These are already the Democratic positions on immigration and policing; they accept the Republican framing (immigrants bad, shooty police good) but offer milder solutions. Which sends the message "we agree about the problem but we'll do less about it" and of course that's not a winning message
I feel like it’s important to mention that the actual quote says that they first came for communists and trade unionists, which is currently happening and these people are absolutely salivating over.
There are multiple versions of the quote, though I never see the version including disabled people quoted anywhere (the Holocaust Encyclopedia says it exists, though)
You don't throw them under the bus. You simply don't make them the face of the party. Politics is about getting elected, not losing with honor. You people really don't get it. Putting up a losing lesbian or black woman for president does not protect lesbians or black women. See, e.g., Trump.
Wrong, cuz Dems are never going to out hate monger the Republicans and Libertarians. Dems need to reject the false reality Republicans and Libertarians make up and press people about who they want to kill off while they destroy the country. While presenting their own inclusive vision that
Provides equity and equality for everyone. Americans (non-Black) have already proved they’ll pull the lever every time for the most hateful, even at their own peril. We have to counter that.
How about standing for a set of values- regardless of the political headwinds- that ppl can rely on you to defend? Or supporting the best candidates with experience and perspective regardless of sexual orientation or race? The very fact that “DEI” exists…
Do you think Kamala Harris, the VPOTUS at the time, one heartbeat from the Presidency, was the face of the party last year after the President chose to stop his campaign because of her race and gender?
Dems aren't really placing minorities as the face of their party. Their approach to DEI, trans rights, and immigration is wimpy at best. Republicans put these labels on Dems, and Dems don't even deserve them. I wish Dems were as "extreme" as the right says they are.
Avoiding support for black women or lesbian candidates on the basis of this is just bigotry. There are trans women and lesbian politicians in state legislatures and in Congress right now, some of whom have successfully been re-elected.
No, you see, we just have to be polite fascists, then all the reasonable people will pick us over the explicit fascists and anyone who doesn't like fascism still has to vote for us because at least we're the polite ones.
Arresting individuals for treason, corruption, corporate theft, insider training (etc etc etc) requires no budget for crowd control, tanks, cop cities or any of the other stupid militaristic arsenal our cops keep asking for.
But sure, ignore logic and keep punching left I guess.
We need to move left and hope it helps people re-engage politics rather than trying to steal the Rights voters. More people didn't vote than did, go after them to vote.
The center of the party has been begging for this for decades, except it was originally kicking all us Negroes to the curb rather than support us in our fight. Just more groups included in their plea now.
Noah is a ghoul. him bill Maher, Matty and shitheads want to rerun the campaign Harris did. she had the fucking Cheney's parading around. I did my MBA at Berkeley they aren't woke classmates work for trash companies. absolute idiocy from the pundits
one of my favorite classes there was on equity fluent leadership and it wasn't even super woke. like one of my classmates there is a senior leader at Amazon not a fucking radical. destroying colleges for complete dipshittery
Oh, no, they do that all the time (MAGA women voting in favor of losing their rights. The fact there are trans repubs /at all/. Etc.) They assume that exceptions will be carved out for /them/, or, some of them, that they can buy their way around it.
The real trouble is they /think/ they are throwing somebody else under the bus, and not paying attention to the rope cinching tighter around their own ankles as the slack plays out.
The 'using DEI as a dog whistle' thing, when DEI also applies to women, veterans, people with disabilities, and more, says right up front that this is a garbage argument, a 'well guys we tried, they just won't listen to reason'. 😬
DEI, as it is practiced today in white-collar workplaces, has had minimal positive impact and led to a great deal of resentment. DEI programs need to be improved, if not overhauled.
Really shows that this is just a game to them. The lives of diverse working class and poor people are just "issue cards" to be played or discarded as they bargain society out of it's rights and dreams.
"Be the change you think others want to see in the world" They're so bold 🙄
You don't need to lead others to what is popular, that will happen on its own. Righteous leadership is convincing people to support what is right even when they don't want to.
As near as I can tell most democrats think it's a football game or something and the point is 'winning' not being human. Whatever you need to do to make that happen is acceptable
They play games with social wars and rights to keep us busy trying to protect those when we can be fighting for our rights AND a more fair economic system.
