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  • lennybird@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldTotally reasonable
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    13 小时前

    I guess I define best by asking myself if I’d prefer at this moment to live in any other system. Not really. Longer civilizations existed but they subsisted off of imperialism, sacrifices to the gods, and slavery. They made marginal improvements but did not expand median life expectancy to the extent our democracies did either. The number of rights attained in such a short time for disenfranchised groups is also unparalleled.

    Despite what people complain about wars, we are actually living in some of the most peaceful times in human history – again much of this is thanks to the imperfect improvements of Democracy.






  • Even running within the party, how much have senior Dems propped up the likes of Swalwell or Bill Clinton himself? Platner is without a doubt the better of the two options, even if there is risk. But honestly, this seems fairly overblown considering his wife is the one who brought this info to the campaign staff before they were leaked in the first place, and second, they had already gone through marital counseling if I understand right.

    That the backstabbing seems to be coming within the party and from AIPAC suggests to me that Platner may be the real deal.


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    Well yeah, at this point the corporation and government are the same person.

    I’m a Democrat. Not specifically in the party sense but in the genuine belief Democracy is the very best organizational form of government we have… But damn if it isn’t dependent on having a well informed, educated citizenry to thrive. Wealth inequality got so out of control and foreign governments undermined us to such an extent our citizens are mostly clueless to being played.



  • Well, that’s very interesting. I take it you were okay with Biden sending weapons to Israel then but not Israel using them against Gaza? You know, for matters of consistency of course. If one isn’t complicit in genocide, then neither is to you?

    My turn? I’m a fair person, so sure:

    Now you answer my question: Your country is responsible for the deaths of millions of children over the past 75 years. You seem to be against dead kids, why aren’t you doing anything about it, and instead demonizing nations you clearly have no clue about?

    1. Citation needed on those exact numbers because I’m interested – but yes for the deaths of the children we did cause – and I know we did sadly – I am against it and hold myself to the betterment of humanity instead of loyalty to a single nation. I was critical of every imperial act we engaged in just the same – the vast majority of that being a result of the Conservative right-wing ideology, usually under the Republican banner.

    2. By the way, my country is responsible for saving millions if not billions of children, thanks to our cutting-edge vaccination programs and work by USAID. Programs China has benefited from. You’re welcome.




  • No what’s bigoted is the mistreatment of protesters in in Hong Kong, Tibetan monks, and Uyghurs. Never once did I condone the actions of the US but I tire of two-wrongs-make-a-right mentality from people like you. It sickens me. Far too caught up in ethnocentric bullshit and have yet to ascend to the Humanist level. Perhaps as you grow older and wiser, you may get to that point.

    You didn’t answer the question: Do you enjoy that Xi is sending bombs and Chinese soldiers to Russia alongside NK to kill children in Ukraine, or do you condemn it?

    In the meantime, please voice your complaints to your idols, please: