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    6 hours ago

    And the US is doing the same to bolster far right groups around the world. Black pots and kettles.

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    15 hours ago

    “trump says” “vance says” “thiel says” “vought says”

    Treating the latest burble of lies from the pedo con-artist coalition regime as a headline is lazy ragebait, not news

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        7 hours ago

        Dick Cheyney changed that forever. Vice presidents very much do have power. He ran the presidency for the most part, and gave VPs real power, rather than symbolic value.

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        12 hours ago

        Then why the hell do we keep hearing from him every 2 minutes. I would be so happy never to see his face again

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    19 hours ago

    If this war results in the divorce between the US and Israel, that’ll be the second greatest thing to come out of it, the first thing being the decarbonization speedup

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    This is what is really dangerous about the right-wing right now. The savvier fascists have figured out that support for Israel is a bipartisan loser, so they’re staking an anti-Israel position, and some of them (Tucker Carlson, for example) are starting to integrate their antisemitic dog whistles into it.

    The left-wing should counter with any anti-zionist, anti-colonial position that explicitly rejects antisemitism, but unfortunately, the defacto left-wing party is the Democrats, who have essentially staked out the same pro-Israel middle east policy as the neocons. Right now, Trump’s support for Israel is keeping the right pro-Israel for now, but when he’s gone (and his health makes that appear imminent), the right may outflank the Democrats on Israel, leaving us to choose between antisemitism and genocide. I would guess that’s what Vance is doing here.

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    16 hours ago

    “Wahhhhh, NetanYahoo made us do it. Wahhhhh!
    Wow, look at the curves on that couch. Hubba Hubba.”

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    20 hours ago

    Oh, so you do perceive it? Good. Now do Russia, the elephant that’s been stomping around the room for at least 10 years.

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    Vance has to navigate a tricky path between the MAGA faction that wants more genocide of Arabs and Muslims, and the antisemites.

    There’s also a good-faith position possible, opposing foreign interference in US politics, but I have serious doubts that Vance does anything based on honest motives. If it were foreign interference that’s the real issue, he’d have said something about Russia too. Oh, but he can’t do that, can he?

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      He’s playing both sides so he can always come out on top.

      Especially since there’s a growing Republican base that’s against war and against funding going to Israel