Let’s just call it what it is: An embargo. It’s been an embargo for the last 200%.

Yeah those bastards should let all of us buy stock with penis.

I really hope he’s stupid enough to fail to understand that this is why most of the ruling class is smart enough to keep their mouth shut in public. He’s the best advertisement of all time for “Billionaires do not deserve the wealth they have”. Keep talking Musky.

They’ll clearly just send them to El Salvador regardless, so Canada will likely be spared.

More risk to the US personnel or assets, and it would be a diplomatic and domestic incident if it came out that US troops or assets were operating in Yemen. It’s much safer to bomb them from a plane.

Also there’s the terror aspect where the US government presumably wants to cause chaos and fear explicitly to make continuing the blockade less appealing to both the Houthis and the people of Yemen.

You might be right, but I also submit that, when talking to Trump voters (older family members of me and my friends mostly), instead of “proving them wrong” about Trump, I’ve been redirecting the conversation toward “isn’t all that bad stuff the fault of rich people?”, and it has had a 100% success rate so far. They fucking hate the wealthy too. They ain’t waving the red flag, but I bet a lot more of them would vote for someone just to screw over the rich than most people think.

I mean the “neoliberal world order” was just facism abroad.

Was there an alternative word he should have used to describe himself?

Yeah! We usually puppet the dictators! This is all wrong!

This is what happens when you let white people read Atlas Shrugged in college. smh.

My money is on you being right… But if they wanted to prove it wrong, getting arrested would be a good start.

Are you seriously Destiny posting rn?

When one of them gets arrested I’ll know they mean it.

Just the one?

So is there, like, a mechanism to make them do it, or was the entier government just a gentleman’s agreement?

Every protest I’ve ever been to has had at least one group of communists yelling about the inadequacy of US politics and I’ve seen pro-Palestinian protesters at these protests going back decades at this point. I’ve only ever seen one mainstream politician dirty their hands in a situation like that, and it was at a union rally, and she confessed to being a socialist there to thunderous applause.

Americans stay being aggressively anti-intellectual. It’s been that way since waaaay before Trump too. We’re gassing up Trump too much with this. Americans have been like this longer than I’ve been alive.

This is one of the few things ChatGPT is actually good at too. sheesh

Oh I get it now. You’re saying that “there won’t be a next election”. Careful with the self fufulling prophecies. If you don’t want to succumb to that, I recommend getting involved locally. Whoever you trust electorally will need your help now to build a bulwark for 2026, and getting your hands dirty will help you get over the pessimism.

Ok. First. Those votes were not, like, commies or something. Communists broadly (but not universally ) have no faith in electoral politics beyond the ability to demonstrate how useless electoral politics are for the kinds of change they see as required. The missing votes are likely non-explicitly-ideological Americans, and the disenfranchised left wing of the Democrat coalition, who are not revolutionary socialists - they are better described as social democrats. And why so many of them voted for Biden was, at least in significant part three things that you’re pretending don’t exist with this meme.

1. Tremendous dislike of Trump… which is actually still true, but he was not currently the president during this election. Trump had just spent the last few months massively fucking up the pandemic response very publicly and got covid immediately prior to the election, which made him look stupid and incompetent.

2. Because of COVID policies, voting had literally never been easier. Shit loads of people voted early because it was universally available. Led to highest turnout ever.

3. A competitive democratic primary process meant that we had a candidate selection process people could believe in to some degree. Brenie and Biden ran, and Biden won. Bernie voters saw that, looked at the situation and said “This is tolerable because we had a real process, and we can accept Biden as a stop gap under the conditions of Trump needing to be removed, and Biden being a 1 term President”. It wasn’t 2016, where a significant portion of potential Democrat voters saw the DNC’s treatment of Bernie as unfair, and it wasn’t 2024 where Biden decided to run with no true Primary after the deal was “single term president”, then abruptly dropped out (good idea, shoulda done it 2 years earlier) and effectively appointed his successor by decree.

2020 was an anomaly, and as is true of 2020 in most data sets, using it as a comparison point requires many many qualifications, but Trump gained 40000 votes, Harris lost 10 million. Trump did not perform better, Harris lost voter enthusiasm, which hasn’t actually been on the Democrat’s side in presidential elections (which have more non-explicitly-ideological voters) since, like, Obama. It’s not even necessarily that she needed to be “more left”. It’s that she needed to reflect the public’s distrust of the political status quo and promise material gain for working people explicitly at the expense of someone else (Trump chose , for instance, immigrants and the democrats as the bad guys, but Harris could have chosen, say, rich fuckers like Musk) . She needed to be ready to rip up the floor boards, and she wasn’t even ready to say she’d break from fucking Biden (who is broadly unpopular) on policy.

I really, really wish y’all democrats would stop trying to purge your own party of any dissent, because y’all coming out of this with the right lesson will be the difference between a brief period of Republican control, or several elections cycles of Democrats being unviable as a party.