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  • Based on policy? Yes. Based on beliefs and values? No. For historical reasons European countries have a stronger welfare state, but that’s mostly inertia. Compared to America Europe is still in its Southern Strategy phase, and given the rapid success of the far right I’d say the nationalism is actually worse, in part due to America having never been an ethnostate. Stuff that either doesn’t find purchase or remains restricted to the right in America sees a lot more popular acceptance in, say, France and Germany. This is the case for anti-immigration sentiment, for example, and don’t get me started on French laicite. The American right being more mature and having had more time to organize* shouldn’t be confused for Americans being more rightwing in their values.

    *The modern European far right has only really had ammunition since the 2015 immigration crisis, while in America it dates back to the Civil Rights Act in 1964.










  • Jesse what the fuck are you talking about? The fucking satellite imagery showing half the strip being reduced to rubble isn’t made up.

    Over the last 40-50 years, pro-Palestinian news bytes have shown one thing: the Palestine cause is great at marketing, especially to youn people.

    Absolutely not. Palestinians and pro-Palestinians are absolutely terrible at marketing. There’s a reason that with few exceptions the only places where Zionism didn’t find purchase were the ones where people were reading about the Nakba in the daily newspaper and it took a livestreamed genocide for anti-Zionism to become something resembling mainstream elsewhere.

    it simply shows the complexity of the conflict

    Nothing is complex about this.





  • DNC have had 48 or often less seats for over 10 years.

    And is that because they’re terrible at winning or because they don’t want to win? Take your pick. Either way they need to go.

    The last time the DNC had a real majority, not even a supermajority, was the most productive congress in decades.

    And they used that opportunity to pass checks notes Romneycare. So productive.

    Dems have spent decades taxing corporations and limiting their ability to influence politics and they get no credit for that endless uphill battle.

    If they’ve spent decades fighting that “battle” and this is the result, maybe they’re not actually fighting at all.