This logic is nonsense under the such an anticompetitive global economy. There are often only a few options, and they are often all shit in the exact same ways. A “vote with wallet” mentality makes little sense when the market is a oligopoly. As wealth inequality increases and competition decreases, capitalists increasingly ignore consumer demand. After all, we have less disposable income, less wealth, and fewer choices on who to give money to. Blaming the consumer gives companies and governments that refuse to regulate a free pass.

I hope this queerphobe in denial actually leaves for good and doesn’t pull some supervillain comeback.

Edit: goddammit

It’s so frustrating that people still want to interpret the censorship as just “going after those calling for violence.” There is nothing violent about girls kissing or using submissive emojis; they just didn’t like that queer stuff. There is no way to write that off as anything else. This person found queer behavior icky and wanted to hide it from view. Them claiming to care about bigotry was hypocritical virtue signaling.

I mean, us mentally ill people aren’t all authoritarian assholes

op wouldn’t understand that; they love the bomb too much

The Hindu nationalists financing the country that targets mainly Muslims? I’m shocked, truly shocked!

idk, the UK still dabbles enough to not not be an empire

Appealing to his ego and earning his admiration isn’t puppetry, but manipulation. Puppetry is when someone is forced to do another’s bidding against their will. Trump simps for daddy Putin and brother Netanyahu voluntarily, not because they force him.

there are plenty of very evil and very competent people in the regime pulling the strings and setting the long term goals and strategies

That’s the part I specifically don’t believe. Even the people like Bannon who have certain impressive skills, are ultimately short term thinkers that are liable to miscalculation due to arrogance. At the end of the day, they know not to speak out against any dumb move Trump wants to pull, as he has consistently purged such people and replaced them with insane yes-men.

Trump has never been puppeted, only manipulated and tricked by people appealing to his ego. He is uniquely adept at uniting fascist foot soldiers and oligarchic interests, but he has never been the billionaires’ perfect option. They tried to replace him before both the 2016 and 2024 elections, specifically because he isn’t their lapdog.

And now Trump is trying to apply last minute pressure after fucking around and finding out. People underestimate just how little strategy is involved in the US approach.

I think you’re overestimating this regime.

What an absolutely disgusting statement. Such drivel doesn’t even warrant the responses debunking it.

Typically the two go hand in hand

Considering what France has done in Africa, maybe they aren’t the right people.

The problem is that the war was something that any American imperialist with a brain would want to avoid. This war was the dumbest in American history, doing more to destroy American soft power than any past geopolitical blunder. Democrats might saber rattle and try to fuck over Iran in any way they could; they might even try to install the shaw or something using the CIA. However, ever liberal president has recognized just how easy it is for Iran to shut down the strait, and how costly it’d be to actually stop them.

The only reason Trump went along with Israel is that he doesn’t care about American imperial interests. All he wanted was a win that would make him look strong, and he thought Iran was a reliable punching bag. He was riding high off of his success with Venezuela and believed Netanyahu when he said it would be easy. Democrats might be in Israel’s pocket, but they aren’t ego driven enough to fall for that; only Trump would be.

You can’t be serious

One bankrolls the genocide, lets nationalistic goons squash dissent in their own country, and gives pathetic platitudes while hoping the domestic outrage goes away. The other is just more mask off about how much they love killing Muslims. It doesn’t matter if Trump builds a casino or the settlers build their own resort; the land is still taken and the people are still gone. His whole involvement in settling Gaza probably did less to normalize it than what the Democrats were doing. If American Hitler says the quiet part out loud, can other countries really stand by so easily?

You can definitely say that Trump is worse on so many issues, but he hasn’t done much more than the Democrats to help Israel with Gaza. The only thing he did that Democrats wouldn’t do is attack Iran, and that will probably come back to bite Israel in the long run, just like everything else they’ve done to influence other countries. Get ready for a wave of nasty antisemitism in the future, brought to you by the politicians who listened to AIPAC more than their own constituents. I feel so bad for the Jewish diaspora who will get scapegoated thanks to liberal spinelessness

It makes perfect sense. Trump is a bully who will stab any ally in the back and doesn’t get into fights he thinks he might lose.

Both of these statements are true, and ultimately it’ll be people who pay the price for imperial arrogance.