Other countries were waiting for the new administration, since that would signal what our stance was going to be for the next 4 years. It's true that Trump doesn't care about Gaza, but he certainly would like to raze it and build some hotels. At the same time, people stateside might like to protest, but more and more are afraid of being whisked away by plainclothes nobodies to El Salvador. It is possible to say that Harris would not have done a better job stopping the genocide and also that she was still the correct answer.

Cool! People use that as an expression of exasperation.

Sigh.

Fair, I guess.

You and I and millions, I'm sure. But not enough. Even now, as the things he promised he would do come to fruition, people are still just... numb to it.

Hello! I realized I was looking at a different comment chain, which made me think that.

Now:

Basically, what I think needed to happen is a) Harris wins narrowly, and b) we take the energy that people are just now starting to cultivate under Trump (i.e. as he does everything he promised to do and more, for the benefit of seemingly no one but him) and protest because Harris wasn't good enough. Americans cannot keep living in a world where every presidential election is life and death, because that guarantees fascism. The only good thing about what's going on right now is that leopards' faces are being eaten.

I did not want Harris because she wasn't a good enough candidate. Plain as. She was the better of the two candidates we have, but that's simply not good enough anymore. It hasn't been for what, four of the last five election cycles? We need more than two viable candidates (end FPTP), a fragmenting of parties (suicide while FPTP is active), and/or people to wake the fuck up.

You right! I think I was reading someone else's comment.

Decided that abstaining and allowing Trump to be elected was somehow going to help us get more left-leaning politicians?

I'm not arguing against anything! Just making discussion. If no one comments, Lemmy will die.

It honestly might be cheaper to get a piece of shit phone and keep it squeaky clean for our overlords

A large part of this was them waiting a year for Israel to get back to them about that li'l old genocide they were carrying out.

From 7 October 2023 to 30 November 2024, several requests for information and access were sent the Government of Israel, as well as requests for information to the State of Palestine and the Ministry of Health in Gaza. The State of Palestine provided information and extensive comments on the report presented by the Commission before the Human Rights Council at its 56 th session. On 15 January 2025, the Commission submitted a request for information to Israel about ongoing investigations and accountability efforts (see section Impunity and Accountability, para. 147). No responses were received from Israel. The Commission has also not received from Israel any further information on violations and abuses committed by the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on 7 October 2023. The Commission has not received any information about prosecutions of members of Hamas and other armed groups for the crimes committed on 7 October 2023.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session58/a-hrc-58-crp-6.pdf

They also needed to bring witnesses to testify before the committee, which is a little difficult when people in Gaza can't even get food and drinking water.

Bonjour, bonsoir, bonuit?

Mango is really good and you might be able to use it for free with your library card if you're in the US!

Couple of problems there:

• The American population is not properly motivated. More than half of the adult population are not fit (mentally or physically) to fight anything or anyone. Now, if Canada invaded as an act of liberation, it might be a different story.
• You might get 15% of the police and 20% of the military to do what's right, but the problem is that the 85% and 80% of those are the ones who will retain access to weapons and ammo.
• You're acting like the only way to win a war is to conquer every single square foot of it, Civilization style. If Canada held NYC, DC, and maybe Chicago, for a month, they would win.

Part of the fascist playbook - your enemies are strong, but also weak and pathetic. You are strong, but you're also constantly under attack by the others.

Absolutely not joking when I say Joe Manchin kept getting elected as a Democrat because most West Virginians still think that Democrat = Dixiecrat.

Canada seems to have inherited some of the US's worst problems. We're sorry. Well, some of us are.

You started this shit, the onus is not on them to provide sources to back up your claim.

Don't worry, soon it'll be called CEO Day and it'll only be a federal holiday if you buy a special pass.

I just hope both sides kill each other and leave the civilians be.