I don't think of you as anything -- not to value-judge other people in their essence, only expressed ideas, which are fair game.
Bothsidesism, whataboutism, harkening to past biases, gross misrepresentations, and other logical fallacies to muddy the waters (like an episode on Fux News) doesn't address the central argument of today's reali…
I don't think of you as anything -- not to value-judge other people in their essence, only expressed ideas, which are fair game.
Bothsidesism, whataboutism, harkening to past biases, gross misrepresentations, and other logical fallacies to muddy the waters (like an episode on Fux News) doesn't address the central argument of today's reality: As messy as it it is, the Democratic Party is the only hope in the time left to effect real progressive change. But it requires motivated human beings to get inside and do the hard work.
A parliamentary-type system that gives equal weight to a wider array of parties would better represent the people, offering more checks and balances against moneyed interests. Yes, under our system we got close with Bernie as an independent running within the establishment, but who was treated most unfairly, the victim of ruthless infighting.
The machinery of a party is only as good as the people running it. We can certainly do better. But at this stage of our own crumbling democracy, third parties have virtually no chance of growing, gaining power, and effecting real change. Sometimes, "thinking outside the box" only serves to dissipate the precious energy needed to win the larger war of progressive principles.
In these upcoming elections with the world on fire both literally and figuratively, anyone not casting their vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, from city council to POTUS, is not seeing the bigger picture of humanity's plight.
OK then perhaps you could acknowledge that the Obama administration ousted a democratically elected president because he sided with Russia rather than the EU for economic stability which could have provoked Putin just a bit. To address a malady the proper diagnosis must be made, and a large part of this diagnosis is, per usual, our meddling in other country's democracies. Of course it is now up to Democrats to defend American Empire and our profit-motivated meddling and focus all their energy on the evils of Putin. I'll guarantee if a Russian coalition financed and staffed demonstrations to remove Joe Biden here in the US you wouldn't be condemning the US response. Here is a great reference detailing everything you and Thom and corporate media appear to be forgetting, that is not a knock on you of course: https://fair.org/home/in-ukraine-no-one-hears-that-there-is-a-diplomatic-solution/
Viktor Yanukovych was a hopelessly corrupt and increasingly isolated Russian stooge who enriched himself at Ukraine's expense and was viscerally hated by the majority of his own people, who rose up and chased his autocratic ass out of the country. Did we help them? No doubt about it. Did we make mistakes? Absolutely. Hypocrites? Yup.
One of the biggest blunders was not allowing Ukraine to join NATO when they had the chance. Then, Putin would not have attacked. That analysis is widely shared in our intelligence community. NATO exists solely because of Russia's aggressive policies of empire-building using force. NATO is a good alliance that should be celebrated, as it was meant as a deterrent to war. Putin is the problem, not the Western security alliance.
All sides fcked over Ukraine -- especially the US during Herr Drumpf's fake presidency of horrors. There's plenty of blame to go around, but most of it lands at the feet of Putin no matter how many analyses slice and dice the historical events leading up to where we are now. The article at FAIR provides important information but is offering no new insights not realized by those paying attention -- just one more piece of the puzzle to add to the mix of thousands. It is far from comprehensive. Bottom line: the past is unchangeable and the future is unwritten, so all the world can do is learn from the mistakes and hopefully deal with the new realities of today more intelligently going forward.
And Putin's unprovoked attack cannot stand. If so, what's to stop China from "annexing" Taiwan? Or any other ambitious tyrant with an army who decides on a whim to "expand" their "sphere of influence." We can't pussy-foot around him with halfway sanctions. He's an international pariah and needs to be completely isolated from any civilized accommodation, just like North Korea. Seize all the oligarchs' wealth, which largely resides outside of their country -- all their real estate, all their banking, all their investment accounts, and shut down all their money-laundering machines. Don't buy his gas and begin a massive push to wean the world off fossil-fuel energy. Don't worry about the Russian people; they're used to suffering under his dictatorship. But really, they also need to rise up in full-scale revolt and throw off the yoke authoritarianism, just as the brave Ukrainians did in 2014, as the American people did in 2020, and hopefully will follow through this November, again in 2024, and every election thereafter.
