Hate it all you want, but until you can establish a viable third party (who isn’t also awful), “lesser of two evils” is the only choice you have.

No one said Obama wasn’t also evil. In fact, no one mentioned him at all. And he wasn’t one of the options in the last election. Why are you so obsessed with him?

I’m not sure those two really do. Any Russian claims have been proven suspect, and China’s force protection has always been their Achilles heel.

Iran has no ability to do that.

If you want to play the blame game, the blame falls on everyone. The right is pushing to make things actively worse, the center is willing to just put up with whatever the current status quo is, and the left would rather spend all their time attacking one another for being the wrong brand of left, rather than actually go out and do something productive.

Again, being aware of your own limitations and doing what you can is preferable to faking it, and falling apart when it counts.

Not everyone can be a super tough guy like you surely are.

Lol, you think this is going to end with just calmly standing in a crowd?

Much better to be self aware of it and account for it, than to get yourself and others killed due to your false bravado.

If you read the rest of the article, she addresses that. She doesn’t believe that she is personally brave enough to physically confront what is coming, so for her, the choice is get out now while she can and be vocal.

The scary part is that there absolutely is logic to it. They’re still just slightly short of being willing to say that part out loud.

The problem is, unless things change drastically, that is the trajectory the US is on.

Until one of the other branches of government decides to grow a spine, Trump is free to do whatever he wants.

Possibly out of the loop here, but what is Tabula Rasa?

Doesn’t even need tariffs. Could just take away their tax exemption.

Uh huh. All evils in the middle east are Israel’s fault. And if not them, than the Americans. Sunni vs Shiite violence has killed more people in the area than the Americans and Israelis combined, and started over a 1000 years ago, but somehow that’s the Americans and Israelis fault too.

But hey, don’t let reality’s shades of grey ruin your pretty black and white imaginary picture.

So, ignoring the fact that “Muslim” describes one’s faith, not race, do you honestly believe that a Muslim majority Palestine is going to drastically more tolerant than all the other Muslim majority countries in the area? What signs are there that would point to that being the case?

I’m not. I never was. I have no idea why you keep bringing it up.

Do you not read the context of comments you replied to? The guy I was responding to specifically said he hopes that what’s happening to Palestinians happens to the Israelis.

And you keep ignoring the point that it doesn’t fucking matter. You can’t solve genocide with more genocide.

Decolonization can be done peacefully.

50 years ago you might have had a chance to make it happen, since most Israeli people would have been born elsewhere. Now you have multiple generations of people born and raised in Israel. They have nowhere else to go.

And you’ll have to forgive me for being skeptical about a Muslim majority Palestine being tolerant of religious differences if they regained control of the whole area.