u/Not_mikey

If only we had some sort of deal with Iran to monitor there nuclear program and make sure they can't make a nuke in exchange for sanctions relief or something...

Nah, we already got el salvador for that. They're gonna need to open up to all the Palestinians "voluntarily leaving" gaza after netanyahu and co make it uninhabitable.

That'd be great if freedom of movement wasn't one of the first rights they take away to prevent something like this.

Careful there keir, this is the exact kind of "anti-semitism" that ya'll kicked Jeremy Corbyn out of the party for.

Yeah, I'm staunchly for legalization of all "vices" but I'm not going to pretend that they're harmless and aren't valid reasons to want to get rid of them besides being a kill joy.

There were some in the first gulf war. People forget but iraq had the sixth largest airforce at the time and were able to shoot down a couple American planes before being overwhelmed and fleeing to Iran.

Then charge them with conspiracy to commit vandalism or whatever. They have so far shown no evidence that they entered the building, much less did any vandalism or threats, and no charges have been made.

If you allow people to be deported without due process then you've given the power of arbitrary deportation of anyone legally in the country to the state. Look at how this is going in the US, we sent someone to a Salvadoran gulag over a tattoo and now we can't even get them back home.

Do you really want to set this precedent and give that power to the afd if/when they gain power?

Maybe he wants to court the left block because of the three part hung parliament they're in right now so he can get more defense spending and Ukraine support passed since the u.s. is backing off Europe.

Maybe he's trying to fill in the power vacuum in the middle east after the u.s. lost all its soft power supporting this war.

Maybe he's tired of the houthis attacking shipping and hoping to get a French pass if they recognize palestine.

Maybe he's just a good guy and is just disgusted by genocide.

Bit of a chicken and egg problem, most people aren't buying stocks because they have no money, not because they don't understand them. They have no money because the stock holders of the companies choose to put there profits into dividends and stock buybacks rather than increasing wages.

Class antagonism cannot be solved by just giving workers stock, because the worse off workers will just sell it due to economic pressure. Some may be able to hold it but they will have there interests ruptured with the stockless workers. So the capitalists will just raise the wages on those classes of workers with significant ownership , eg. The managers and professionals, and continue to ignore the rest, which is about where we're at right now.

In order to have mass ownership of stocks there would have to be a mass social safety net so the people aren't forced to sell there stocks to make ends meet. At that point then stocks stop becoming a source of security for the workers since they already feel secure from that safety net. Then they just become a voting mechanism for production that is still heavily skewed towards the rich. That would be better handled by the government or unions which have an equitable voting system.

Yeah the problem isn't in our government structure, in this case, but in the republican cult of personality.

It sucks but the Republicans won a very narrow victory in the house senate and president. No matter what system you have, if it's at all democratic that party makes all the decisions. The problem is there making the decision to standby and watch as a demented oaf flushes the country down the toilet

And deport all the PHDs who criticize it. That'll get us back in the top spot academically.

And the fed probably won't let the government dump money into the system because there gonna be afraid of these tarriffs causing inflation.

A lot of countries / cultures do still have bride prices , i.e. reverse dowry, so there is some economic incentive for women there but probably not enough to commit infanticide or selective abortions that causes some of the lopsided male ratios.