Read the article. The most egregious violations occurred during the Biden administration. Biden is better at Trump as a whole, but on the Gaza issue, both have support for Israel locked in at 100%. People often fall for the marketing - Biden virtue signals while Trump vice signals. Biden made a few token show gestures towards Palestinian rights, and Trump gleefully celebrates his cruelty. But in terms of actual tangible support for Israel? Trump’s record is a direct continuation of Biden’s. The Biden admin for example were the first ones to propose the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. That isn’t something Trump came up with - he just vice signaled with his stupid ‘Gaza riviera’ plan, while Biden’s plan for ethnic cleansing was discussed quietly.

When the US starts being the primary funder of them.

Let me introduce you to something called purchase power parity. When you actually consider what things cost in each country, the US and China spend comparable amounts on their military budget right now. The cost for the US to field a single soldier is around $250k/year. And more if they’re deployed somewhere hostile. Similar, the salary of an ICE agent is but a fraction of employing an ICE agent.

Taiwan is the issue. It’s not about raw natural resources.

Any evidence that it was actually progressives staying home out of a protest vote that cost Kamala the election? This seems like wishful thinking on the part of liberals. The polling I’ve seen and the progressives I know all held their nose and voted for Kamala. Kamala lost because she couldn’t convince enough low-engagement voters to come to the polls. They didn’t vote not because of genocide, but because they didn’t feel Kamala was going do anything to improve their lives. Biden won by adopting a lot of Bernie’s social welfare programs, and Kamala walked away from most of that. Obviously the concerns for democracy was real, but people value democracy a hell of a lot less than you might think. People have lost faith in democracy from cycle after cycle of their votes not mattering. They can either vote for a Republican that will help the rich or a Democrat that will help the rich a bit less.

Remember, the US doesn’t actually have any kind of meaningful mass democracy, and it never has. It is only the opinions of the top 5-10% wealthiest of the people that have any influence at all on actual policies that are passed. The poorest 90% of US citizens have never lived in a democracy. That’s why running on preserving democracy failed. Only the upper middle class and rich get democracy, so the working class saw no reason to fight for it.

I ask you again. Why did they choose this plane? If your answer is, “lol, IDK, I guess they’re just dumb.” Then you’re probably missing something very critical. You haven’t even bothered to answer why they chose these planes. You just whine about it.

Again then, please illuminate us. This is a pretty well organized group. They don’t just pick targets randomly. If you have all the answers, illuminate us on why these planes were targeted instead of just whining.

There’s a reason I’ve been using the phrase “I hope you get exactly what you voted for” a lot lately. It makes a very useful blessing or curse.

Found Blue MAGA.

You care to support your unfounded assertions? Two weeks is still pretty close to the election. You can only do so much on day-of exit polls. Two weeks later is very close to the election. And you quoted a paragraph, but I see nothing actual objectionable there. What exactly is your problem with anything you quoted? That’s a very large sample size. You’re just dismissing the study’s methodology as “bullshit” by fiat. It’s bullshit because you arbitrarily decided it was bullshit. Or more precisely, it’s simply bullshit because you didn’t like the conclusions reached. Blue MAGA indeed.

Well, good news. If we do get in a war with China, we have a ready supply of fighting-age men who apparently fit enough to serve in law enforcement and military roles. I propose we simply conscript all the ICE officers and send them to the front lines first.

Well don’t leave us in the dark. Why didn’t you bother explaining what the planes were actually used for? You’re clearly trying to portray the Palestine activists as cliche violent anarchists who destroyed government property for no rational reason. That is really the only reason you wouldn’t explain why you think they did what they did. Likely it’s something that’s still clearly genocidal, but you didn’t want to mention that so you could get that “moving the goalpost” zinger in.

So let’s actually look into this, as you failed to do so in order to muddy the waters.

Oh hey, they’re mid-air refuelers.

So we’re not talking bombers carrying out bombing runs, we’re talking about flying gas stations that top off the tanks of the fighters and bombers carrying out bombing runs. These war planes directly used to enable genocide.

Any sane person would call this “a distinction without a difference.” You didn’t bother explaining what they actually vandalized (really just painted) because you wanted to make it seem like they torched a random civilian airliner or something equally irrational.

