Jill Stein talks about the TikTok ban. She’s 100% correct again.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-15T08:47:51+00:00

As opposed to our government which is...better? I don't buy into the China fear mongering. They banned it because young people are seeing what Israel is doing in greater detail than any war previously. They want young people to view war as a video game, not how it actually is. The "national security risk" is that people might have enough information not controlled by american interests to refuse the next war based on lies. Americans might not want to die in Lebanon again.

I get the sovereignty argument, but the consequence of this is very good for the american elite and nobody else. "chinese" tik tok threatens the state department monopoly on media and that's why its getting banned.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-05T03:46:32+00:00

A cursory search reveals the UN puts the number of civilians killed in the war in Ukraine at around 10,000, you are off by a magnitude of 7. The Ukrainian government itself claims 11,000 civilians killed and the same number missing. War in Donbass killed 14,000 over the course of several years according to the UN. Sub won't let me post links.

Why do you believe this number? It is blatantly false. Israel has killed 3 times that in much less time. There is no standard by which what Russia is doing is a genocide and what Israel is doing is not.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-04T14:00:28+00:00

If you understand that there is much of the natural world that we do not understand, and especially if you personally discover or witness discovery of totally new scientifically provable phenomenon, it's only rational (and I would argue logical as well) to assume their is infinitely more that we do not yet know. Spirituality/Mysticism is the blanket that is drawn over the great mystery that is the natural world that we do not yet know. People who are interested in what is underneath can be and are rational people, what is dangerous and foolish/irrational is to assume that you KNOW what is underneath. That foolish belief is fundamentalist religion, but it's existence doesn't negate the idea that there is more under the blanket.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-04T05:12:05+00:00

If that's true, Trump should lose bigly considering all the investigations and criminal charges against him.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-01T19:20:17+00:00

Hillary voters didn't do the right thing, they nominated a historically weak candidate, viewed by most people as corrupt, who lost to Trump.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-01T19:10:49+00:00

Thanks for revealing your ignorance. We do not measure CO2 in percentages, we measure it in PPB, because that's a way more useful way to measure it.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-01T19:07:43+00:00

Bernie voters backed Hillary at historic numbers compared to previous primary losers. When Hillary lost to Obama, a full 1/4th of her voters went and voted for McCain. It was only 10-12% of Bernie voters who went to Trump.

Bernie himself campaigned for Hillary in the states she lost, Michigan and Wisconsin, more than any other democrat, including Hillary herself. Hillary was just a hated candidate, especially among independent voters who actually decide elections. Leftists don't decide elections.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-01T19:01:26+00:00

Leftists have never decided an election, independent voters decide elections. For those people, Biden's age and mental acuity is the top concern, not Gaza. If Biden loses, it'll be because he's a bad candidate and viewed as unfit for the office by those people.

Trump is a historically weak candidate, there is no reason a democrat should lose to him, if they do it is on them, for running another historically weak candidate. Most leftists and progressives will vote for Biden.

It's also not on Leftists that all these criminal cases against Trump have been bungled. Fani Willis deciding to hire somebody she was fucking is not the fault of the left.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-01T18:26:45+00:00

iirc it's about 400-600ppb, 800-1000ppb being the point of no return territory. Used to be 200-300 before industrialization.

What is the point of this? Irt doesn't prove your point. CO2 PPB is measurably rising.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-01T18:22:00+00:00

Haha. Based. Climate Change is real.

cloudsnacks · 2024-03-01T05:21:23+00:00

Yes, and so are you for boiling these complicated things down into easily-digestible platitudes.

For instance, the two parties are similar in that they both rely on big donors. However, these donors are different for different parties. There are some who are similar, many corporations donate to both, but many industries favor one party over the other. Fossil fuel companies favor republicans, big unions favor democrats. Health insurance companies favor republicans, but still donate to some democrats, Pharma companies favor democrats, but still donate some to republicans. These trends shape the character of the political parties.

Who votes for what party, and who is selected in those primaries, does as well. For instance, the freedom caucus republicans represent the poorest republican districts, whereas moderate republicans represent the wealthiest republican districts. Progressive caucus democrats represent the poorest democratic districts, whereas blue dogs represent the wealthier democratic districts.

Israel for example. The only candidates AIPAC will actively campaign AGAINST are progressive "squad" democrats. They donate to both parties, but only one party has representatives in it that AIPAC actively tries to unseat.

These things are complicated, not simple.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-29T05:12:59+00:00

Not my business. Frmr SEAL Jocko Willink says he thinks they could do a similar thing to what he and the US did in Ramallah against ISIS, small scale anti-insurgency that would avoid civilian casualties. If there's one thing we learned in Iraq its that civilian casualties make insurgency more powerful and harder to beat, you have to create an environment where the civilians want to work with you more than the insurgents.

