I just assumed it was an EU thing I've never watched it, I didn't know Australia was in it too lol
I agree the reason for their being removed from competition should not be their geographic location but I was trying to provide some kind of "non-confrontational" excuse to kick them out without people screaming antisemitism.
I personally feel like genocide should be an instant disqualification but I'm sure eurovision 1939 was the same shit
Hmm now I understand.
Would you mind pointing to some info on following combined feeds? I've never seen that mentioned before and it sounds interesting but I'm not sure how to, as you say, subscribe to @uk for example.
I'm on one of the apps so its not the first time I've heard of some magical feature I never conceived of
I just dont get why they were in it in the first place. israel is in Asia, not Europe. Let the whole mena region participate if Israel stays
It says they already stripped him of the SEAL qualifications bc he didn't put up with the racism
As usual you can thank Jim crow and slavery for it. Back when black people stopped being ownable property they had to be paid to do jobs but since the hard working white folk in town who had businesses didn't want to pay black people for their work they invented a system where the freed men would have a job serving the customers and it was implied that if they did a good job you'd throw them a nickel. That was the workaround to having slaves that worked for you but technically got a "wage" from "tips" for good service. It eventually became so economically viable that it became an industry standard and now everyone gets to sell their labor to a company which externalizes the cost of paying the employee to their customers. American exceptionalism baby!
Thats why I dont understand conservatives at all when they tell me their values. For one, they do worship their politicians. They get all their positions from what those politicians tell them they should think, and all those politicians only hold those positions and evangelize them because they've been paid millions of dollars by a lobbying firm to do exactly that.
They're like three degrees removed from having any actual personal convictions about anything. It's why anytime you argue with a conservative and they say something that just inherently doesn't make sense you cant ask them to expand on what they mean. You can't dig in to any of their beliefs because the extent of their knowledge is the canned responses they've learned from fox news.
I've gone through my adulthood deconstructing all different manner of beliefs I held and tracing them back to the think tanks that came up with them. Odds are SOMETHING you believe and hold as a conviction was carefully crafted by a policy institute some time in the 80s or 90s. It's not inherently bad to hold positions that were developed by people hired to craft a specific outcome, but to do so uncritically and without regard for whether the position is factual and based in reality is bad. If you unironically go around saying climate change is unsettled science without knowing that an oil company created the lab that made the report saying climate science was unsettled then you are a bad person lol
Back on topic: lobbying creates this cognitive dissonance field around american politics that I dont think exists anywhere else in the world. People are identifying themselves with politicians and then becoming walking ambassadors for israel because the guy they identify with got 10 million dollars from a zionist lobby. Nobody in real life is walking around having the original thought of "mass murder of children is good actually, for reasons I can explain" because its an insane position you'd have to be paid millions of dollars to hold. Idk how people don't realize how badly this distortion has affected our actual lives.
It's beyond what AOC did or didnt take from which lobby. The entire monetary superstructure around our government needs to be dismantled. We cant let the government just make decisions based on who is paying the most money for any given law. We cant actually fix any of the problems facing our society if the entity responsible for the problem is also the only one wealthy enough to impact legislation that will stop the problem. That's how we end up with climate legislation that has oil subsidies and healthcare laws but no Healthcare. We've built a society by and for corporations that no human being (or planet) could survive.
I'll agree to give it another 3 months and see where we are, and I appreciate you not getting bogged down in the minutia and sticking to broad strokes. Like I said, I believe we are envisioning the same future and I dont want you to think I am fighting against you. My first election was 2016, so I'm a bit more cynical. I have less optimism for those 500 members to seize the moment instead of entrenching their dying position one last time. Could it happen? Sure. I just feel it's equally as likely that a grassroots movement takes its place. I hope for the sake of the country you're right.
Wow the Atlantic posting an article about class politics in which the class being questioned isn't the working class
Something very bad is coming
Big fucking facts. It doesn't have to be all of us, but there are plenty of people I've talked to in my conversations that do have a grasp on politics and probably COULD convince people that they were better than the two parties. If there was ever a time to start running as republicans in deep red districts and just talking about socialist policies its now. People have no idea what politics are anymore.
For example: I'm a centrist, I believe in universal Healthcare and a jobs guarantee, I want a 90% tax rate on corporations, and social security should be funded from the age of 50 for all Americans. It's really easy. Words dont mean anything anymore. Tell your people what they want to hear and then get in office and fuck shit up. If fascists could do it why cant you?
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Fair enough! I would be none the wiser if it was or not lol thanks for letting me know