When the "heros" simp for billionaires rule

They're trying to get a specific guy fired. Focusing on the bigger picture doesn't accomplish that.
Nothing accomplishes that. We can't even stop them from killing people on our own soil.
- Police brutality in the US has only gone up since the Black Lives Matter protests began

There is no viable party that is against the military industrial complex.
If you take a step back and look at the Democrats and Republicans, they agree and overlap on far more many issues than they differ. Indeed, in the context of a lot of foreign governments, both of our parties would be considered dangerously right-wing. Yet, there's no serious opposition in the US, as you say.
The issue has been falsely bifurcated in the USA where looking elsewhere is "throwing your vote away". Yet, without an alternative party, there are many problems in the USA which are just non-starters, like pacifism. Totally unthinkable under either party's operational guidelines.
- I have to wonder, why DOESN'T the US have any other significant parties? Like you clearly have them but they're practically irrelevant.
  Here in Canada we also have a winner takes all voting system (which is unfortunate. But we hope to change in the future) but smaller parties like the NDPs and greens still manage to hold some relevance even if at least at a regional or provincial level.
  Hell, in 2011 the NDP was the opposition against Harper's CPC with the Liberals doing worse than they ever had.
  During the Ontario Provincial election while the Liberals lost seats to the Tories the greens held both their seats and NEARLY got a 3rd.
  
  It's no accident. Both parties collude to make sure a 3rd does not arise. The saying "voting 3rd party is throwing your vote away" is very, very common. Your classification of these parties as practically irrelevant is very accurate, because I don't believe any other party has cracked double digit % at the federal level.
  
  No preferential voting system, first past the post only. Minority parties are worse than useless, they actively harm the outcome in such a system.
  
  It has to do with how political parties in the US are regulated through the election commissions. Voters register with political parties through the commission not the party itself. The commission is bipartisan to prevent a party from cheating its own voters. For example, the democratic party couldn't just kick Bernie off the primary ballot despite him being independent his whole life.
  At the same time this bipartisan election commission determines what other parties are allowed to have ballot line access and have little interest in breaking the doupoly.
  The flip side to this is any Leninist pushing for a workers party has to come to terms with the fact that their workers party legally can't practice Democratic Centralism if they want to have a ballot line party.

“God is the Greatest. Death to America. Death to Israel. Curse be upon the Jews. Victory for Islam” -The Houthi Militia Slogan
I agree we need a new opposition party but it cannot be lead by the kinds of clowns who are so poorly educated that they think that the Houthi are the victims here. Those racist assclowns started the civil war that has been killing Yemenis for years now. Even Iran is telling them to stop attacking ships.
- Yeah but you know "whatabout ..."
  Apparently two things cannot be bad at the same time.
  
  Do you want to win an election or do you want to be morally superior?
  Everyone in America heard the Republicans go on and on and on about Hilary's emails. That's where they are vulnerable.
  Shilling for a 3rd Party at this late date is silly at best.
  
  And Im not saying they cannot be. Im saying I don’t want any opposition to be run by folks who are so undereducated that they think there is something wrong with America attacking a group of people who have “Death to America” in their slogan and are attacking innocent sailors in commercial shipping lanes.
- "they're bad guys, so it's ok to level apartment buildings full of civilians" is the kind of reasoning that Americans love to employ against non white countries, but would get real unhappy if it was employed against them
  
  Hey look a .ml account promoting racism!
- And yet Ansarallah holds the moral high ground because they oppose genocide and we sponsor it. Sucks doesn't it?
  
  As they started a civil war and regularly steal the aide for non-combatants they don’t have a moral high ground.
- They resisted against the brutal Saudi puppet government, and have been resisting genocide ever since.
  
  US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations
  The 'Curse upon the Jews' part of the slogan is completely unacceptable, any conflation of Zionism and Judaism is. There are plenty of things the Houthis do that is also completely unacceptable, utilizing child soldiers is another major one. There are plenty of things they deserve to be criticized on, and human rights organizations do a great job documenting and communicating those atrocities.
  This isn't about good guys or bad guys. This is about an entire population subjected to a genocide. There are plenty of reasons to not like the Houthis, but that doesn't change the reality that they only exist as a resistance to the ongoing genocide. The point isn't that the Houthis are good, it's that the genocide, facilitated by the US and our Ally Saudi Arabia, is significantly worse by multiple magnitudes.
  The root cause of the problem is still the genocide, that's a much bigger concern, especially to the people of Yemen, than to stop or reform the Houthis themselves. They can only be addressed in a realistic way, by the people of Yemen, once the genocide ends.
  