But I guess this is just “moving the goalposts” in your warped reality. And in reality, I’m not even moving the goalposts. I said these planes were used to bomb Palestinians. And that’s exactly what these mid-air refuelers have been used for, even if they didn’t carry any bombs themselves. This is like arguing a loading truck that carries bombs from storage to the tarmac aren’t involved in bombing. Sure, it doesn’t directly drop a bomb, but it’s still used for bombing.

You just have myopia and think that only bombers are involved in bombing.

Well then you need to work on your critical thinking skills, it’s pretty obvious. The election wasn’t lost because people stayed home. If more people had voted, Trump would have one even more. Kamala didn’t lose because progressives stayed home. She lost because she abandoned enough policies that support the working and middle class that many of these voters voted for Trump instead. The online progressives that centrists love to blame thing on held their nose and voted for Kamala anyway, as unlike liberals, progressives will actually vote blue no matter who.

The voters disagree, and they are the ultimate determiners of this.

You’re right. And the results show that the idea that the election was lost because progressives stayed home is a complete historical myth.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/26/2024-election-turnout-trum-00426544

Nope. That’s not what happened in 2024. This is victim blaming. Progressives did not cause Harris to lose. Progressives refused to go full Orwell and pretend that Harris was the messiah. They had no problem speaking out about her failures and trying to get her to do better. But in the end, progressives still turned out to vote for her. Harris didn’t even lose because people stayed home. If the voter turnout had been higher Trump would have done even better.

Biden won in 2020 because of two key reasons. First, he had covid helping him. Second, he adopted a lot of policies popular with the working class that would provide direct support to the embattled working and middle classes. Harris abandoned this path and only offered paltry heavily means-tested wonkish tax credits for a handful of people. She certainly wasn’t running on something like Medicare for All.

Yes, progressives shat on Harris in a lot online discussions; she was a deeply flawed candidate. A lot of liberals took a more Orwellian bent, wanting to censor any and all criticism of her. They forget that responding to criticism is the fire that forges strong candidates. Instead they shielded her from criticism, and it just made her look weak.

Harris lost because her policies were so uninspiring that she couldn’t appeal to enough low-engagement voters to get her over the top. The politically active people on the left who spend time talking politics on social media? Yeah, they held their nose and voted for Harris. Her status on Gaza cost her a lot of Muslim votes, but Muslims aren’t hardly a reliably progressive voter base. If it weren’t for the right’s raging Islamophobia, most practicing Muslims would naturally be Republicans. It’s only the right’s historic Islamophobia that gives Democrats any chance with Muslim voters. Naturally, the religious conservatism of most Muslims should fit right in with Republican values. And predictably, as Harris chose to run a campaign leaning in to Islamophobia, Muslim voters found little reason to support her. Resisting Islamophobia is one of the few reasons most Muslims have to support Democrats. If Democrats aren’t going to resist Islamophobia, then Muslims might as well support the party that aligns with more of their beliefs.

What I actually want is a modern smart phone that’s built to look like a tricorder.

But if you cut off the bottoms of the two glasses, and place them over the pupils of the Statue of Liberty? On July 4 and only on July 4, the dawn light coming in through these lenses will cause a message to be projected on the interior of the Statue of Liberty’s head. This will be an elaborate coded message which can only be deciphered using the French-language version of the lyrics of song “Yankee Doodle.” (It was one of Lafayette’s side projects.)

May the people of Texas receive exactly what they voted for.

Yeah the only cases I would consider it even remotely conceivable to use the word would be when you’re actually trying to capture its horror in a historical context. Like if you’re reading some newspaper from 1910 Alabama as part of a history lesson on lynchings. I don’t know if those just casually drop the N word, but it seems likely. Same reason you might show examples of Nazi-era anti-Jewish propaganda. Sometimes we have to look at the ugly parts of history.

But even then, actually saying it out loud probably isn’t necessary. If I was having students read some Jim Crow era news clipping, I wouldn’t cross the word out from the page itself. The students can still see and read it with their own eyes. But we also don’t need to read it out loud. Hell I would probably just have a frank discussion about it at the start of the lesson. That would probably be a good learning experience in and of itself.