u/rocket_dragon

>By the same contrived logic

No, those are absurd statements with no logic.

>See how pointless such arguments are?

Yours are, mine isn't.

You could try actually addressing what I say instead of making absurd statements and then acting like you making absurd statements is proof that my statement is absurd.

Okay well you didn't have to lie and say it's included when it isn't included.

If you follow that line of reasoning:

Because we can't stop Israel without violence, any call to stop Israel is a call for violence against Israel.

And violence against Israel is banned.

So stopping Israel is banned.

So the rules enforce allowing Israel to continue a genocide.

The rules are pro-genocide.

>Isn't the IDF Israel's regular army?

Nope. Nope. Nope.

https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/civil-military-relations-in-israel-politics-state-society/

Can you quote the specific part of the text that bans defending the IDF?

All four of those track.

I woNder whAt kind of Zany person commIts war crimes against journalists.

Yeah... I don't see this going anywhere. Tulsi Gabbard saw no consequences for perjury over the leaked Signal thread either, and at the end of the day Facebook spreads the misinformation and propoganda that most benefits the GOP. Hawley fully backs the felony mob boss in the White House, he's just chasing clout. Zuckerberg will make another generous donation to the MAGA mafia, kneel to kiss the ring, and everything will continue on same as usual.

If you're an American born white person, yes.

If you're an immigrant, even a legal one, all bets are off. If you're American born but you *look* like you *maybe* could be an immigrant, you're in danger too.

Hot take: deontological ethics is a sad way to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

I don't think the ends justify the means, and in equal measure I don't think the means justify the ends.

>Then take a step back and think which is a better way to fight the vast and sprawling abuses of fascism.

I'm all for hearing a better way of fighting fascism. Letting a death cult take control of all branches of government was definitely a method. I'm not going to stop listening but like... what the fuck are we doing?

>When we think of what a bright future is, its a system of laws that irons out basic unfairness and brutality. We all want this. We disagree on how to get there.

Oh yeah, I want this, and I disagree very heavily with the death cult absolute power method. But I don't have a choice now, it's up to you now to prove that fighting alongside the death cult was the better choice.

>I despise republicans, and always have, but I despise traitors on my own side even more.

Completely understandable on an emotional level, but if you're not careful this can easily turn into an accidental alliance with Republicans, and it often does.

He's definitely not part of any fascist organizations, the oligarch throwing Nazi salutes can vouch for him.

Because it's like spending lots of money paying for gas to drive your car, and you don't like that, so you take a steaming hot dump in your gas tank, you know, "as a change in perspective".

Surprise, you won't save anything on gas, and your car runs like shit now too.

>Trump’s plan involves using tariffs to pressure foreign central banks to lower interest rates, thereby depreciating their currencies relative to the dollar. This would offset the price increases caused by tariffs on U.S. consumers.

Nothing about this string of connections makes any sense. Why would they lower interest rates, why would their currency depreciate?

Other countries are just going to form trade partnerships with each other and avoid the US. There will be a new strengthening global economy that skips the US entirely.

It's Brexit all over again, but instead of the UK suffering from leaving the EU, it's the US suffering from leaving the global economy. At some point the US will have to come crawling back just for deals worse than it had in the first place.

Varoufakis' reasoning is fully consistent with the Trump/Musk world of drug-induced delusion.