[-] anachronist@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

It's the board and the wider leadership who are controlled by Google and intent on destroying Firefox. The current CEO is pretty new, and replaced a heavily criticized CEO that spent years overseeing the decline of Firefox. The new CEO is a former McKinsey consultant.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

Daily reminder that Mozilla's new CEO is a former McKinsey consultant.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Mozilla could have focused on being user-supported through fundraising like Wikipedia. Instead they chose the comfortable path of being funded by their biggest competitor, who is an evil monopoly spyware ad business, which has been compelling Mozilla to kill Firefox and become the badies on the way down.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah always thought that name was bonkers. Didn't listen to them because of it.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Gonna save this one for later.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

Israel’s “achievement” is being even worse than that: a warmongering, genocidal apartheid state.

and also

a fascist theocracy

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Those children weren't civilians, they were potential combatants. Whose to say they wouldn't have grown up to become militants?

Also observing that Israel murders children is anti-semitic. Haven't you ever heard of the black legend?

EDIT: Those children were probably anti-semites who died on purpose so the IDF could be accused of being baby killers.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

I've been voting for a while and never have I seen a candidate on the ballot who was against capitalism.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

via shadowy manipulation [...] and it has the distinction of not being true

Yeah I agree with this part. Because the manipulation is obvious and in your face and absolutely not "shadowy".

AIPAC has made it clear repeatedly that they will carpet bomb any candidate no matter how minor with money if they support BDS or are even BDS-adjacent. Nina Turner, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman have all had their political careers cut short for being even slightly critical of Israel.

If there was an organization like AIPAC for, say, Russia, an ARPAC, it would be illegal and its officers would be hauled off to prison because foreign influence in American elections is illegal. Yet even though it says right in the name that AIPAC is a foreign influence organization, they are allowed to not only operate but yield enormous power.

On the other side of the isle, Thomas Massie has said that every single member of the US congress has an "AIPAC Minder" who watches over them at all times and he's even heard in meetings of Republican members statements like "I need to clear that with my AIPAC guy."

It is illegal to boycott a foreign country in 37 US states. The state governments of a majority of American states actually passed a law saying "this foreign country in particular, if an American citizen boycotts or advocates for boycotting it, they can be prosecuted." Can you guess which country that is? (hint: it's not Canada)

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

As demonstrated by @theangryseal@lemmy.world the zionists in America are not all Jewish. In fact, there are likely many more evangelical zionists in the USA than Jewish zionists. Also, most of the jews I know (especially younger ones) are anti-zionist.

But cheers on the Israel=Judaism hasbara

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah. The silver lining is that, for specific issues, eventually the dam bursts and public opinion can overwhelm. But it can take a long time.

Ross Perot was the most successful third party candidate in American history since William Jennings Bryan. And yet, for nearly two decades both parties refused to adopt his policies on trade despite their overwhelming popularity and the obvious benefit electorally.

BTW The bigger issue with campaign finance is our radical right activist supreme court. We used to have a lot of laws limiting what money could do in politics but the court has dismantled most of them.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

Support for Israel is "off the table" in American politics. It's something that won't even be offered to voters as a choice. I remember when globalization was like this. Between Ross Perot and Donald Trump you had zero candidates on either side who were anti-globalization.

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