“Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy
truthout.org
Polls have shown pivoting away from Biden’s Gaza policy is popular among the public — but Harris is refusing the change.
  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    No problem. Thanks for not being one of those downvotes then.

    I’m happy to lay out what a non-corrupt politician could offer that would excite me and get me to vote for them (obviously this is a big list but any non-corrupt politician would be able to promise/strive for at least one of these):

    • election reform
    • single payer
    • abolish private medical insurance and fold those companies into a 100% taxpayer funded (Single Payer) national healthcare system much like they have in Canada and South Korea. (Anywhere else doesn’t have true Single Payer.)
    • repeal Citizens United
    • bring back Glass Steagall
    • anti-genocide/ cutting off the infinite money tap that the AIPAC/IDF command
    • prosecute Israel (and the politicians that enabled them in the US should also be tried in front of The Hague) for crimes against humanity
    • prosecute George W. Bush and company for the Iraq war. Imprison them for the rest of their lives.
    • publicly execute Jon Bolton in the most brutal way possible using weapons from arms manufacturers that he openly works for 😅
    • student loan reform (without bullshit means testing)
    • reparations
    • stop spying on US citizens and dissolve the CIA/NSA/FBI’s conflict of interest with ALL tech companies in the US. Facebook is a DIRECT feed to the NSA and law enforcement and that needs to stop not be ramped up under the guise of “protecting us from terrorism” like Kamala asserts and ends up being used solely to go after whistle blowers and protesters.
    • break up the conglomerate farms that our government actively encourages to put poison in our food that they then feed to only poor children in our schools while the rich kids get organic diets.
    • reform the FDA and USDA (compare the list of banned chemicals in the EU to here and tell me that someone isn’t greasing someone’s palms in exchange for POISONING us with roundup, etc)
    • police DEmilitarization
    • stop writing blank checks to the military industrial complex under the guise of “helping”, sending vast sums of money that would EASILY pay for Single Payer to be burned in futile proxy wars with Russia
    • force car companies to make self driving car technology open source and introduce rigorous standards and best practices for this software that is responsible for human lives
    • break up the airline industry
    • break up the banking industry
    • audit the Fed
    • disallow Black Rock and other conglomerates from owning homes
    • disallow real estate purchases from non US citizens
    • disallow real estate price fixing and penalize the companies that did it
    • make college free for EVERYONE and raise taxes on the rich to pay for it
    • force NVidia to open source CUDA/ZLUDA
    • decriminalize marijuana
    • fund a high speed rail system in the US
    • reform the Supreme Court and bring Clarence Thomas up on treason charges under the penalty of death
    • immigrants no longer in cages (rather than ramping up putting immigrants in cages and just marketing it differently)
    • end the embargo on Cuba
    • penalize countries and corporations financially for pollution. Make it prohibitively expensive for Temu, Amazon, SHEIN, and Alibaba to ship their goods over oceans on the worst polluting internal combustion engines on earth: container ships. In reality, it was our Clintonite, globalist Democrats (the good guys!) that actively encouraged corporations to manufacture overseas.
    • reward other countries and corporations financially for green policies
    • dissolve the two party system and bring the DNC and GOP up on treason charges
    • give Edward Snowden immunity for his “crimes” and protect him as a whistle blower
    • fund the fediverse and other decentralized technologies that have a direct positive effect on democracy
    • socialize and break up Amazon into twenty companies
    • open source and decentralize Twitter for the crime of election interference
    • force Amazon, Google, Alphabet, OpenAI, Meta, and Apple to open source at least a large chunk of their tech stacks
    • force pharmaceutical industry to open source their tax-payer funded research and products that were created using government funding
    • socialize Google (for the crime of election interference and others)
    • fund RISC-V chip technologies instead of closed source technologies to bring chip manufacturing back to the US
    • socialize Meta (for the crime of election interference and other crimes)

    I could go on all day. Basically, you could easily offer what Bernie had on his platform in 2016 and get me to be enthusiastic about the Democrats.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      0·
      19 days ago

      I agree with a decent chunk of that, not all, and even what I disagree with, it’s more like lukewarm agreement because I think it would cause as many problems as it fixes. I was just trying to respond to your frustration. Not aggravate you further.

      Kamala isn’t everything anyone would want, but the things you want to see are more likely during or following a Harris administration. I know none of this mollifies you. There are urgent matters that are hurting us to do slowly and in half measures. But Harris moves us closer than Trump and for most of us that’s all we can do.

      Of course I have a Midwest, swing state perspective. And I have the perspective of watching things change over 50 years. I know many of the policies you and I want would lose Kamala the race. I don’t want her to lose either because the far left stays home or because she’s forced to adopt policies that lose the states that the election hinges on.

      If you ask me, gerrymandering is the root cause of much of the polarization and extremism in this country and I think it is urgent to end it or at least let democrats draw the lines. And we need to look at the judiciary. That all takes a lot of time, unfortunately.

      I could go on and on with how much I agree with you and why. But we have two choices, and one moves this country in a better direction whether a little or a lot, and the other makes us all a hell of a lot worse off. I can’t endorse any statement that says they are basically the same.

      But, friend, keep fighting. You are right about a great many things. I just implore you to do it strategically and not let “great” be the enemy of “better.”

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        19 days ago

        Not sure why it made me reply to myself instead. Pasting in comment here:

        That’s fair. Thanks for at least discussing it with me. I beg to differ on the whole, “we need to appeal to the Centrists and reach across the isle” trap that the two party system put your perspective into. That reaching seems to conveniently only happen in one direction. It’s the one-way valve of corporatism!

        Anyway, thanks for the discussion. It was fun making that list. 😂

        Edit: IMO, gerrymandering is just another effect of a fake democracy where only two parties are actually viable due to FPTP.