ITS THE FUCKING ECONOMY! People are in debt up to their eyeballs, they are sick, little vacation time, education system is struggling, few job protections, inadequate retirement security, poor safety net. The greed of the rich needs to stop, but they make excuses.
Trust me Black people have known for YEARS that some Dems and a LOT of leftists resent how much political power Black people have in the Democrat party.
We may want to build something, but centrists like Noah just want to stay in power despite repeated fails, which is why he’s pretending that the same Republican Lite approach that lost 4 months ago is suddenly the answer now.
These people are bigots but are too chickenshit to just come out and say that so they're appealing to an imaginary silent majority.
Democrats won in 2020 while defund the police was in the zeitgeist. They overperformed in 2022 being seen as pro-trans. These clearly aren't political kryptonite.
attitudes like this would have stopped the civil rights act, so yes this is a very large "us vs them situation". democrats have conceded on so many issues for so long that debates now are over human lives, so giving a y ground is explicitly going to ruin lives
Which of the ideas in the tweet in question do you think is a bad one? Diversity, equity and inclusion, spending money on solving problems instead of throwing billions at brutal, ineffective policing, the internationally-recognized legal way to seek asylum, or the existence of trans kids?
It pains me to say it but the right wing propaganda machines have skewed the perception of some of these issues-idont like to denigrate Trump voters but is it that they were so ill informed and closed off that they could be dumped or do they mostly know as we do that he is a scumbag but don't care?
Crossing the border to seek asylum is a right enshrined in international law. To act like someone should request asylum at home is to willfully misunderstand the nature of asylum.
Moving toward the center isn’t caving. You can’t make changes if you don’t win. And we need to win moderates to win elections. Most people are in the middle, not activists.
People seem to forget 2020, 2012, 2008. Every election requires the middle. And change doesn’t happen overnight. Gay rights, gay marriage, desegregation, civil rights were all long battles that required moving the middle of America over time. I am not saying it is right. It’s just reality.
Those elections all serve the argument I am making, not yours. People respond to clear principles. Obama ran as a progressive and so did Joe Biden, the first time around. Progressive policies like M4A, ending wars, and taxing the rich are very popular.
I live in the sticks. It’s all economy and jobs for these people. The rest just doesn’t matter. And perception is reality for them. Obama won due to the Great Recession. Biden won due to Covid. Trump won due to convincing people their economics would be better with him.
Republicans don't even care about transgender women in sports anymore, they've moved on to criminalizing being transgender cause they knew sports was just a wedge they could push on. Jesus how are they this bad at this
If history is any reference, they should move further left. Seemingly worked for conservatives going full reactionary on policies. Also grow a spine and not defend status quo out of pure cowardice
Meaning if congress really wanted to stop “illegal” immigration, putting facilities to hear asylum cases at regular border crossings. There would be no need to cross undetected. Right?
The cartels have a heavy presence in border cities. Physically getting to an official port can be extremely dangerous, especially when the U.S. is doing any kind of metering (which both Trump and Biden have done).
Yeah I don’t know much about metering, but seem like a different mechanism with the same lesson: if you want to reduce undocumented crossings, eliminate metering where asylum facilities already exist.
Labor! We could throw them under the bus too. That would truly make us indistinguishable from the center right that Mitt Romney led to victory in 2008.
The only thing dems need to do is stop letting Rs define those terms/issues, i.e. the border issue exists because we're the #1 consumer of illicit drugs... AND the #1 supplier of weapons to the cartels. Remember the Contra/cocaine years. That was us. Our government. Over $1T on WoD is the real FWA.
Basically all three of those points boil down to pretending discrimination doesn’t exist and shouldn’t be addressed and white Americans are the “real” victims.
The problem is that you would be running on *their* framing of the issue. It’s not debating about what DEI actually is, it’s accepting the right-wing distortion of what it is and then campaigning on that. Same with “defund the police”, and “asylum seekers are criminals”. 1/2
Can't win by being the light beer version of your opponent. But preserving the current positions as shibboleths for Democrats is a loser. The progressive-centrist tension needs to dissolve orthogonal syntheses on these "cultural" issues to ground where the broader coalition is comfortable.
The problem here isn’t (just) an ethical problem, it’s a tactical one. Say you drop DEI (whatever the fuck THAT looks like). What makes you think anyone left of Thatcher would vote for a dem on this platform??
