Whats to stop Israel from doing it is the significantly better question. Iran is concerned about global backlash and Israel is clearly not.

Israel admitted they targetted apartment buildings where leaders lived. Its not a missile shootdown.

No. When a military attacks a civilian structure like that they have to prove they acted proportionally, and that they acted to minimize casualties of innocents. Israel never provides that proof and they do this all the time, so absent that poof they are legally war crimes. Its well established law. There is no “of a sort” – theres war crimes and not war crimes. Israel commits war crimes and this was yet another war crime. They cant just pretend any amount of dead civilians near a “target” is just fine. Thats not how any of this works. It’d be the same war crime if they blew up a stadium full of people to kill one man.

brutal racist colonization is not “trying to not stop existing”.

Targetted military installations, Israel said. But seems they instead hit residential apartment complexes. So, yet another war crime.

I’ll save you the time and keep you from adding to their page views count: Its a hack job article urging NPR to be more right leaning. Absolute drivel.

yeah. I just wish they cared more about doing whats right and what their constituents want. Except for the abstract threat of re-election, I dont think many of them care what we think. There needs to be a new school house rock series to describe this new reality to us filthy peasants.

raising money by calling donors is most of a congressman’s job. AIPAC rolling up and saying they can skip that hassle must be a pretty compelling offer.

forcing them to choose between voting against an antisemitism resolution so Republicans can slam them as being antisemitic and anti-Israel

The majority of Americans dont support whats going on in Israel. So its not much of a box to be in. https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/less-half-sympathetic-toward-israelis.aspx

What the dem congressman as a group and individually risk is campaign contributions from AIPAC. This has always been about bribes from foreign lobbyists. They arent trapped in any box they dont want to be in. ITs like saying your cat is trapped in a box. They love that box.

I’m not even sure what “democrat” means anymore. They havent really had a cohesive platform since Obama. Its just some vague “left of whatever republicans say” sort of hand waving that they often dont even bother to follow through on.

Seems the overton window has shifted far enough to the right that walmart execs are now what counts as the left.

Looks like riding this bus involves jumping jacks. I have very mixed feelings about that.

If the misogyny was enough to remove enough votes from them to allow the worse candidate to win, then obviously it was a decisive factor.

Sure, but how do we put actual numbers behind that “if”?

hmmmmm… stats say otherwise.

Can you show us the stats you’re talking about?

We badly need to evolve our idea of democracy to allow for it to work when the rich and corrupt self interests try to control it. the US governmental system isnt safe against those influences so it seems doomed to fail in its current form.

We cant just wait for benevolent strongmen like FDR (Roosevelt) to come along periodically and right the ship, followed by many decades of compounding corrupution. We were lucky to get Roosevelt and have the legacy of his influence last as long as we have. I’d guess that whats left of the new deal will be badly mauled or done away with by the end of trumps term, assuming we are even still a country with 50 states, which isnt looking promising. So its time to start thinking now about whats next.

They want all the Palestinians dead and they dont want to do it themselves is what it comes down to. Groups of fascists and bullies always turn inward on their own group, even when they are winning.

They must be chomping at the bit to get the US military in there to do this for them.

in the 2024 election the RNC raised 390 million, dems raised 548 million. Dems still lost. The old consultant wisdom that whoever raises the most money wins no matter what didnt work.

We need to reach out harder to the republicans, and we need more AIPAC money. Whoever gets the most election funding tends to win! (except for last time of course)

So lets reach out to AIPAC and ask how we can close on more campaign funding, and ask the Cheney family to send someone stronger than Liz next time, to stand next to Harris. Is Dick Cheney busy? Maybe he can shoot a dem in the face and have the dem apologize for it. I bet Dick Cheney would say yes to this.

/s

Were there other problems in Clinton and Harris than the gender, then?

If it was misogyny alone was the cause, then why did harris lose across every single demographic of women? She lost across every single voting demographic of general voter except a 1 point gain in college educated white men.

We have polling data, we could dig through it-- and the results must be a statistical understanding of a number of reasons. There wont be a unifying single smoking gun across this many voters and issues. We aren’t that uniform of a group of people for that. Although there will be some that are larger than others, like Gaza, consumer prices, wage stagnation, and misogyny.

Dems are failing to honestly analyze why we lost, just like they failed to figure out how we could win. So we’re on track to lose again, and comments like the one you made show we arent making much progress-- or that we even have any will to.

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