Local manufacturing is politically advantageous and may employ some people at the same time, but that’s where benefits end.

There are legitimate strategic concerns with sourcing things long-term from potentially hostile states.

Europe should absolutely take advantage of current Chinese production to improve their own green energy efforts, but looking into local production in addition is not just a ‘for-show’ move. As sanctions on Russia show, dependence on markets that can potentially turn hostile can be very damaging.

Do they really have absolutely nothing to show?

They don’t want to find out. The backers are coming into office in two months’ time.

It would be really awful if Trump voters were dragged and demonized in public.

“I just want you to think about what the alternative was,” said Abbas, referring to the current administration’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon. He added, “What did you expect from myself or many members of the community to do?”

“Think of what the alternative is” is exactly what we were saying.

People are stupid. And because of that, we’ll suffer an incredible amount of harm that very easily could have been avoided.

Oh hey look, there’s the ultraconservative Sulla, why does he have his entire army with him?

Doesn’t matter, though. The US’s leverage in restricting weapons is the relationship with Ukraine and continued supply of aid. With Trump in office, both are nonexistent; there’s little reason for Ukraine to comply with any US restrictions going forward from that point.

Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Because Biden and the rest of the leadership are a bunch of Cold War fossil fucks.

No shit. She’s there because it’s the closest she can get to COP29. She didn’t intend to come there to support your agenda and made no secret of it.

That seems to be the problem, though. If someone comes by and uses your protests as a platform for their own causes under the guise of allyship, is that not a reason to be irritated?

Each side is trying to wear down the other rather than make massive territorial gains as in the early days of the war.

Don’t worry, the spineless cunts will all fall in line when the time comes, like the good little fascists they are.

And plenty of non-Republicans were ready to buy into that.

Cute.

MLs about to become free trade advocates.

Not what the article is actually talking about, though. It seems to be talking about a change in American foreign policy rather than domestic notions of uniqueness.

No ‘ha’ here from me. It’s just sad. And infuriating.

The whole premise of this being a news story, and a story that receives reliable engagement and gets injected into every story about Lebanon and Palestine is that these votes of these people have meaningfully caused the problems we’re all going to experience.

That’s a lot of reading in to a common post-election story of buyer’s remorse that’s all over the place, about multiple demographics, right now.

And be honest, we’re looking at like 5% more genocide than Biden.

Lord.

but despite being marginalized as small and unimportant for months are now being covered as the post facto cause of failure,

Where are they blamed for the failure of the campaign here, again?

without anyone even recognizing that this was being predicted by Democratic party members well in advance as the obvious result of just trying to ignore the genocide.

The obvious result was that a not-insignificant part of the country is stupid enough to vote for ‘more genocide’ instead of less?

“It’s like he’s going on Zionist overdrive,” said Nazarko, adding, “it does look like our community has been played.”

You literally played yourself. No help from Trump. I can’t think of a single goddamn thing he’s said that was even vaguely pro-Palestine. Jesus Christ.

It’s so sad, but pointing this out as an obvious consequence would have been bullying. of course, and immediately shot down as such.