• John Richard@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      She has some terrible ideas, but the way they smeared her over this reminds me how they attacked Mamdani calling him an antisemitic Jihadist. Sad so many people on the left merely parroted their pro-genocide AIPAC politicians at the time.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        Dude, fuck off. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a white supremacist. She was talking about nonsensical antisemitic conspiracy theories she got off of social media. Do not try to “well, ackshually” her with this revisionist garbage. She never had a point, and anything resembling one was accidental.


        Edit: Oh, you’re one of those Jill Stein assholes. That actually checks out.

            • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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              28 days ago

              Our electoral laws naturally result in a two-party system with (for the last century) the Democrats as the relative left and Republicans as the relative right. There are only two other parties that have any significance at all - the Green Party, which is ecologically focused party that backs renewable energy as their main feature, but is also very socially liberal; and the Libertarian Party, which is like the Republicans except they’re in favor of legalizing recreational drugs and abolishing even more regulations than the Republicans.

              Jill Stein has been the head of the Greens since 2012 or so. Under Stein’s leadership, the Greens don’t really run for any offices other than President. Despite their platform being very popular in Democrat dominated areas, sometimes more popular than the actual Democrat platform, they almost never make a real attempt to run for city or state positions. Instead, the Green Party almost exclusively runs in the presidential election, and exclusively fields Jill Stein as their candidate. Due to our archaic first-past-the-post system, having two candidates on the relative left makes it easier for a candidate on the relative right to win, even if a majority of voters would prefer a relative left candidate, due to the votes getting split. The Greens also make bigger pushes in what are expected to be closer elections, spending more money and maintaining a larger media presence, siphoning votes from the Democratic candidate despite never having done better in a presidential election than 2.7% of all votes. However, in areas that flip parties frequently, that percentage is higher and they often function as a spoiler candidate, handing what should be a close win for a Democrat to an easy win for a Republican.

              Stein herself has also been seen at events with Putin, has repeated Russian propaganda about Ukraine and NATO, and has been investigated by the FBI for possible collusion with the Russian government to interfere in US elections.

              • tar@lemmy.zip
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                28 days ago

                she condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. hilary Clinton has been seen at events with Putin. the investigation found nothing untoward on her behalf.

                this insinuation is insidious.

                • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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                  28 days ago

                  For everything she can say, what she did was help split the vote and get us to here we are. Also, fuck her opposition to nuclear energy.

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                  28 days ago

                  from the article:

                  “And my own connection to RT, you know ironically, it takes a Russian television station to actually be open to independent candidates in this country and that is a shame. A shameful commentary on our own media,” she told NBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald

                  there is nothing suspicious about her presence at the event

            • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
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              28 days ago

              Shes a Putin patsy that manipulates 3rd party voters into throwing away everything to further enable Trump’s shit.

              Theres a photo of her sitting at Putin’s table.

  • Ashrakal@lemmy.ml
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    27 days ago

    Space is a neutral zone like the Antarctic. Like they have any right to bring weaponry over there.

    Rather than having weaponry to protect Earth against external threats like asteroids, they’d point the weapons inwards to oppress the population of Earth.

    This administration should be dismantled as soon as possible. It’s toxic to the world.

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      27 days ago

      Rather than having weaponry to protect Earth against external threats like asteroids, they’d point the weapons inwards to oppress the population of Earth.

      What, a fine upstanding state like Israel? Never.

      I didn’t read the article, I would assume no one reading it is dumb enough to think Israel has any intention of using weapons deployed in space for anything other than killing Muslim schoolchildren. And probably eventually Jewish schoolchildren who’s parents don’t align with Zionism.

  • Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip
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    29 days ago

    Just when you thought they couldn’t get evil enough, now we have literal Saturday morning cartoon villain levels of evil!

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    They need to be able to orbitally bombard Palestinian schoolchildren - matter of national security

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        Netanyahu: “I will go to the last place not corrupted by living journalists general concern for human rights brown people Hamas anti-semites - *giggles* - SPAAAACE!”

        *vaporizes a hospital from orbit*

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      27 days ago

      And you’d be correct. The only reason Israel is a tech powerhouse is them having a captive and defenseless population in which to field-test anything they come up with, AND THEN have everything paid for by the US taxpayer.

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        25 days ago

        As much as we can shit on them, but 4 billion military assistance from the USA does NOT pay everything given the military budget of more than 10x that at 45 billion $. It is a rich country.

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    28 days ago

    Hang on, isn’t “the only reason we (US) haven’t done that is because it’s illegal and also I’m pretty sure we’ve secretly done that already?”

    I mean, it’s clear international law no longer applies but isn’t this another example of that?

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    28 days ago

    So… How are they going to launch them?

    Reads a bit like the obsession a certain dictator had with wunderwaffe.

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      28 days ago

      Elon Musk will probably gift them rockets. Given that his decision to cut USAid has already killed thousands of children, he certainly doesn’t seem to mind dead kids.

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        28 days ago

        I know they are banking on that, but strategically it’s not the soundest investment.

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      28 days ago

      Israel has some launch capability, though they have to launch retrograde and don’t have that much payload capacity to LEO because of it.

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      28 days ago

      America will do it for them. Israel doesnt have much of a space program that can even come remotely close developing any of these goals on its own, they use a deep partnership with NASA …aka they are gifted data and designs by bribed US politicians… or they flat out steal it, like they did with all of their nuclear material stolen from the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair

      they also dont have an economy large enough to fund researching any of this out or doing it. Israels entire GDP (PPP based) is only 600 billion. The tiny state of Massachusetts alone has a GDP of 780 billion… about 25% larger than Israels… just Massaschusetts. And the whole US gdp is ~50 times what Israels is.

      Israel is reading out a list of what they will order Americans to provide for them for free so they can pretend they developed it themselves. Same as with the Israeli F-35 program and their naval tech. See how they pretend they have extended the F-35 with native tech to make it vastly superior to the US f-35: https://defense.info/air-power-dynamics/2025/06/israels-f-35i-adir-a-strategic-game-changer-in-middle-east-air-power/

      They are bullshitters, pedophiles, criminals, and welfare queens.