They’re not afraid of Putin…

They’re trying to form a genocidal alliance of Bibi, trump, putin, and and Kim.

Not the countries mind you, half are already dictators for life and that’s what the other half wants.

Which is why they’re going to throw their country’s traditional alliances out the window because their personal alliances bring more personal power.

I swear I feel like Cassandra some days…

Bud…

You’re having a separate conversation than anyone else…

This isn’t the first time this has happened, and I don’t think me putting effort in has ever helped you understand anything.

I’m sorry, I can’t help you anymore.

Yep, same thing that made humans burn medicine women as witches.

It’s basic psychology, all animals are pattern recognition machines, and we get stressed when we don’t understand the cause of something.

And we don’t need a correct or even plausible thing to blame, as long as there’s some scapegoat and your ingroup all blames the same thing, as far as our brains are concerned, the matter is settled. Even if we’re still upset at the negative consequences, we now have something to blame so our brains stop worrying about it, the matter is settled.

Where it’s maladaptive is if we just blame random shit like Zeus being mad that someone ate a goat burger with cheese on a Friday, we don’t address what the actual cause was, so we get the negative consequence again.

I use the web client, but it should be wherever your block list is. Webclient you have to manually type it in, there should be three sections:

Accounts

Communities

Instances

So if you can’t figure it out in your app, you can just sign on via a webpage to block instances and that should effect the app since it’s about your account and not the client.

I agree that Biden’s unquestionable support of Israel is a huge problem, but he’s legit not doing it for the donations.

He got so much more than any other US politicians, because Israel used to know that no amount of bribes could ever buy that level of loyalty.

Bibi never got that memo tho, he just knew he could treat Biden like shit and still get everything he wants.

The real reason Biden has this level of support for Israel is even stupider, because Biden is older than Israel.

He’s told the story multiple times over the decades, when he was a toddler and Israel was created, his dad told him to promise to always protect Israel because they were victims.

And it’s fucking insane that over 70 years later that’s what’s been guiding US foreign policy for four years and why we keep arming a genocidal religious ethnostate even though it was a huge contributed to trump regaining office.

But that’s why Biden will always give Israel everything they want, a promise a toddler made to his dad almost a century ago.

Lemmy is all I use, and since it’s so small I just browse /all and when I keep seeing subs I’m not interested in (or a language I don’t understand) I just block them so I don’t see them anymore.

Then I’ve instance blocked a couple places because of how their mods/admins act so I don’t accidentally stumble into a sub from that instance.

You could try to curate a list of subscriptions, but I just don’t think Lemmy is big enough for that yet, and you’d miss new subs.

No, it’s about Biden arguing against a proposed policy from a United States Senator

Foreign policy…

Nope.

But at this point I don’t understand why you haven’t just read the article…

It’s about if a major world power will continue funding a genocide on the other side of the globe…

Unless you’re making a joke that Israel is the 51st state, but even then, the people Israel is committing genocide against with US weapons aren’t American.

It’s obviously a larger issue than just America.

It is a little.

People are wired to trust confident people. The problem is the smartest people know no plan is perfect, evaluate possible problems and have a plan to handle them.

That comes off as doubt.

But an idiot will never worry about problems that haven’t shown up yet, they’ll run forward with 100% confidence till they go off a cliff like Wiley Coyote. Then blame the people who said that would happen and claim they made it not work by verbalizing possible complications.

And I know that sounds like trump supporters, because it is them.

It’s also the Biden supporters who kept insisting he could beat Trump and prevented us from having a competitive primary where Dem voters had a say in the candidate.

They blamed Dem voters for saying Dem voters didn’t want Biden.

And they blamed Dem voters for talking about how Kamala needed to stop moving to the right or trump would win.

And when trump won, they immediately started blaming everyone that pulled the fire alarm for setting the fire.

Good.

Console generations aren’t the huge leap they used to be, and this is a “half generation”.

They started developing this game before the PS4 came out, and they’re working on new games now.

We don’t need to re-release every game 27 times on a new console.

Even after Israel treated Biden like shit for four years in response to unquestionable support…

Israel backed trump instead and Biden still is fighting his own party on this instead of spending his last few weeks with any power trying to mitigate Trump’s incoming damage.

At this point I honestly don’t understand how anyone can claim Biden was anything but a waste of four years that was so unproductive it let trump back into the White House.

I don’t give two shits if these ultra conservative Dems are slightly better than a republican. I know I can hold my nose, been doing it for a long time.

But not enough other people will.

And yelling at them isn’t effective.

