Without even saying goodbye? So rude...
PyroNeurosis
joined 2 years ago
I get your goal, but denigrating them won't work. They tried that with Donald Trump. They tried it with Alex Jones. Neither of these cases resulted in a smaller aufience for those two- instead they became the figureheads of their respective demographics, audiences swollen by those the Democrats (and traditional Republicans) dispossess and mock as being "too fringe".
Ted's a diminutive of any of those? I thought it was almost exclusively for Theodore.
I appreciate your forthrightness, and on many points we quite agree, notably noone's keen to leave and that the current charged atmosphere around the war does chill honest representation of one's ideals.
That said, while this particular war was the result of Hamas and their October 7 attack, I believe that if not them, some other group would "lead the charge" maybe it would have been more of a single flashpoint or a series of smaller skirmishes, but conflict was (and continues to be) inevitable under the circumstances that Palestinians and Israelis live in.
I want to inquire further on your take that Israeli buffer zones are the land theft so demonized by the anti-Zionists. We see the expansion of the buffer zone in Syria as a landgrab because any security buffer sufficient for defense against the Assad regime should be more than enough, especially when paired with Israeli strikes on weapons caches and bases in Syria. The more puzzling point, though, is the establishment of new settlements and growth of existing settlements in the West Bank even as recently as this week.
My sincerest condolences. Watching him sounds like torture.
No of course not. Things are what they are.
The Democrats' long-term planning skills are not in question here, but they must recognize that they cannot enact those long-term plans without access to the levers of power- and that short term concessions must be made to that end.
As for voters: we all wish they thought more and weren't constantly led around by the nose, but both facts and feelings are part of their individual calculus for support. Obama was carried in on feelings of hope which vibed with the zeitgeist. Trump came in on a presentation of a strong figure (that we know to be false) that complements the uncertainty about the future that Obama left behind when hope kinda petered out over his term.
The feelings in this case are critical because we know politicos cannot possibly keep all their (sometimes contradictory) campaign promises and they cannot voice their position on every issue. So it falls to the voters to suss out what priorities and allegiances the politician has and how they will respond to any given event.
Fair 'nuff. I usually reserve that one for people dragging out arguments with little or no substance, but a whooooole lotta bluster and passion.
Beyond the usual descriptors of troll, zionist, obnoxious twat, etc. I like to place people to general regions and countries if they share them.
It helps me remember that the Internet is not the US and gives me some vague sense of what they may be dealing with outside our cozy Lemmy bubble.
Inflation has largely been controlled during that period, but real wages have stagnated since at least the housing crisis of '08. It doesn't make a lick of difference how well inflation is managed to the poors when buying power is lost.
Pandemic (and even prior) economic malaise is not the fault nor legacy of the Democrats necessarily, but political cynicism bites both ways, and is a lot harder to overcome when the party tells you economic factors are looking up and asks you to wait it out for an uncertain boom in the future.
Yes, Republican (esp. MAGA) policies and mentalities make that promised economic future dicier, but they deliver a feeling of doing something.
I live in Mississippi. Only the one 'S' is silent.
For realz, I'm not a Democrat! I just vote for them in primaries and general elections and defend them when those mean ol' leftists come around.
The Democratic party may be a big tent party with values of varying progressive pedigree, but the adage of lying with dogs and getting fleas applies.
Under fire: some folks are speaking out on twitter.
I'm under more fire when I get called in to talk with the manager.