salmoncreek.bsky.social
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Every 20th century civil rights leader was accused of being a communist by conservatives of course.....
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Good thing republicans won after that so that taxes could be minimized on the rich, AIDS ignored (except for the times when it was openly mocked by the Reagan admin), unions dismantled, line blurred between church and state, etc. etc.
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Will your class include your opinions about how life in Norway is miserable because the taxes are too high?
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Thanks for the input. However, Anytime Tom decides to get up on his high horse, I'll continue to dunk on him.
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If he wants to lecture I'll lecture back.
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The centrists rode the Tiger for decades.....then got eaten.
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He's right about Trump. His worldview is garbage though.
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Just make sure to also criticize yourself. From 1980 onward........
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Yeah, why "pull the fire alarm" over Iran/Contra, Iraq invasion based on lies, extreme gerrymandering, voter purges, etc. etc.
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We're in a new era. Clinton/Obama politics ain't gonna cut it.
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We didn't fall for it all these years. You did. And now you're trying how to figure out how to deal with it emotionally. Carl Jung would have a field day with a case like yours.
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Criticism of "my side".......The Democrats only care about their corporate benefactors, refuse to propose policies that will provide material benefits to working people, and are unwilling to actually tax the rich. Until they fix that they'll never win.
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Whatever you want to call the state of things prior to 2016, it was always beyond obvious that Republicans WANTED fascism.
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It was always an easy one for me. A party governed buy fundamentalist Christians was always going to end badly. I said it 30 years ago as a high school student haha. Could have saved you a ton of time.
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He's been coping so hard since 2016
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Maybe there just aren't that many democrats. Maybe there's a reason for that......
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Dick was a "unitary executive" guy
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I'll just stick with "baby killers" and "baby starvers"
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Like the irresponsible people at Amnesty International?
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The cognitive dissonance on that guy is crazy. I actually agree with a lot of his takes on the "death of expertise" but he then turns around and commits the same sins he accuses others of on a regular basis.
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Can you please at least admit that Democrats need to offer a real alternative to Republicans economically and not just "Republican Light" neoliberalism?
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Dems should definitely drop all social issues and court the billionaires and corporations more.......
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Additional note: Virtually all mining is an environmental horror show.
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Also, most MSNBC pundits are former Republicans lmao
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George, I love you but this is crazy. Taiwan is obviously a tense situation but 2 years? And the Baltics aren't happening. Russia spent 3 years, 800,000 soldiers, and over a million working age men that fled the country to capture like 15% of Ukraine's territory. After all that they invade NATO?
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But......Shouldn't they have????
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Fun Fact....Prior to becoming an actor Dolph was a European champion in karate and also got a masters degree in chemical engineering and was an MIT Fulbright scholar!
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Feels like we're heading toward a "something's gotta give" scenario where the Supreme Court rules against the administration and then we wait and see if they agree to comply with the ruling. If they do not, the last stand will likely need to be a general strike.
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In all honesty, I don't think you can really glean anything from Biden's actions at this point. I remember visiting my grandfather in the nursing home and he punched a nurse because he thought she stole his jello. I'd never seen behavior like that from him before.
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I could see that being the strategy but it won't work for long. Wouldn't immigrants then just flock to the red state safe havens? Will all those MAGA voters in red states stand for immigrants continuing to be employed and thriving there?
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Assad was a terrorist so six in one......That the locals were openly celebrating in every liberated city is a pretty good sign.
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All of the worst things we've imagined.....He will TRY to do. He won't be able to do it in secret though. It will all be laid bare for the entire world to see. And we still have a Constitution.
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Let's wait and see. People that fled may come back. Doubt it will be worse than Assad.
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You really don't get it?
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If the court ever allowed something this blatantly unconstitutional, the Dems should run explicitly on packing the court.
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"Moby? You'd get stomped by Opie"........
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPlO...
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You're right. I'm sure everything's fine
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Weimar Germany, In Living Color.
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There will be a need for an army of pro-bono attorneys in the coming years.
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Boycott NYT
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I get the sentiment but this dynamic will eventually lead to the collapse of the political system. A system where neither party is a real advocate on behalf of working people isn't sustainable forever.
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The good news is that overall the secular trend continues unabated.
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They will certainly do damage to the institutions but there's always an opportunity to win the next election and rebuild. It's going to be an agonizing time but we aren't doomed.
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It's pretty provincial and issue dependent but in totality I would have to disagree. Other than abortion and a begrudging acceptance of gay marriage by many, we're a pretty reactionary culture. Even among dem voters. Reactionary thinking is hallmark conservatism.
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It's time to openly boycott NYT. They are an utter disgrace.
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You need to be able to walk another mile in another man's shoes. For someone in the bottom 50% of the income distribution, democrats offer nothing material that will affect society's outrageous inequality. Then they send our tax dollars to a government committing overt war crimes. Tough sell
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"America is a pretty conservative place!". Culturally yes....Economically? Not really. People hate the level of inequality we have in this country. Time for someone to try running on an extremely simple economic platform based on material benefits.
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The lack of motivation to block Trump is instructive. For the majority of the population, their personal economic situation hasn't been materially improved by democratic policy. Why would they care? Dems need to start giving them a real reason.
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A crucial thing to realize is..........Democrats aren't good. They are overwhelmingly corrupt and captured by the same oligarchs that the republicans are. Their superior social agenda and mildly better economic agenda simply aren't going to cut it any longer.