NoneOfUrBusiness

Who’s gonna stop them? The US has pretty much thrown away all leverage it’d use to prevent such a thing.

Uh… I’m pretty sure there were reasons why the economy would be worse in 2008 than 2015 other than which party is in charge. Also by that logic PiS made people’s lives worse because they were in charge when Covid hit.

Everything you said but also disillusionment with the status quo and lack of an alternative vision for the future. It’s not just that far-right politics are effective (though they certainly are), but that there’s no competition, so so people with a faulty understanding of, well, everything (and a healthy dose of bigotry) assume it’s either the right or establishment lizards they hate with every fibre of their beings.

The thing that pisses me off the most these days is Westerners thinking the “rules-based” order ever mattered. It’s not in retreat because there were never rules protecting small states from oppression by stronger actors; it was just out of sight from Westerners until 2022.

In Gaza the world has watched as a blockade on food, aid and medical supplies, in defiance of binding orders by the international court of justice (ICJ), has now entered into its third month. Israel, in search of security, has in the past month bombed Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. It is daily urging the US to be given permission to bomb Iran.

Yeah the only new part is that they’re looking to pick a direct fight with Iran. Own this shit already you pussies.

Having lived in Germany in the '90s and given current political winds, I don’t see AfD being able to get very far.

Two crucial things have changed between the 90s and now, though: the standard of living and the number of immigrants (both real and as perceived by Germans). The former is obvious, and as for the latter between the 90s and now there have been multiple (American-caused European-enabled) refugee crises in Europe due to the influx of Middle Eastern people fleeing war. This has made Germany go haywire, counteracting any advantage they may have had on the anti-fascism front over Americans—who are for the most part already used to having Others in the same environment as the Self.

According to a study in 2018 by Leipzig University, 56% of Germans sometimes thought the many Muslims made them feel like strangers in their own country, up from 43% in 2014. In 2018, 44% thought immigration by Muslims should be banned, up from 37% in 2014.[26] -Wikipedia

This sort of disdain for an Other is the indicator for fascism, and it’s very much on the rise in Germany.

They have guardrails yes, but those are only a mildly effective stalling method. Fundamentally Germany is falling at breakneck speed too, so those guardrails will only be a mild inconvenience.

Germany’s AfD gets a lot of publicity, but I’m betting on the UK being the next Western democracy to fall into fascism.

Now that you put it like that this whole thing is sounding a lot better. More isolated US? Sign me the fuck up, though unfortunately I don’t think it’s that simple.

Okay I’ll bite: What did Trump do in his first term that had a material negative impact on Palestine that wasn’t just regular US foreign policy?

I don’t think anyone was expecting Israel to actually abide by the ceasefire, but as long as there are no gross violations Gazans can get some measure of peace that they notably didn’t get under Biden.

The expanding West Bank settlements Trump supports are also genocide.

True enough, but what is Trump doing and what did he do in the past to materially support these settlements? Alternatively, what did Biden do to materially impede their expansion? Differences in rhetoric don’t matter to the Palestinians being expelled from their homes. And please don’t respond with Biden’s executive order that sanctioned a total of four people.

the “there’s a refugee camp with a never-ending stream of needless and preventable deaths” aspect of the genocide will continue unabated.

I mean yes, but what is Trump going to do to exacerbate that that Biden wasn’t and Harris wasn’t going to? America was simply never going to become a source of positive change in this conflict, so if anything Trump’s isolationist tendencies work in Palestinians’ favor, and otherwise he’s neutral compared to Biden/Harris.

You do realize the genocide is (for now) over right? Like there’s literally a ceasefire going on. Trump overturning Biden’s posturing is… Well, it’s not good but making this your “told you so” moment is just silly.

I mean there aren’t any on this platform, but in the real world they’re probably celebrating the ceasefire.

Nimrod was abducted by Hamas gunmen, along with the rest of his tank unit, near the Nahal Oz military base during the 7 October attacks. He was 19 years old.

“Abducted”? Okay say what you want about the civilian hostages but this guy wasn’t abducted; he was captured. He’s a POW.

That aside why the change of heart from Netanyahu?

his faux-masculine base

From their comment.

there is stated desire to have it

There is? Haven’t they explicitly stated they don’t want them?

I mean okay but AFAIK there’s no evidence Iran has or is working on nuclear weapons.

They don’t (at least publicly) have a nuclear weapons program.

I seriously have no idea.