The whole American political system is just wrestling. If you guys haven’t understood it yet, then there is no hope. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” - George Carlin
Only problem is Tarnished Senator Souls aren’t worth all that much. It’s like the Karen’s that think that used loveseat from the 80’s actually has value because they paid a shitload for it in the 80’s.
Mitch McConnell would happily sell his country into fascism for literally no good reason at all. He’s retiring soon and is rich enough to want for nothing for the rest of his life - he gains nothing of lasting value from this.
Few people in history have been granted the amount of power and opportunity he’s had to improve people’s lives, and he’s chosen make them immeasurably worse at every turn.
A wasted life, a wasted career and all he’ll leave behind is a broken world that would have been better off if he’d never been in it.
Hahahaha what a fuck you to Dean Phillips. I get that he only ran in hopes that he could bait Whitmer or Newsom into joining, but “Uncomitted” beating him is pretty funny
I chose to vote against Trump instead of making a misguided attempt at hurting the better real candidate. When you all get Trump again and he doubles down on Isreals actions I hope you regret it.
I cannot. I live in Texas, where uncommitted was not on the ballot.
I voted for a non-Biden candidate in the primary in order to register my disapproval with his unconditional support for the genocide that party leadership has always wanted.
What do you consider to be a problem? The ability of people to register their discontentment with Biden’s support for Netanyahu’s genocide by voting uncommitted? Having progressives anywhere on the ballot to vote for?
In any event, if you’re going to address me directly and order me how to vote, you should consider that I might not be from Minnesota.
After you ordered me how to vote in reply to me daring to point out that Trump isn’t on the Democratic primary ballot. Guess people from Texas aren’t allowed to point shit out.
Is it really accurate to call these groups gangs at this point? They are not gangs in the sense that people in the US or Europe would understand. They are not groups of criminals engaged primarily in economic crimes. They are basically armed autonomous militants. Their main activities are political and governmental. Most of the killing is for control of territory they oversee.
In essence Haiti has become a failed state and these groups are vying to control that power vacuum. The term gang is more misleading than clarifying and I have to wonder if there is some unconscious racial bias at play with media coverage.
I think it’s more trying to preemptively delegitimize any groups among them who could come to the fore while the UN policing response is still lacing their boots
Don’t want any of them to be able to claim they’re freedom fighters while the Kenyans are capturing the ones who cooperate and killing the ones who don’t
I don’t really see that as the role of the media. The media should inform people about what’s happening, not editorialize to support some hypothetical future military action.
Also, I mean, they are freedom fighters. That doesn’t mean I support them but they are violent radicals seeking the overthrow of the government. Freedom fighters is just how the media and governments refer to militants they want to make sound benign. You can argue that the Taliban were freedom fighters, as were the rebels in the US civil war. It’s kind of a nonsense term.
It should but it does not. The media demonizes the side that we want to kill and manufactures consent for you to do so. Then when you have been convinced that one side is good and the other one evil we can send in troops to coup the country and place a puppet regime.
Khadaffi was a great example of us killing a dictator and then leaving a power vacuum that was far worse.
If we actually cared about helping people not being killed we’d be stopping arms to israel by now.
Yes they’re definitely autonomous militias not gangs. There’s even been dust ups with the Dominican military which is substantially more armed and trained (by US forces) than their Haitian counterparts.
Haiti is such a tragedy, they try to stand on their own and then they get nuked by an earthquake and chorlera, they try at democracy and their president gets assasinated - the country just cant get a fuckin break. Everyone’s mostly too poor to escape and the DR closed their borders, which honestly I can’t blame them, everyone else is trapped in the meat grinder. It’s the ultimate example of why colonialism scars for generations even after the occupiers leave.
“Russian puppets and traitors” oh please…stop it already. Republicans are just asking questions about why and where all this money is going. They are completely united with stopping Russia, they just don’t want to funnel endless money to the cause.
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