[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

What does the evacuation mean for what's going on?

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Hexbear is down. Expect an influx of people to this megathread if it stays down for too long

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

~~Defends vs. High-Explosive rounds fired at the back of the turret~~

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

I don't see how this is in China's interests at this point. Committing to a position right now just presents more risks than potential rewards.

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Sun Tzu was all about winning a fight without fighting. Pressing an enemy that can't retreat is the exact opposite of this.

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 11 months ago

I keep thinking about his line of always leaving a retreat for your opponent, and how this siege of Gaza is just going to make condemned souls fight harder

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 11 months ago

He could genuinely eliminate student loan if he wants a win. No half-measures, Walter. Americans still care more about their bottom line than about global politics

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Because Progressive Democrats are too tapped into corporate and state media sources.

Even so, progressive Democrats aren't of a single mind on this issue. In washington, yes, but at the consitituent level, Palestine would seem tonhave some support, anecdotally

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 11 months ago

I went from mostly siding with Hamas to fully siding with Hamas in that same 72 hours

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 11 months ago

Would you have a link to the article this is from?

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Ah that makes sense. In the US, I don't hear a lot of chatter blaming the war for our woes, just the usual partisan politics stuff

[-] Dessa@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

but now people are increasingly connecting the war with their declining standard of living. This is now translating into a political backlash against the people who championed the war.

Could you elaborate on this? I dont follow. How is our standaed of living connected to this war?

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