Odd comparing to what? Two rounds is the way to ensure the president has a majority: first you vote for who you want, second time you veto. This is how you elect presidents in countries like France, Brazil, Romania, Portugal…it makes sense :)

PS: Macron did not resign, these are not presidential elections, this is a legislative election only.

Just one more “o”, maybe it will be there…

If I had a vote, I’d be voting for the guy stopping trump from killing you, what else do you want me to do, if even you won’t help yourselves in the simplest way possible?

Fair enough, trump’s guys aren’t coming for me first, they are coming for the Gaza protesters, they are coming for abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, they are coming exactly for the rights of people refusing to vote for Biden…it’s sort of ironic. You can read what you are enabling here: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

Always has been :D

It was dear leader’s personally excreted airdrop gift of much needed fertilizer for starving capitalists down south.

“mmm, medicine, my favourite…”

Dude, lemmy doesn’t have enough users to justify targeted hasbara activity or any other PR firm, that’s part of the magic of the fediverse, at least for now.

In all discussions I’ve had about this, the root of the whole issue that fractures discourse is: should Israel disappear or not?

I think not (even if the original partition plan was too utopic and inviting a disaster), so the best Palestinians will ever get is what was in the original partition agreement, which you just have to accept peacefully, not with war, war declarations make palestine lose ground e.g. 1967 borders. I’m sure if a Palestinian government (not fucking hamas) recognized Israel, they’d get their state tomorrow, but this was never accepted, sooo…

if instead ou think Israel should disappear or turn into an ungovernable fractured state like Lebanon, like hamas wants, then…“fight back to your oppressors” and you’ll have endless war.

So you think what hamas did on Oct 7th was to “Fight back to your oppressors”? You’re the one living in fantasy land.

In Ukraine’s case russia is guilty of both the crimes of hamas and Israel:

russia invaded with the intent to wipe out their neighbour and wiping out Ukrainian identity from the region (like hamas wants to wipe out Israel and would if they had the means). They resort to unethical asymmetric tactics and torture innocents in the name of national liberation like hamas.

as well as

levelling whole cities with massive civilian casualties without regard for human life (like Israel is doing).

There is no equivalence.

With a bit of luck, bibi will be ousted before the games and some saner people will take over and have a ceasefire… :/