  The Houthi literally started the civil war when they broke the coalition government they were a part of and attacked the capital.
  The Houthi are not freedom fighters looking to remove an oppressive government. They are in fact looking to replace who is wearing the jackboot on the throats of the population nothing more.
- I'm not a fan of the Houthis, but these people are really the equivalent of American guntoting Y'alliban. They like their guns and they like their free speech and they hate foreign countries propping up dictators who oppress them.
  The slogan eventually became a sign of public protest against the dictatorship of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh... The Houthi movement officially adopted the slogan in the wake of the widely condemned 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. This brought the movement on a collision course with the government, as the government maintained its official pro-American politics despite public opposition. The slogan was outlawed. The Houthis refused to discard it, arguing that the constitution of Yemen protected free speech. By 2004, crackdowns against both the slogan as well as the Houthi movement intensified. Many Houthis were imprisoned and even tortured for having used it.
  
  They like their guns and they like their free speech and they hate foreign countries propping up dictators who oppress them.
  That is a grossly inaccurate representation of who the Houthi are. The Houthi Militia are NOT freedom fighters as they are looking to oppress other Yemeni ethnic groups.
  This isn’t a case of good ol boys standing up to imperialism, rather it is a group of racist bigots attacking boats that are typically not involved in any conflict.

For other parties to spring up, we need to get ballot initiatives going in every state to move away from First Past the Post voting. This only requires getting enough signatures for a ballot initiative in about half of the states, for the other half, writing to your representatives and senators can make a difference. It’s not a fruitless effort either as Alaska and Maine both have managed to move away from First Past the Post voting, which is the main limiting factor preventing other political parties from springing up.
Ranked robin voting, STAR voting, score voting, and even Ranked Choice voting are better than First Past the Post for allowing better representation.
- we need to get ballot initiatives going in every state to move away from First Past the Post voting
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
  Americans will look at the gerrymandering, the voter caging, the militant policing of minority voting districts, the Brooks Brothers Riots, Operation Eagle Eye, the SAVE Act, the dismantling of ACORN, the people getting snatched up off the street and disappeared to an El Salvadorian slave camp...
  And they'll think to themselves "If we just changed our ballot to use a ranked scoring model, we could have avoided all of this."
  
  Let’s not be reductionists.
  We do have a lot of problems and each of these problems deserve attention and care to in order to stop. Many of the problems are a huge deal as well.
  What I am bringing attention to is one of the problems that has gradually led to these other problems arising. It is also a problem that requires mutual effort from individuals in 48 states other than my own.
  Our voting system has been a main proponent of what has enabled the echo chamber media environment we have and it is partially what has caused politicians to divide the country. Also, we do not have a voting system in all 50 states that enables other political parties to appear as real alternatives.
  We should concern ourselves with multiple problems concurrently as we do not need to just focus on only one problem to fix. Yes, we should protest and bring attention to other issues, but at the same time we can also try to grassroots organize to change the voting system to help prevent things from getting worse or from happening again in the future.
  I would even encourage you, if you are not from the US, to push for alternative voting systems like I brought up to prevent similar issues from appearing in your country someday. Specifically I would advocate for ranked robin, STAR, or score over ranked choice as there are some unlikely scenarios where ranked choice can be as bad as FPTP.
  If we had a different voting system, we very well might not have been in this situation. As other people that normally avoid voting at all, because they hate the two party system, may have come out to vote. Hell, they could have even voted their favorite choice at their first option, but put a second choice as a backup if their favorite candidate did not win.
  If people really want faster change politically, then they should move from the deepest red and deepest blue states to more purple states. At least then their votes will have an immediate impact on shifting the power balance away from the coin flip, where land has more power than people. They should look at voting maps ahead of time before they move as well, so that they are not necessarily gerrymandered out of a vote.
  
  “If we just changed our ballot to use a ranked scoring model, we could have avoided all of this.”
  Yes.
  Peaceful revolution was made impossible by the voting system.
  Always has been. Only white landowners could originally vote. Just because it was worse in the last doesn't mean we can do better in the future.
  
  Electoral reform isn't something to base your campaign on but it is something that every upstart campaign will strategically want to do.

why would they, %90 of democrats also think that Israel is just conducting military operations against terrorists and not mass slaughtering civilians or destroying civil areas as a part of their genocide and ethnic cleansing plan
- According to Israeli polls, Dems support of israel is about 33%. Gallup polls say Democrat 21% compared to Republican 75%.
  Total support of Israel in the USA is 46% and support of a two state solution is 55% with only 31% opposed and 14% no opinion. Independents and Republicans both have more favorable views of Israel than Democrats. As for support of an independent Palestinian state, despite being contradictory with the previous poll question, Democrats are in favor at 76% compared with 53% of independents and 41% of Republicans support a Palestinian state but 49% opposed.
  Despite this, the Republican administration is supporting a Single State Solution in which Israel takes all, just as they did in the previous Trump administration.
  
