Fuck wealthy assholes that think their opinion is more valuable than the rest of us.
And fuck a system in which their opinion’s correct
When people talk about the illegitimacy of democracy under capitalism, this scarecrow and her late husband are why.
How can democracy co-exist in an economic system where orgs are run like dictatorships from the top down, and individuals hold more wealth, power, and influence than entire nation states — despite those orgs employing, and being dependent on, thousands or millions of workers?
It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.
Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.
It’s not. At the end of the day, their vote is still just one of many.
Fucking vote. Get your friends to vote. Volunteer for a campaign. There are a ton of liberal groups that call people or knock on doors to get out the vote.
The only thing she has is money which hires… people to get out the vote. Commercials, endorsements, etc. none of that was enough to get Hillary elected. GOTV is what works. Fucking do it.
Why vote when you can just buy an entire candidate?
Original title: Miriam Adelson’s Unfinished Business What does the eighth richest woman in the world want?
The article shows how aggressively anti-peace she is and her beliefs about the land to support the above claim
Sheldon Adelson’s widow. yeah, this all makes way too much sense. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in 2018, from #45. The wikipedia pic of her shows #45 solemnly placing the medal around her neck.
Sheldon Gary Adelson (August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman,[2] investor, political donor, and philanthropist.[3][4][5] He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo and Convention Center before selling the properties in early 2022.[6] He owned the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, the Israeli weekly newspaper Makor Rishon, and the American daily newspaper the Las Vegas Review-Journal.[7][8]
Adelson created the Adelson Foundation in 2007, a private charity focusing on healthcare and support of Israel and the Jewish people. He was a major contributor to Republican Party candidates[9][10] and was often dubbed a “kingmaker” due to the size and frequency of his donations.[11][12] He and his wife Miriam Adelson were Donald Trump’s largest donors, providing the largest donation to Trump’s 2016 campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference, and the 2020 campaign.[13][14][15][16][17][18] He was also a major backer of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[19]
In 2020, Forbes listed his net worth as US$29.8 billion.[20]
He died in 2021
If anybody reading this is voting against Biden because of Palestine (effectively a vote for trump under fptp) these are trumps #1 fans and bill payers
Pro trump is not pro Palestine.
A vote for Biden is also a vote for israel.
Have you already forgotten that under Biden israel committed the largest land theft in the West Bank in a long time?
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
That’s like saying Trump gets credit for everything that happened under his term even if somebody else did it, like the vaccine developed in Germany getting first to market
But no, that’s not how it works, unless you expect Biden to go in with the US military and declare war on Israel’s government
I expect Biden to put sanctions on israel and withold weapons when they violate war crimes.
Biden has also not undone Trumps move of moving the israeli embassy onto stolen land meaning Biden is on board with it.
Trump gets credit for the Zionism during his term, Biden gets credit for his own Zionism. Or need you be reminded that Biden openly calls himself a Zionist?
Are you expecting Biden to send the US military to enforce actions like that? How else will he make it happen on ground controlled by Israeli security forces without permission from Israel?
He canceled the previous veto policy;
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/netanyahu-biden-gop-effort-to-sanction-icc-00160387
Direct sanctions
Has in fact already withheld weapons (yeah it should’ve been done earlier, but Trump is the kind of person who’d make a point of supplying more).
https://apnews.com/article/israel-weapons-shipment-us-eed365ebef0477ba74bf9848cacae4f4
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/10/pause-us-joins-other-states-stopping-arms-transfers-israel
GOP, Trump’s party, want to enforce continued weapon sales to Israel and prevent Biden from halting it
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-gop-pushes-israel-weapons-bill/story?id=110228315
Seriously - how can any person be so brazenly and thoroughly warped?
