• Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    1 day ago

    I’m not pro-zohran by any metric really [social democrat, auto dismissed], but I dont really get the criticism of him not arresting netanahyu.

    1.Hes a mayor. He can’t unilaterally recognize the ICC. And he can’t really arrest a foreign head of state, and even then what would the charge be? The only thing would maybe be delivering him to an embassy that recognizes the ICC? Then what? Idk

    2.if we push past this and say “oh well ge could just do it anyway,” he’d probably be arrested and deposed immediately, and that might be best case scenario. Worst case scenario people start shooting each other when there’s no way he or the progressive forces in America would win.

    Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a defense of anything else. But I just don’t get this one bit.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      20 hours ago

      1. The NYPD have been deputized by federal law enforcement in an anti terrorism task force. They 100% have jurisdiction. As the mayor he appoints the commissioner and he could choose a commissioner who would get it done.

      2. In the process of deposing a mayor and installing a new mayor who would then install a new police commissioner there would be plenty of time for Mileikowsky to be transferred to the Hague.

      We shouldn’t be hating on mamdani for being a liar, fraud and spinless wretch. He is a liar and a fraud and a spinless wretch but that is because he is a democrat. This is not a reason to hate him, this is a reason to hate the democratic party and anyone who would run under their banner.

    • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
      71·
      1 day ago

      We can absolutely criticize him because of three facts:

      1. He explicitly promised to arrest Netanyahu on his campaign trail.

      2. He affirmed that he would indeed arrest Hamas members in accordance with ICC warrants if they were in New York.

      3. New York City currently holds the legitimate President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, in captivity. There is already precedent in the US for illegally arresting world leaders, it wouldn’t even be a first.

      All that aside the real problem is that he lied about something he is either unable, or even uninterested to do, purely to signal to the growing anti Zionist sentiment in the US and use it as an easy way to score votes. I think it’s frankly disrespectful and a little gross to use a genocide as a means to get positive press and not follow through on your promises once you get what you want.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Yeah

        But tbh?

        If Mamdani did any of that

        He’d be toast and probably deported to Uganda.

        • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          1 day ago

          Then he shouldn’t lie that he would do it just to convince people to vote for a Democrat. It’s a failing of both him and electoralism in general.

          • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            23 hours ago

            Yeah, that’s just America political culture

            If they wanted us to vote

            They wouldn’t currently be taking the right away from folks

            • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              1·
              23 hours ago

              Honestly, I think they’re now taking that right away because of people like Mamdani winning against establishment politicians.

              Yes, Mamdani will get worse as time goes on, I know that, but they don’t want people in high places like that, especially as this global conflict develops further.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

        Doesn’t matter to me

        Obama promised a lot of shit and did none of it

        He did worse, even

        Mamdani promised to protect anti-Zionist speech

        He did in the very beginning of his administration (in a very Zionist city, mind you, or at least with a strong Zionist connection and influence)

        Cuomo had to go (I can’t imagine the Cuomo brothers having more influence and the Democrats acting like nothing is wrong with that picture)

        And he effectively got rid of him

        Mamdani has so far disappointed…

        …But frankly, I expect that of most politicians.

        I would rather have someone that pisses off both the libs and the conservatives than another AOC (where everyone is literally just “fake-mad” about AOC).

        Edit: had to actually edit and change a name there because I was distracted when I typed this and saw the error later

        • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          1 day ago

          If anything what you got is pretty much another AOC in Madani. It’s the same every time with these “progressive” US politicians. Also I don’t think Obama is a great comparison, he didn’t position himself as a radical socialist. The purpose of characters like Madani, AOC, Bernie etc. is to take all radical energy in the country and steer it back into the established capitalist political system.

          • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Cori Bush was much better than Mamdani, I’m sorry, dawg

            Every one of “the Squad” is not there any more.

            AOC is because she was and is rich and well-funded.

            Even her backstory is made up and exaggerated.

            She is there.

            The other “Squad” members aren’t.

            I would rather have a fluke like Mamdani than a psy-op like AOC.

            (anyway, whatever, Mamdani will disappoint, I already know this lol but I will take NYC traffic today than what is before lol)

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      This isn’t much different from when libs were crying about South Africa not arresting Putin.

      Arresting a sitting head of state sets a dangerous precedent that no country wants to set. It’s part of why the ICC is a joke in the first place; nobody’s going to enforce these rules except the people who have the power to escape the consequences, like the U.S. for example. It’s unrealistic to expect anybody to follow through on these “arrest X leader” threat. There’s no incentive to do so and every incentive not to.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Frankly, I am pro-Zohran

      If liberals and Zionists keep wringing their hands about him or whatever

      Then fuck it, I am not reformist, I still want revolution, but fuck, I will defend at least some of the good he does, idk…

      • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        20 hours ago

        But has he really done anything good or has he just said a lot of shit and maybe made a few bandaid solutions to systemic problems?

