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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396569

Moira Donegan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 06.07 EDT

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Time is running for Harris to break with Biden ON ANYTHING. You saw a jump in poll numbers between Biden and Harris because people thought she would be different. Every interview she gives saying "I am the status quo" pushes her numbers back to Biden.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

Stay the course!

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 18 hours ago

Dems would rather lose and keep their donors happy than win and lose funding. It's really that simple.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine opposing a genocide only because of horse race politics

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Imagine rooting for genocide only because of horse race politics.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

It's a race to the end of the month. Can we reach voting day while keeping a lid on discontent with the genocide?

They're pretty clearly locked in on that. What you might see is a declaration a couple days before if her team figures they're losing and they need a desperate play.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (97 children)

I know that the hold that Israel (and the military industrial complex) has on both major political parties is money, Money, MONEY. But there has got to be a breaking point. I thought the breaking point would be the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent children, but alas.

I mean, I will still vote for Harris, because I’m not stupid. I know the alternative is far worse. But I’d rather not have innocent blood on my hands after I fill out that ballot.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

The slaughter of innocent children makes no difference to sociopaths.

If there is one thing this Genocide on its way to Holocaust has shown us. is that the Democrat Party leadership are without a doubt sociopaths of the worst kind: a normal person with the power they have would not be actively helping it by sending the Neue Nazis the very weapons which they know are being used to massacre children.

There really is no other possible conclusion: no normal person would go "yeah but our campaign contributions from the AIPAC are more important than tens of thousands of dead children" or "yeah but the profits of the MIC shareholders are more important than tens of thousands of dead children".

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If there is one thing this Genocide on its way to Holocaust has shown us. is that the Democrat Party leadership are without a doubt sociopaths of the worst kind

Nah, they're normal people well adjusted to an evil system. The trial of the nazis showed that it wasn't mental illness, just normal people doing very evil things.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Since Psychopathy and Sociopathy are ranges rather than absolutes, it's estimated that about 4% of humans are Psychopaths or Sociopaths and we're talking about the what's basically the handful of people in a universe of over 300 million who seeks and achieves positions at the top of the Power Duopoly in the US in a domain well know for it's cut-throating and backstabbing, I would say that the odds heavily favour the explanation of them being very high on the Sociopath (or Psychopath) - so called "well adjusted Sociopaths" - spectrum than them being normal people who are "relaxed about personally enabling the murder of tens of thousands of children".

The image of a Sociopaths or Psychopath who actively seeks to inflict horrible pain on others for their own pleasure is incredibly atypical and Hollywoodesque - being high on those scales just means having no empathy for others, including their suffering or joy, and the result is that a Sociopath or Psychopath simply does that which they think is better for themselves and they can get away with (they care about the consequences for themselves, not for others), with absolutely no consideration for how that makes others feel, hence harm or even death of others is fine since that has the same emotional resonance for them as breaking an inanimate object.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

It's more than that, it's the Petro-Dollar, where the US exploits the Global South with predatory IMF loans, aka Imperialism.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Americans only care about the slaughter of innocents when CNN tells them to. Y'all murdered my people indiscriminately, and to this day you call us slurs and moralize to the world about not having wars

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