I think we should cut off all aid to Israel, and declare the Likud to be a terrorist organization.
Unfortunately, our political system does not care what I think about this, or much else. We have the pretense of democracy here. The people with all the money run the show.
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Sadly, our country is comfortably divided (for and by the richest 1%) between right-wing authoritarians and those who will contort themselves into funny shapes in order to defend their 3rd Way corporatist hero, Obama.
We have an alleged 'liberal' media that happily promotes the military-industrial complex propaganda day in and day out.
It's far more effective to have the WaPo and the NYT ("on one hand") and FAUX Nooze, etc. ("on the other"), selling the same shit than when the Soviets tried the same thing with Pravda.
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I would like to urge the Left to learn to chew gum and walk at the same time.
Perhaps you should consider that the people you disparage have very good reason to suspect armed intervention in the Middle East by us. It's been a decades long version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", with the ostensible beneficiaries of our altruism paying the biggest price.
The burden of proof is on those who say (as they always do), "It's different this time!"
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I think we should cut off all aid to Israel, and declare the Likud to be a terrorist organization.
Unfortunately, our political system does not care what I think about this, or much else. We have the pretense of democracy here. The people with all the money run the show.
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Nice observations, J. Cole.
Sadly, our country is comfortably divided (for and by the richest 1%) between right-wing authoritarians and those who will contort themselves into funny shapes in order to defend their 3rd Way corporatist hero, Obama.
It does not look good.
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It's not just that, Mike.
We have an alleged 'liberal' media that happily promotes the military-industrial complex propaganda day in and day out.
It's far more effective to have the WaPo and the NYT ("on one hand") and FAUX Nooze, etc. ("on the other"), selling the same shit than when the Soviets tried the same thing with Pravda.
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I would like to urge the Left to learn to chew gum and walk at the same time.
Perhaps you should consider that the people you disparage have very good reason to suspect armed intervention in the Middle East by us. It's been a decades long version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", with the ostensible beneficiaries of our altruism paying the biggest price.
The burden of proof is on those who say (as they always do), "It's different this time!"
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