cynsation.bsky.social
The coolest girl you don't know (She/her).
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In theory, they might expect a PCOS T script for a person who is AFAB to be a trans person, who got their doctor to write them for something else to get around it. But idk how vigilant they are going to be about all that. I expect higher scrutiny but cis people being fine from this part of the bill.
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We are talking about Medicaid coverage here, not the pharmacy. So if medicaid gets a claim or prescription for any transition care they would deny it. You could still buy it at cost from the pharmacy, which for T I think is fairly expensive.
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The ban only applies to trans people/ transition healthcare.
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After she went on the view and gave that "she wouldn't have done anything different" answer, she got asked a follow up about it. Her response was it was her job to as VP to back the president. I think she had it backwards, that was perfect reason to make a clean break instead of tying herself to him
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You throw the super unpopular Biden under the bus. Say you would have hit the inflation go down button and want to stop weapons for Israel but Joe is stopping you. She was already walking back all the progressive things she said in the Senate and 2020 primary, no reason to not add in some more.
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One can only hope
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Very likely it's the Dorley Hall series. There a certain section of trans twitter engaged in a long crusade for or against these books. I haven't read it myself, but have seen lots of discourse about it.
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That's not the argument. The declaration doesn't espouse universal rights liberalism if labels natives Americans savages who don't have a right to their land in the same document. Because Enlightenment liberalism's definition of everyone didn't include those they dehumanized.
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One of their main grievances was that Britain didn't want them expanding west of the Mississippi. So yeah freedom to do native genocide was a founding idea of the nation. Will is historically illiterate, at best.
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Eh, since Democrats haven't taxed billionaires out of excellence they should just have their mega donors buy out media platforms.
Or do something like AMLO did with his daily briefings and discredit mainstream media from the left.
The Biden admin basically just threw up their hands.
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I'm in the same situation in the US, it's so awful 😞
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It seems like Cuomo is slipping here a little bit, other polls have had him at 38 or 39. Those older polls also had Eric Adams on it, you would expect some crossover there. Still seems like a uphill battle though.
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Unanimous consent really just matters in the Senate, because cloture there takes days. The house has strict several minute time limits for things like that. I do agree with the voting against everything tho.
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I hope there is a hell so scabs like you can burn in it.
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Same
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Well it is illegal, just not really enforced.
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Green Monkeys
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It's so relaxing compared to driving. I just wished they ran a few more trains.
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Ok, if I want someone to pay more attention to something I will call it a distraction. It's like the definition of the word.
I will eat crow if Bernie has used the same line in the same way, (which I don't remember but whatever) but I'm not reinventing the word distraction to cover for McBride.
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No, she called attacks on trans people a distraction, which is telling people to ignore it. Saying that attacks on trans people are a ploy to steal from workers, also implies trans people aren't working people. Bernie is saying bigotry is being used to split the working class, so we should fight it.
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True, she is saying it's good we won the Cold war, but also she is making a contrast between Reagan and Trump.
But Reagan loved right wing dictators! He would have liked Putin's Russia more than the USSR for sure.
It's white washing Reagan. Not to mention all the awful things he did domestically.
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I don't see how the full quote makes it much better. At the end of the first paragraph, she says (or at the very least heavily implies) Reagan used America's military might with moral clarity. Which is objectively false unless you are a contra supporter.
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The vast majority of Zionist have preached and carried out ethnic cleansing since Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion on down. It's been over a century. Even under Rabin Palestinians weren't offered a sovereign state. Just give it up, man.
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I'm going to step away from this thread now. But it's not a LARP to want a better opposition party. Fascist Republicians are bad and have chosen to be evil, but wanting better fighters isn't Murk's Law. It's about putting the best foot forward to fix our systemic problems.
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Opposition parties in hybrid regimes mobilize their voters to protest. A parties role is more than just legislation, esp in a time like this. They got power rn that would be good to use. I've protested, canvassed and am a DSA member. I'm a queer educator, so I'm resisting the admin at work too
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You would benefit from following your leader. Maybe I could help get you directions for a bridge to jump off of.
