Notices by Truth Sandwich 🥪🇺🇸😷 (truthsandwich@sfba.social), page 2

@HistoPol @paninid @Provinto @NoFlexZone

The problem comes when financial power can be traded directly for political power. Oligarchy.

@HistoPol @paninid @Provinto @NoFlexZone

I'm not a pessimist.

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

You are, of course, wrong about Pelosi, not that she's even in power anymore. That's just the cynical, far-left caricature of the DNC.

@Provinto @HistoPol @paninid @NoFlexZone

That they should have revolved against Hamas before it got them killed. Hamas is to blame for this war.

@HistoPol
@dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero

Hamas timed its massacre to to interfere with talks to normalization of relations between Israel and the Arabs.

The proximate goal was to trigger a war with massive civilian casualties in Gaza and play this forced tragedy for cheap PR wins against Israel.

From the POV of their Iranian masters, this aided Russia by distracting from its ongoing invasion, and it could be leveraged by their useful idiots on the American far left as an attack on quote-unquote #GenocideJoe to get Trump back into power.

Palestinians are dying so that Trump can take over America.

@RD4Anarchy @argumento @NoFlexZone @Outpatientzero @HistoPol @Lastresponder @palestine

Saying that Israel has no right to exist is indistinguishable from calling for Israeli genocide.

The people Hamas slaughtered, over a thousand of them, had a right to live that the terrorists took from them.

@HistoPol @dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero

This is not one data point, and it is not peripheral. Every bit of evidence points in the same direction: Hamas has removed any distinction between civilian and military.

They committed war crimes by using hospitals, homes, and schools as military command centers and weapons caches. They dug deep tunnels under civilian areas and likewise used them for these purposes.

By design, there is no way to attack Hamas without hitting their human shields.

Given this, and the fact that they intentionally started this war, we can only conclude that Hamas wanted Palestinians to die en masse, to be martyred for their cause.

You don't get to cause something and then complain about it. If Hamas hadn't wanted these deaths, they wouldn't have happened.

Call me coldblooded or whatever, but I refuse to be manipulated by sociopathic Realpolitik.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-troops-uncover-cache-of-long-range-rockets-in-homes-in-central-gaza/

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

As a student of American populism, I'm familiar with McCoughlin. He paved the way for Trump.

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

Fundamentally, this comes down to political power. The only way to stop the bleeding is to get enough liberals into office that we can turn our platform into law.

@paninid @HistoPol @Provinto @NoFlexZone

Not sure what to say here except to point against at my previous post.

There are better and worse ways to deal with these things. Confiscation is worse.

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

In the absolute worst case, rather than confiscating a business, the government should buy the stock.

If necessary, as with privately-held X, it should use eminent domain.

But confiscation leads to a huge moral hazard. We replace one set of oligarchs with another.

Still, I'd much sooner regulate and tax the business to death. For example, a law making X fiscally and even criminally liable for its refusal to moderate.

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

I strongly disagree with all of this, for a variety of reasons that I have expressed before.

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

I am no fan of Elmo, but I do not believe in seizure. There are better alternatives, including regulation, taxation, and competition.

The first two are self-explanatory, but the third means the government starting "businesses" that compete with the private sector. For example, the ACA's PO competes with private insurance.

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

Let's not forget China, which is the last of the communist superpowers. It has a horrendous human rights record.

@HistoPol @Provinto @paninid @NoFlexZone

Taxing the rich isn't communism. Confiscating industry and running it "for the people" is communism. And, naturally, this dictatorship of the proletariat immediately degrades into a dictatorship.

@dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero

How many Gazans who've died so far are Hamas? Is there even a clean line between Hamas militants and noncombatants?

Before you answer, consider this: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-780307

@dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero

You can oppose Israel being an ethnostate without opposing its existence as a state. (Ask me how I know.)

@dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero

Then argue for the removal of Likud from power and for the state to be neutral wrt Judaism.

Do not argue that retaliating against Hamas is "genocide" or that Hamas is justified in committing genocide (as @NoFlexZone just did).

@dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero

To remind you, nobody forced Hamas to break the ceasefire with a massacre. They chose to do it for the sole purpose of triggering a counterattack.

So if you're angry at someone for the Gazan deaths, be angry at Hamas, the Iranian terrorists who are their nominal government.

@dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero

Hamas couldn't care less about the Palestinians it claims to represent. That's the point.

They are the de facto government, as illegitimate as they are, and they use Gaza freely as their base of operations. So when they commit a massacre, Gaza is targeted.

They also commit various additional war crimes by intermixing military and civilian buildings, using Gazans as human shields.