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tony greenstein's avatar

Ah but you have to look on the bright side. Los Angeles has given away lots of money to Israel in order that it can bomb and set Palestinians on light. Just a pity it's come back to burn them.

Guess that's life. You can't burn the world and hope to escape the effects yourself.

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Cynthia Shallit's avatar

LA did not agree to send more money to Israel. Most Demsocrats were against that. The progressive postion was instead to not send money to Israel for offense and have it withrdraw from the Gaza strip and West bank.

And where were you on on sending money to Ukraine? You didn't help on the right side of that war.

Besides that, money is really not the problem. The billionaires who pay no tax, have plenty of money to give back to this country to do what ever we need to do and that is primiarly to stop using fossil fuels. Stop drilling!

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tony greenstein's avatar

I'm not a US citizen and as far as I'm concerned Democrats and Republicans are 2 cheeks of the same arse. Biden is no different from Trump and has supported genocide in Palestine

As for Ukraine this is a NATO proxy war and I wouldn't give Zelensky a dime. He had the option of neutrality but preferred instead to allow NATO into Ukraine. If Russia had sent troops to Mexico and installed its missile there I guess the US might object.

No sympathy for the semi-fascist state of Ukraine.

We need to wage war on neo-liberalism on both sides of the Atlantic but for Los Angeles, a rich city, to have a malfunctioning fire service really does say something

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Cynthia Shallit's avatar

I don't know why you call Ukraine a semi-fascist state. It's true they have been a weak democracy and were too corrupt ( helped by Paul Manafort BTW), but they have tried to improve a lot. Russia INVADED them and already took over Crimea. That's exacetly how Hitler started WWII-- taking over neighborhing countries. I want to suppor NATO and make it stronger to prevent fascist states from taking over Europe then the whole world.

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tony greenstein's avatar

God you are stupid Cynthia. A state where people disappear after having been tortured like the Chilean guy Gonzales. Where all left wing parties are banned inc. the main opposition. Where labour rights have been abrogated. You call that a 'weak democracy' . It's a fucking nasty little pro-NATO police state where the far-right dictate the pace of the war. In fact let's call Azov for what they are - Neo-Nazis.

Crimea was always Russian. Look at your history books and the people there want to remain Russian. NATO is the biggest threat to peace the world over as is the American Empire. You have smashed up the Middle East, supporting the shitty little genocidal state of Israel, where neo-Nazis dominate the cabinet, you want war with China.

Why are there 800 fucking US bases surrounding China? Why are there 800 bases anyway? You can't put the first in LA out but you can pour petrol on the flames in the Middle East whilst supporting every tyranny going.,

You 'democrats' make me sick. You enabled Trump. The left should get out of the racist Democratic Party which was the old party of the Southern Dixiecrats and start organising independently

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huey's avatar

Isn't GENOCIDE Biden an elected democrat?

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David Barnwell's avatar

Most Democrats supported the genocide in Palestine. Give them credit. They're as disgusting as the Republicans.

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