Uhhh, because these were bombs - bombs that were remotely and indiscriminately detonated. Some of the people were driving, some standing next to children or on busses full of people. There are reports of children who died because they were standing next to a target at head-level with the pager.There’s no guarantee they were even being carried by “Hezbollah’s guys”.
I don’t even know why anyone would assume otherwise. This was a loosely targeted terror attack
Likely because the bulk of those wounded by this attack were not Hezbollah
I don’t even know how you’d reasonably expect to only injure your targets in an attack as widespread and remote as this one. Seems blatantly indiscriminate at best.
I’m honestly surprised peertube has lasted as long as it has as it is
It makes a difference, just not to any of us plebes
You should really not use double quotation marks when you are paraphrasing, a lot of people will confuse this for a direct quote
“You say you oppose capitalism, and yet you exist in it? Interesting…”
How could I have possibly questioned your communist educational backround lol
Lol, well sounds like everything is going swell then no need for revolution!
Either you think reform will liberate the working class from capitalist oppression, or you think it can’t and people should just shut up about it already.
Errrrr, do we though? lmao
And i’ve spent decades listening to liberals tell me that capitalism just needs to be reformed.
Jesus christ, that’s just not what socialism is.
There’s a reason why social-democrats are castigated in communist circles. Social-democratic policy is always inevitably eroded because social safety nets don’t solve the fundamental contradiction of capitalism. It isn’t a matter of ‘getting out the vote’
Almost as if the point of socialism is to strip away the the means of production from the capitalists in order to install a dictatorship of the proletariat, and not simply apply social safety-net band-aids so that capitalism can continue to function.
American liberals are so exhausting in their selective application of definitions.
I don’t think “ineffectual” is the word you’re looking for there.
I’m not saying I won’t vote dem, I’m simply expressing dissent against some of their policies.
People here act as if observations about a candidate are themselves votes, and if you make enough negative observations about the democrats it will directly cause their loss, but if you balance them with negative statements about the republicans, they will somehow cancel each other out. Worse, people here seem to give more weight to statements or observations about a candidate than the actual candidate themselves, as if nobody saying anything about the democrats doing something bad will prevent it from manifesting into reality.
In this instance I think anti-dem chatter on lemmy is more likely to chill youth turnout than it is to push the Democratic party leftward
Not any more than protesting or demonstrating do (far, far less, if anything). If voicing dissent against unpopular reactionary policies ends up chilling enthusiasm, it isn’t voicing that dissent that’s doing it, it’s the reactionary policies. We’re not obligated to campaign for democrats or even temper our criticism when they’re defending and holding water for Israel as while they’re slaughtering Palestinians and reducing Gaza to rubble.
I don’t claim to know what your worldview is but using a weird metaphor about forced sterilization to blame others of enabling reactionary political movements for voicing critique of - checks notes - reactionary democratic policy is certainly not in line with the life of virtue and praxis you’re describing.
That’s a bummer though, I didn’t know that. I saw they were playing in Iowa in October and was thinking about driving down there for it. The same thing happened when I wanted to see Rage Against the Machine in 2021 - I’m not sure they’ll be going back on tour either.
seems like a poor strategy to me
Not if you’re goal is to push democrats leftward. Funny how leftists are accused of virtue signaling while liberals are quite openly saying they’re biting their tongues and acting excited for a candidate they know is going to put the party back 20 years.
Did you know Bad Religion is actually on concert tour right now though? Right now i’ve got this one on heavy rotation.
Who said I wasn’t voting?
Who said they wanted cheeto man in the white house? Certainly wasn’t me.
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