The EU is establishing their own alternative to Visa and Mastercard. I wonder if they give the US the finger and let Cuba process payments with them.

Well he doesn’t wash his hands so inshallah that will be sooner rather than later.

Thank you. People are so incapable of nuanced takes.

Yeah, so I’m trans, and we too are under serious threat, not just from MAGA. It’s not privileged to recognize that mainstream Democratic party opinion is that trans people should be thrown under the bus to appease some mythical centrist voter.

Welcome to the transactional real world. If you make it a point to not show up, politicians will not waste political capital on you. Also, allies are imperfect. It is only the left that has trouble seeing this and intentionally conflate those who don’t ace purity tests with the opposition. Meanwhile, those before us who got us rights we take for granted had to whip up support with much less desirable people who held much more regressive views.

Consider the inverse, that it is a priviledged position to be able to hem and haw over every election in a rapidly decaying pseudo democracy, as opposed to doing the very difficult work of workplace, tenant, or mutual aid organizing to secure immediate material necessities.

Oh stop. Voting is a very simple process you’re distorting into some sort of crisis. Also voting and being active in one’s community is not an either/or.

Not every election is the most important election ever, and whether someone chooses to vote for someone like Kamala, or Platner, is up to them.

This is privilege. Meanwhile POC here, we’re being dragged back to the 1950s under Trump I and II. Similar for women, LGBT, etc. He’s speedrunning imperialism. Stopping the MAGA agenda should be paramount. I’m not thrilled about Platner but I am willing to take a chance with him over the perpetually concerned Collins who aligns MAGA when it counts. Unionizing, attending city council meetings, advocating for prison reform, etc. should accompany voting, not replace it.

The West handicapped Ukraine’s ability to strike Russia until they developed their own domestic weapons program.

Yeah, the chaos in the Sahel, the war in Ukraine, the US-Iran War, tension in the Caribbean are all linked directly or indirectly.

Sometimes Dems and Reps will figure out how many are safe to break ranks and vote on an issue to kill/pass it so that a safe few get the blame rather than the entire party. I don’t subscribe to the common view that Dems and Reps are essentially a uniparty but they do move similarly often.

It’s really a white nationalist minority ruining it for everyone. Here in MAGAland there are more interracial relationships and more Central Americans than I remember a decade ago.

Those hamberders and old age will catch up to Trump any second now. He’s already had a mini-stroke on national TV. Putin is 7 years younger and is health conscious to the point it was memed on, But unlike Trump, Putin seems to know he’s in over his head and is looking to contain fallout from this invasion. Dr. William Spaniel thinks ‘Putin is done’ talk is overblown though acknowledges things don’t look great at all for Putin in Ukraine or domestically.

I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy, when I doubt he was off on his own taking bribes and think it’s more of a structural issue.

As a member of the black delegation, fuck that guy. We don’t claim him.