Police brutality in the US has only gone up since the Black Lives Matter protests began

Yeah but you know "whatabout ..."

Apparently two things cannot be bad at the same time.

And yet Ansarallah holds the moral high ground because they oppose genocide and we sponsor it. Sucks doesn't it?

They resisted against the brutal Saudi puppet government, and have been resisting genocide ever since.

• US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations

The 'Curse upon the Jews' part of the slogan is completely unacceptable, any conflation of Zionism and Judaism is. There are plenty of things the Houthis do that is also completely unacceptable, utilizing child soldiers is another major one. There are plenty of things they deserve to be criticized on, and human rights organizations do a great job documenting and communicating those atrocities.

This isn't about good guys or bad guys. This is about an entire population subjected to a genocide. There are plenty of reasons to not like the Houthis, but that doesn't change the reality that they only exist as a resistance to the ongoing genocide. The point isn't that the Houthis are good, it's that the genocide, facilitated by the US and our Ally Saudi Arabia, is significantly worse by multiple magnitudes.

The root cause of the problem is still the genocide, that's a much bigger concern, especially to the people of Yemen, than to stop or reform the Houthis themselves. They can only be addressed in a realistic way, by the people of Yemen, once the genocide ends.

I'm not a fan of the Houthis, but these people are really the equivalent of American guntoting Y'alliban. They like their guns and they like their free speech and they hate foreign countries propping up dictators who oppress them.

The slogan eventually became a sign of public protest against the dictatorship of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh... The Houthi movement officially adopted the slogan in the wake of the widely condemned 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. This brought the movement on a collision course with the government, as the government maintained its official pro-American politics despite public opposition. The slogan was outlawed. The Houthis refused to discard it, arguing that the constitution of Yemen protected free speech. By 2004, crackdowns against both the slogan as well as the Houthi movement intensified. Many Houthis were imprisoned and even tortured for having used it.

we need to get ballot initiatives going in every state to move away from First Past the Post voting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat

Americans will look at the gerrymandering, the voter caging, the militant policing of minority voting districts, the Brooks Brothers Riots, Operation Eagle Eye, the SAVE Act, the dismantling of ACORN, the people getting snatched up off the street and disappeared to an El Salvadorian slave camp...

And they'll think to themselves "If we just changed our ballot to use a ranked scoring model, we could have avoided all of this."

According to Israeli polls, Dems support of israel is about 33%. Gallup polls say Democrat 21% compared to Republican 75%.

Total support of Israel in the USA is 46% and support of a two state solution is 55% with only 31% opposed and 14% no opinion. Independents and Republicans both have more favorable views of Israel than Democrats. As for support of an independent Palestinian state, despite being contradictory with the previous poll question, Democrats are in favor at 76% compared with 53% of independents and 41% of Republicans support a Palestinian state but 49% opposed.

Despite this, the Republican administration is supporting a Single State Solution in which Israel takes all, just as they did in the previous Trump administration.

They've observed that being anti-war didn't work, so they switched tactics.

When, in 1980? Because that's the last time the Dem leadership was antiwar and a SHITLOAD has changed in the 45 years since.

You want them to keep beating the same dead horse?

The dead horse they've been beating is unconditional support of a fascist apartheid regime, which was one of the big reasons why they lost to the most unpopular presidential candidate in history the second time.

Another case of equine carcass abuse that cost them is their insistence on "considered voting for the GOP but might not" is the most important demographic and their stubbornly ignoring their own base and stated principles as a result.

When the hell did the Democrats ever try being anti-war? Are you talking about George McGovern in 1972? Because they've been rabid hawks for as long as I've been alive.

I want them to stop being anti-poor.

I don't care if their policies look like they support the poor when they can't ever get anything passed that forces the rich to make concessions

Anti-war coalition is what gave Democrats a solid majority to Obama. He kept at the wars and eroded the coalition until the RNC could field Trump and win.