If they took a hard tack and were like “actually fuck the trannies,” I wouldn’t vote for them! No amount of “but the other guy!” would move my needle here. You dropped me and my comrades, to what end would I ever vote for you again?
I'm white and totally agree.The rules didn't allow work for me, but with maga rules we're just going back to the very ugly days of racial abuse and disparity, and look how well our freedoms are holding out.Damn good reasons for fighting for rights.It just went a little too far.better than now tho!
Uhhh I was passed over for jobs I was qualified for to allow minorities a chance to apply/be hired first.I didn't hate minorities for that because I had seen discrimination keep minorities who were also qualified get passed over for whites who weren't qualified.ok daniel?
Lots of qualified people don’t get the job. Only white men think they are somehow the ones who deserved it over everyone else. You can work hard and be qualified and someone may have been way better than you in ways you don’t know. Of course you’d assume it’s only because of race.
Yeah, I’m really curious about the conclusive evidence this person has that says they were the best candidate but didn’t get the job solely on skin color. Sounds… fictional
I hesitate to respond to those just wanting to fight, but I ran into this post of yours. Beth, I am not a male, and when I was young employers would discuss quotas. I accepted DEI although not called that then. I didn't assume I was better because of color. I simply understood bigotry & hated it.
None of these things are going to win them votes with the voters that cry about these things. They will never vote for them. Dems need to rally the voters that stayed home. Or find their own billionaire that's willing to commit crimes to win an election. 🤦🏿♀️
“Not being racist failed so it’s time to get rid of not being racist and just not be racist”
Also, in what world is that something we’re “going back to” when DEI initiatives exist because people were racist, if it failed that means people were still racist, and getting rid of it is so people can be
Unfortunately the white aristocracy has convinced the liberals that the country wasn't always this way, when it in fact was, just not wielded against them.
Holy shit what a rancid bad take that also shows *no understanding*. Asylum is LEGAL! "Reasonable" police reform is not even at the far end of what Dems have been proposing. Has no idea what DEI does, just propaganda. Then just tacks on "oh and let's abandon human rights whole we're at it.
gonna go against the grain on this one. During the election, immigration, trans rights, Trump ran on. Dems lost because we ran on trans rights, immigration, and issues that did not resonate with the masses. rights are important. To win, we have to take care of trans but not be in your face with it.
No political system that shoves people into a corner to wait quietly until a “better time” is worth having. Centrists don’t choose a side and they pander to comfortable middle white folks who want everyone to get along. Since our country is breaking, I want better for everyone.
Went to take a peek at OOP’s post in the Bad Place and yuck! I forgot how gross that place is. Also, if we suddenly start to see more support for these center right viewpoints, in no way shape or form will I believe it’s not astroturfing from that weird centrist dem think tank.
"Prepubescent medical transition"? WTAF are these people on about?
You literally CANNOT BLOCK PUBERTY UNLESS YOU ARE IN PUBERTY, THEREFORE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MEDICAL TRANSITION BEFORE PUBERTY, YOU ABSOLUTE MORONS, YOU F**KING IDIOTS, YOU STUPID PIECES OF SHIT
Also puberty blockers are reversible! Once you stop taking them, puberty starts up again. Their use can lead to LESS need for surgery since it stops secondary growth characteristics. Jfc these people enrage me
1. Wish someone would explain how DEI is different from “not being racist”.
2. Has the Democratic Party ever asked for anything beyond policing reform?
3. Does he actually understand how asylum works?
Yes, the American populace is mostly right-wing. But that does not mean it's the job of Democrats to magically mind-control people nor their job to cater to that.
It's our job, the leftists and progressives, to convince our fellow Americans to not be right-wing.
No no, that wasn't actually leaning right, the DNC capitulated to the far left on literally everything (Also if you bring up any proof I will immediately move the goal posts) so now we have to just be MORE Republican lite!
-Average Lib Argument when you say that Kamala didn't run a perfect campaign
I would, however, like to apologize. The orange is entirely my fault because I was selfish and intransigent for expecting a candidate whose policies I didn't find morally repugnant and not voting for her anyway. I promise, in future, to vote for whatever vile piece of shit they offer up /s
No no, it's my bad, I should have spent the billions of dollars in campaign funds I received on getting Kamala elected. Even if I voted for harm reduction in a blue state, it's definitely my fault for not embracing genocide with open arms. I'll be less selfish next time :(
that should have been the lesson: by accepting their framing on issues, you will never be running on your actual positions, you will only ever be running on what they think your positions are
It’s that people on the left stared in the eyes of Bibi’s friend the genocidal fascist, pedophile, rapist, and criminal felon then went “But I don’t like the black woman so I won’t vote for her.”