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-senate-overwhelmingly-votes-down-sanders-motions-to-block-arms-sales-to-israel/
  that is 14 out of about 50 so lets say %70 if you really want

Trust me, no other cultures saw those messages and thought about the incompetent opsec. They saw how Americans slay with accompanying emojis and not a single mention of the indiscriminate collateral human lives. Not as if they are concerned even about the optics. Just no mention. Not internal. Not external. Nothing. The human rights considerations are not evaded or even acknowledged. The conventions of war, even what the other nations might say, nothing. Operating anywhere in the world with emoticon decorated executions. It is notable for the rest of the world. This is the extent of the mercy of the few. Those that decide who lives. That the native opposition's persecution and domestic news coverage is exclusively over how it was leaked.. It is not something you can ignore when it can be you at any moment. And soon, Americans themselves will piece by piece learn that it could be them too. That fear means control. To be subject to this arrogance towards life will hopefully get a few of the sofa. God bless her and him that dare, the world is watching you hang in the balance. The well-being of your children and loved ones comes to question and at that point some of us will be forever immortalised, either for feeding or defying the wolves of this eerily completely broadcasted fascist cycle.
- I mean it's not like anyone was surprised tbh

123 Murdered so far...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/us-attacks-on-yemen-killed-123-people-since-mid-march-health-authorities
We need to burn the slaver's constitution and replace it with a modern document if anything.

They've observed that being anti-war didn't work, so they switched tactics. You want them to keep beating the same dead horse?
- They've observed that being anti-war didn't work, so they switched tactics.
  When, in 1980? Because that's the last time the Dem leadership was antiwar and a SHITLOAD has changed in the 45 years since.
  You want them to keep beating the same dead horse?
  The dead horse they've been beating is unconditional support of a fascist apartheid regime, which was one of the big reasons why they lost to the most unpopular presidential candidate in history the second time.
  Another case of equine carcass abuse that cost them is their insistence on "considered voting for the GOP but might not" is the most important demographic and their stubbornly ignoring their own base and stated principles as a result.
  
  TBH I think Israel was heading in a good direction under PM Rabin, but he got assassinated and Netanyahu has spent decades in power despite his criminal charges.
- When the hell did the Democrats ever try being anti-war? Are you talking about George McGovern in 1972? Because they've been rabid hawks for as long as I've been alive.
- Anti-war coalition is what gave Democrats a solid majority to Obama. He kept at the wars and eroded the coalition until the RNC could field Trump and win.
  
  Only thing American voters cared about was American soldiers dying. Majority of Americans didn't even remember or cared that a million Iraqis died.
  
  And Obama was criticized 24/7 for keeping an active military campaign the entire 8 years and keeping Guantanamo Bay open, despite his spreading out of US troops and signing deals with the various nations towards the purpose of strengthening of middle eastern borders and improving quality of life in the region with agriculture (Feed the Future Initiative), trade, and hospitals being the only true path to peace and prosperity.
  Even then, war will continue to exist in the Middle East so long as USA, EU, Russia, and China are all backing different governments militarily in the region such as Israel with the west and Iran with the east.
- I want them to stop being anti-poor.
  I don't care if their policies look like they support the poor when they can't ever get anything passed that forces the rich to make concessions
- Opposition to the Iraq War is why I voted Democratic. Supporting the Genocide in Gaza is why I stopped voting for them. But I am sure they did the math and determined that votes like mine didn’t matter.
  
  Ah so you're the one.

are there even any leftists left in shitter?
- Lots of addicts who can't leave, yes
- Bernie Sanders?
  The guy the DNC fought against to give us Hillary.

There are literally several opposition parties who feel like this. They will never get power because of the first past the post voting system and this particular stance can be so easily argued as anti American that if this is all you have to run on, you’re screwed because we have Trump to deal with and destroying party unity for this would help him.
- 2016 called they want their propaganda back
  I'm not voting for Neoliberals anymore. No matter how much they try to guilt me.
  Sorry.
  They have had 50 years of control and have only helped push our society further twoards the right and fascism.
  If the Neoliberals want to vote with the leftists this time that's fine, but they have proven they are impotent leaders.
  
