Apparition of Jack

Migration law is so fucked in the US that a lot of people would be legal if the system wasn’t so convoluted. How is deporting some factory package worker who’s lived in America for 20 years and supported their family making anyone safer? If undocumented migration is so truly evil, where’s all the crackdowns on the thousands of farm, business etc owners who employee these people for below minimum wage? They’re the economic forces driving this migration, but apparently because they’re rich and white they get all the protection from the law in the world. Also the whole thing is wrapped up in white supremacy. Where are all the raids on European backpackers in New York who’ve overstayed their visa? At this point “illegal” = Hispanic (i.e. someone who’s a “threat” to “white” America.)

Not without due process. If America is not built off constitutional law, then it’s not America at all, but rather whatever stooge who’s in power’s personal playground. EDIT: Trump also led a deadly insurrection on the US capitol. Where was the outrage then? The fact that he’s leading the country and not behind bars for for life for extreme sedition is an injustice that boggles the mind of any thinking individual.

As an Australian it’ll be interesting to see how the rise of Indonesia will play out. Most Australians are only vaguely aware of the country and there’s slight cultural suspicion due to religious/ethnic differences. At the same time I wouldn’t say we’re outright hostile though. I hope we can find common ground and find productive agreements that benefit both of us.

He can’t. He wasn’t born in America.

And every single one of them is an agent of Mammon, lol 🤑

What do you guys think about this? I think in the age of outrage and social media algorithms, having a place for grounded, respectful debate is very helpful. https://braverangels.org/

Have you ever considered that Musk is an impulsive idiot? Stop idiolising these cretins. They’re not 4D chess masterminds. They’re impulsive, immature assholes who just know how to manipulate people to get power. Don’t read into it too much.

No one on the left will accept Musk back after this

A Vance administration would have way less support than a Trump one. I mean Trump is literally the head of a cult lol, without him his supporters don’t give a fuck about politics

I gotchu homie 😎

Trump vs Musk shitshow incoming. This is going to be glorious. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930645855285231914?s=46

Really hoping Zohran wins this one. It would be a huge moral and political win for progressives in this age of chaos.

What I see from the pro-Palestinian side of the conflict is an inability to understand the motivation behind Israel’s motivations for wanting to remove Palestinians from Gaza, and forming a conception of Israel as “evil” as a result. I’m here to explain Israel’s position, and why they’re fighting so hard and (seemingly) committing atrocities for no good reason. It’s the Holocaust. It really is that simple. If you’re not Jewish, it can be almost impossible to understand the level of trauma, grief and terror that hovers of the heads of too many Jews to this day about it. It was the first and only time in human history that a people were subject to industrial genocide - not just displacement, not just shootings or massacres (as bad as they are), but systemically slaughtered like animals using mass industrial methods. The level of evil it involved almost seems incomprehensible. Basically, to most Zionist Israelis, Israel represents the only hope Jews will ever have of not suffering yet another genocide of that scale again, and one that might be successful this time around. And who can blame them? The world failed to stop the Holocaust. Britain, the US, etc knew it was happening. They could’ve done more to stop it. Instead, they mostly ignored it (and even turned Jews away from their countries in literally their most desperate hour) while millions of them were again, being industrially slaughtered. If you’re your average Israeli, and you see virtually every other nation on earth still condemning you as greedy, “globalists” and, at worst, subhuman, where else are you going to feel safe? Would you really trust the US, or Europe, or anywhere else, when these nations are swarming with neo-Nazis? Where are Jews to go? Zionist Israelis are like cornered rats, desperately trying to hold onto the only piece of land they can call “theirs.” If you want to stop the ethnic cleansing in Gaza, you have to assure the Israelis - even the most crazy, rabid ones - that you won’t let another Holocaust happen again. You have to assure them their fears are unfounded and that antisemitism will be destroyed in all its social manifestations. Why do we allow antisemitism just to fester unchallenged? It’s literally the most destructive form of racism in human history (again, because of the Holocaust) and yet most people either dont give a shit, or implicitly or explicitly believe in it. Jews are not demons. Jews don’t control the world. Jews aren’t lizard people globalists trying to establish a one-world government and enslave humanity. That’s literally Harry Potter-tier fantasy bullshit. It’s not real. It never has been and never will be. Jews are literally just like anyone else - they have their good and bad, just like all cultures. They have a unique religion, but then so do Sikhs, so do Druze, so do Yazhidis, so do Alawites. If anything there’s a lot of good things about Jewish culture (food, family, commitment to education, etc.) To defeat Israel’s aggression, we have to defeat global antisemitism. You can’t have one without the other.

