Sun Tzu was all about winning a fight without fighting. Pressing an enemy that can't retreat is the exact opposite of this.

I keep thinking about his line of always leaving a retreat for your opponent, and how this siege of Gaza is just going to make condemned souls fight harder

He could genuinely eliminate student loan if he wants a win. No half-measures, Walter. Americans still care more about their bottom line than about global politics

Because Progressive Democrats are too tapped into corporate and state media sources.

Even so, progressive Democrats aren't of a single mind on this issue. In washington, yes, but at the consitituent level, Palestine would seem tonhave some support, anecdotally

I went from mostly siding with Hamas to fully siding with Hamas in that same 72 hours

Would you have a link to the article this is from?

Makes sense. Under Trump, the COVID stim and student loan pauses, along with reduced gas expenses, reduced spending habits etc., has been the best times economically that a lot of regular folks have had in a long time.

Then Biden Admin came and winded all of that back, slowly but surely, and while he ran on cancelling student loans, for a lot of folks, they're basically being UNcancelled.

And Trump was happy to put his name on every stimmy check so you knew who your sugar daddy was.

Under Biden, we have inflation going nuts, stagnant pay, and economists blaming workers for it and promising to raise unemployment numbers.

Republicans never set out to make peoples' lives better, but did out of necessity during quarantine, and Democrats were too stupid to recognize that and try to keep the good times rolling for the working class.

Be the change you want to see in the world

Or that Nordstream 2's sabotage wasn't a false-flag perpetrated by the very people that benefitted from it the most, and not their mortal enemies!