chrissick.bsky.social
Cares about politics. Elitist asshole about bands and clothes and books. Writing a novel about this election happening right now. Publishing it on beehiiv: https://swamp.beehiiv.com/
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Yours is a really important point! Not arguing with it just trying to supplement. It’s maddening to me that people pretend there isn’t not just evidence but mountains of evidence suggesting leftist policies lead to better outcomes than any market based solutions
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I think we’re making the same joke that there’s no ideological daylight between AIPAC and republicans.
That Democrats take aipac money is both an indictment of the entire party and evidence of their absolute ideological and moral bankruptcy.
Sorry if that wasn’t clearly my point
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Freeze rent > “unleash the power of the free market” (whatever the fuck that means, Whitney)
Mental health support and interventions > sending cops to kill unhoused people bothering tourists
Free childcare > “sorry middle/low income parents—you’re fucked!”
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It’s not even new ideas! Sorry don’t mean to come at you aggressively it’s just a frothing at the mouth mad trigger for me—they’re mostly proven ideas; de Blasio froze stabilized rents and avg rent grew slower than before or after his term!
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Sorry what’s the difference?
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I believe, maybe gotta believe to stay sane, that we’re living through an awful backlash to actual progress. Which is terrible and backlashes can/do(/are currently) kill(ing) people.
But if there’s hope there it’s that progress is and did happen. Two steps forward one back still leaves you one up
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But seriously I think we should all imagine deep changes to our system of government, because they may become possible more rapidly than we suspect.
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Buddy if his policies are gonna hurt your chances in the midterms than your pitch for democrats in the midterms probably suck straight dogshit
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This is why you don’t hire war criminals for their smart opinions
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Trying to imagine a world where establishment democrats worked as hard to defeat Trump as they are to defeat Zohran
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That’s a fucking statement. Thank you
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They seem nice
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That seems unlikely given how comfortable the right—specifically the DeSantis/Florida right—is with hiring literal neonazis and ignoring Musk or Kanye being openly pro-nazi.
I think the professor agrees with him and gave the award. The admin had to do something especially as he escalated on social
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Fair enough; my experience is pretty limited to seeing them in a few Jewish neighborhoods, though we don’t do it my house
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Like an alt one with a relatively good mainstream feminist rep
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Me playing the *first* modern warfare in 2008–“this shit’s gonna get more people killed than atomic bomb—holy shit did you see that multiplier kill!?”
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There's not much more to say that hasn't been said. The credible accusations against him are appalling. The support from institutionalists is appalling. None of these people deserve our respect or our vote. And when everyone hates Mayor Cuomo in a year, I won't feel good about being right again.
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It refers to both the holiday that originally was a harvest festival feast and the temporary dwellings some Jewish families erect and live in for the holiday.
In Brooklyn’s orthodox or Hasidic communities in the fall you see the little structures built on balconies a lot, what Cuomo was attacking
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I also think that Cuomo (not a Jew) calling Brad Lander (a practicing Jew) anti-Semitic because he didn’t invest in Israel bonds to be far more anti-Semitic than anything Zohran has done.
it is literally just the dual loyalty trope!
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I’m a literal anarchist and no amount of activism I can do would ever be as effective as demonstrating the failures of the elite and our current systems as pushing Gov. Grabby-Hands-Kilt-Yr-Gramma on voters is. What an incredibly stupid failure all this shit is
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These elites are gonna convince a whole generation that democracy and voting and peaceful protest accomplish nothing and then make them eat more shit and be surprised when they turn on capitalism and us democracy and all the other shit that’s failed.
It’s mind boggling. Crazy pills shit
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Let’s debate policy and ideals and everything but let’s not pretend that the grossest people in the world aren’t trying to buy the NYC mayor like they bought the presidency. Let’s not pretend the people who can’t call Musk’s nazi salute what it is are the right when they label leftists antisemites!
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It’s literally hard to describe the ways in which Cuomo is manifestly disgusting and deeply corrupt and incompetent. And if, knowing that, you don’t like Mamdani, fine. Whatever.
Let’s talk about it like grown ups!
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These motherfuckers—many of them in their last years or decades, are poisoning the well for the next generation of voters and for what? To get Andrew-fucking-Cuomo as mayor?
He’s the consolation prize you get in hell for your sins if you care about politics. He’s bruised fruit shoved into your face
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But it’s HST talking about the profound alienation of his supporters in the face of mainstream politics that resonates with right now. The entire party trying to make Cuomo happen despite no organic groundswell support, the increasing attacks on Zohran, the billionaire cash dumps…
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When Freak Power candidates showed signs of pulling off upsets, the two local mainstream party orgs agreed not to challenge each others’ incumbents in any local race with a Freak Power candidate to not dilute mainstream votes.
They reckoned better to have a mainstream enemy than an outsider.
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He talked about the Freak Power elections as the last chance before losing a generation of voters forever. About how the young adults supporting him were so completely and thoroughly disgusted by the system — whether it was D or R “mainstream” candidates.
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The thing that’s seared in memory is HST, in 1970, talking about the young people behind his campaign. They had seen MLK killed and RFK killed and their friends shipped to Vietnam and been gassed and beaten in Chicago two years earlier by Daley’s thugs.
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🦭🦭🦭
byeeeeeeeeeeeee
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We’re not arguing anyone’s basic humanity. We’re not redefining government as something the that only works for some and not others. We’re not leaving anybody behind.
That’s what the fascists want. We are not fucking having it.
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If you live somewhere, you are a resident, a constituent, someone who is entitled to the services of the government where you live.
Some of those are public goods—police, transit, fire—some are not. We can and should argue about what people of different statues should be entitled to.
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The fascist project is to redefine that and determine who should or shouldn’t be part of our society based on their (often hypocritical) values.
Right now government works for everyone in its are of responsibility. Not just taxpayers, voters, donors, or citizens. Not just white people
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And, while I’m here anyway, this question/debate is really fucking important! The fascist project is to redefine who “counts” or not here. It’s to redefine citizens’ relationship with government and nation.
Government should/claims to work for EVERYONE
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It’s absolutely disingenuous for someone to claim that a person living in a given congressional district is not that district’s representative’s “constituent”.
It’s categorically false and in the context it’s a lie.
That sometimes, somewhere, they might be informal synonyms doesn’t change his lie
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Sorry, Ewing, not Hobbes. Credit where it’s due.
But yeah, conservatives love to argue about the meanings of terms they either don’t understand or are disingenuously disputing.
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That’s not true though, as Hobbes points out. Whether Continetti is just a moron or whether he’s consciously doing a sleight of hand to flatten the term is up for debate.
People use resident, voter, and constituent as synonyms but if you call your rep they don’t ask if you’re registered to vote.
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Christ this is exhausting—in 2012 the dean of my undergraduate college at Columbia told incoming students why he felt it was important that the college had invited and allowed then-President of Iran Ahmadinejad to campus to speak.
And, of course, 12 years later we know how they responded