the supreme court justice that got rid of abortion, birthright citizenship, and giving trump everything he wants isn’t that bad?!

american soldiers aren’t the only lives; “collatoral damage” are lives too but it’s worse than that because they’re killed at things like a wedding party instead of a war zone.

a pair of senators opposed so they stopped healthcare again (it only took one senator last time) whereas an eightfold number of senators and house members were steamrolled over by the republican’s agenda in the big beautiful bill.

he’s also still the “deporter in chief” even with alligator alcatraz being a thing and unaccompanied migrant children was his doj’s favorite group to target.

there’s also the crackdown on whistleblowers; maidan coup; the new egyption military dictatorship; destabilizing libya; disregarding isis; and on and on and on…

this, along with the intentional starvation, is a gambit to reduce the number of future palestinians into numbers small enough to manage, like native americans in the united states; or first nations in canada; and aboriginals in australia.

i don’t think there’s much trump can do force a split between them and the point of my example is to make it clear that the leadership is too heavily inculcated in their world views to benefit russia’s position in the future.

a split will be fostered from within and by a decrepit leadership that still has its eyes firmly glued to the west.

did you also notice that we’ve both been warned away interacting with each other?

what does democracy now have to do with this?

problem is their western-academia-brain-poisoned leadership has been slow to recognize how essential it is + how little western countries will compromise on their mission to undevelop & privatize the natural resources of every global south country & keep their trade links linear

this is the reason why i would expect another sino-soviet split.

the american version of this is manifested by trump’s ascendency enabled in large part by gen-z’s noted willingness to “checkout out” of the system, but too many are still inculcated by american style politics and propaganda to keep the system going anyways; hence aesthetics-only displays like the no kings marches.

ie: plenty of people know better, but the ones who do are not in control.

It is MADDENING that it seems impossible to get these people’s heads out of their asses.

as a leftist: welcome to the club. lol

this has been me for the last six months updating ansible playbooks written by people that no one remembers because of problems documented by managers that no one also remembers because they all quit 10ish years ago due to the shit pay. lol

same here with my family; half of them are white-passing that they’ve all intermarried with maga-white people.

and i know it’s the maga thing because my extended family is not white-passing and they accept me and my political views without conditions.

and there are others who have it worse that i do, so i don’t think it’s entirely about hardship.

for me: i think it’s about experiencing being a stranger to the “tribes” that the people who were close to me belong to. eg. my white-passing family members discluding me from the families they’ve started with maga-white people; or the leftists groups being wary of me because autism-affected socialization makes them suspect that i’m an infiltrator of some type; or autism support groups that think that i’m not “autistic enough”.

don’t get me wrong: hardship is definitely part of it; if i had a thousand dollars for every time a manager or interviewer suspected that i was incapable of doing a job because of how i look and/or how i think, i would be a millionaire who wouldn’t need to work.

i think it’s understanding (or atleast being aware) that social and political hierarchies exist and are perpetually on-guard for outsiders. after all: there are maga brown/black people and gay republicans who are clueless about their places within these hierarchies.

i suspect that being brown, autistic and queer did it for me since this trio guarantees that i will never fit into the dominant social groups within this country.

i wonder if trump sees nato as dead weight since most of it’s members didn’t bother with defense spending as much as the united states does.

maybe they want to leverage their position as an american counterweight to china to get trump to drop the tariffs.

if not, they should.

what evidence do you have for this?

EDIT: are you expecting leftists to show up to democratic primaries. if so, why would people of one party show up to the primary of another party? if this is the case; you should see what the deomocrats did to bernie in 2016 and 2020 as well as how they’re reacting to mamdani right now.

All you’re doing is throwing the word nazi around.

nazi is the right word; the ukrainian brigades fomenting the violence pride themselves in following in the footsteps of the 3rd reich and have even adopted their imagery.

it seems like you’re intentionally ignoring this very important point.

either that or spain has to do a balancing act between criticizing fascists/genociders and ensuring that those fascists/genociders don’t foster political violence for spaniards… again.

not when they’re on camera

While the shift is small, it could help scientists understand how the poles will move if major glaciers and ice sheets melt due to climate change

understanding the effect upon the glaciers seems to be their goal.

i guess it’s just another example of people not bothering to look beneath the surface of a soundbite or slogan that sounds good.

if you come from a mostly white passing family like i do, these terms become both ludicrous and enlightening:

my white passing mother and siblings are treated as non-hyphenated americans and that has enabled them to join the maga fold and obtain a higher socioeconomic status.

my father, my other siblings and i are not white passing and the way americans treat us has kept us outside of the maga fold and keeps us on par socioeconomically with the rest of our extended family who are also not white passing.

we literally came from the same exact background, but our worlds are far apart from each other and it’s gotten to such a bizarre extent the white passing family members no longer feel comfortable spending time the rest of the extended family because of trump and their socioeconomic statuses. the children of the white-passing family members have never met their cousins and are incapable of doing so for most of them since they do not know how to speak the language that they descend from.