning migrants so they die before reaching land is one such policy.
Sure, but “effectiveness” is usually not a binary and is often difficult to measure. Small, but persistent changes should still add up. Eventually.
So long as people recognize that these things are in fact quite toothless, I’m not sure they are entirely detrimental. There’s no reason this couldn’t be used as a starting point for more effective action, now that signatories are in greater contact with the campaign.
I don’t know.
I still think there’s at least some value, even if the only thing it accomplishes is getting people to talk about it. Many people have never even heard of The Internet Archive.
Either way, there isn’t really a reason not to.
Sure, but it is still better than doing nothing.
I don’t like project 2024, but that doesn’t make it fascist, you can’t just call stuff fascist because you don’t like it
Project 2025 is undeniably fascist. They want to round up all (brown) immigrants because they have “bad blood”. That is textbook fascism.
Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’
This is great! Now you can compare prices for the 10 services you require and calculate the extent of your of financial ruin, all from the back of the ambulance!
I jest. Also, good luck opening a SQL database or parsing a massive minified JSON file. Many facilities do not provide the data in an easily accessible or standardized form, making it inaccessible for most people.
Not a great situation either way. You either get drafted, or are forced to out yourself to avoid getting sent to Vietnam.
Though, this protest was a bit of a mixed bag. They wanted to end military ineligibility of LGBT people (amongst other things) during a very unpopular war, where many people were using this exemption to avoid being forcibly conscripted. By coming out as (or claiming to be) gay, you could potentially avoid getting sent to fight in Vietnam. This protest was in part, an effort to close that loophole.
Them: “Be gay, do (war) crime!”
Literally everyone else: “Suck cock, beat the draft!”
A speech impediment does not excuse the murder of Palestinian civilians.
No.
I already know of this.
It is what he says through the mumbling that is concerning.
I do not condone ablism.
Ok. I don’t disagree with anything you said.
The Democrats in power still put forth a candidate that is very unpopular.
Most already are, or moving towards it. But no, that’s not a good thing.
Though, as America is still the global superpower, the debt really isn’t as important as you suggest, but of course I wouldn’t speak out against slashing defense spending and hiking taxes on wealthy individuals and big business.