I can only assume that, like so many of the fabulously wealthy, she’s profoundly mentally ill, such that she really can’t grasp the enormous human cost that fulfilling her petty, selfish and ultimately pointless desires would entail. It can only be the case that she genuinely can’t grasp the fact that the millions of people who would be made to suffer or die for this are actual people - actual beings with lives and loved ones who are every bit as important to them as hers are to her.
It’s either that or she’s genuinely evil, in the purest sense of the word, and on a scale the world has rarely seen.
So which is it Ms. Adelson? Are you insane or simply evil? There’s absolutely no doubt - none at all - that it’s one or the other.
She’s a billionaire. She’s used to killing people for selfish interests.
Psychopathy.
To get that rich, one needs to be able to think of other people as things. “Human Resources” as such.
If other people are things then there’s no moral problem “decommissioning” them be it redundancy or killing.
What would make her evil is, if knowing this, she makes no effort to mitigate it. Given she’s a billionaire: evil.
Single-issue voters are ruining our county.
She’s literally Israeli. I’d call it more than just a single issue for her.
This is the modern day equivalent of Western Expansion for genocidal Americans during the 19th century. You’re talking about a host of issues - Zionist white nationalism, Lebensraum, oil field development, and war time economics - bundled into a discrete set of buzzwords. There’s so much ideology and so much money packed into the idea of a Greater Israel spilling like bucket of spoiled milk across the Levant.
This is manifest destiny for neoconservatives. Its at the center of the Project for the New American Century. Israel is the beating heart of American Imperialism. Its the fulcrum by which Washington and Wall Street hope to turn the world.
I’m no anthropologist or anything, but I’m pretty sure the annexation of the West Bank would guarantee a permanent guerilla terrorist force operating within Israel’s borders for the foreseeable future. Israel would never know peace. In 200 years they’ll probably still trying to snuff out terrorist cells constantly killing civilians.
Just with this war they have created thousands of fresh new volunteers for Hamas both within and outside the general area of the conflict.
The way out of this is more empathy for the Palestinians, not less.
it’s important, critical, to remember that Israel didn’t blunder into this conflict; they were warned by internal and external intelligence that Hamas was going to attack, that it was going to be big.
Any rational actor would have readied their defenses, Bibi didn’t care. This is because Bibi needed the conflict to stay in office. And now Bibi’s jerking around POTUS.
Bibi’s been growing Hamas for decades. It serves his needs.
To be completely fair there is no way out of this.
Both sides will accept nothing but the COMPLETE destruction of the other side.
No? Israel is and has always been the deciding factor in whatever happens with Palestine. They refused a legitimate 2 state solution, continuously have stolen land from the west bank and Gaza, and are openly genocidal towards Palestinians?
How can you both sides this in a comment thread under an article about a zionist literally trying to pay off an American politician to support the Israeli government in committing crimes against humanity?
Bullshit, if you think Hamas would have kept the peace on any level. Or the terrorists that pre-dated Hamas…
“Would have”
Cool, but I don’t care about this weird hypothetical world you’re talking about that we do not live in and have never lived in. The Israeli military is armed by the United States with american weapons. The IDF, with American guns and missiles and planes and tanks, is in no way threatened by what a group of disenfranchised Muslim extremists can cobble together. It’s never even been close, not in 1949 and not for one second since then. They are essentially prisoners of the state. They are disenfranchised. They do not have access to land to till and raise animals in. They do not have freedom of movement. The water they have is controlled by Israel, the electricity they have is controlled by Israel, the medical supplies they have are controlled by Israel. The strip is an open air enclave. The west bank is and has been slowly being annexed by Israel (crime against humanity) over the last 60 years.
You’re talking about a population of 2 million people with 1 struggling to operate hospital. Who have been mass murdered thousands of times over the last 100 years by the IDF and Israeli state. This road does not go both ways and it never has. They literally mowed starving Palestinian men women children and elderly down with machine guns. People following a truck carrying flour because they are desperate for food. There are children starving to death in hospitals. We have people who need medications to survive dying because the IDF and the Israeli state and the zionists are doing everything they possibly can to prevent them for getting those things.