While I opted for harm reduction with my vote, when the reduction was a lot of compromise with the right the harm reduction argument starts to feel hollow. At some point harm reduction cannot be your major platform point, especially after making no progress to address the issues that got us here
A lot of people felt that the issues were explicitly being swept under the rug. People made their stances known and the DNC decided to say that they didn't need their votes to win. They were wrong. People didn't scoff at harm reduction, they said the harm wasn't being reasonably reduced.
Feverishly centrist Dems operate under a belief that the constant concessions to gain and hold power are justified because that's the only way to get what you want.
The trick is, you have to have something you want.
The thing that melts my mind about these kinds of posts is that the entire point of democracy is having a choice. If both parties agree on 80% of stuff then what is the difference between that and a single party dictatorship
Shows how little they actually value democracy
They are super duper dumb. They are just so OBVIOUS about it. As usual, some set of rich people who are very rightwing are saying they will pour money over politicians so they game the system, and cannot lose either way. Here comes the groupthink. Anyone sucked in here is a huge chump.
“To seek asylum in the United States, you can apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) if you are in the U.S. or at a port of entry”. Asylum seekers aren’t illegally here it’s how one applies for asylum.
The fix on the asylum issue, even if you think that lots of people are gaming the system, is hiring a ton of administrative judges to whittle down the backlog of cases. Democrats proposed a bill that did just that; Republicans largely were not interested.
They've (Rep) been introduced to many bills that they rejected. They're not interested in fixing the problem. Just using it as dog whistles. To feed their base of racist.
Yes it was not a good bill from the standpoint of Democratic stakeholders, with nothing for the Dreamers. It matters little what Dems do on immigration; there will always be a migrant caravan somewhere, and Fox is sure to put images of the teeming masses on blast (but never closeups of actual humans
They actually were accused of using old footage and it wasn't even in this region. I can't remember the specifics. But someone on TT made a video about it. I should have saved it, darn it.
This is my pet peeve. The so-called border problem would be solved by devoting enough resources to process claims. But they never do. Instead they’re firing immigration judges. Gives away the game which is scapegoating brown people.
Mine too. I’ve been to the border and watched trials. It would absolutely be solved with more resources. I think they like throwing this as red meat to the base.
It’s been this way for decades. It’s nothing new. Congress just never wants to devote enough $ to solve the problem. Also many immigrants overstay visas after arriving at an airport but you never hear about that because it’s not “hordes of brown people coming to get you.”
It’s just a modified version of their “Black men coming to pillage and rape White women” fear mongering. It’s worked to unify their racist base since Black people got the right to vote so why stop now, right?
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The phrasing is so revealing, he's fully right wing. Having a DEI office that reminds people once a year to not say the n word in the office is "racist".
The reason the democrats lost isn’t because they need to move to the center, it’s BECAUSE they moved to the center. Millions of young and working class voters stayed home because they couldn’t see a difference between two parties cuddling with corporations hanging with Liz Cheney.
There’s already a party with those priorities: the Republican Party. Poverty drives crime, not lack of police. DEI was intended to level the field a bit after 400 years of extreme racial economic repression, and creates value in organizations that embrace it. /1
2/ Crossing borders to seek asylum is legal (this your Republicans would like to change). And as far as ideology goes, you’ve embraced crime ideology, and DEI ideology—why draw the line at gender ideology?
These are the center-rights the Dems that voted to censure Al Green and Hakeem are trying to win over. This is exactly why their mentality is dangerous and an obviously intentional way to water down the progressive demands of their voting base.
As if spending 50 years since Carter moving to the right has done a damn thing to help Democrats.
Maybe try going back to FDR and the real Democracy base. Pretty sad when Eisenhower was more left than any modern Democrat
We just aren't taught so much of our history. It is alarming. I was never taught about the Tulsa Massacre in school and I supposedly had some of the best teachers/curriculum at the time. I learned about this horror from Watchmen and then searching for it. And that is just one of many things.
Odds are good you'll think this is disrespectful. If it were only that white people aren't taught? Things wouldn't be this bad. White people don't ask questions. Hell, people in general don't. And THAT'S categorically more of problem than not being taught.
