PhilipTheBucket

Some, although surely not all, of all the noisy violence that go with things like “Operation Midway Blitz” is to try to instigate things like this to happen.

Got it. That does make more sense. It’s also a super weird thing to do on all sides at an NFL game.

“Schumer is a bunch of dog shit smirking in a suit all hunched over like Igor” does not sound like a defense.

I mean clearly it’s not lol. The other person is just suffering from Lemmy reading comprehension.

Schumer finds himself stuck in the middle, trying to balance his allegiance to his corporate masters and Netanyahu with Trump’s fascism and the needs of the American people.

You misspelled “trying to conceal his allegience to his corporate masters and Netanyahu and not bothering to put much effort into the ruse.”

I am 100% assuming that last night’s capitulation was engineered by Schumer with a handful of people designated who can afford to take the fall for it. If Schumer ever bothers to explain his feelings about ending the shutdown, I guarantee he will make some general noises but definitely he will not say anything that sounds like he thinks ending the shutdown without ACA funding was a bad thing.

“See, now I’m in a better position, because the next time he wants my lunch money I’ll be able to say I already gave him some the other day.”

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3m5a7te2sva2q

Also why the fuck did they give him the oath of office to read? Was that someone doing a prank?

This almost reads as if you are trying to defend Schumer.

I am not

He continues to let these atrocities to occur as long as his nest egg is safe.

Absolutely 100%. He basically doesn’t give a shit as long as he keeps getting a paycheck. Can we fuckin’ primary this guy? I would donate money to that.

barely better than his GOP colleagues

His GOP colleagues are trying to send anyone who’s Mexican to a prison camp and make it illegal to oppose them.

Schumer is a bunch of dog shit smirking in a suit all hunched over like Igor, but they’re not in the same ballpark in terms of the damage they’re doing.

AOC will take over his seat without primary opposition

I have bad news for you about how the DNC operates

I really aspire to do enough to try to improve the world, that an entire generation of right-wing goons make my name into a code word for the boogeyman. It definitely means you are doing something right.

It’s not a weird coincidence that just keeps happening. There is a reason, it makes a ton of sense once you see it explained.

They don’t have to scan Lemmy. They just have to have random MAGA citizens who are aware of Lemmy dox you and turn you in. It’s one of the terrifying additions that’s been made to the system of secret police, it’s how Rümeysa Öztürk got on their radar on got snatched. They didn’t have to be scanning editorials in small university papers.

Surprisingly, when you drop not enough food basically at random on a whole population of starving people, they start “stealing” it from each other. And the ones who are best at violence tend to be the ones who wind up with it. Who knew.

(Not that I’m saying the NYT isn’t lying here. I haven’t even read the details really, but I’m sure they are making up some kind of bullshit. I’m just saying that, even if there is some kind of “theft” or hoarding of food going on, that is 100% what anyone with a brain would expect to happen from the way Israel is controlling humanitarian aid at this point.)

we will not vote our way out of this mess

Probably true at this point. However, we did vote our way into it. This was precisely the kind of thing people pointed out as a pretty good reason not to let Trump come to power, even if (whatever much more minor complaint about Kamala Harris.) And then people on Lemmy yelled at them and called them stupid.

Look at the goalposts go lol

“He’s not a REAL supporter of Palestine”

“Why does it not count, all these things he did to materially support Palestine, from inside the US government where it can actually make a real material difference in a way that almost no one else on earth is able to do when they care about Palestine?”

“Because he doesn’t want to see Israel destroyed. That means it doesn’t count.”

Fuck outta here

“Everyone who doesn’t want the destruction of Israel = Zionist”

Well, by that definition, sure, he’s a Zionist. On the other hand, if you say that a Zionist is a ham sandwich, he’s not a Zionist. The point is: Words are fun, we can redefine them to make all kinds of great arguments.

I’m pretty sure there was a genuine amendment defunding the Iron Dome that MTG introduced. I could be wrong but I saw that in sources that don’t just make stuff up.

She proposed a big handful of amendments; maybe Iron Dome is in ICP and they just don’t like to publicize it very much, or maybe it was in one of the other amendments.

Yeah. I guess that’s a good way to look at it, is they’re spending so much energy on it because the progressive momentum is steadily building. I just wish their energy would quit translating into success.

Yeah. There’s always something to capitalize on.

There are some fucking emergencies going on, among them the literal starvation of everyone in Gaza. Go up to the US Capitol building or your local Brooks Brothers, or fucking wherever, and spray-paint “PEOPLE IN GAZA ARE DYING TONIGHT”? Fuckin’ spot on, man, please do. Go and shit on the lefty-est person you can find because you found a tiny chink in her behavior that you can exploit and start bullying her over for the next year and a half? Honestly, man, it really irritates me.

I think the reason they like to do it is because she’s vulnerable. If they were protesting the people actually killing Palestinians, or the people taking over our country and cancelling democracy, they might punch back real hard. That’s scary, so let’s go throw some paint on someone who is in a precarious enough position that she’ll have to just take it.

Honestly, fuck 'em. Like I say it irritates me.

Why did a little handful of different accounts all suddenly interject to this same comments section to leave short one-off comments about how AOC is definitely the worst for doing this, all within a few minutes of each other, on this mostly-dead comments section roughly one hour ago? That’s weird.

Okay, sure, that part I agree with. She should have voted “yes” on the doomed amendment and maybe gotten into it more afterwards about how even “defensive” funding for Israel is a terrible thing to do at this point. My point was (a) this is being ginned up into the entirety of her Israel position, overriding a ton of pro-Palestinian things she has been consistently doing that are way bigger deals than this, pretty consistently throughout her career, and I think it’s being done on purpose by people who are trying to hurt the left (who will wind up hurting Palestinians a lot more than helping them through the effort) (b) saying that her and Bernie are weak on Palestine in general is a sign that you’re probably listening to some people who are lying to you on purpose. Those two are among the strongest Palestine supporters in congress, probably second only to people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

So yeah if you want to condemn her vote on this, fine. If you want to spin it up into her being pro-genocide or in any way deserving of her office being vandalized or her being singled out as a genocide supporter, you are helping some people who are lying and hurting the Palestinian cause (as well as lot of domestic left issues). That’s my point.