The issue is equating antizionism antisemetism.

Protesting Israel in Germany is legally antisemitic even if you are Jewish. Many German Jews have been protesting Israels genocide and were arrested for antisemitism.

The remaining parties are arresting Jews for antisemitism so its worse than that.

Americans must externalize their own internal contradictions onto Russia. Liberals be scape-goating.

In case y’all forgot Trump’s last term, his general pattern is to constantly announce insane plans and only follow through on a fraction of them. Cutting the pentagon’s budget in half is one of the distractions. Some General will dandy himself up in his class A and jingle some blueprints for a useless wunderwaffe and the defense budget will go up.

Hell just a real party that actually persues an democratically decided agenda would be a vast improvement. What we have instead is a coalition of career politicians.

More like they aren’t being paid to care. Silicon valley used to be their donors. They will happily loose votes if they can get those valley bucks back.

where you vote for a party and then find out it is run by some rich dude.

That’s how neither of the last three work. To keep it short the last three are:

• settler colonial state where genocide has popular support.
• mafia-state where reality doesn’t matter
• Indirect democracy dominated by a party particing Democratic-Centralism.

What your described is something like France and Bernard Arnault. There’s many like this but that’s your normal freedom loving democracy™.

edit: who is the secret rich dude running Russia and China if its not Putin and Xi? 🤣

Comparing one authoritarian country to another and having an answer other than “both are bad”

Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel are all “authoritarian” but wildly different societies. Merely labeling them as “authoritarian” and leaving it at that is short circuiting your reasoning skills.

Compared against the direction we are already taking its an easy choice.

If you want to say transphobic slurs you’re welcome to rot your brain on Facebook or use X (the everything app).

Its not about lack of nuance but more about deliberately being a useful idiot because not everyone has the patience of someone like cowbee. Let me translate your example:

• Slavery is bad.
• Slavers say Dessalines is bad.
• Therefore Dessalines is good.

Now its 2025. Dessalines is long dead and we can safely say the free people of Haiti deserved a better leader. But back in the 1800s I’d back Dessalines to the hilt because I’m carrying absolutely zero water for slavers.

Further listening: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-02-the-north-korea-memory-hole

China for all its faults has a functional government, growing economy and rule of law is strictly enforced. Would we be so lucky to become like China. The US is spiraling towards becoming like post soviet Russia.

Join some like minded organization that meets in person locally to start. What you should do is entirely based on where and who you are.

If you find yourself and your group still lost then join a reading group on some sort of theory on how to enact social change.

The reason for Boeing’s recent failures are actually well known: They purchased McDonnel Douglass and became defense contractors.

When they did that all of the McDonnel Douglass execs they acquired were able climb up the ranks of Boeing because they had political connections to get those DoD contracts. The story is the Boeing corporation acquired McDD but McDD execs acquired Boeing.

What happened next is Boeing started doing normal DoD contractor practices and outsource as much as possible to cut costs and open new non-union shops. The clusterfuck that is Boeing now is the outcome of that process.

Obviously you can still call this “c-suite greed” but that would be missing some important details.

There’s literally two astronauts stuck in space right now. They’ve been stuck there for months because Boeing’s shit keeps breaking.

Not billionaires though.