I don't think of you as anything -- not to value-judge other people in their essence, only expressed ideas, which are fair game.
Bothsidesism, whataboutism, harkening to past biases, gross misrepresentations, and other logical fallacies to muddy the waters (like an episode on Fux News) doesn't address the central argument of today's reality: As messy as it it is, the Democratic Party is the only hope in the time left to effect real progressive change. But it requires motivated human beings to get inside and do the hard work.
A parliamentary-type system that gives equal weight to a wider array of parties would better represent the people, offering more checks and balances against moneyed interests. Yes, under our system we got close with Bernie as an independent running within the establishment, but who was treated most unfairly, the victim of ruthless infighting.
The machinery of a party is only as good as the people running it. We can certainly do better. But at this stage of our own crumbling democracy, third parties have virtually no chance of growing, gaining power, and effecting real change. Sometimes, "thinking outside the box" only serves to dissipate the precious energy needed to win the larger war of progressive principles.
In these upcoming elections with the world on fire both literally and figuratively, anyone not casting their vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, from city council to POTUS, is not seeing the bigger picture of humanity's plight.
OK then perhaps you could acknowledge that the Obama administration ousted a democratically elected president because he sided with Russia rather than the EU for economic stability which could have provoked Putin just a bit. To address a malady the proper diagnosis must be made, and a large part of this diagnosis is, per usual, our meddling in other country's democracies. Of course it is now up to Democrats to defend American Empire and our profit-motivated meddling and focus all their energy on the evils of Putin. I'll guarantee if a Russian coalition financed and staffed demonstrations to remove Joe Biden here in the US you wouldn't be condemning the US response. Here is a great reference detailing everything you and Thom and corporate media appear to be forgetting, that is not a knock on you of course: https://fair.org/home/in-ukraine-no-one-hears-that-there-is-a-diplomatic-solution/
Viktor Yanukovych was a hopelessly corrupt and increasingly isolated Russian stooge who enriched himself at Ukraine's expense and was viscerally hated by the majority of his own people, who rose up and chased his autocratic ass out of the country. Did we help them? No doubt about it. Did we make mistakes? Absolutely. Hypocrites? Yup.
One of the biggest blunders was not allowing Ukraine to join NATO when they had the chance. Then, Putin would not have attacked. That analysis is widely shared in our intelligence community. NATO exists solely because of Russia's aggressive policies of empire-building using force. NATO is a good alliance that should be celebrated, as it was meant as a deterrent to war. Putin is the problem, not the Western security alliance.
All sides fcked over Ukraine -- especially the US during Herr Drumpf's fake presidency of horrors. There's plenty of blame to go around, but most of it lands at the feet of Putin no matter how many analyses slice and dice the historical events leading up to where we are now. The article at FAIR provides important information but is offering no new insights not realized by those paying attention -- just one more piece of the puzzle to add to the mix of thousands. It is far from comprehensive. Bottom line: the past is unchangeable and the future is unwritten, so all the world can do is learn from the mistakes and hopefully deal with the new realities of today more intelligently going forward.
And Putin's unprovoked attack cannot stand. If so, what's to stop China from "annexing" Taiwan? Or any other ambitious tyrant with an army who decides on a whim to "expand" their "sphere of influence." We can't pussy-foot around him with halfway sanctions. He's an international pariah and needs to be completely isolated from any civilized accommodation, just like North Korea. Seize all the oligarchs' wealth, which largely resides outside of their country -- all their real estate, all their banking, all their investment accounts, and shut down all their money-laundering machines. Don't buy his gas and begin a massive push to wean the world off fossil-fuel energy. Don't worry about the Russian people; they're used to suffering under his dictatorship. But really, they also need to rise up in full-scale revolt and throw off the yoke authoritarianism, just as the brave Ukrainians did in 2014, as the American people did in 2020, and hopefully will follow through this November, again in 2024, and every election thereafter.