It’s time for you to open your fucking eyes. You’re trying to both sides a genocide, equating the genociders with the victims.
You referred to “Arabs in the area” in another comment of yours too, equating hamas with all Muslim people in the middle east. Ask yourself why you’re generalizing a population of hundreds of millions of people and claiming they are all genocidally antisemitic.
Hamas will militantly decline any peace offer that doesn’t include their holy sites.
It’s a no win situation. This war will continue long after everyone here is dead.
I’m guessing that’s because no adequate partition of a continuous extension of territory with an equitable distribution of viable habitable construction space and access to resources and the Mediterranean has not been made yet since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
I can assure you even the most militant, radicalized Hamas members would leap at such proposal with smiles on their faces. Even if it benefited slighly Israel more, they’d still do it, no problem.
Do you truly believe any proposals so far have been in any way, shape or form even approximately fair in the same measure for both parties ?
Of course not, Israel wants the rest of their ancient land. And the Arabs in the area want them gone completely.
Anyone that claims differently is being disingenuous, or out right lying.
Yeah maybe it started out that way for sure, but after so much death people on both sides are starting to consider other options. You can see that in Israel right now, people who are rejecting this narrative of either us or them. Maybe the crazies will always think this way, but over time people will be willing to make concessions. After all what good is it to rule a pile of rubble constantly under attack ?
A half promised land at peace is better than an entire promised land constantly in war economy. It’s not only quality of life we’re talking about. The entirety of the Jewish people is being blemished and shamed by the current actions of Israel.
She could get that for free from Biden, but why buy just one side in a two party system?
He means this Biden
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
March 22, 2024 - Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group.
You mean the one who DIDN’T approve of those actions? Unlike Trump who explicitly revoked a policy against the settlements?
Okay so? Does Biden impose sanctions on israel now? Stop funding their Genocide?
Notice my article being newer than yours.
The only difference between Biden and Trump is lip service.
Ok, this is newer if you want to do it that way
See also
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/netanyahu-biden-gop-effort-to-sanction-icc-00160387
I don’t need the weekly Biden gaslight lip service I’ve already read it.
Biden is inviting Netanyahu over to speak in Congress so the uniparty can bow down to their glorious leader. He is not sanctioning israel and is continuing to send them weapons. Only some big bombs got held up but he made sure to send israel enough smaller ones. Weapon experts have left his administration over Bidens violations of weapons laws.
Biden has also rejected the ICC warrant already. Him not sanctioning the ICC barely makes a difference. You are truly looking for the smallest of differences here which says a lot about Biden.
You mean you’ve already decided before reading it because your opinion isn’t based on reality but a hunt for reasons to hate Biden
So his old article doesn’t count because it’s too old, and the new one doesn’t count because you say so?
Fuck off with that.
Even if Biden should do more, you’re deliberately pretending Trump’s record on this is unknown to be able to pretend they’re the same. I know you know how bad he is, and you’re lying about it.
We are talking about the biden that is only talking peace deal to save his election. We all know he wont follow through with it and Israel has already said they dont approve.
Can you provide a link to this “save his election” Idea? I’m having a hard time finding anything that’s communicating his thoughts about that.
Any of his useless pandering that produces a headline, and no results.
Politicians are mostly assholes. We got this one to move in the right direction… his opponent is still advocating for “ending the war quick” and would likely start sending over war-crime munitions.
Out of one side of his mouth, Biden talks about peace out of the other side of his mouth, he talks about sending more money and weapons. One side is lying and it’s not the side about sending money and weapons
We got this one to move in the right direction
What direction is that, he didn’t listen when they said defund cops, didn’t listen when we said universal healthcare, didn’t listen when we sent cease fire, didn’t listen when we said expand marginalized rights.
So what direction did you move them?
edit sp
Do you prefer the Trump who moved the US embassy in Israel?
