Mammal

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
  1. Republicans enact cruel and stupid policy.

  2. Democrats refuse to reform cruel & stupid policy because it benefits their backers. In fact, Dems may even brag about how THEY are even better at it.

  3. Cruel & stupid policy predictably backfires - and gets blamed on Democrats who pretend they had no control over anything.

What I suspect is happening is that Trump is attempting to give Democrats an opportunity to get in on DOGE while it still polls well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They aren't wounded - they just don't have actual values or strategy beyond bullying people to vote for them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Medicade exists so that poor people don't start demanding single-payer. This will backfire horribly if one's goal is to maintain the stranglehold private insurance companies have on US healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Probably cheaper than cancer treatments. If you live in a normal country that has universal healthcare it would be a bargain for the government to purchase such a vaccine in-bulk. Then, with time, the prices would go down.

Of course, of you live in the US ... yeah, you're kinda fucked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I was rooting for him until the last three words of the headline.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

As best I can tell, the most racist zionists are usually American-born Israelis.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I do my best to always use the word Zionist before the word Israeli.

Israel's secularism is irrelevant to the overall racist ideology of Zionism that permeates Israeli society.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I'm not referring to powerless, mouth-breathing, NEETs who normally lurk forums.

But I'm referring to comments from actual members of the Israeli Knesset, public statements from people like the OP, printed editorials in mainstream publications, and modern Israeli celebrities.

When you read through the translations not meant for western audiences - the racism pops out disturbingly. It's such a part of their culture that they don't even notice it as such. Zionists really don't view people in the West Bank or Gaza as humans.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (24 children)

A few months ago I started using Google Translate to read what Israelis are saying amongst each other in their mainstream publications and forums.

My. God. Levels of entitlement and racism that would make a Klansman blush.

Sure, a lot of them want a cease-fire to get the hostages back ... and most don't like Netanyahu ... but the average Israeli Zionist is a racist monster.