Sometimes it is hard to find the question that will show you what you are missing. And sometimes it seems like the questions will be met with hostility, which leads to pause. Just things we should be aware of and try to correct when we can.
It's not disrespectful. In a lot of ways that is right, we (people) tend to accept something that is told to us with authority, or not realize pieces are missing from a story because we thought the source would tell the whole story. Questions should be asked more.
It's like not only having a broken car that won't drive. But every time you start it up. Nazi germany theme music starts. People don't even know answers to questions they've never thought of exist.
This reads like many more comments came along prescribing what right wing policies dems 'need' to adopt and the noah person just kept agreeing with them.
Yeah just keep loosing elections cus that been great for all the above. Gender identity crushed them in this election. Guess what your never gonna convince people That don’t wanna be convinced that they need to
Bend to your beliefs. Just like you’re not gonna believe abortion is wrong.
I don't think her message is wrong but her messaging and the ultra Lefty messaging is always terrible. Always trying to cram your ideaology down the centers throats. Just as bad as the christian fundamentalist on the ultra Right.
”if you want to apply for asylum from a government that is opressing you you need to apply for a visa from that government to come over here. if they grant you a visa, well clearly they aren’t opressing you”
Also, if you cross the border to the first safe place and formally request asylum, you did not cross the border illegally. He’s quite literally begging the question here, and I think he knows it too.
Which is why every leftist who didn't vote for Harris is on my eternal shit list, because Trump winning *obviously* meant a regime where violating human rights is the first, if not only, priority.
Sparing what's left of the social safety net is the only thing that comes to mind. And only because he didn't include it.
Which also isn't to say that's a good thing, because if that's really all he (or anyone else) cares about, it's both indefensible and a perfect example of "fuck you, I got mine"
“Why can’t Democrats understand that it doesn’t matter when people I don’t care about are subjected to violence and deprivation? Clearly the answer is simply compromise on all of their core commitments to their base constituents.”
Identity politics without class politics is a losing game. Addressing economic inequality is the only way to uplift the most vulnerable AND win elections.
Crossing borders without permission is an essential part of claiming asylum and how that system is supposed to work. (Also, go BACK to not being racist?)
Having an editor and working for a publication with social media rules was very good for his credibility; being a Substack guy and freewheeling poster has been the opposite
I too, remember the old days where he’d actually introduce people to books (like Studwell’s “How Asia Works”) and give attention to ideas unfamiliar to most, like export promotion. Sad, right?
He seems to have a poor constitution for going it alone and stewing in the brain juices of the activist venture capital crew of the Bay Area, rather than being at an institution like Bloomberg.
Twitter broke all these guys brains and unfortunately they're going to take down the establishment Democrats with them because their staffers and consultants and strategists and pollsters listen to them. They don't listen to the base at all.
I can't imagine why anyone is responding to this disingenue--Maku 'thinks' most Americans are shitbag conservatives and that's demonstrably false, but that sure isn't stopping him pulling such suppositions from his apparently-cavernous-and-expansive ass.
I like how Harris followed this advice and didn’t mention anything about DEI, defunding police, and ran on a right wing border bill, but people think it’s the reason she lost. She had more favorability when she was just calling republicans weird.
Does this dipshit not realize that you cannot legally request asylum *until* you're in the country? It's like playing freeze tag, you have to be touching base.
honestly the dems could really save a lot of time and effort by just disbanding the party entirely and becoming rebuplicans in name as well. if there's no actual intention to do things differently, the parties might as well be football teams
They aren't. Identity politics as defined by EVERYONE. Proves that not to be the case. It's not possible to accurately be accused of doing what you aren't doing.
To everyone saying it's just that dipshit it's not. People Dems listen to are saying the same, James Carville being the current observer. Granted The Bulwark isn't lefty, but they're calling for it too. The idea is the same, follow the Overton window to the right rather than trying to pull it left.
So he's saying this despite the Dems adopting a hard stance on immigration and rejecting anything but moderate police reforms while increasing funding. Meanwhile Democrats' DEI "policy" was just "not getting in its way." I think the pundits are the ones that need to learn Twitter isn't real life.
Anyone who says “We just need to cave over and over on basic human rights, and then we’ll be fine” should be thoroughly disregarded and/or launched into the sun
I don't disagree with you about police sucking, but what police reform have we actually had in this country that isn't strictly performative and surface-level?
