More democratic structures mean more discussions, votes, etc.

And what’s the problem with that?

It’s also susceptible to outrage campaigns and similar.

That works well in anti-democratic societies - you have no proof that it will even be possible to do such in ones that can actually be called democratic with a straight face.

I just discovered today that the Soviet army’s boots were made by prison labor throughout the Cold War, and that never changed afterward. Just like the US army’s kevlar helmets!

“modern prohibitions of human trafficking in the United States have their roots in the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which barred slavery and involuntary servitude in 1865.”

Ummm, the 13th Amendment (supposedly) “barred” slavery, Counterpunch? Let’s check quickly, shall we?

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Nope. Still looks to me like slavery is as perfectly legal and perfectly institutionalized in the US as ever.

But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a tankie-loving rag such as Counterpunch will be perfectly fine with slave labor as long as Big Brother says it’s okay.

With US out of NATO, it is a point closer to Europe to threaten Europe.

The US has Britain, which is essentially a US client state these days.

ushering in the last 16 years of radicalization

Accepting fascism is “radical” now?

Mosquitos.

President of what?

A lot of these are perfectly naive.

It, for example, assumes that mass media wasn’t being controlled beforehand (it always is) and that corporate power wasn’t being protected beforehand (it always is).

Fascism is not some aberration of the liberal nation state - it’s a built-in feature of it.

I live in a dumpster FIRE.

They were (allegedly) trying to “balance” public safety and privacy?

Why would they “balance” two things they absolutely DO NOT care about?

you also have to convince them it’s worth getting shot over.

When they start shooting protestors, the time for protest is over.

Sounds totes like a “classless” system, eh folks?

Yeah the democrats were weak when it comes to Gaza.

The Dems were not “weak” on Gaza - they very strongly supported their favorite little genocidal white supremacist colonialist project.

But, they didn’t say “the west bank is yours for the taking. Go get!”

Nobody “handed” Israel the West Bank - the IDF can concentrate on the West Bank now because they were too entangled by their abysmal failure to beat Hamas in Gaza.

largely peaceful anti-israel protests that were commonplace under the democrats will now get violently shut down by autocratic style policing

Good. The people doing “peaceful” protest needs to learn what “peaceful” protest amounts to one way or the other.

Also trump has an extremely pro Israeli track record

So does the entire US political establishment, including anyone the Dems will allow as a presidential candidate.

The Swiss? Those people known for their (supposed) “neutrality” despite helping the Nazis squirrel away all that stolen wealth?

Say it isn’t so!

Thanks to neoliberalism I don’t have any money to spend on these products anyway!

PTB or CLM… I’m torn.

Your take on this is as shit as any other emanating from the lemmy.world liberal hivemind, but I don’t think the ban was justified (at least not according to the available information).

Believing a politician actually cares about you is like believing the stripper likes you,

Hey, come now… there’s no need to compare those parasites to strippers.

YDI.

You’re a genocide denier. No ifs, ands or buts.

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