Yes, the dems could have unilaterally ended the genocide at any time by simply cutting all aid to Israel, as they are required to do by law, and gotten every anti-genicide voter. But they chose not to, and here we are.
Bro you are talking to people who literally worked for campaigns or at least phone banked in this thread, we are telling why we were unable to convince people, and its because of the dems dogshit policy and "we're republicans but more competent" messaging.
It would be trivial to get people to vote dem if I could say "We ended the genocide, Trump plans to resume it" or "before Biden was in office, ICE was throwing children in cages. They no longer exist. Trump wants to fund them again" or "How much are you paying for health insurance?
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pledges to pass free healthcare day 1 if the party gets 50% in congress".
That's not what I said at all. Do you believe that the people have no power to influence dem policy? That there is nothing that could have been done to change the outcome of the 2024 election but successfully convince people to vote for genocide, stagnant wages, raising rents, funding ICE, etc?
Hey, these people didn't make genocide, doing fuckall to improve the material conditions of your constituents, or not even resisting the republican agenda unpopular. Why weren't you with us trying to get the dems to do what was necessary to win?
I get that, but who hears "the global right" and thinks this is a thing worth protecting? Are there American conservatives who have solidarity with French and Russian right-wingers?
You messed up. I got my 40 Ruble check from Putin for registering a lemmy.ml account, President Xi gives me 60 cents per post, and George Soros doubles that.
Technically we are in a rainy season, but its not a real rainy season, just a few months of showers for like 15-30 minutes, then sunny again, every 2-3 days. Similar to Florida weather.
Those downpours can be pretty severe though, when it starts bad, you pull over and put on rain gear immediately because its about to get much worse. Sometimes it feels like you're riding through soda, water hitting every inch of your body at all times, plus an inch of runoff on the road.
A native english speaker would have understood what I was saying. Either you have the reading comprehension of an 8 year old or you're choosing to misunderstand.
I could believe Russia, but the people who've been to Cuba I've met show its absolutely false. The Iranians and people who've traveled to Iran I've met suggest there are religious police that do suck, but it technically being punishable doesn't stop them from criticizing those cops to foreigners.
Have you and others tried to criticise the CCP, though
Yes, like all the time, you just have to ask about a specific policy someone has feelings on.
red herring
I'm trying to give a more general description of criticism and dissent within China.
Getting sent to a secret camp because your neighbor is an undercover cop secretly monitoring you for wrongthink is wildly outside of anybody on earth's experience, except North Korea, allegedly.
Sending a message on wechat and having it not arrive or having your internet cut off for 10 seconds during a live chat because your toddler walked into frame is.
There was one chinese traveler on vacation I met in Hanoi who said some out-of-pocket shit about Hitler saving Germany. I mentioned it to some other chinese folks and they were as baffled as I was, but didn't think it was productive to confront him. I got the sense that randos with insane views are common enough they don't have the energy to try to correct them.
*training to more effectively violate people's rights, brutalized, them off camera, and reframe killings to generate less bad PR.