There are deeper forces at play. We live in an age of massive, massive restructuring, where the old assumptions and biases that got us through the last era in human existence are breaking down. I don’t know if Trump will receive his “karma”; I think the world to come will be too light-based to allow for concepts like “revenge” or “punishment”, but somehow, his nasty actions won’t be forgotten either. Right now our job is just to buckle down, maintain a sense of love, nature and humanity, don’t get caught up in the politicising of it all, and don’t try and make predictions of how things will play out. Think of the current era like a quantum break in the basic laws of morality and society. What was up is now down. What was left is now right. Trying to grasp onto any one idea of “right” or “goodness” is foolish at a time like this, so instead we had just better learn to go with the flow until whatever the heck is happening finally comes to fruition.

Don’t forget a lot of that stuff is pushed by right-wing grifters taking the most extreme examples of identity politics in order to make redistributive economics bad by association. It’s like how Biden actually passed a law to lower the cost of insulin and no one hears about it, but when Donald Trump says he’ll do the same thing (even though he won’t) suddenly hes the Messiah. There’s a fuckton of progressive economic activism happening every day you just don’t hear about because it threatens the neoliberal orthodoxy.

this was the first thread I saw when I checked out /r/latestagecapitalism. https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/s/QtlWxH2rkV This is the latest video I found from Vaush, criticising the massive corporate / security state overreach by Palantir. I understand it’s easy to feel like all the left does is whine about gay Muslim trans athletes or whatever but criticising capitalist insanity is like their bread and butter.

With all due respect, this is completely false. Spend even a tertiary amount of time in any progressive online space and you’ll see countless discussions on how workers (ie lower and middle class) are being fucked over by corporate greed, predatory economic policies etc.

The UN should just go in, guns blazing, and force both sides to settle down until a long-term solution can be found.

I think something like this is far more humane and achievable

Wouldn’t it be funny if AI becomes aware and turns on the tech billionaires instead

I doubt it. But modern Britain (as well as every first-world country) will be a lot more multicultural in the future moving forward. That’s what happens when there’s a global inequality. Poor people move to the uber-wealthy countries. Nature abhors and imbalance.

Israel will go down in history and biggest geopolitical fuckup of all time.

Maybe not all but a big number of them certainly feel nervous.

This is what I’m saying. Jewish paranoia runs deep. I’m going to be very honest - in many ways, I believe the best Arab response to the conflict (other than advocating for their own sovereignty) would be to find it within themselves to forgive Israelis for what they’ve done and work within legitimate frameworks to advocate for a one-state solution. Could such a thing be possible? Could the some of the most oppressed, traumatised, marginalised people on earth find it within themselves to forgive the very same people who are directly responsible for their suffering? Who have stolen their land, their houses, and in too many cases their lives? I understand the difficulty of such a situation. If I was Palestinian I don’t know if I would be up for it (especially considering what’s going on as we speak in Gaza.) But, to me, the only other option is just further endless bloodshed, which seems to be the way things are going. And keep in mind, I’m not any easier on the Israelis too. Israel will have to answer for a LOT of the needless suffering, oppression, torture, death, displacements, etc they’ve inflicted on the Palestinian people. They will have to wrestle with the violence they’ve caused and how unjust it’s all been. Basically I see the whole situation as a common test of forgiveness and good-will. Can Jews and Arabs ever truly live side by side without conflict? Can they ever learn to forgive each other and see the common humanity within them? That’s genuinely the only way this situation gets resolved peacefully. It’s how India got its independence without a major violent uprising. It’s how South Africa broke apartheid without descending to civil war. The only other “solutions” to this conflict, it we were being honest with ourselves, would be complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians at the hands of Israel, or the complete ethnic cleansing of Israeli at the hands of Hamas etc. I don’t think I have to tell you why neither of these are favourable, especially in a world that has supposedly moved on from the catastrophic ethnic cleansings of the 20th century.

Yes, which was only accomplished after the Holocaust and Jews around the world were so desperate for their “own” piece of land that they’d be willing to set it up surrounded by impoverished Muslim countries. Zionism has existed since the mid-1800s, yet Israel was only declared in 1948. What happened between those times that could’ve impelled millions of Jews to rapidly settle in a small strip of land in the Middle East I wonder? Israel only exists because of the Holocaust. Had it never happened, it would’ve never been created. The whole thing exists so Jews can feel like they’re not at the mercy of Germans, or Russians, or Brits, or whoever else.