Julian Assange has been granted leave to mount a fresh appeal against his extradition to the US on charges of leaking military secrets and will be able to challenge assurances from American officials on how a trial there would be conducted....
Also addresses that, regardless of the Israeli apartheid regime's response being immeasurably worse, the leaders of Hamas DID also commit war crimes and violated the human rights of civilians, which you're not allowed to do no matter how much you're oppressed and abused..
Well that parts a given. We all know it. The new and uplifting part is that they might actually see a modicum of justice for said atrocities, even though one of them is America's favorite apartheid regime.
Yeah because it's historically been REALLY easy to get rid of authoritarian allies once a semblance of victory is achieved 🙄
Also, for a left libertarian (aka an anti-authoritarian leftist), the authoritarianism itself is a huge part of the problem.
Personally, I'm not a fan of people being murdered for trying to unionize like fascists would, but I'm also not a fan of people being murdered for NOT unionizing like stalinists would.
actually, "Jupiter" would not exist as a concept if not for someone raised without it inventing it in the first place.
People are influenced by their environment for sure, but not only is the environment influenced by the people too, there are also myriad other determining factors at play.
but just as matter shapes humans, humans reshape matter, which reshape humans who repeat the process.
You're FAR too fixated on matter. How old are you again? Did you recently read philosophy for the first time and it just so happened to be of a materialist nature? Because you're very much giving off that "child repeating things they don't understand" vibe.
That's the driving force of history.
Nope. It's MUCH more varied and complex than just people interacting with matter.
It's absurd to think that ideas change matter without material changes.
Not anymore absurd than your extreme oversimplification of the concepts of knowledge and opinion.
IDEAS change depending on how you perceive them. Matter isn't always involved at all. Not everything is arranged in neat rows to fit your silly pet theory.
Yeah, it's not at all suspicious that the State Department of an administration actively participating in a genocide wants to keep the press and thus the people in the dark
With SPECIAL focus on keeping everything related to that very genocide secret, even..
You're saying that the bullshit artist formerly known as The Senator From MBNA isn't corrupt?
The guy who's received more in bribes from AIPAC throughput his career than his current net worth and has to be dragged kicking and screaming to not participate in Israel's genocide even as over 60% of the people who voted for him are against it?
The guy who, after decades of promoting Amtrak (the company, never its workers) and railway companies in general took away the constitutional right to strike from rail workers, forcing them to accept a deal almost identical to the one from corporate that they had already overwhelmingly rejected?
The guy whose infrastructure deal, which the party preposterously touts as the best bill against climate change ever, makes any new renewable energy generation contingent on expanding federal fossil fuel leases manyfold and gives away public infrastructure to for-profit companies?
The guy whose solution to police brutality is to throw more money at cops?
The guy who, as a successful and ambitious politician moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware, a tiny state that just so happens to be the most corporate friendly one in the entire country, the one where most major corporations are registered in spite of being physically based elsewhere?
THAT'S the one you're saying isn't and never has been corrupt? Fucking REALLY?
That he doesn't officially have a lot of money for a successful politician isn't proof that he's not corrupt.
He could be stashing most of his money in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands or one of the growing number of US tax shelter states.
He could be bribable with relatively small amounts of money.
He could just simply be bad at saving.
Either way, there's NO way that Biden isn't corrupt as fuck. That's just not possible given his words and actions of the past 50+ years and today.
Oh and before you hit me with the usual Trump whataboutism: YES the Mango Mussolini is much worse in just about every way, including the amount and blatancy of corruption.
That Trump is indisputably worse is irrelevant to how corrupt Biden is.
Don't play dumb. For most intents and purposes, the campaign IS the candidate.
The candidate might not officially be allowed to personally benefit from campaign money, but the rules are lax and enforcement moreso.
Add to that the fact that the success or the campaign is the success of the candidate and also that it's a pay for play political system and it's downright silly to pretend that a sizeable donation doesn't amount to a bribe and/or that the corporations, lobby groups and (as in the case of AIPAC) foreign government propaganda arms don't both expect and get more than their money's worth in return.
Typical "Enlightened Centrist" equating healthy skepticism towards and independently acquired factual knowledge about corrupt authority figures with immaturity and distemper 🙄
Also fucking rich that you're accusing me of a lack of empathy while defending one of the most powerful humans in the world siding with executives against workers and war criminals against innocent civilians and international courts 🤦
That you can't distinguish between the factual and reasonable criticism of a well-informed elder millennial and the sulking of an impatient teenager says a lot about you and little to nothing about me.
Ok, it's clear that you're either too deranged or too dishonest to be worth any more time and effort trying to explain how ridiculously wrong you are, so I'm gonna stop that now. Have the day you deserve.
Nah, you're only legitimate if the people chose you.
If you were installed by an archaic system from the 1700s designed to give empty land as much of a say as actual humans, even though the people preferred your opponent, then you're not legitimate.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical rural tradition.
Nope. I just don't automatically consider the system infallible and correct.
Legitimate presidents get elected, not appointed via an antidemocratic mechanism that hasn't been excised because too many rich and powerful people benefit from it.
Your understanding of how presidents are elected in this country seems lacking.
I understand just fine. Knowing how the system works and agreeing with it are two separate things.
Just because the president isn't selected by popular vote doesn't mean that the legitimacy of a president selected after losing the popular vote isn't suspect as best.
If a beer drinking contest was the decider rather than the electoral college, would you still say that President Dale would be the legitimate president for drinking Biden and Trump under the table after receiving 4 write-in votes?
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