What an atrocious waste of food. And what exactly was this supposed to accomplish? What did their best case scenario look like?
It's simpler than what you're even asking.
These people are just childish and petty. I speculate their only goal was as-is, put bugs in democrats food. Something immature adolescents might do. Yet these are adults.
That's my guess.
Breakfast with a side of bioterrorism, depending on the type of species.
Thank you, enemies of Harris! This will accomplish something or other!
Yeah I'm not really stoked about the food safety implications and food waste for the rest of us if "bugs in food" protests become normal, but I still think that inconveniencing and antagonizing powerful people complicit in genocide is in general an acceptable form of protest. It accomplishes perpetual and fractal ("at all levels") discomfort for their actions as long as they continue them.
Why are you assuming that this is about Palestine?
Good question! Because of:
Last month, maggots and other insects were reportedly released at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Chicago has seen nightly protests during the convention by organizations seeking an end to the Gaza war and an end to U.S. military support for Israel.
And because Palestine is the main focus of DNC protests right now, i.e. the big thing that the DNC is choosing to ignore.
Frankly, if it ends up being a Republican or non-political attack, I'm still cool with seeing the ruling class squirm even if it's done by assholes for the wrong reasons.
But also, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with Palestine, that is far from the only reason to be irritated with the Democrats. For example:
And so much more! All while pretending to be the party of progress, they are in fact the party whose sole goal is to prevent more radical change being imposed on the ruling class from below!
The problem is that without attaching an actual message to the action, it's just an attack. It doesn't convey anything, doesn't further any agenda.
Completely agree. It was really frustrating to hear Bernie evoke FDR in his speech without being honest about how he accomplished so much: by packing the courts and being extremely aggressive in pushing through a real progressive agenda. It really highlights the failings of the party more than anything.
Oh shit, is this about Mike Pillow's diseased mustache falling off into the scrambled eggs at the buffet?
How the fuck do you know????
🎶 Cree-hee-hee-heep-pee-CRAW-LERS!!!! They're squirmy, and wormy, and purple and green... 🎶
Pro tip: block 2 trolls that can't see past their nose to have rational discussion in the thread.
lol
Edit: these assholes are complicit in genocide. Fuck these people, fractally.
Do you pay taxes? Congratulations you are also complicit in genocide
Do you pay taxes? Congratulations you are also complicit in genocide
And that's exactly why I want my fucking tax dollars to stop funding genocide holy shit
Nope, doesn't matter, you're obviously genocidal scum. I mean, that's your thought process for everyone else
your logic
It's not literally everyone, it's people with power and influence who use their energy to prop up the Democratic machine.
If you believe that then you feel the same way or are even more strongly against the Republicans.
... yeah, obviously. Fuck the Republicans. Would love to see them squirm.
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Ok so was it tankies or MAGA?
Brother I fucking wish Marxist-leninists were enough of a problem to create real life news. I might not be one, but they actually make a good foil for dem socialists.
I'm guessing qanon brand crazies, Alex Jones types are constantly saying that the dems are trying to force everyone to eat bugs so I imagine it's related to that.
By tankies do you just mean people against the Palestinian protesters... Yikes
Per Urban Dictionary (NA, 2004): "A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America.
The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker.
It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).
The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".
The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism). I wouldn't be surprised if the tankies even defend Saddam Hussein.
Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven't really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies."
Source: https://www.urbandictionary.com (Retrieved 8/22/24)
Ok but there are no large camps of people at the DNC defending the soviet union... There are people protesting the Palestinian movement. So im pointing out that person oeginally asking of it was maga or tankies is using thr word tankies to belittle people protesting genocide and how gross that is.
Get me?
I can't say I didn't at least try to educate you. I'm not responding further, as you're acting in bad faith.
Im not but i get that there is no real argument to call people against genocide tankies so i get why youre tapping out.
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