China would have to occupy the west coast for full suspension of elections. So no, you're right, its, not absolute 0.

He may have ICE agents at the polling stations but there will be elections. Look at the dictators around the world, they still have elections. Having the ritual preserves the legitimacy.

Americans must externalize their own internal contradictions onto Russia. Liberals be scape-goating.

It is Yojimbo.

If you're mindlessly pasting commands, sure... but you have zero idea what your fucking with if you think bash is simpler than HTML.

In the context of maintaining an Arch distro you will absolutely need to understand that executing CLI commands is in fact programming.

That will probably corrode the exterior in this case.

You never know what another person is really going through in life

We can often assume its a divorce.

You clearly haven't been paying attention during those eight years if you're spouting that glassy eyed naïveté. You can try reading the article to get a perspective of what the democratic establishment thinks of "socialist and progressive movement" co-opting the democratic party. Such a movement will only succeed over their dead bodies (politically speaking).

When did I ever say I don't have criticisms of Iran? I just see no time wasting my breath on them when my country is constantly threatening war with Iran. If you want to help Iranian progressives then actually learn about Iranian history and what they actually want from western progressives. I'll give you a hint: its not "fetishize nostalgia for the shah" like this post. It's usually, "for the love of god please lift the sanctions".

For those observing, this is a person who expects no consequences for their actions. I've criticized their actions and immediately its "watch your tone" while not engaging with the actual criticism. Now am I criticizing the individual themself.

Your argument boils down to "they started it" and doesnt matter. All of those posts are criticizing leftists who won't vote for Biden because he's supporting genocide by reducing the left's position to bothsidesism.

establishment-Democrat camp who directs condemnation at someone who’s literally just trying to stick up for the Palestinians, because it makes Biden look bad. That would be punching left, and that definitely happens from Democratic politicians and in the MSM.

What is your point here? That democratic party reps dont post on lemmy? Because this:

directs condemnation at someone who’s literally just trying to stick up for the Palestinians

Is exactly what those posts are doing.

Polls show Hamas is the most popular faction in both the West Bank and Gaza and it has only gone up after 10/7 because they showed that they are the only people willing and capable to fight the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. Hamas hides in tunnels because it's been a proven strategy to survive air raids since Vietnam. The next time an IDF spokesperson claims that a Hamas base was under some civilian structure, consider the idea that Hamas merely had an exit point there. Consider how Hamas somehow trained airborne commandos and maybe that the IDF doesn't actually know shit about anything that goes on in Gaza.

The human shields line is total bullshit. Human shields don't work if the enemy is known to not care about the human. Israel has repeatedly claimed that Hamas uses "human shields" and then shot the shields anyways. Since 10/7 they have started shooting the "human shields" even if they are Israeli. The IDF just wants to kill civilians and is just giving you the run around.

Throughout all of this you still acknowledge that Israel is "over-responding". That "over-response" is outright genocide. All you're doing is trying to blame the victim of genocide for the genocide. Let's consider you're suggestion that Hamas deliberately provoked Israel into doing a genocide. Israel is still doing the genocide. You can question all you want if what Hamas did was necessary, AFTER YOU STOP ISRAEL FROM DOING THE GENOCIDE.

Biden has given Israel "no red lines" and has backed them without question. The US has all the cards when it comes to controlling Israel and refuses to play any of them. Just threaten to cut aid and they'll stop. Threaten to not back them in the UN. Threaten to recognize the genocide. Threaten to recognize them as an apartheid state. Threaten to recognize their nukes. Threaten to recognize reality and they'll fold.

When Israel was bombing Lebanon, Reagan just gave them a blank stare and said "but it looks like a holocaust" and they stopped. Because Israel is nothing without the US and despite all Bibi's bluster they know that.