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You asked me what I would have Joe Biden do differently and you mentioned it in your QT. I was just talking about some positive extra legal liberal actions in US history and u started this whole part of the conversation. You go on about my LARP ideology or whatever to make up happy I guess
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Because Biden gave Israel the support they need to commit genocide. I'm not asking him to be Netanyahu. Isreal isn't some natural resourced industrial power. Even with their nukes, under enough global pressure they would fold like Apartheid South Africa did. And we are the stopgap on that pressure.
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Attacking the tradition of reactionary maverick senators bucking the party will make us whip votes better in the future. It will build a party discipline that will help us in the long term. Also public pressure and econ disruption through strikes can change votes.
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I don't think you are really getting the point of the whole thread. I want us to have a more mass politics, so we can move towards remaking the system. We should have the goal of making the Senate vestigial like the House of lords, so we don't have to appeal to WV coal barons. Think bigger.
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I want things to change to get better. I wasn't talking about a socialist party. (Though socialist have done great things). I was talking about how we might go about structural changes, like the radical Republicans or the drafters of the Constitution. It's a long term political project.
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He should have worked with the UNSC to pass punitive measures to bring about their July ceasefire resolution. He should have back South Africa's case at the ICJ and back the ICC warrants. FWIW Senate Dems did block the ICC sanctions, that was good. US support holds up the apartheid.
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He didn't need to be Netanyahu, he needed to follow US and international law. He should have followed the findings made by State Department staff of human rights violations by Israelis that would have prohibited arm shipments under the Leahy act and foreign assistance act.
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That's what a competent Lib party would do. Personally as a socialist, I would like if they attacked billionaires and capitalist more. But they should at least be a competent Lib party, even if that runs over the norms and some of the rules in place.
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talk about a new constitutional convention, talk about making the regulatory and welfare state he's destroying even stronger than before (universal healthcare). Meet the moment to fight back against a system that let fascism fester in the first place.
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Trump and Elon are putting the constitution through the shredder rn to do fascism and Dems are going on the news saying they are powerless as legislators. Than they should go mobilize the masses., talk up a new reconstruction, talk about using the 14th amendment to bar or lock up traitors.
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Not committing genocide. Denounce Manchin, organize protest or strikes in WV, talk about how ridiculous the Senate is that we need to rely on him at all. Either play the press game or make our own like the right did. The NYT and CNN are being reactionary rags, you should make some noise about it.
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We should be looking to structurally curtailing the Senate power as a whole and yet changing a racist parliamentary rule is the end of the world. Biden specifically, not seeking re-election for starters, Threatening to pack like FDR, building public support for structural changes to our government.
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Dems want to pass. It shouldn't have been like pulling teeth to get 48 senators to support a limited carve out to it. And then they couldn't whip their last 2 members at all. That's unacceptable lack of party discipline, people in the second strongest office in the country won't pass basic things.
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that rulings are destroying democracy, it needs to be remade or refilled"
The party is so tepid around the Senate, which already screws us over by just existing. Just look at the filibuster for example. A decades long tool made specifically to suppress civil rights and since McConnell everything.
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The SCOTUS made several outrageous, unconstitutional rulings during the Biden admin.
It was a great chance to challenge the legitimacy of the court as institution that the party and Biden didn't care for. Not a "this decision is wrong", but more along "the court is run by lifelong fascist theocrats
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We weren't talking about Biden specifically but whatever. Sorry, this will be a long answer. I have a problem with the party's thinking, it should be more goal oriented and we should look for structural change to do that. The Senate and Supreme Court are undemocratic and reactionary.
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The new Southern Constitutional conventions and initial elections were boycotted by most Southern whites. The Freedmen really took the opportunity to make progressive state govs and elect black Republicans to Congress. This new wave of congressmen got the support needed for the 15th.
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The reconstruction amendments happened because radical Republicans broke the rules. In 1866 they refused to seat delegations from the South that passed Johnson's reqs and made them pass new state constitutions which required black men's voting rights and to ratify the 14th to be let in.
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Both the Constitution and radical reconstruction happened because of rule breaking.
The Constitutional convention went around the article of confederation, which would have required a unanimous vote to pass anything.
The rad republicans barred the delegations from the South from Congress in 1866.