Do you prefer Biden who hasn’t moved it back?
Yes, the one that has said for 50 years he will always support Israel no matter what…
Like,remember when he had that falsified report claiming no evidence American weapons had been used in the genocide?
He said that was why he could keep providing munitions…
Then there was an indisputable evidence of American munitions used in Raffah…
And he’s done…
What exactly?
Besides continuing to break US and international law by providing munitions used in a genocide.
Biden can draw asany lines as he wants, Bibi seems to enjoy leaping over them immediately. And it’s not like Biden has anything else he could be doing.
Edit:
Did you even read that two sentence article?
It doesn’t really provide any info, so not sure why you’re linking it.
But Biden’s “deal” is literally what Israel wants, it’s not even a permanent deal…
And Hamas isn’t accepting that, they accepted a deal that leads to a permanent ceasefire, not a 6 week pause.
That’s what Biden is pushing, Hamas gives up everything, and Israel tries to avoid killing civilians for a month and a half.
Did you read about the Trump peace deal (organized via his kids!), which would require only Palestinians to make concessions, giving up land, giving up freedoms, being subject Israel’s security forces, giving them no rights, and which gave all power to Israel (and which obviously fell through)?
Biden applies political pressure on Netanyahu to push for ceasefire:
Trump plans to pressure Palestinians:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_peace_plan
The plan proposed a series of Palestinian enclaves surrounded by an enlarged Israel,
Netanyahu announced that the Israeli government would immediately annex the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements while committing not to create new settlements in areas left to the Palestinians for at least four years. U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman claimed that the Trump administration had given permission for an immediate annexation, stating that “Israel does not have to wait at all”
The plan itself places no conditions on Israel with regard to proposals to “annex parts of the West Bank”.[8]
The plan puts the Palestinians on probation, establishing a set of conditions they must meet and adopting Netanyahu’s view that a shrunken Palestinian entity will be a state in name only; Israel will control of its borders, air space, electro-magnetic spectrum, foreign policy and security
Biden has helped clear away 115 sq miles of Gaza land for Trumps kids. Its fucking insane how groups if people will overlook whats actually happening and be terrified of what might happen,
Have you seen Trump’s history of actions? It’s not what “might” happen, it’s a certainty he’ll make it worse
Yes, and I’ve also seen Biden’s history of actions, evidence that neither one of them represents the working class.
Biden who canceled tons of student debt and supported unions, not supporting the working class?
Do you favor the Trump who supported companies above unionizing workers?
Yes…
It’s bad when trump supports a genocidal regime…
It’s bad when Biden supports a genocidal regime…
Now, here’s the big one. Get up and stretch, take a nice long deep breathe.
Ready?
It’s bad when literally fucking anyone supports a genocidal regime.
Here’s another big one:
If you excuse Dems for doing something because trump does it too, then if you don’t slow down and look around, you’re going to be supporting someone just like trump, because republicans found some asshole even worse.
Republicans won’t magically get better
I don’t excuse the dems, but you refuse to accept that Trump is 10 000x worse
Netanyahu would not be angry at Biden for his demands if Biden was fine with everything they do.
Netanyahu would not prefer to have Trump back if the two were equal.
but you refuse to accept that Trump is 10 000x worse
No I don’t, because he obviously is.
It’s just neither of them are good enough to be president.
Like,you know there’s not really a valid reason to run unpopular neoliberals just because trump is in office right?
We could just runnwhat Dems historically do very very well with:
A young charismatic person running a progressive campaign.
There is literally no reason to be running someone the majority of registered Dem voters don’t want to be president, just because they don’t want the Republican.
How does that system make any logical sense?
How will shit ever improve?
Ok, then tell me who that candidate is who can win instead of Biden.
I’m waiting.
I am not super fond of Biden, and wouldn’t mind seeing him replaced. But my top priority is harm reduction, and switching to a candidate who can’t beat Trump would send USA into turmoil
