exgnome.bsky.social
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Deporter in chief? Who shredded the last vestige of the fourth amendment? Armed cops to the teeth? Said we needed to look forward not back when security services rampantly break the law? Oversaw the crushing of all sorts of left wing protests? You expect him to be criticizing this?
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He did so much to build this current moment, it is hilarious to see people outraged he’s not criticizing it.
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The constitution doesn’t matter if there’s no one to enforce it.
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Her job depends on her not understanding it
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None of this is new to the conservative movement, the mask is just off. Reagan shredded the bill of rights and amped up a police state to fight drugs, W did the same on terror, both increased the size of government and the deficit, the bigotry and anti intellectualism has been there for decades.
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Obama did a lot of the privatization of NASA, but he was pretty right wing himself despite his PR so that fits.
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Using a philosopher alias online is like having a fedora surgically attached to your head
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The abundance people are more responsible for and less likely to change that than the left though.
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Green New Deal means the actual policies, and is generally a metonym for mobilizing our full industrial potential to transition to a low carbon economy. That the only way a reference to it could make it to Congress was as a messaging bill is an indictment of Democratic leadership, not the idea.
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Yeah, I get that. Motivated reasoning can be a hell of a drug, but I still think it’s accurate as a broad shorthand, especially considering how many Trump policies they adopted and the whole farce of a special prosecutor.
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Especially since Netanyahu was so openly pro Trump, and they didn’t make any coherent effort to push him out to be replaced by less partisan even if still bloodthirsty Zionists, which could have allowed them to paper over the divide in their base more easily.
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as is their refusal to even give pro-Palestinian voters token gestures that committed Zionists would know were purely symbolic… or to put pressure on Israel to accept a deal so as to remove the salience of a divisive issue in general.
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Public opinion has been changing rapidly, yet another problem with geriatric leadership, but I agree there was an argument 18 months ago that pro-Israel was the winning electoral move. Even so, their refusal to collect the data that might have confirmed or contradicted that is extremely telling,
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They wouldn’t let a Palestinian-American State Senator give a milquetoast speech at the convention! Nevermind ignoring all the many laws being broken to facilitate the genocide. They refused to let staffers even collect data on voters who expressed concern about the issue!
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It’s much more accurate to think that of establishment Dems who have gone out of their way for years to elevate Republicans, adopt their policies, and ridicule and discourage left wing voters, despite seeing how that results in GOP victories.
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The onus is on the left because the left doesn’t have power and thus can be blamed with impunity… and because the media megaphones doing most of the blaming have an economic interest in marginalizing egalitarians.
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I voted for Harris in a swing state, and she and Biden absolutely preferred a Trump victory to actual outreach to the left.
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The IRA was better than anything passed in my lifetime, and credit goes to Biden for passing it… but any honest look at the planet knows it’s still far from what is needed, and Biden’s senility and slandering a Green New Deal probably played a role in making that the strongest thing that could pass.
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The left should probably be nicer sometimes, sure, but it does make sense to be pissed off at people who claim to want what you want but side regularly side with the people actually responsible for stopping it regardless.
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This is of course also leaving aside the many students, both Jewish and not, who felt less safe because their universities were funding genocide and sending thugs to beat up dissidents, and of course that they felt less safe because of stuff that actually happened rather than delusional paranoia.
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Hillel is a front group, and they juke those stats heavily by categorizing any criticism of Israel or its supporters as anti-semitism.
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She’s an antisemite, thinking anyone who opposes genocide is ipso facto not Jewish. Obscene bigotry.
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Why do you feel the need to lie in defense of thuggery and genocide? Jewish students weren’t relegated to personas no grata, Jewish students were leading half the protests!
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That is wildly incorrect. There were faaar more threats made against the protestors than by them, the overwhelming majority of protests didn’t even come close to anything that could be slandered as threatening… and their skulls were still cracked regardless.
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Didn’t Tip O’Neill roll over regularly for Reagan?
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everybody is going to be blamed for american education buckling post-covid except the VC space cracking open public education revenue streams for tech companies
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Maybe I've just not noticed it until now but it suddenly seems it's a liberal mantra to say "Nazis are annoying but the left disagreeing with me is much worse."
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If you think it’s stupid to draw a connection between US imperialism in the Middle East and the climate effects of burning all the oil our imperialism gets us from there you’re really deep in denial.
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Fuck you
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The abundance people don’t engage with political economy, so don’t have a path towards enacting their populist elements and seem primed for cooption by factions of the technoplutocracy.
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DSA supported them more than right wing Democrats, for all the good it did.
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Love what you do, keep it up! I’m curious if you have a recommendation for a shoe type to wear with shorts (and likely a button down) that looks stylish but is still comfortable for extended walking/standing/etc?
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What are you on about?
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She’s ex CIA, been there done that.
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Zionism is antisemitic.
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It seems that voting for the "New Right" is just voting to press the civilizational self destruct button. They hate democracy, hate art, hate science, hate medicine, hate tolerance or pluralism. They only like tinpot dictators and chauvinistic crypto grifters
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The culmination of the Reaganite project to remove the power of the purse from the legislature.
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Calling it a “fix” is deeply misunderstanding the amendment/reconciliation process. As long as they had 51 votes they could have “fixed” it to be wildly different from the 60 vote version… which is what they did after negotiating with the house, just not quite in as progressive a way as I’d like.
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The language that was signed into law passed the senate 56-43. If the Democratic leadership had wanted a stronger law they could have had one whose final language was approved by 51 votes instead. It’s not that hard of a concept to grasp.