    • star (she)@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      62·
      1 day ago

      the criticism ive seen more is: he should do policies that he can actually do (eg. ban zionist funding / investment), instead of posturing about policies he cannot do

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    I finally put a blue light filter on my tablet and…

    Holy shit, this really works. I can feel a difference. I am not sure how it did the trick but I am not over-stimulated or having migraines right now…

    Wow…

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    2 days ago

    The attacker at Berlin Pride might be a Muslim so right wingers who also want to kill lgbtq+ people are coming out of their dungeons to defend us

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        2 days ago

        It’s just so pathetic man. These same people probably made a comment the same day about pride being shoved down their throats.

  • almalexia@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    I saw where Trump announced he’s running again, and I just wish he would have done it later so I wouldn’t have to see an endless barrage of liberals saying that “It’s illegal” and how “congress will stop him”.

    Also I am putting my prediction up of a Trump win in 2028.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    everyone should be aware of the upcoming/ongoing infiltration campaign as remarked by marco rubio.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    3 days ago

    Honestly i can’t understand being rich and like, funding nazis or whatever. I’d honestly spend all of my money paying people to make specific games/mods for me. Like not even to sell i just have really niche interests

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      3 days ago

      Because after a certain point of rich you lose all human thinking abilities it seems. You don’t get to a trillion dollars if you have lost all your soul and the only thing you can focus on atp is more power.

      I know some people from where I grew up who started businesses and sold them for a couple of millions. That is never having to work money, possibly for your kids as well. They just do fun stuff all the time, but they are nowhere near Musk or other billionaires.

    • TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      3 days ago

      They 100% do that. I don’t see any reason why they would share their mods though.

      Like, they could just call someone in Rockstar to mod GTA or smth. It would just stay in their computer.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    3 days ago

    Another heat wave is approaching in Belgium. We are nearing a month without proper rain, it’s scary. I was watching the news here in England and some places here had 33 days since their last rain. In England. It rains forever in here.

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    Reminiscing when I was so broke all I had was an apartment, a phone and a couple pairs of clothes to my name. Ended up going without electric for like 2 months because I was pocketing as much money to get out of there. Landlord ended up completely losing shit because “muh pipes” but nothing was in lease demanding I pay it so he ended up just paying the electric bill until I moved.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    When I was at Tishʻa Bʼav service a few hours ago, the Rabbi made no mention of the pogroms of 1917–1923 (but did mention the 1929 Hebron massacre as well as the Oct. 7th incident). When I asked him after the service why he omitted these events, he justified it on the grounds that mentioning every anti-Jewish atrocity would have taken too long. I then said that that era was very significant, and he brushed it aside saying that Tishʻa Bʼav is mostly about the destruction of the Temple anyway. (Although the service spent only a little time on the Temple.)

    I know that asking for some recognition of the Palestinians—beyond mentioning the ‘Arabs’ behind the Hebron massacre—would have been an ‘outrageous’ demand, but I would have at least expected the clergy to mention the largest anti-Jewish massacre before the 1940s. I sent the Rabbi an email about the subject, but as I was rushing I carelessly left in the part where I wrote, ‘While most Herzlians insist that the Shoah was so unique that it was incomparable to anything else in history, it would be utterly baffling if they explicitly included this catastrophe as something else incomparable to the Shoah, which is possibly another reason that they almost never discuss it.’ If he ever reads that email then I get the feeling that he is not going to take that comment lightly; it would be so typical for me if I received an extreme reaction.

    I can’t say that I was satisfied with the service, but oh well; it wasn’t for me. If it makes somebody sleep easier at night, good for them.

    ETA: The Rabbi replied to my email with this:

    Thank you for sharing. I am not sure I would call it a photo-shoah, but it was certainly part of the larger history of anti-Jewish violence in Europe. And you are right, it deserves more attention.

    I’m surprised that he overlooked my potshot. Maybe he was unsure how to interpret the word ‘Herzlian’.

  • muhg@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    4 days ago

    5 hours of sleep. 4 espressos drunk. 3 minutes left to live. 2 times the blood pressure. 1 chance to atomize the national bourgeoisie.

    Do not expect any posts from me tommorow, I already feel like I’m getting heart palpitations.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Please get lots of sleep tonight, if you can.

      Also, just in case, if you are taking Melatonin, Benadryl, and Valerian root regularly, it may be time to start tapering and wean off of it since it can go beyond just grogginess during the day and dependency later.

      Box-breathing does the trick for me when stuff like this happens, especially with the dark mood-drops during the day.

      Also, definitely try to cut screen usage; screen usage leads to screen fatigue which leads to over-stimulation over time.

      Erm, hope that helps in any way.

      • muhg@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        4 days ago

        Thanks for the concern comrade. It just so happens I was coming home from vacation today (by car) and drunk 4x the amount of coffee I normally drink (4 times 0 is still 0, but I’ll say it’s 1 coffee a day for maths sake). I don’t think it’ll be too hard to fall asleep tonight, given the 7 hour drive and all. Caffeine generally doesn’t affect my ability (or lack thereof) to fall asleep. I don’t take anything for sleep, if you are wondering. Given I am properly home now (and don’t have to wake up at 9 am) I should be able to get plenty of sleep (though from experience just getting that sleep doesn’t mean I’ll feel well rested in the slightest.)

        Will try to implement the advice too.