So why don’t we stop trying to shove neoliberalism down Dem voters throats, and just run a candidate Dem voters already want to vote for over trump without needing a billion dollar campaign funded by everyone causing problems for the American people

Nope, 22… Article says that’s 75k.

And each one is in custom “hideaway” cabinets that they said cost as much.

They didn’t do anything cheap, and once you get to a certain level, everything becomes crazy expensive.

This is the type of shit you do when you’re the problem and money is an afterthought.

I don’t know why anyone would celebrate it.

The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait?

One of the big downsides to pretending 100% of Holocaust victims were Jewish is that the 50% who weren’t were sent to the camps for other reasons.

Like being Trans, or any other kids and of LGBT. The problem was even “the good guys” were anti-lgbt back then, just look at how they treated their war heroes:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Homosexuality_and_indecency_conviction

And then America, who had taken in all types of Nazis scientists, denied Turing entry just to fucking take a vacation.

I think this is why so many people are shocked by trump winning, people actually believed Americans were inherently good, and they believed it.

I just read that one of the Democrats said none of that is true and there was no deal

I think you may have just read my quote and not the article< or there’s a misunderstanding here.

What exactly do you mean “none of that is true”?

The quote doesn’t say there was a deal, just that a vote was taken…

“I will say that a vote was taken,” Wild said. “As many of you know, this committee is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans — five Dems, five Republicans — which means that in order to affirmatively move something forward, somebody has to cross party lines and vote with the other side — which happens a lot, by the way, and we often vote unanimously.”

If you’re wondering who these politicians are that agree across party lines on ethical issues:

Republicans

Chairman Michael Guest, Mississippi

David P. Joyce, Ohio

John H. Rutherford, Florida

Andrew R. Garbarino, New York

Michelle Fischbach, Minnesota

Democrats

Ranking Member Susan Wild, Pennsylvania

Veronica Escobar, Texas

Mark DeSaulnier, California

Deborah K. Ross, North Carolina

Glenn F. Ivey, Maryland

For some reason I just got a shit ton of notifications all from your account…

All with just a period.

What are you doing?

Is this intentional and you’re fucking with people?

What?!

The 80s were fucked, but if you’re saying it was worse than the response to the Civil Rights movement…

McCarthyism…

Jim Crow…

Or the KKK destroying reconstruction…

Like, I could see saying that last one was the point, only if you start the clock immediately after resolving the civil war. Cause obviously a Civil War is what really happens after a point of no return. We lasted a couple years in between the two points.

For as fucked as the last 40 years has been, as far as America goes we’re beating the average on basic human decency.

What’s happening now isn’t new, it’s a slip backwards, which is unfortunately common when you try to fight fascism with moderate politics. It works for a little bit because they’re coasting off the last people who really fought. But all moderate politcs really are, is giving fascist time to regroup in the shadows like fucking Sauron.

It’s a cycle, and we live in a time when you can learn pretty much anything about history in a few minutes on Wikipedia

America can not afford for voters to stay ignorant. We need people who know what happened last time, what worked then, and what might work again. Stop acting like we live in unprecedented times, and start reading up on how fascism has been defeated historically.

Cuz we’re up, like it or not shits getting real again. And the more people know what we’re doing then better.

The “all” figure is influenced by the fact that Biden is old and has been through many election cycles.

Compared to all the sprin chickens on the list like Mitch McConnell?

Well, let’s see what Chuck Schumer probably thinks…

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

Number 7 on one of the few bipartisan lists in DC, nestled right between hos buddies Mitch McTurtle and Rafael “Ted” Cruz…

One of the few areas Biden is really head and shoulders above the rest though.

But Israel pays way too much money to both parties for either party’s leaders to actually do what’s best for America.

They’re gonna do what’s best for their campaign donations.

Edit:

Since some people may be surprised number 2 doesn’t sound familiar, it’s this guy:

https://apnews.com/article/bob-menendez-new-jersey-senate-resignation-9941e49020a032da3861f5f5cf118ec2

One of the most corrupt Dems to ever be held accountable (technically the trial is still happening).

He was Hillary’s co-campaign chair in 07 when she lost to Obama, and then Obama made him chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for some fucking reason. He was indicted shortly after in 2018, but charges were then dropped for 5 years till 2023 when he was committing crimes and accepting bribes from foreign government with a legitimately trumpian level of skill at hiding his crimes.

Like, at one point I remember him trying to argue that storing gold bars inside of the suits in his closet was a totally normal thing and not related to him googling how to smuggle gold bars into America while he was in Qatar and just accepted gold bars as bribe…