26th August 2025, 7:59 PM
Also, it has been like pulling teeth to tug the democratic liberal core over to seeing that... right now there's an actual genocide going on and Israel are the ones doing it. Even bring it up the very first talking point, like talking to damn parrots is, "Hey, but doesn't Israel have the right to defend itself?" The answer to that is... "Yes, BUT, that's not what they're doing. They're committing a genocide. It has nothing to do with self defense, if it ever did." It's a core international relationship issue, and when it comes to international politics, they have nothing to do with morality. They don't, and that's a hard pill to swallow, but it's the practical reality. ALL international politics are about maintaining power, or gaining power. That's it. Morality is the excuse tacked on after the fact. But internally? We DO care about morality, and so when republicans who think morality is zero sum find that they agree with liberals who just think that rocking the boat is a very bad idea, you get people actively trying to fight back against THE most exciting mayoral candidate New York has had in many many years. What ever happened to "vote blue no matter who"? Well, the reality is... they didn't mean it. It was a slogan.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)