Leo Gura

It's not about ignoring, it's about accepting and moving on.

Okay then. So Oct 7th was just war, so don't cry to us about beheaded babies.

Bernie is not a Dem. So course the party leadership will oppose him.

In 2016 yes. In 2020 no. Bernie lost fair and square in 2020.

The real criticism is not of the soldiers, it's of the top leadership and their selfish nationalist policies. The soldiers are just the pawns.

The one with more muscles and more development has a higher responsibility to use restraint. That's the principle. Is Israel morally superior to Hamas or not? If it is, then act it. The problem is that Israel wants to claim moral superiority and victim status in this conflict but not do the work to be morally superior.

6.6% The actual number of votes Cenk got in his own primary.

No, that's not what is happening here. We don't need to assume. It's clear as day by IDF actions that they are abusing their power.

He literally said all lives are equal.

The IDF does not do terrorism. But it certainly does a lot of war crimes. When you have carte blanche to do war crimes, terrorism is unnecessary. Terrorism is done by the powerless against the powerful. The powerful do not need terrorism because they have more effective means.

I have no issue with Cenk running for office. But he is so bombastic and obnoxious in how he speaks and criticizes the establishment as being losers when he can't even get 10% of the vote in his own election. It's delusional.

But why is it the media's job to give people with little name recognition airtime? They are barely mentioned because they are not appealing to most people and the media lives off clicks and views. I would like a more democratic process overall, but in this case there wasn't a good challenger and I don't like how progressives always frame it as neolibs robbing them of victory. There was no progressive chance here. It's not like I love Biden. I'm just realistic about the alternatives. I don't want to waste time on virtue-signaling leftist theatrics.

That is the perfect analogy, although Trump is more of a scammer than a psychopath.

I don't use that term anymore. He's pretty conscious and intelligent though. For a human.

Most of it.

One of the reasons dictators like to appear strong and virile is because when a leader appears feeble, like Biden, he is torn apart, like a wounded gazelle by a pack of hyenas.

It is conservative in the sense that ultra nationalism is conservative, and that policy flows most out of ultra nationalism. A liberal approach would be to share the land without trying to hog it all for yourself. To be okay with having less land.

I am not claiming they would conquer other nations. I am claiming they are building their nation on stolen land. I have no problem understanding the Israeli perspective. It makes sense. But that perspective is narrow, hypocritical, and selfish. It is not in alignment with truth or consciousness, which is my main concern here. If you wanna dominate others to build your nation, go ahead. But I will call it for what it is: domination and selfishness, not righteousness. If Israelil wants to dominate, that's fine. But they will not get away with bullshitting us about what they are doing.

In practice I don't see it. They keep going for more land. They are duplicitous, they say pleasantries but always go for more land. The official policy is: grab land, ask for forgiveness later, once it's too late.

Except they keep grabbing more land. So no, it's not ancient history. It continues now. And it's mighty biased of you to claim that we need to not forget 3000 year old history, yet you want to forget the last 70 years of the most relevant history to this conflict. Being abused does not grant anyone license to abuse others. You would never accept that in other contexts. But you overlook it here due to attachment and personal identity.

It's the whole deal. Without that there would be peace. This is a land dispute in the end. Both sides want all the land for themselves. So obviously that cannot go peacefully.

No thanks. Sure we can. Toxic nationalism is wrong regardless of which race does it. Jews don't get a special victim pass to be assholes. That would be racism.

@Inliytened1 You got some attachment on this matter.

I would consider you entered the black hole if gravity is pulling on you so much that your light cannot escape to reach the outside world. That seems like a pretty clear line.

Because no one better exists right now. That's the reality of our situation. Gavin Newsom is the only other serious major Democrat. And of course progressives hate him. Progressives will whine about any canditate who isn't progressive. Because progressives are naive children.