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***Official Political Discussion Thread***
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In foreign policy shift, Biden lifts terrorist designation for Houthis in Yemen
The Biden administration on Tuesday officially lifted the designation of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen as a global terrorist organization. That announcement comes within a larger review of the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. Nick Schifrin reports on the prospects of diplomacy, and...
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Sooo the Biden administration lifted the terrorist designation imposed on Houthis by the Trump administration so that humanitarian aid could be provided to the Yemeni population, only to be ignored 3 years later when they asked them to stop targeting commercial ships with drones, missiles, and hostage taking operations. And you're trying to pull the "civil rights movement" card?
Even the UN is asking them to stop their attacks.I don't know which world you live in, but when you don't have the biggest stick, you don't use fighting as your first conflict resolution option.
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Reminder that the "D" in DLF literally stands for delusional
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Post from 2021 that is still accurate...
DLF is just bad at what he does all around. 90% of the **** ain’t even funny. Sports and politics and everything included.
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There’s many meanings for “liberals” though.
Do you mean in the way that it’s used outside North America, where it’s roughly equivalent to what we’d call “libertarian”? In that case, it’d be kinda true; because in the abstract, libertarians are anti war “war is the health of the state” and all that, but a lot of libertarians in the global north often make exceptions because hey “my startups need cheap lithium to reach profitability (or more likely to attract investors to get to the next round of funding). So yeah, that statement could be true.
Do you mean Liberalism which is anything that filled the social gaps left by the decline of feudalism and absolute monarchy? That definition includes basically everyone (including communists, fascists, and Islamists. It’s basically everyone on earth save for a few Tibetan exiles and 16 year olds named Brayden who post about how we should be restoring the Holy Roman Empire. You can’t draw many broad conclusions from a term that encompasses any ideology with more than a million followers.
I’m guessing you’re saying liberal as in the US context whereby, it’s an ersatz left that has existed since the New Deal and is centered on the New Deal’s coalition minus Dixiecrats and socially conservative. In other words, intellectuals, urban professionals, and highly racialized groups who are reformists to varying degrees, from left-leaning progressives, to Centrist tech guys and a bunch of other subgroups in between.
Certain subgroups do indeed oppose war, in the abstract, but frequently defend the US and NATO while it is actively at war.
In James Loewen’s “Lies my Teacher Told Me” (it’s like a shorter version of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”), Loewen points out that in a poll taken BEFORE a major escalation of the Vietnam war, white collar workers opposed the idea of bombing but AFTER the bombing campaign in greater South East Asian started, the same poll was conducted again and now white collar workers were far more likely to support the bombings than blue collar workers.
So there are some people in this country who call themselves liberal or progressive who oppose American militarism in the abstract but are so materially and emotionally invested in the American project that they’ll always find an exception for American military action, at least when a Democrat orders it.
But is that a universal outlook among all liberals in America? Of course not. It can feel that way because that hypocritical worldview is OVER represented in media, especially among opinion columnists in legacy publications. But who typically is an opinion columnist for legacy publications? Rich people who went to fancy colleges and who pursue the contradictory (IMHO) goals of wanting a more just world on the one hand but believing that America and capitalism are either compatible or even necessary to that end. But that’s separate from the question of whether or not ALL liberals support their own countries wars when they happen, and answer is decisively NO.
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A Top Biden Official Is Pushing An Alarming Plan For Gaza After The War
Brett McGurk is pursuing a proposal to rebuild the Palestinian territory that focuses on a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials told HuffPost. Many say that plan would sow seeds of future instability in the region.
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currently in tokyo. some fool is doing a trump 2024 cosplay. saw this tourist taking a middle finger selfie
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Based revanchist Chinese nationalist Nikki Haley goes beyond upholding the principles of Xist thought. She has also wants to restore the old Tang Dynasty’s Western Frontiers.
I didn’t think she could top calling mental health a “scourge,” but here we are.
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After Germany proposed to enter the ICJ trial as a third party to argue in Israel's defense, the Namibian Presidency published this:
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Trump Turns on Ramaswamy Just Days Before the Iowa Caucuses
Ramaswamy, the wealthy entrepreneur, had been the Republican candidate most closely aligned with Mr. Trump before the former president recently went on the attack.
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I really have no idea what the path forward for the GOP if (when!) they lose again in November.
The spread in outcomes after the election looks more significant than 2020…
The spread in outcomes after the election looks more significant than 2020…
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Trump Turns on Ramaswamy Just Days Before the Iowa Caucuses
Ramaswamy, the wealthy entrepreneur, had been the Republican candidate most closely aligned with Mr. Trump before the former president recently went on the attack.www.nytimes.com
And again...
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Odds are he doesn't care about any of this. Just another avenue for attention.
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Trump Turns on Ramaswamy Just Days Before the Iowa Caucuses
Ramaswamy, the wealthy entrepreneur, had been the Republican candidate most closely aligned with Mr. Trump before the former president recently went on the attack.
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Every cycle Republicans put out these non white men candidates as placeholders.