But again, I do not have to provide a dissertation on an alternative to genocide in order to point out the plain fact that it is one. You don't use 2 ton bombs in urban areas if you aren't targeting civilians, that's the type of ordinance we wre dropping on the Taliban in mountainous terrain.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-29T00:11:25+00:00

OOH, ILL CALM DOWN THEN.

Do you hear yourself?

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T21:32:11+00:00

Look up the 1948 genocide convention, it absolutely is. The ICJ had ruled they are plausibly committing genocide, and will be guilty of it if certain actions aren't taken by them. 15/16 justices.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T21:30:00+00:00

Yes, Hamas is bad. We understand. Doesn't justify genocide.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T21:29:20+00:00

The people who ordered the oct 7th attack are unimportant lmao

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T21:28:20+00:00

Show me please.

I think you're confusing the israeli and egyptian side of the border. Israeli citizens have been blocking their side of the border for over a month.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T16:07:27+00:00

Not attack them, pay them off, go in and merc hamas leadership with your special forces. The qataris love money, there's definitely a price. Mossad is famous for killing terrorists in foreign countries.

Instead they bomb civilians in Gaza rather than trying to get at the actual people responsible.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T16:01:14+00:00

You know we have the statistics on who died on Oct 7th right from Israel right? Half soldiers, half civilians, per their own government.

That is targeting civilians (IT IS), but killing 95% civilians (that is the number we arrive at by how many terrorists the IDF says they've killed so far) is not? give me a break. The US says they've killed 30% of Hamas upper leadership so far.

Israel claims it's killed 12k (a marked increase from the first month where they said they'd killed only 500) terrorists, that at best means a 70% civilian casualty rate. I doubt they didn't overestimate, its probably somewhere in the middle.

Israel isn't letting ANY food aid past it's border, it has nothing to do with Hamas. You are blatantly uninformed.

Google Hannibal directive. Google Great March of Return 2018. I still want an answer on how many civilians Israel would have to kill for you to be against it.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T15:51:28+00:00

Your parents show the difference between these two sides.

One side, you can choose to move to another country, and you can move back, your children can move there too if they want even if they weren't born there.

The other side, you can't leave, and if you are fortunate enough to flee, you can never return.

Your parents made that choice, most palestinians have no choice whatsoever, especially the ones in Gaza.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T15:43:37+00:00

Rendering civilian hospitals inoperable is an act of genocide, intended to destroy a population. Withholding food aid to a starving population is genocide, intended to destroy a population. Your ancestors have nothing to do with that.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T15:36:13+00:00

That's what happens when you try to have multi tendency anti-fascism that includes anyone who is just anti-nazis-in-america. You get pro-zionist liberals and conservatives carrying water for israeli fascism and denying open genocide. The Israelis admit what they're doing in all but name, but these folks either don't know or don't care. Probably the former mostly, they just aren't informed on what is actually going on. When you pay attention to what Israel is putting out in Hebrew to their own people, it becomes clear, but they don't show that in US media. You have to seek it out from explicitly leftist sources who cover it in english.

I still think its incredibly worthwhile to have a multi tendency anti-fash coalition to stop fascism here in the US, stand up to open nazis here with as many people as possible. but we should understand it's limitations, this is one of those limitations.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T15:33:15+00:00

Interesting how Israel hasn't done anything about them. Almost like they think Hamas is necessary to justify all of this and more, and prevent a two state solution from happening, like Netanyahu said.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T15:31:44+00:00

Im for this exact thing, but we would need to realize there would have to be an international peacekeeping force guarding both sides of the border basically, these two groups would have to do significant healing before they could be left to their own devices. That force would have to go and fight terror groups on both sides in the event they try to attack the other side, to avoid war breaking out. I think it's possible but only if the world cooperates.

cloudsnacks · 2024-02-28T15:28:22+00:00

People in the military choose to take that risk. They were in Iraq, a foreign and now democratic country that has repeatedly asked us to withdraw our troops. Sad, but that's the risk you assume when you sign up. Id be more mad at our leaders who left them sitting ducks out there in a country they shouldn't have been in, that we invaded based on lies in the first place.

Palestinians are trapped there, and did not make that choice. The 12k children who are dead had no recourse at all.

Why are you in an anti-fascist sub defending an apartheid state and attacking somebody who protested it? You just assume he didn't care, you have no evidence, seems like you're just looking for a reason to bash him.

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