Meanwhile, the Americans have legalized murder in politics.

That these articles are normalized is horrifying.

Ten years ago, being seriously compared to Hitler should have been a political death sentence. Now? Now it’s just this week’s op-ed.

That they even have to say that they’re having to have these discussions speaks volumes on its own.

If Democrats want change, this is how to do it:

1. Win general elections; vote blue no matter who. 2 Primary out the corporatist candidates every chance there is, right down to the level of school trustee.

This actually works, as we’ve seen with the GOP and their turn to rabid fascism. It can also work for good.

That would be true of landlords didn’t also know that and, in turn, redline rent to the maximum tenants can possibly pay.

I don’t know about the US specifically, but In Canada, investors big and small have bought up all the rental stock and rents are now maxed out beyond what many people can pay.

We’re going to get fascism back purely because the neoliberal idea of fucking over everyone for the greater glory of the wealthy, while strip-mining brown people for every bit of value apparently has consequences.

Imagine how nice the world would be if we could have convinced the wealthy to make do with less?

I mean, other than Exxon, Shell or BP.

And the Knesset.

And Putin.

But other than that!

Biden doesn’t really have a good path either way, and Netanyahu knows it.

If he goes too easy on Bibi, he loses support and Netanyahu gets Trump, which is great for Netanyahu. If Biden goes too hard on him, the same thing happens. It makes sense when we realize that Netanyahu’s goal is to get Trump I’m office so that both he and Trump can stay out of prison.

What Biden is doing is probably the least bad option, and if he wins Netanyahu’s toast.

Getting quasi-military far-right citizens to do your dirty work? Where have we see that before?

Just get them all matching brown shirts and be done with it.

This is rather like cattle protesting for faster processing times at the abbatoir.

Canada is basically strip-mining south Asian students for every cent of value as a way to avoid making hard political decisions about taxing the rich.

This is what happens when your platform prioritizes engagement over everything else, including people’s lives.

He really, really wants to stay out of prison.

Maybe this is just me, but aren’t payroll taxes a thing? How do you “not know” someone isn’t who they say they unless you’re already paying people under the table.

The market has solved it.

You just don’t realize what the market has solved for. It didn’t solve the problem of expensive healthcare, it solved the problem of how to maximize profits for the wealthy.

That’s what people don’t understand about “the market”. What you think it’s doing isn’t what it’s actually doing.

So, when do churches that support Trump lose their tax-exemption status?

I’ll put this back to you this way: is Likud also a terrorist organization? Is the IDF? Because they do a lot of the same stuff.

There are definitely terrorists associated with Hamas, and Hamas definitely carries water for them, but they’re also the duly elected government in Gaza and if I were Israel I’d be asking why Gazans feel like they were so wronged that the only option seems to be a political movement that’s sympathetic to terrorist tactics.

Saying “they’re terrorists” without acknowledging how we got here is a lot like calling the ANC in South Africa “terrorist” in the 1980s. It’s stupidly reductionist and ignores complexity for the sake of jingoism.

It’s also why Cameron is a disingenuous jackass.

Continuing the tradition of British conservative prime ministers labelling things “terrorism” when the poor get uppity.

How’s Thatcher looking these days for insisting that Mandela was a terrorist?

Saying this on Reddit or Twitter is a great way to get your account suspended.

'Cause racism, sexism and harassment are a-ok, but suggest that the rich would behave better if they were afraid instead of contemptuous and you’re in the penalty box.

It’s like we learned nothing from the 20th century: every time the rich get too greedy, they’ll gleefully fertilize the fields of fascism before they’ll accept making less money.

You’re forgetting 3. If people who are in an out-group aren’t suffering more than I am, I feel oppressed.