The point is that the “blame” doesn’t matter, it was all something the byststander decided to lean into to justify their decision not to help. Yes, the good samaritan had to decide to leave someone behind. They made a decision, someone who could have lived died because of it. The samaritan has to live with that for the rest of their life.
Sure, the good samaritan had to leave someone to die in the fire because they can fucking carry everyone. Life is full of hard choices, and most of the time you have to pick the least bad option. Deal with it.
Consider this. Israel and Palestine are gonna fight. They’re in an impossible situation. There are only 2 ways they move forward. One is that they agree not to retaliate when struck, and to handle aggression internally and swiftly. The second is that one of them ceases to exist. No US presidential candidate was going to make one of those things happen.*
So… the resolution of Israel/Palestine genocide wasn’t on the table for the US presidential election in 2024, in the same way that the issue of Chinese treatment of Uyghurs wasn’t on the table, or the UK rejoining th EU, or Mexican drug cartels foregoing violence. People who voted 3rd party, or didn’t vote risked all the fascist stuff trump has done in the last 6 months, and all the shit he’s going to do in the next 3.5 years, in an attempt to wash their hands of an issue that wasn’t up to them to decide in the first place. So they took a large risk on everything for the extremely slim possiblity of at best gaining absolutley nothing, and now they go around crowing like they made the right decision. To me, it’s like someone watching a burning bus , and as people are trying to rescue victims, they say “well at least I didn’t decide to leave people behind on the bus, unlike those jerks” and the gesturing wildly at singed good samaritans who tragically weren’t able to get everyone out of the blaze.
They risked everything, and then played to lose. I blame them equally to trump supporters, if not a bit more since they clearly aren’t a bunch of brain damaged adult-age children like trump supporters are.
As a person that voted for Harris. Yes. And we should be putting pressure on her to condition any aid to Israel.
Meanwhile, with trump, we’re too busy trying to keep all of our water reserves for crops from being dumped, and trying to keep US residents from being sent to extra-national slave torture prisons without due process to even think about having time to mount meaningful protests for what is happening in Gaza.
-Put conditions on any aid going to Israel.
-Arrest trump and his sycophants in Congress for their litany of heinous crimes against the American people.
-Force Biden not to run in 2024, have an actual primary and don’t put their thumb on the scale to nominate a corporate-owned bipartisan centrist.
I’m pretty pro-democrat, but they could have done all that shit in a day and locked in the next 8 years of federal elections.
He dithered and only reluctantly did this. And then when he did, he did it in a way that a corrupt SCOTUS could overrule. There were other paths he could have taken, but he chose the least-confrontational approach and ultimately the court negated most of his efforts.
I’m gonna gut check this, because I remember him trying couple of times to work out student debt relief. Also, what other steps would you have taken to get student debt relief/forgiveness pushed though? The only step I can think of is after the “president is a king” SCOTUS ruling he could have just canceled them and told everyone to fuck off, but using those powers was clearly something that he didn’t morally agree with.
That’s okay, then you dress as yourself and be super nice to crows. It evens out.
Honestly, the real answer is to dress up like ICE and then be dicks to crows. Trump’s SS won’t be able to operate in your city for years!
Right? The only thing on the market for EVs in the US right now is “luxury” crossovers and trucks. What people really want is an electric civic hatchback.
Hmmm. I think US cars can absolutely compete. Here is the problem. Foreign manufacturers make cars that people want to buy. American manufacturers make cars that they want to sell. These two things are not the same.
Better yet, give it to a friend who isn’t attending the protest, and have them drive around with the phone. Pull it out and check some sites with it every few minutes, maybe send a few messages.
I know this sounds crazy in 2025, but you can still buy standalone digital cameras. You can even get discreet devices that record constantly.
Huh. Usually refurb them and offer them up for free. E-waste recycling is a fancy term in my area for “trucking it across the country to a port, loading it on a boat, shipping it across the ocean and then having a 6yr old without PPE burn it and bury it.” Honestly, throwing it in a landfill is less damaging at that point.
Usually, you have a National weather service that estimates rainfall for an area and warns you about possible disasters so you can issue warnings and pre-stage response teams… Wonder what happened to all that.
He is running it like a business, problem is, he runs most of his businesses straight into the ground.
Consent is a social construct created by humans
Consent exists outside of humans, it just what we’ve decided to call “respecting autonomy”.
I don’t think it is forced birther ammo. Something that does not exist cannot consent. A fetus is just a collection of cells, it has the same ability to consent as a finger or a liver, in the vast majority of abortions it has no more individual identity than a tumor. Consent of the fetus shouldn’t be a criteria for abortion anyway, it’s consent of the individual that it is taking resources from that matters.
Haven’t got the balls to kill myself. Other people depend on me. I’m bought into the life ecosystem. Functionally, I think dying is much more stressful and scary than never existing. I’m also not a defeatist, I’m working to fix those things, but I don’t exactly have a lot of say it how it plays out.
Fuck god. We’ve got dibs.