He’s either REALLY bad with money or have a lot of it stashed away somewhere.

An ambitious politician from Pennsylvania doesn’t just move to tiny Delaware unless the fact that it’s the most corporation-friendly of all the states has something to do with it.

" If you go out and bundle $250K for me, all legal, and then you call me after I’m elected and say ‘Joe, I’d like to talk to you about something.’ I’m gonna say ‘Come on in.’ It’s human nature.”

• Joe Biden, failing to acknowledge that legal corruption is still corruption.

To be fair, that’s the case in the VAST majority of Lemmy threads…

Guess I’ll be looking for spare parts for my beam emitters elsewhere, then

An especially obvious and egregious one is Haiti.

In the recent past, there’s also the US-backed coup against Evo Morales and the attempted one in Venezuela, known as Operation Freedom i case anyone should have any doubt as to who was really behind it…

He was sadly too divisive to be a widely-popular Labour leader

Bullshit. He was elected leader because people wanted to go back to the party’s left wing roots.

The Blairite Neoliberal wing of the party didn’t like that, so they ousted him with a smear campaign calling him “divisive” (read: agrees more with the broader population than with the neoliberal establishment and their rich owner donors) and “antisemitic” (read: isn’t in the pocket of the fascist apartheid regime, has empathy for their Palestinian victims)

The thing is, that we, the West, don’t want to be an imperial power that invades other countries any more

That’s true for the majority of the citizens but almost none of the governments.

To go with the most obvious example, the US government is interfering in the affairs of other countries and the private lives of its own citizens as much as it has ever done and willfully lying constantly to cover it and many other things up.

You don’t eat, sleep or go to the bathroom?

Someone call Harrison Ford, we have a replikant!

Reminder: Corbyn was the duly elected leader of Labour until Starmer’s right wing flank of the party conspired to have him thrown out based on false accusations of antisemitism.

Keir Starmer who, while the leader of a party literally named after their solidarity with the labour movement, fired a shadow cabinet minister for joining a picket line in solidarity with striking railway workers

Amazing how “we have to be allowed to resume the genocide after getting what we’ve been pretending is the reason for it” is the sticking point for the apartheid regime and nobody calls them on it!

Truer words were never spoken 😮‍💨

Copious amounts of alcohol and cocaine.

“I won’t vote for Biden because Israel refuses to sign a ceasefire” bullshit

Fun fact: support in the form of weapons and political cover from the governments of the UK, Germany, and ESPECIALLY the US is why the fascist apartheid regime hasn’t been FORCED to stop the genocide several months ago.

He knows this and even though the majority of his prospective voters are IMPLORING him to stop participating in a genocide in their name, even though he KNOWS that it’s likely to cost him the election and even though he KNOWS that it’s likely to be the last one ever if he does lose, he still refuses.

He’s putting his Zionist ideology and his stubborn inability to admit fault ahead of not just Gazan lives, but also the survival of American democracy and the universality of international law.

Even KAMALA would be a better choice than someone so completely out of touch with and devoid of respect for the ideals and institutions he’s supposed to be protecting.

Still better than Trump, though, so we just have to keep pretending that the old war criminal is perfect, lest the Blue No Matter Who apparatchiks lob spurious allegations of fascist loyalties at us 😮‍💨🤦

Pretty sure that these ones prefer the memes of reproduction tbh…

USSC? Union of Soviet Socialist Catboys?

Perhaps another user would like to reply to Viking with something like “presumably nothing, gimme that fat dick!”

If I had a dollar for every time people have said those exact words to me…I’d obviously still be broke.

The unofficial motto of Alabama is “thank God for Mississippi” because in most statistics Mississippi is the only thing keeping Alabama from being at the bottom with regards to anything positive and at the top with regards to anything negative 😄

I’ve said it hundreds of times before and I’ll say it again: Mississippi is the worst state.

It isn’t in the (inter)national news for being awful as much as Florida and Texas, but that’s because those are rich “Hollywood Awful” states.

Mississippi is more of a destitute “1970s village in a swamp governed by the most racist and corrupt ogres ever” kind of awful.

You’ve put the concept Horny Airbud into my brain and I would like to return it, please.

Bigger than five!

Smaller than seven, though 🤷

Presumably not much, unless you’re Rhea Durham 🤷