  This is something the evangelicals understand that the left doesn't. Politicians are tools. You use the best available tool to do the job.
  They're using Trump to get what they want.
  You're proposing we build a tool factory on a ten year timeline to build a better tool, and until then we just do fuck all.
  
  So who do you plan to vote for next election then?
  
  Hope you like Trump then.
  
  sigh
  You post a message containing a demand for an opposition party, then when you're reminded that they exist you say you won't vote for them.
  And people wonder why most countries have wandered centre-right over the past 40 years.
  
  Scratch a lib and a fash bleeds.
- this particular stance can be so easily argued as anti American
  Yes, opposing the genocide of the world's poorest people is definitely anti-american.
  
  More like opposing the use of military to respond to direct attacks on it.

Brace for impact, folks, because there isn’t one.

So, in the state where it's completely OK to sacrifice an innocent child, because the vaccine has "bad stuff" in it - most likely the people saying that could not list ingredients, of course, while other pregnant women who've lost their pregnancies are regularly suspected of sabotaging, or otherwise finding ways to abort their pregnancies. The same state that's also trying to extradite a doctor from NY over sending abortion medication to a TX resident.
So, the lesson here is to not abort an unwanted pregnancy, but instead, let the child be born, then decide you have an issue with vaccinations, before tossing your child into parks, play dates, and the brick & mortar petri-dish all parents know schools to be? I'm just trying to figure out the rules here....so a fetus is a person, but a child is not? Or maybe women don't get to make choices with their bodies, but parents get to make choices for their children's bodies? Of course parents make choices on their children's behalf every day, but these choices?
Oh, and lets not forget, that meanwhile, Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa, a faith-based health care provider, is arguing in a medical malpractice case that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person” for the purpose of calculating damage awards. Gee, what an awfully convenient twist in the rules, when money enters the scene - depending upon how this all plays out.

"Well, when you say 'working'—are they stopping the Houthis? No," Biden said in response to a reporter's question. "Are they gonna continue? Yes."

Opposition party? We shouldn't even need one of those. To me, a sane, educated, and healthy society with a legitimately working legal and justice system should never fall to fascism. Period. There should be too many checks and balances in place to allow greed and oligarchy to settle in while rights get whittled away. Unfortunately, the US is neither sane, educated, or healthy and that directly effects the leadership we've chosen to elect. So, now we reap the non existent benefits we've sowed through cynicism, apathy, and bigotry. It isn't about right or left or some bullshit political or economic spectrum anymore. It is about whether you want to live in an absurd world or not. Unfortunately, those of us that want to live in a more progressive, less absurd world are the counterculture now, but instead of getting our message out through the media, music, literature, and other means it seems our voices are slowly but surely being quieted. We've got a major uphill battle ahead.
- To me, a sane, educated, and healthy society with a legitimately working legal and justice system should never fall to fascism.
  That's not really how it works. Fascism doesn't arise out of a lack of those things, it arises because of the capitalist drive for endless growth encountering the tendency of the rate of profit to fall as economies become more developed. When there isn't a lot of room to grow, fascism presents a solution in the form of artificial growth through cannibalizing minority businesses. As this cannibalism continues, the definition of the in-group continuously narrows to ensure there's always a target.
  No matter how many checks and balances there are or how well functioning the system is, the material pressures will eventually overwhelm it, and there will either be nationalizations to remove the profit motive from already developed industries and remove the pressure, or there will be enshittification, economic cannibalism, and fascism. "Socialism or barbarism."
  Systems only matter to the extent that people with guns say they do. We have a check on the sorts of things Trump is doing, SCOTUS ruled that he has to return a prisoner sent to El Salvador, and he's just opted to ignore it. And it turns out he can just do that even though it's illegal because SCOTUS doesn't have guns and the people who do have guns don't care.
- Well we have opposition parties, one wants free healthcare and the other wants to kill trans people.
  You should probably figure out why people think one of those things need to be opposed.
  
  One wants to arrest people and take away their education for protesting against genocide, the other wants to deport them to death camps for it.
  Just because one is clearly much worse doesn't mean that either is acceptable.

Probably because the messages didn't contain any information about the targets??
- I beg your pardon? they were openly talking about how they were going to bomb a whole apartment building to get one guy. screenshots and everything.
  And last I checked, bombing apartment buildings is a war crime

Feels like half of Lemmy was simping for Warren Buffet's son last week.
- Maybe for you. I didn't know he had a son.
  
  Glad to hear that you aren't one of them. Billionaires are all bastards.