archomrade

Go ahead and point to the character in the cartoon that's meant to represent israel. I'll wait.

lmao, the thing you're insisting is the subject of this cartoon is literally not present in it.

Strange way to evoke Israel's motivation to starve Gazans by pointing to the religion of the victims.

Israel wants them dead or gone so they can have their land.

Religion is what they use justify their lack of humanity, but its simple greed and depravity that motivates them to abandon it.

The critique of the trolly problem isn't that you don't still make the choice, it's that the outcome was predetermined before you even got there.

Leftists who are making a point of abstaining are doing so to point out that voters have no control over the trolly to begin with - that the choice is artificial because the outcomes were pre-selected by someone/something else to ensure a particular outcome, and that participating in that choice only ends up legitimizing that process.

The joke only works if the reader holds the Islamophobic view that Palestinians were starving because their faith forbids them from eating, and not because Israel was starving them by blockading humanitarian aid.

Claiming this conflict isn’t about religion is like claiming the US civil war wasn’t about slavery.

Err, I actually kinda like this comparison to the civil war - not because the war in Gaza is 'about religion' - but because it's about Israel's right to occupy/subjugate Palestinian territories and Palestinians within the West Bank and Gaza, which is similar to the South fighting over their right to own/subjugate people of color (though not entirely, since Israel doesn't claim racial superiority (at least not explicitly)).

What's strange about this comparison is that it inadvertently casts Israel as the slavers, even though it seems like the intent is to indict both Judaism and Islam equally

Of course she is.

That's the point though, those clips just make it seem like we're exaggerating all of his behavior.

We don't experience the same media onslaught as they do. We might hear their perspective from talking to them, but we don't understand the extent of the warped reality they experience, and we don't understand how the same news events get communicated to them very differently.

Just looking through the reporting shared here, you get the distinct feeling that Trump is on the decline and he's in big trouble. But any other media environment paints an extremely different picture - and any alarm or skepticism raised here in the comments is not very well received. The polls that show trump extending leads in swing states are suddenly not at all unbelievable once you anonymize your internet browsing and see what's being presented to the median american.

I'm just commenting on what I see. The vibe here feels very similar to 2016, and I'm bracing myself for the media collapse that happens the day after.

People might not have been enthused about Biden in 2020, but there was at least some hope for him after the extremely progressive primary campaign.

There's none of that hope or excitement for this year - there was no primary to push Harris to run on progressive issues. If there's any election that bears a resemblance to this year, it's 2016, not 2020