no, we just want eggs
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The oligarchy and the billionaires/millionaires in America want Gaza strip so they can vacation there and profit from it.
there's nothing left to vacation in
All the eggs were stolen by UNRWA and buried in the Hamas warehouse deep underneath Gaza. Trump will send in the Navy Seals to ethnically cleanse Gaza and retrieve the eggs.
I don't know bout y'all, but I certainly did not have "annex Gaza and turn it into a beach resort" on my 2025 Q1 bingo card.
The more I read comments like this, the more I realise nobody really paid attention in the lead up to the election. They even had artists impressions of beach front development for crying out loud.
I feel like Trump's campaign speed was like one of the early seasons of 24, where so much is happening that the "turning Gaza into a beach resort" subplot must have drowned.
Pre-election Danish news media were mostly covering the Harris roller-coaster, and post-election we've all been a little preoccupied with being threatened by our closest ally.
I certainly did.... I ve been saying that all that beachfront land is too valuable to developers to not use as a tourist spot.
Many have forgotten but there was a large natural gas supply discovered in front of the coast of Gaza worth around $500bn
It's word for word Trumps step son Jared Kushner a year ago.
Not shocking at all unless you've been under a rock and don't know who he is
Exactly. His character has been on full display since Queens, NY.
Punk rock predicted this.
Propagandhi - Haille Sellasse Up Your Ass
"The West Bank, The Gaza Strip, soon will be parking lots for American tourists, and fascist cops"
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Abstentionists be like "we did it! we saved Gaza!"
Abstentionists are dumbasses.
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Shock
To people who weren't paying attention probably
As an American... that dumbass doesn't speak for me. I sure as fuck didn't vote for him. I'm unfortunately stuck with him. But I have no want to take over any land... anywhere. Trump should man up, take ownership, and say HE wants to take over Gaza strip, Panama, Canada,... Earth.
I’m unfortunately stuck with him.
Unfortunately we're all stuck with him. US politics/economy leaks out into every other country's politics/economy.
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You did it "undecideds" and "both sides" people: You saved Palestine! /s
I agree with you. To anyone who still pretends Trump and Kamala were equally terrible with regard to Palestine: Kamala vocally supported an end to the war* and a two-state solution**, a prevailing US diplomatic philosophy. Please watch what Trump said tonight— it is so much worse than that. He advocates for the full removal of Palestinian people from their homeland.
*it is a genocide and not a war, I disagree with her.
**a two-state solution is not adequate as long as Israel continues to act as it does currently. Free Palestine. I disagree with her.
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Just a not even remotely friendly reminder that if you are American, eligible to vote and didn't vote for Kamala then you actively voted for this. Actively voted for genocide. If you didn't vote you're even fucking worse because at least the Republicans were willing to openly say what horrible people they are. You just don't care.
The United States is a failed country, a terrorist state and should be wrenched away from its people. You do not deserve to have a country that large with that much power when you are incapable of agreeing on a singular fucking thing. The United States should be forcibly broken up into at least 2, if not more, countries that can make up a trade bloc. This bullshit of getting everyone killed from coast to coast because of your pathetic patriotic ego of "wahhhhhhh but my countryyyyyyyyyy"
Fuck the United States.
I want to say I'm amazed at the shit fucking takes to justify awful choices that directly lead to a fascist overthrow in response to your comment. But these types love to justify their choices even though they directly lead to an open fascist takeover of our country because BoTh SiDeS bAd because they couldn't be bothered to engage in harm reduction and are ok with Gaza getting glassed and a probable trans genocide at home.
Fuck anyone who uses genocide to justify the situation where we now get more genocide, they never actually cared about it in the first place aside from talking points. Either that, or talk is more important than action. Either way, their opinions are meaningless to me as I help my trans homies survive.
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"It seems that there might finally be a temporary peace in gaza... wait, it's, it's, BY GOD IT'S THE US COMING FROM BEHIND WITH A STEEL CHAIR"
Trump doesn't speak for his citizens. "Trump" is the one who wants it
I knew it will end up like this when protest non-voters said they won't vote for "Holocaust Harris"...
People should be free to vote outside the two party system while still counting their votes against the Republicans.
Democrats made such a situation inevitable by keeping 3rd parties from participating in the electoral process on a even playing field in states they control. Who could say no to having more then one chance to beat the Republicans? The Democratic Party alongside the republicans.
Both parties are not the same, but why did they both want the same mathematically flawed voting system?
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
Mixed Member Proportional representation
Democrats dont get to raise the gates of the electoral castle, declare themselves the sole and only defender of this countries liberty, and also get to escape 100% of the blame for when that plan goes to shit eventually.
The United States of America is more important then the Democratic Party. Why weren't they acting like it? Why was the DNC putting their party's needs of easy elections and safe seats over the needs of the country?
I do agree the democratic party caused their own doom. I would like to point out however, the logic of "The United States of America is more important then the Democratic Party" could be applied in the same way to "The United States of America is more important than risking Trump to be in office to dismantle it", no?
Their strategy is to overwhelm the news cycle with distractions. Stay focused.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said the U.S. would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically
The scope of this statement is a shock, but the motivation that led to it, isn't. That said, I hate everything about this.
I'm not the first to bring this up, but it bears repeating. This is colonialism, plain and simple. That, in turn, is an outcome of unchecked capitalism. Practiced ideologically (i.e. as the guiding light in one's life), it holds up "exploitation at all costs" as a virtue. Second to that is "give your competition no quarter." Combined, that explains the current state of affairs.
We all may be used to thinking of colonialism as some thing that ended on one more more independence days in the last 300 years or so. In reality, the engines of commerce and industry that made that happen kept right on running. Since nation-state-sized real-estate deals like this don't come along very often anymore, these animals are quick to react and pounce before someone else figures out how to exploit the situation.
As an aside: the attitudes and values that enabled things like the US westward expansion, slavery, classism, eradication of indigenous peoples, environmental destruction in the pursuit of minerals, pollution and litter from energy extraction, etc., are still alive and well in the population. Being this kind of evil is insanely profitable under the right conditions, which confers an outsized advantage to reproduction and social influence. Which is to say that it's not the ideology of capitalism that propels these values to stay with us, but rather the other way around. It's as though those colonists with exploitation in their hearts are still very much with us, and that's something to keep an eye on.
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