NoneOfUrBusiness

Muslim here. Mary is, in fact, not venerated in Islam in the way Catholics use the term. She’s praised in the Quran, sure, and is considered a Very Good Person, but so are many people. Islam is considered heresy in Christianity because it rejects the Trinity (according to Islam only Unitarians have the slightest clue what they’re talking about), accepts Muhammed as a prophet and rejects parts of the Bible as corrupted.

As one Lord Kelvin once said: K.

“We live in a society where foreign alien terrorists have unlimited free legal representation,” Stephen Miller posted.

Yes, that’s exactly the point.

I mean Zionism’s core tenet is literally Make Israel Great Again so that’s probably not a coincidence. Interfascist solidarity also counts for a lot here.

Some minor pedantry:

In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources.

-Wikipedia. El Salvador and America aren’t banana republics; they’re republics that are bananas.

Maybe try to explain, then, your “clear understanding of national politics”? And square that understanding with the fact that the most successful Democrats in recent years have been Bernie and Obama.

This is the political function of these protests.

So what’s the next step? How many people do you think think there needs to be a next step? How many are willing to strike for this? Do you see the problem now? The fascists are running at full speed towards their finishing line and the American people are still dawdling at the starting line.

Man .world pisses me off sometimes.

A nation of sheep

Well unfortunately yes.

In that case one thing you can do is spread the word so other people do the same as you.

This is the same Democratic party leadership that ran Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s campaigns.

Yes but no. The people who won the party leadership elections a few months ago are not neoliberal establishment dems. They’re the kind of people who would, for instance, spend 20 million dollars to primary ineffectual establishment democrats.

The filibuster that the Democrats always refuse to abolish. The fact that the filibuster still exists in 2025 is proof that they don’t care about Americans.

They’ve always been in power in Israel; it’s just more obvious now. The only Israeli leader who didn’t believe Israel has the right to unilaterally murder Palestinians and steal their land is Rabin and they fucking killed him for it.

Okay I usually take a hardline anti-DNC position, but I have to say this is good stuff. Go get 'em Hogg! However I do wanna point out that if Americans don’t protect their right to free and fair elections none of this will amount to anything, so y’all still need to get stuff done on that front.

Don’t you know? Woke people get honorary brown certificates by George Soros so it’s okay to deport them.

The people aligned with ISIS were on America’s side during the Iraq war.

What people? From what I’ve understood Al Qaeda in Iraq’s predecessor organization was attacking US troops basically right after the invasion.

OK bro, divest bro because obviously the techbros are going to turn America fascist once the boomers implode the world economy in a few years. Just do it bro. Match American military spending bro. You need it bro.

I didn’t say that. I said: Threaten to divest from US weapons if America invades Iraq, because it’s a morally reprehensible illegal war and because it was predictably going to create a massive refugee crisis right in Europe’s backyard.

What really started the migration crisis was ISIS and the Syrian war, 10 years later.

You’ll find that ISIS, in fact, grew out of the anti-American insurgency in Iraq. They actually weren’t ISIS at first; they were Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Quite what the EU, a non-military force that primarily overlaps with NATO, was supposed to do differently there I don’t know.

Divest from US weapons would’ve been one simple way to make America reconsider their crusade in Iraq.

What exactly could Europe have done to stop the Bush administration from invading Iraq on the completely unfounded pretense that Saddam Hussein had WMD’s?

Threaten to stop buying US weapons? Dump US bonds? Impose sanctions? At the very least not send troops? Europe wasn’t vassalized enough by America that they couldn’t do anything but watch as America created the refugee crisis of the century in their backyard (which, I should say, is still blowing up in their faces).

To be honest I wasn’t even alive when the Iraq war started so I have no idea, but looking back the pieces (immigration from the Middle East to Europe being easy, ethnic and religious rivalries in Iraq getting ugly, America’s inability/unwillingness to install stable governments abroad) were all there so anyone in a relevant EU role who didn’t see it coming should be fired.

Bush for Iraq. Obama for his drone program. Trump for his handling of Covid.

Biden for his funding of genocide (which is, surprisingly, illegal under US law), to complete the list.

Something tells me this authoritarian train doesn’t have much gas left in it

What tells you that? He’s accelerating his authoritarianism because he can; that’s how these things work.