I didn’t have much in but I’m divesting from all stocks and cashing out. Everyone should sell it all and let the market crash.

Uhg, this would be such a good opportunity for dems to use some repub strategy. File a motion for impeachment for every stupid gaffe like this. Too bad they’re so fucking useless.

The fourth sentence of the article explains it

The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax etc.

I almost asked why that generation loves platinum blonde so much

Nah, it’s long past time to abandon the Democratic establishment. If we need a political party, make it a workers party. If we want to help, we need to build community.

Poor wording on my part. Context is always relevant, but the historical context isn’t necessarily relevant to modern interpretation.

Maybe those implications were valid 100 years ago. My first response was about how you can interpret a message out of context. The context of this message doesn’t have to be relevant to today.

That isn’t portrayed in this comic.

My current opinion is, a message can be good or bad regardless of the source. That can have exception when there’s hidden implication of support for evil deeds (ex. all lives matter). In this case, I can recognize the truth in this message that still resonates today and don’t see the implication of support for the entirety of Stalin’s actions. Also, bringing up the iron curtain is actual pretty ironic, given that was about isolationism and this comic is (at least on the surface) anti-isolationist.

That much splintering won’t leave much tree remaining

You seem like a really bad listener. I bet there’s people no longer in your life because of it.

We just agreed she was working for peace.

No we did not. You agreed with yourself. I said there’s no peace without justice and no stopping without accountability.

On both parts and others you’re flat out ignoring major pieces of my argument. I have no desire to respond to someone who engages disingenuously like that.

They are irrelevant.

They are inconvenient to your argument. This is you dismissing evidence in order to preserve a worldview. Practically the definition of being close minded.

You don’t try to stop something you support.

She didn’t try to stop it, that would require holding the aggressors accountable for their actions. If there’s no accountability, why wouldn’t they just pick up where they left off?

Do you expect that Netanyahu would step down from power if we asked?

Yes. If the USA, the world’s largest superpower and Israel’s biggest benefactor and arms dealer, were to demand he step down, I don’t think he would feel he had much choice. Maybe he’d try to start a war because of it, but it wouldn’t last very long. Assuming we actually had intention behind the demand.

Working for peace is the exact opposite of contributing to the conflict.

I was actually trying to use a neutral phrase. Meaning that it would be possible to have a positive contribution to resolving the conflict. As I think I’ve made clear, I don’t believe it was positive overall because of a few factors I’ve tried to lay out. Can you say that you aren’t skipping over factors I’ve presented to come to your conclusion?

Killing 4.4 to 5.3 million Nazis was part of that achievement. It was not achieved peacefully. Thankfully “Nazi” isn’t an ethnicity, but Israeli Jews are and ethnic group.

That was the war that got us to the place where we were able to make demands of the state and hold them accountable for their actions. At the moment, it doesn’t seem like war is required to give the US that kind of sway over the state of Israel.

Except she was working for peace to end the genocide. You keep skipping over that reality as if it were meaningless.

I’m not skipping over the deals she was making. I’m just not relying on it as the singularly decisive factor in determining her contribution to the conflict. As well as highlighting the context in which it was done.

How do you realistically propose to dismantle Israel in a way which wouldn’t qualify as genocide?

the state is not the people it supposes to represent.

How did we dismantle the nazi state in a way that didn’t qualify as genocide?

It just is. It’s an unspoken restriction of her job. Nobody gets elevated to that position unless they unequivocally back their boss.

To repeat a question, is that acceptable even when it includes standing by genocide?

So you’re in favor of genocide, but just mad at which side is losing.

I’m in favor of dismantling all theocratic colonialist states. I’m opposed all genocide of any people, especially when that is based on religion or bigotry. To be clear, the state is not the people it supposes to represent.

Workers of the world unite!

Can you think of a time a VP came out and directly contradicted their President’s foreign policy?

Is that a good thing? Is that acceptable even when it includes standing by genocide? But when she’s running her own campaign seems an excellent time to distinguish herself from her predecessor. Especially when she got that spot because polling showed Biden couldn’t win. Even more when she’s specifically asked what she’d have done differently per my source from earlier.

Yes, that is counterfactual. Stopping the war was always the ultimate goal. Pauses were just the compromise.

1. The war will not stop as long as both exist. The past 75 years of conflict have shown that. The goal as stated was only ever going to end with pauses.

2. That’s still compromising with and defending the genociders. This evergreen meme

Also this quote feels relevant

Good job broken clock

So you don’t think her voice had any power? If no, that brings into question why she was picked for the role at all. And it’s not “counterfactual” to say that the deals she was making was for pausing the genocide as opposed to stopping.