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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher makes startling admission to JD Vance about the future of his Democratic support [View all]AZProgressive
(30,088 posts)I'm sure capitalism has worked out great for Maher but for the average person it doesn't work that well. In any case I favor a mixed economy.
The reason why there is a focus on Israel compared to the past is for at-least 1 year following October 2023 Netanyahu was a great candidate for human rights violator of the year. I know there was an organization that labeled Assad human rights violator of the year during the Syria civil war. I have mostly avoided commentating on Israel, in the past I often criticized Assad, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Modi's government in India, etc. It wasn't until Netanyahu was committing war crimes on a massive scale that I felt the need to call out Israel.
I don't know of a specific platform of "no prisons" but the US has the highest incarceration rates, the US locks up more people than China even though they have more people and it has gotten worse with immigrants being incarcerated often for indefinite periods of time.