I’m thinking specifically about Resmaa Menakem who’s a trauma specialist, training police in Minneapolis. I read his book My Grandmother’s Hands where he shared a lot of the techniques he used, and they go DEEP… like exploring intergenerational trauma and the relationship to racism.
This is such a joke.
"You see... the only thing we need to do is throw marginalized people under the bus... then we'll be cool. Oh and arrest homeless people... that goes without saying tho right?.. Right?" 🤮
To place DEI, the right-wing boogeyman that still has positive approval in polls, as the #1 sacrificial lamb really gives the game away! He's neither savvy nor popularity, he's just a reactionary weirdo!
People in the center aren’t looking to fight Republicans as the goal , they are looking to just find the best set of centrist policies. If democrats remain extremist, they will lose again and again
The fact that folks like you don’t want to fight fascist pieces of shit is everything I need to know about you and your nonsense politics. Calling current dems extremist is fucking hilarious you dork
It’s not. You guys have taken the Democratic Party to extreme left to the extent that none of my friends, all of whom were Obama supporters, are supportive of the trans agenda, of extreme DEI and many other woke politics. You can’t win their vote based on this extremism.
It's not saying "become Republicans". It's saying "become mainstream Americans", since most of the country holds these positions on DEI, policing and immigration. And yes, that includes non-whites.
Centrism isn't exactly "cool" right now, though. The "center" did not hold in the last election, and many centrist independents actively contributed to the country's damnation. So we cannot ask any person or party to move closer to the center until we've actually FOUND that center once again.
Unfortunately, progressive Democrat voters are probably the LAST people to be blaming centrist independents for our collective woes, since they contributed way MORE to the country's damnation by sitting the election out altogether:
I don’t think they should back down defending things, but I do think that dems need to focus HARD on the economy and Trump’s embarrassing performance over the next two and four years. Beat him with that over and over again. The economy should be the overwhelming center of their campaigns.
What fresh hell is this? “Be more like Republicans and then you might win?” Just make sure you throw all your loved ones, friends and marginalized communities under the bus first. 🤬🤬🤬Holy hell NO
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I’d love to hear what more can be added to https://reconstruction2029.com/reconstruction
as there are so many great ideas out there.
#reconstruction2029
“We are a very principled party. You don’t like this principle? Don’t worry, we’ve got others you might like.”
And i didnt speak up because aligning myself to their views will surely get me votes in the next election
Some hypothetical one? WTAF are you talking about?
For the GOP, putting up a demented sociopath (which doesn't protect anyone) hoodwinked everyone-your country just picked him A SECOND TIME
You people have lost the plot, truly
Yikes.
I don't think you've thought this through.
But like not in a racist or sexist way
"Don't make them the face of the party." holy hell
Many people couldn't believe it could happen, until it did.
Don't choose candidates just on identity, but don't *not* choose them because of identity.
But sure, ignore logic and keep punching left I guess.
Converting a third party voter into a Dem voter would be easy if they were interested in doing so at all.
It's just fandom.
You don't need to lead others to what is popular, that will happen on its own. Righteous leadership is convincing people to support what is right even when they don't want to.
No critical thinking skills whatsoever.
Democrats won in 2020 while defund the police was in the zeitgeist. They overperformed in 2022 being seen as pro-trans. These clearly aren't political kryptonite.
Dems need to be open to the possibility that not all their ideas are good and not double down simply because republicans disagree.
Evidently, some centrists like Noah just want to recreate the pre-Trump GOP
How’s that been working out?
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Tired of these assholes demanding we cave on our values, when they stonewall anytime they don't get 100% of what they demand.
"Treat others as you would treat yourself" is how I was brought up. If they wanna stonewall, I see no reason why I shouldn't give it back to them.
> "There’s no way to ask for a visa in advance for the purpose of seeking asylum,” says Byrne. “You just have to show up.”
https://www.rescue.org/article/it-legal-cross-us-border-seek-asylum
If you’re asking for “asylum” outside of the US, then you’re a refugee.
"Lol absolutely not."
We need a word for deliberately ignorant and malicious people.
