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Not my real name or birth year. My great-great grandmother’s and my mother’s. Name change is due to working as a PhD student at a public college in a red state. Wanted to avoid students searching me/reporting me. Profile picture is my sweet boy.
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What I would do is continue to turn public sentiment against Trump and ICE through peaceful protest, while encouraging boycotts of Trump-affiliated companies. Meanwhile, allow time for the non-AFL-CIO unions to realize that tariffs won’t bring jobs back, but just lead to layoffs.
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Thankfully, all the AFL-CIO unions support Indivisible. The question becomes getting unaffiliated winnable unions like the Steelworkers or the Longshoremen on board.
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Black folks are boycotting a fair amount of companies, but it hasn’t gained much traction amongst people outside of the community. I think the goal of Indivisible is to grow the base as much as possible, while setting up the infrastructure for people to participate in the strike (lost pay, etc.)
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They have no power. Voters gave them no power. Their only power comes from the people. My guess? People are putting all of this on them, so they can have an excuse not to stand up themselves. This is on US.
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It makes sense if you recognize that they see voting as an expression of personal principle rather than a means to improve the lives of others. If both Harris and Trump made them feel they had to morally compromise themselves, they would be seen as the same, regardless of the degree of harm.
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Because these people never cared about Palestinians more than they cared about feeling like rebels and martyrs for a cause.
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Another person was like “stunned by the blows to our democracy” in February, and I told her I would bet $50 Trump tries to declare martial law before the year is out. I genuinely think they thought that both parties were the same and that the shit about Trump was mainly aesthetics.
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Someone I knew was like “but if we don’t teach Democrats now, how are they going to learn for 2028?” And his pompous look faltered a bit when I started laughing hysterically and told him there wouldn’t be a Democrat elected for a generation, if ever again.
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Genuinely, can y’all stop dickriding? Who gives a fuck? They’re ineffective, move on to other topics. The anger and hatred is completely out-of-pocket. You know what my thoughts are? People are angry at them bc they’re mad they can’t put it all on Congress to protect them anymore.
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They also want to abolish the Senate. Which is genuinely insane.
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Also withdrawing from NATO. I swear to God, they literally see anything involving Western military power as unequivocally evil.
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Yup. Like her platform was RIGHT THERE. She posted all of her rallies on YouTube. It just shows that they weren’t really willing to consider her as a candidate enough to give her the benefit of the doubt.
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This is the approach I’ve been taking with how to get independents to turn around. Many dgaf about immigrants. But when you start telling them that all you need is a mask and a fake suit to invade people’s homes and snatch people off the street? That’s a game-changer.
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And then these fools have the audacity to come for MVP Harris when she said “I told you so.” Hell, if I spent 100 days breakneck campaigning trying to tell everyone what he was going to do, and then the same people who dismissed what I had said started complaining, my petty ass would say the same!
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TikTok and Twitter.
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It’s suppressed. I haven’t seen a single fundraiser for Ukrainians amongst all the Gaza fundraisers. Both deserve financial support, but it’s depressing that none of these folks care about war crimes when Israel’s not committing them.
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These people have no idea what war looks like. They literally think 53,000 dead after nearly two years is a genocide. War crimes, 100%. But those numbers are not out of line with war.
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Shhhh it’s not their cause célèbre bc too many libs posted about supporting Ukraine, Gaza is the only war crimes going on rn
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That was sort of the moment. People had no idea that Harris had promised to double the minimum wage and legalize weed. A similar thing with Democrats. People were yelling “DO SOMETHING” while my YouTube recommended was flooded with Democrats doing something and speaking out.
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Can confirm. I was just writing an essay about how broad information access has led people to believe that, if they don’t see the information online, it doesn’t exist. People werecomplaining about how Harris could have won if she’d promised x, and I had to tell them that she’d promised all of it.
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I love my students, but the education system and their parents let them down in terms of screen time and research. They genuinely don’t see a world outside of their phones.
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It’s genuinely horrific how people don’t recognize that their algorithm is filtering information. They assume that, if they don’t see it, it didn’t happen.
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I was just writing an essay about how people’s expectation of broad media access causes them to assume that everything that matters will show up on their social media. If they don’t see it, it didn’t happen. It’s mostly younger folks, which is saying a lot, as I’m only 26.
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They also vaguely have a “both US and Russia are bad, therefore no side to pick!”…But don’t do the same with Israel and Hamas. They minimize Ukraine bc they don’t want to admit there’s a double standard for Ukraine and Gaza, likely bc the algorithm is manipulating them.
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I don’t think they’re lying, I’ve met people like this. They’re all on TikTok and don’t want to admit the algorithm is created to amplify Gaza and suppress Ukraine content. Even if you explain it to them how TikTok’s algorithm works, they don’t want to admit they were manipulated.
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I should clarify that the Civil Rights Movement didn’t succeed due to protest. It succeeded due to the economic warfare that those protests provoked.
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As the grandchild of a Civil Rights activist, you’re actively minimizing the progress my grandfather and people I grew up with made. No, there was much more progress to be, but dismissing the power of protest when they single-handedly ended a centuries-long law is not helpful.
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Marginal differences? She literally met with the Undecided movement and supported a two-state solution. Trump is trying to develop Gaza.
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When the fuck did she say this lol.
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Y’all need to understand what happens when shit hits the fan. It will look like massacres. A third of this country believes that immigrants poison the blood. That’s why Black folks are so reformist. Violence and chaos just present more opportunity to be killed.
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I got fired because I tried to clean the soft serve machine in the middle of a shift 😭
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I mean, he is right. There isn’t any trans bill being debated, and the Supreme Court opinion is final bar a Constitutional Amendment or a new Court. So, yes, if they are bringing attention to that, it’s likely because their constituents focus on something else other than the budget bill.
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It’s Russia, technically, so she would still be conflicted.
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They can’t, unless you give them 67 senate seats. Also, a governor can’t have anything to do with the removal of a President, that’s Congress’s job. Put this pressure on Republican senators in purple states like McCormickc Tillis, Budd, and Johnson.
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Just say you got triggered by him very specifically discussing immigrants and how it resembles the Holocaust. He’s spoken out against Mahmoud Khalil’s imprisonment. He’s also the governor of Illinois. Foreign policy is not his domain.
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How have Bernie and AOC been thrown out? Also, no one in Democratic leadership voted to censure Al Green.
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You can’t arrest ICE agents. You also can’t cancel immigration hearings or determine citizenship or outlaw a federal agency. Those are all federal jurisdiction. You can ban local police forces from working with ICE, which Pritzker has done already, as well as ban federal detention centers.