The former president only cared about himself and his interests. He was more than willing to set our democratic norms on fire with lies and conspiracy theories about election fraud because it suit him and his interests.
He was doing shit that over half the country didn't like. That doesn't mean he was doing things "right," it means he was a divisive jackass who appealed to other divisive jackasses.
As I mentioned above, legitimizing Kim Jong Un was a failure, not a success. It's almost as ridiculous as bragging about doing business with Stalin.
Different does not mean better when we're talking about a guy who greatly accelerated our decline toward autocracy/fascism. Most of his tactics were lifted straight from Mein Kampf, the "fake news" circlejerk being the most notable.
Do you have a substantive problem with Wikipedia, or are you just going to shitpost like normal?
I can see the problem with "depending on what day you visit it" being an issue. I suppose timestamps and open archive access would be a good enough bypass.
Yeah, someone already mentioned Biden is trying to do the balancing act on this issue a couple pages back. It's very disappointing, but not particularly surprising. It's not as though we're going to go to bat for Israel or Palestine militarily, but we've been financially backing Israel for a long time now so there's some ridiculous sunk cost fallacy going on there. I have no problem with criticizing Biden over that, because I've never pretended he was my idea of the perfect president, and all presidents are meant to be scrutinized, not idolized. They're public servants, and they're human. Well, some were more orangutan, but for the most part.
It's not really that easy. How do you make peace with a government that wants to erase your existence? How do you "talk it out"? A compromise with the state of Israel is no compromise at all, it is erasure and genocide of the Palestinian people. Israel will not abide to a two-state situation, and even if they did that would still mean Palestinians have lost their homes and land. Think about South Africa or Northern Ireland or the Kashmir region or Colonial America under the yoke of the British empire (or for that matter indigenous America under the yoke of immigrant colonists). Is(was) there peace in these colonized regions? Is there any peace between colonizers and the colonized? No. Of course not. There is only apartheid and oppression and murder of the colonized peoples. None of these situations are good. The only solution that isn't genocide of the Palestinian people is that the government and state of Israel dissolve and the settlers who have colonized Palestinian land and stolen Palestinian homes return to their respective homes, but that will not occur willingly.
I'm still amazed that such a deep quote came from fucking fallout of all places
To be fair the Fallout games developed by Obsidian (1, 2, and New Vegas) actually had some pretty nuanced takes on the politics of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, lots of interesting ideas. It's a shame Bethesda squandered it. Considering the quote is from the first game I'm not surprised that it's so good; post-Morrowind Bethesda could never have ideas that cool.
Fallout new vegas is a really good game, it's just a shame it requires 2000 mods to be somewhat playable
interesting Biden quote btw. He's literally saying that Israel is important to the American empire because the state of Israel is a good colonial tool for keeping the US's influence active in the Middle East. Once a colonizer always a colonizer.I finally found it. A tiger don’t change it’s stripes. https://t.co/VDjUz7qRav
— Fade in Da Water (@Blike_Dante) May 11, 2021
I'd say america is doomed but we've been this way for decades now
