I don’t think even replacing Biden would get the anti-genocide people to vote for him; If Biden doesn’t end all support for Israel, no promise to do so by a dem-backed candidate is going to be taken seriously.
Trying to pressure the DNC to replace Biden makes more sense than trying to shame voters, but it’s still less effective than pressuring Biden to end the genocide.
We never get a satisfying end to these things; The same people who lied about Iraq and Libya still have jobs in the respectable media.
They’ll never acknowledge that western-backed riots opposing the extradition of a murderer might have been somewhat misguided, instead we get “actually Xi Jinping successfully crushed their hopes and dreams by building inexpensive mass transit”.
Western Economists: What China really needs to do is stop investing in production, promote domestic consumption, and start spending foreign reserves on goods rather than bonds.
My point that you seem to miss is that under capitalism, capitalists only allow such reforms when their power is threatened, and under capitalism, such reforms are removed when the threat is removed.
Do you not see that leaving the capitalists in power tends towards a system that benefits the capitalists at the expense of everyone else?
That every capitalist country has cut away at benefits over the last 30 years?
Why would you fight to leave the capitalists in power?
What you are describing is social democracy, a subset of capitalism. That is not socialism integrated into capitalism, because once again, power remains with the capitalist class.
If power remains with the capitalist class, and industry continues to be organized around their whim, you will not achieve meaningful reform, except in response to a threat, which will be taken away when that threat diminishes. FDR didn’t do the New Deal because he was secretly had socialist beliefs despite his family, but because he was old money buying guillotine insurance.
Not saying he should have been banned, but factually it was wrong, the FRG was mostly staffed by “former” Nazis. A lot of Germans saw it that way, see Baader-Meinhof.
Also it’s disingenuous to call one of the biggest arms manufacturers who supplied arms to some of the worst regimes, Israel, Sudan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia “pacifist”.
Nah, I got banned from that sub for the spicy take of “nuclear war is bad”, and I got banned from Political Memes for the misinformation of “MLK did not support exclusively working within the system, and asking nicely did not win civil rights”, with citations and everything.
The point is that dude has no means to collect such statistics, he’s not a research agency asking representative samples about their medical history, documenting his methodology and making the data available, and he’s not even citing statistics supplied by hospitals.
He literally just pulled those charts out of his ass. Instead of “well yes, they’re lying, but I’m sure the broader point is true”, consider “would they have any need to fabricate things if the broader point is true?”
Surely it would be easy enough to go to Xinjiang and verify it, since there’s no travel restrictions and they wouldn’t have to worry about getting caught making shit up.
I mean China isn’t committing genocide, anyone can go to Xinjiang, and delegations of most Muslim countries have verified as much. We know what genocide looks like, it doesn’t look like anti-poverty programs and education + doctors per capita approaching the national average, and a life expectancy of 75.
But one of the more telling parts about the genocide in Gaza is that while population was increasing, average age decreases; people have more kids because they’ve got a <50% chance to make it to 18.
Population was increasing in Xinjiang faster than the national average because recognized minorities were exempt from the 1 child policy, before it was removed.
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I don’t think even replacing Biden would get the anti-genocide people to vote for him; If Biden doesn’t end all support for Israel, no promise to do so by a dem-backed candidate is going to be taken seriously.
Trying to pressure the DNC to replace Biden makes more sense than trying to shame voters, but it’s still less effective than pressuring Biden to end the genocide.