This is the sort of pernicious thinking that gets us to the point where we assume all minorities jobs are “given” and not equally earned
For 10 points, what does asylum mean? (It does not in fact just mean migrant)
Also, in what world is that something we’re “going back to” when DEI initiatives exist because people were racist, if it failed that means people were still racist, and getting rid of it is so people can be
Libs: i eep
*GOP commits coup at home*
Libs: *surprised Pikachu face*
Isn't that what Trump has taught?
🇺🇸 Sometimes need to cave.
You literally CANNOT BLOCK PUBERTY UNLESS YOU ARE IN PUBERTY, THEREFORE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MEDICAL TRANSITION BEFORE PUBERTY, YOU ABSOLUTE MORONS, YOU F**KING IDIOTS, YOU STUPID PIECES OF SHIT
2. Has the Democratic Party ever asked for anything beyond policing reform?
3. Does he actually understand how asylum works?
Yes, the American populace is mostly right-wing. But that does not mean it's the job of Democrats to magically mind-control people nor their job to cater to that.
It's our job, the leftists and progressives, to convince our fellow Americans to not be right-wing.
-Average Lib Argument when you say that Kamala didn't run a perfect campaign
Total scam!!
Trump exposed Biden who said Congress had to address the border..
It’s that people on the left stared in the eyes of Bibi’s friend the genocidal fascist, pedophile, rapist, and criminal felon then went “But I don’t like the black woman so I won’t vote for her.”
It was enough of a reason for me.
I don’t need to be begged to give a shit about marginalized people.
I’m happy to address the issues but now we have a fascist in the White House because people scoffed at harm reduction.
The trick is, you have to have something you want.
Shows how little they actually value democracy
Today's Dems are yesterday's Reagan Republicans, or in simpler, more accurate Engish, Nazi sympathisers.
It is Social Security and Medicare and basic services (looking at you Alabama facing massive hospital closures).
Now go scare the bejesus out of America.
Start with field hearings in every state.
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Read https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-the-democrats-can-fight-back before we look for a back to bite.
Republicans: “we did nothing wrong, the election was stolen, we should double down on every divisive issue again in 2024”
*Trump wins by 1.5% in 2024*
Democrats: “we did everything wrong, we are never going to win another election ever again unless we move right”
*no one votes*
"It's voter apathy!"
"Stupid kids!"
"We need to run more to the right!"
Maybe try going back to FDR and the real Democracy base. Pretty sad when Eisenhower was more left than any modern Democrat
JFC.
Truly spoken with the confidence of a sheltered white person.
I mean how can she get laid if you're letting in good looking asylum seekers?
Bend to your beliefs. Just like you’re not gonna believe abortion is wrong.
Which also isn't to say that's a good thing, because if that's really all he (or anyone else) cares about, it's both indefensible and a perfect example of "fuck you, I got mine"
Strange that this person wants to go back to "not being racist" but believes more policing is going to fix that.
Even more strange that this person wants to talk about racism and then gatekeeps asylum seeking.
Batshit.
It wasn't even destroyed. Everyone just started calling it something else to avoid backlash.
fixed their tweet
His takes seem to have gotten dramatically worse over time...
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Pair the screen cap/tweet with essay. Highly probable.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-the-democrats-can-fight-back
He is lazy and emotionally incompetent, and has literally spent like five years getting stupider.
Because either he doesn't have any, or he has right-wing values that he doesn't want to admit to
"But if I did, I still wouldn't accept it!"
Commies. 🙄
"Policing reduces crime by a lot," in an era of sheriff's departments having been mobbed up for decades?
"We don't need inclusion, just 'not being racist'"! Whatever that means 🙄
And rejecting asylum law as it is for the new xenophobia!
Doesn't he realize that after he capitulates to the fascists on this list, it's going to be "maybe one more…" until the Nazis are in complete control?
Police reform does not work, we have been doing it for literal decades and police murders of civilians have only increased over time
Defunding the police, prison + military industrial complex should not be a radical position atp
We should absolutely stop police departments from accepting former military gear that they feel the need to justify.
But what police department has actually been defunded?
"You see... the only thing we need to do is throw marginalized people under the bus... then we'll be cool. Oh and arrest homeless people... that goes without saying tho right?.. Right?" 🤮
Every. Single. Time. They are brothers-in-arms.
DEI has been a success. It will be a greater success the more we commit to it.
Policing doesn't reduce crime; it creates it. Acts that would not even be noticed are criminalized when police are present.
The nation must follow the law when people seek asylum.