President Donald Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil marks one of Trump’s most egregious assaults on democratic liberties since taking office. Yet too many Democrats, particularly in party leadership, are responding to Trump in the most mealymouthed way possible. But this is a problem of Democrats’ own making: Their trepidation stems from their own history of repressing speech critical of Israel — and now we’re all at risk of paying the price for it.
If you’ve read American history books, there is absolutely nothing new about this.
But that’s also a reason to be optimistic. It’s happened before and it didn’t last.
Man…
If only a large amount of dem voters had tried to warn people that Israel weren’t our friends before it was too late…
How many people are still happy we didn’t hold Biden accountable when we could for violating US and international law to provide arms that would be used in a genocide?
If we can’t protest when it’s a Dem doing it because it makes them look bad to voters, and we can’t protest when it’s a Republican because this will happen…
How are we supposed to address the fact that Israel bought the leaders of both political parties long ago?
The only way we can fix the country is fixing our own party first, and one of the big steps is voting out anyone that takes AIPAC money.
if it’s genociders vs terrorists which side is your party going to support?
so you don’t support terrorism or genocide, correct
but you campaigned against the dems for arming the genocide
you ended up with trump
now you’re trying to blame the dems again
i think you’re just terrorism supporters
I swear, Lemmy is EXACTLY like Reddit…one sided in every way…
Reality has a known liberal bias.
yes 100% its the same liberal jerk-off fuckfest with nonstop canadians clamoring for war and getting off on their arm chair general war fantasies… goddam real life Gravy SEALs just fucking annoying. Truth is the same except for illiterate maga twats… really would enjoy somewhere in the middle for fucks sake
this extreme epidemic of retards is exhausting
Democrats are the greater evil in this case, Republicans are openly vocal in their intents so we know what to expect from them. Democrats vocally oppose Republican actions, but end up supporting them and throwing their hands up claiming they were defenseless. Theyve turbo changed their ratchet effect the last several years.
Which is exactly how you wanted it to happen. Just fuck off, we don’t need the grief on the way down.
Democrats will get nothing but grief. leftists tried to warn Democrats for decades that this is who their party is, and now that they’re in a downward spiral, they want to keep punching left at the people that told them that their party is shit. This is truly a we told you so moment.
You desired this outcome. And I hope it affects you and people you love.
Democrats refusing to listen gave us this outcome, refusing to see biden’s deficiencies and demanding a primary gave us this outcome. Accepting genocide as the ‘lesser evil’ gave us this outcome. Their selective outrage and refusing to hold their own people to the same standards they hold Republicans gave us this outcome. Refuse to accept responsibility for their failures gave us this outcome.
You got what you asked for: Trump. And, you are pleased with ever one of his actions. Now, there will be even more genocide that before! Good job!!!
Liberals gave us Trump both times and still won’t learn from their mistakes in 2028. Liberal ‘lesser evil’ gave us incremental fascism
I mean you’re not wrong, but what options were we presented with? It was always democrats or republicans for decades. The third party was always going to lose. What we needed was Bernie to win a primary, but I think we all know that was never going to be allowed.
Now we are going down the authoritarian government road China and Russia has been on for decades. Sounds like a shitty life for everyone but the rich.
Aside: My guess is Amazon announcing that Alexa would be monitoring all audio is just the start of the always-on monitoring China has with cameras in homes. I bet Trump will demand that everyone buy one, lol.
Which is exactly how you wanted it to happen.
Was there another option?
Fuck off tankie.
If it was good old trying to weed out the commies McCarthyism, I’d be all down for it. Now I ain’t because it ain’t communism that’s the enemy.
I can’t imagine you’ve read much about McCarthyism because it didn’t take long for it to be many things that aren’t communism. Labour unions and homosexuality were just a couple things that could get you on their radar, and merely being brought before a committee could get you fired. House Un-American Activities Committee sounds more like their job description and not what they were trying to stamp out.
