TheOubliette

Sounds like you just can't defend your own comment. You're all talk when it's time to call people names but this is your entire response to me? lmao

I hope you can someday have the courage of your convictions, "anti-authoritarian".

Don't forget the material basis for these shifts! While The Discourse of "practical" truangulating centrists tends to show this rightward path, it is because (1) they were already fundamentally reactionary, they tend to just use this logic as an excuse for why they tolerate far-right positions, and (2) the right is supported by the ruling class to address some of the "problems" it creates, like a marginalized underclass that wants enough income to feed their children, housing, and safety from violence.

The shift right is not driven simply by debate or ideology, but by the arenas where degradation in material conditions due to capitalism meet the ruling class' need to deflect blame to the marginalized (who they can reap larger profits from) to placate the less marginalized. Racism, nationalism, and extermination campaigns are created and maintained for the interests of capital, with the common people being pushed and prodded to fall in line with repeating the (usually ad hoc) new or recycled scapegoats and underclassrs. Wouldn't want you to point blame in the right direction!

This is a bad faith meme that represents anyone making any form of compromise as a rude

They're not depicted as rude, they're depicted as an know-it-all eager compromiser that ends up working for the forces of reaction because they have no real principles or red lines.

close-minded

That is generally the attitude of "centrists" and people that go out of the way to congratulate themselves on "being practical" by triamgulating. If they were open to actual principles they eould no longer be triangulating on them, and triangulating is their primary commitment.

genocide supporter

Like virtually every Democratic member of Congress and both of their presidential candidates? Anyone tolerating that is indeed complicit. It does not require any mental gymnastics to acknowledge this.

posted by an account that frequently posts pro-China

No!!! I almost passed out when I read that. You're telling me there are good aspects of a designated enemy of empire!? Impossible.

Open-minded btw.

sometimes pro-Russia propaganda

Not another designated enemy!!! I almost died when I read this.

and hops between Western country-focused lemmy's pending election cycles.

Is this supposed to imply something bad about them?

Car sales on the RF are up something like 50% over last year and last year had relatively normal numbers.

The RF's central bankers keep trying to tank their economy but it isn't working because of all the direct investment required to offset sanctions. They are maxing out debt costs, basically, trying the neoliberal "fighting inflation" strategy that does the exact opposite most of the time. It makes them precarious economically despite how well they're doing but for a very different reason than "sanctions are working". If they kicked out their neoliberals it would be smooth sailing.

The genocide is already accelerated. The Biden-Harris administration already gives Israel all of the material, military, and diplomatic support they need for genociding Gaza and ramping up against the West Bank, the latter being something that has already been happening for months. And people like yourself tolerated that, accepted that from "your" candidates, and fought against those for whom it was correctly a red line.

In short, both Biden and Harris would rather lose than be anything other than 100% materially supportive of Israel's genocide. They made that choice and y'all backed them up on it. Time to own those decisions, the decision to lose in support of genocide, and do some self-criticism around how what you subscribed to was actually neither particularly strategic nor morally sound.

Biden and Harris already openly pledge unconditional material support to Israel in its genocide, organize Europe in this same direction, and go after anyone opposing them on this. Israel receives what it materially needs to do all pf this. Any further escalation in the West Bank will be done with materials, funds, and diplomatic cover provided by the Biden-Harris administration.

Biden and Harris feign empathy and try to run little games around redefining what a ceasefire is for PR purposes. But in terms of the basic reakity of supporting Israel to do whatever it wants to Palestinians, as in providing them the means they would otherwise nit have to do it, there is no sense in which they are less bad than Trump.

Harris did and does support genocide and if you tolerated that you should do some self-criticism.

And I think you will find that there has been no material difference in what "Israel" is actually doing. They've been ramping up occupation and violence in the West Bank for months, going in exactly this direction already. They murdered an American activist in the West Bank as part of this and swept it under the rug using the pretense of an "investigation", remember? The West Bank is already occupied, it is already split into isolated districts, travel is already highly restricted, there are racist curfews for those who must commute to work in Israel, forced through several checkpoints and fearing jail for any delays, giving themselves 3 hour buffers for travel tine, and their government is compradors that work with the IOF to arrest and jail them and out down resistance movements.

The main difference between Dems and GOP on Israel is that Dems feign empathy and concern while Republicans are openly racist. But materially the outcomes are actually very similar, with Dems often being worse because they can more effectively count on your lack of dissent and in coordinating with Europe.

You might remember that there has been a US-backed genocide in Gaza for over a year, under a Dem, and they were willing to lose the election rather than stop supporting genocide.

This sounds like a scheme for capital to charge prison rates for a crappy hotel.

Harris is an empty suit candidate. She has no consistent policy positions. She has never stuck her neck out for anything. Harris has ever won a presidential primary and lost to Andrew Yang (lmao).

She was selected behind closed doors, presumably by donors and horse trading with party insiders. She is exactly the kind of candidate you would expect from that: someone that caters to donors, punches left, tries to embrace "never Trumpers" as the main campaign strategy. Left policies are directly against donors' interests.

She is not your friend and not a good person, and is definitely not on your team. These people don't care about you and they don't care about things like whether they "insult their boss". Also, the president is not the boss of the VP, the VP can do whatever they want and the only consequences would be partu fallout. Distancing herself from Biden, both around the Democrats' embrace of genocide and the objective degradation in conditions due to a reduction in real wages, was the obvious way to actually try to win. And to be clear, as empty suits serving donor interests, ahe could have done both of those things in eords only and then done their bidding once in office. That is how beholden she is to donor interesrs: she couldn't even play the false promise game that every Dem uses to get elected.

Harris has only ever indicated unwavering support for the genocide and the the wider ethnosupremacist apartheid settler colony that is Israel. This is entirely consistent with being a vehicle for donor interests, who are all wrapped up in the petrodollar and investments in Israel. There is no reason to think there was some kind of plan to hurt her election chances by demotivating the base and to then do the popular thing once in office. The tendency is to do the exact opposite of that.

And if they convinced you to tolerate genocide for this, take a real hard look at yourself.

These are institutions, not your friends. They are not making an oopsie, they knowingly downplayed genocide because it disagreed with their political commitments, the ideology they enforce through hiring and firing practices and editorial oversight. They had staff members making noise about this on day 1 and rather than accept this they hounded them out.

Here they are telling their staff not to sign solidarity petitions That article, which is also itself full of Zionist false tropes re: what is antisemitism, cites other examples that I recommend reviewing. These include The Guardian firing a cartoonist because they depicted Netanyahu operating on hinself in the shape of Gaza. And firing a columnist for retweeting pro-resistance accounts on Twitter and (correctly) claiming Israel bombed a hospital. This was back when the media figured it just needed its usual apparatus of nisibformation and downplaying to give Israel deniability for some short-lived crimes.

You can also find a member of The Guardian defending Israel's actions here https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/23/as-israel-pounds-gaza-bbc-journalists-accuse-broadcaster-of-bias. As is common for liberal Zionists that happen to be Jewish, they attempt to leverage a false sense of victimization to justify Israel's crimes and make this about "antisemitism" that they personally exoerience, which 99% of the time is just criticism of Israel. The real goal of these media putsches is to get their Israel-critical colleagues fired, providing their employer with an "acceptable" excuse.

There is also one or more first hand account of how this dynsmic worked at The Guardian specifically on the issue of genociding Gaza: https://novaramedia.com/2024/03/12/how-the-guardians-editor-in-chief-caved-to-pro-israel-pressure/