What race? You don’t even have the ability to race because you’re sabotaging yourself at every opportunity like you’re Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races. yamcha

The hearing before the committee chaired by Cruz, Commerce, Science, and Transportation, included the usual mishmash of parochial politics, lobbying for traditional space, back slapping, and fawning—at one point, Gold, a Star Trek fan, went so far as to assert that Cruz is the “Captain Kirk” of the US Senate.

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    The dems are absolutely the lesser of the two evils, although we were doomed with both. Our election choices are set by the rich. This absolutist thinking is illogical and counterproductive. You might as well say every American vote since I was born was a vote for genocide. Nobody is getting around the AIPAC lobby. They will steal from us no matter what. It has been a given since way before I was born and probably since before my parents were born. Israel owns this place.

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      The dems are absolutely the lesser of the two evils

      They aren’t. Again, they are just as harmful to the vast majority of people on the planet as the other brand of your fascists.

      This absolutist thinking is illogical and counterproductive.

      Going to point out that the word ‘illogical’ is just a derogatory buzzword.

      You might as well say every American vote since I was born was a vote for genocide.

      Every vote for either of the faces of your uniparty has been a vote for colonialism and genocide since before you were born.

      Nobody is getting around the AIPAC lobby. They will steal from us no matter what. It has been a given since way before I was born and probably since before my parents were born.

      Okay, if you are, in fact, powerless to do anything, then you have even less ground to demand that the rest of the world resists you a certain way. Especially not when it comes to the Palestinian resistance to your genocide.

      Israel owns this place.

      This is an incredibly silly claim. Do you seriously think that the state with the most expensive military, espionage, and propaganda tools in the world is owned by a glorified USian province?

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        I agree with many of your points and disagree with some.

        Most dems have been harmful. It is because party leaders tote the status quo, and that is why we have a gerontocracy. Younger people hate it, but 85 year old Nancy Pelosi for example is a barricade for young, promising politicians like AOC.

        Illogical is not a buzzword. You’re just deflecting from the fact that there are less shitty choices, although all choices are shitty.

        There is certainly a uniparty. Everyone is pissed but can’t do anything.

        We are powerless to deal with it. You can continue to encourage people to not vote dem so you have MAGAs voted in. Those evangelical Christians can not wiat for Israel to take over and build their temple so they can have their precious rapture. Lots of good that absolutist mindset has done so far.

        AIPAC funds corrupt congress members and allow procurement of way way more money in aid in return for that. They essentially buy our officials. This is well known. Honestly, I think AIPAC is a huge problem and we should fight to deport them.

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          It is because party leaders tote the status quo, and that is why we have a gerontocracy.

          ‘Tote the status quo’?
          Also, it doesn’t matter if you have old leaders or young. The problem is that they are malicious, and not that they are stupid. Them being stupid and hurting your empire’s ability to conduct genocides and invasions actually helps the rest of the world.

          promising politicians like AOC.

          If you think that AOC is ‘promising’, then there has never been any hope for you. She is a supporter of the genocide.

          Illogical is not a buzzword.

          Yeah, it is. It is used solely by people who don’t actually understand what logic is.

          You’re just deflecting from the fact that there are less shitty choices, although all choices are shitty.

          Electoralism almost never works in general.
          In this particular context, if we assume that the only viable choices are the two faces of your uniparty, then the least shitty option is the most senile, least competent one.

          We are powerless to deal with it.

          Then you have no ground to demand that the rest of the world waits for you to do anything and not fight your empire in the meantime. In particular, this applies to complaints about Hamas, but also to other parts of the world that are fighting you.

          AIPAC funds corrupt congress members and allow procurement of way way more money in aid in return for that. They essentially buy our officials.

          You are extremely naive if you actually think that it’s AIPAC that controls your state, and not vice versa.