Summary
Former vice presidential nominee Tim Walz criticized Trump for economic chaos while taking personal responsibility for the situation during an MSNBC interview.
“We wouldn’t be in this mess if we’d have won the election — and we didn’t,” Walz told Chris Hayes. He called Trump the “worst possible business executive” and praised the Wall Street Journal’s editorial criticizing Trump’s tariff war.
Walz emphasized Democrats must offer something better, not just criticize Trump. Recently, he acknowledged a leadership void in the Democratic Party and admitted spending too much time combatting Trump’s false claims about immigrants.
yknow, i’m starting to realize that i think i respect the people of russia, and china, specifically those in the military, and government more than pro palestine people support/respect israelis, and im not sure how i feel about that one.
The Israeli public, at least 60-68% of it consistently supports genocide, even as they are direct witnesses and for the most part due to mandatory IDF enlistment, participate in it.
Most people in Russia hate their government and military, beyond some basic notion that they should be the toughest because they’re Russian. Most people in China, especially the military, have nothing to do with any alleged genocide.
But the Israeli public is different. That is why they get less respect.
The Nazis were popular in Germany for a time, the Israeli government is no different at the moment. Both populations should not be respected even a little, given they have largely chosen and supported attrocities.
Is this stat literally “do you support genocide: Yes, No” or are we talking, it’s not listed as genocide, but we’re calling it genocide because that’s the term we’ve decided to use? There’s a large semantic difference here, and you’re making it sound like they literally support genocide.
and yet, those governments persist, even though the war in Ukraine bolsters the support of Putin in an election, where 80% of the population votes for him semi regularly, surely that population doesn’t support the genocide of the Ukrainian people? Or maybe it does, and we’re just ignoring it because it’s politically convenient. I could say the same about the Chinese government, but Chinese society is a little bit more complicated, and it’s not quite as directly influenced since most of the human rights abuses are, well, not war.
are they though? I would like to compare this specifically to the war against Ukraine, because it’s a particularly apt example.
Last i heard, the current Israeli government ISN’T popular, that’s why the far right is pushing the government further against Palestine, pushing BB into a bit of a rock and a hard place situation, because if he doesn’t he’s not likely to stay in the government for very long, and either get replaced by someone further on the right, or more popular among the public (due to an election)
In fact, if we’re judging the level of atrocity by human casualties alone, the Ukraine war is FAR worse. We’re talking in the range of 200k Russian citizens killed, some incarcerated, some enlisted, some contract. Plus the numerous Ukrainian civilians murdered for no reason. And the relatively comparable Ukrainian military numbers as well. In total we’re talking about like 300-500k people in some capacity being severely affected for the rest of their life. Most of them Russian conscripts, most of whom are ethnic minorities (because that’s why the war is popular in Russia)
“surely, it couldn’t be me who is wrong, because i’m correct, and i’ve never been wrong, surely it must be EVERYONE living in israel currently AND everyone who supports them, as defined by my schizo statistics that im pulling out of my ass and misconstruing heavily to make a point. How could i possibly be wrong?” - not a single person on lemmy, because nobody has self awareness for some reason.
The UN says its genocide. The icc says it’s close enough to genocide for the Israeli government to be arrested, every non Israeli historian with a specialty in genocide says its genocide.
And yes, the questions have been “do you support the governments actions against Gaza and the Palestinian people”, and yes those actions are known to be genocide by the people that carried them out, i.e. the general public in Israel thanks to mandatory IDF service.
There used to be 2 million people in Gaza. There’s now at most 1.2 million by most outside estimates. Deaths stopped being counted when all the hospitals, and that’s not an exaggeration, were bombed in Gaza. So no one has been counting the dead.
You don’t get to say Ukraine has it worse, because they don’t. Objectively. No part of their experience is pleasant, but it’s simply incomparably better.