benjaminlowe.bsky.social
Brooklyn dad, recovering campaigner, improving challah baker. Brooklyn Democratic County Committee Member (the Fightin' 44th!).
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The correct take: bsky.app/profile/elkm...
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Schrodinger’s Genocidaire, a conscripted child soldier perpetrating atrocities who is also a highly trained, eager adult volunteer in the world’s most moral army
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Yup, true on both counts for me too (the second after reading your post)! Wired has done enough good reporting to give them the benefit of the doubt but it was an odd combination of words I’d never seen before.
The Twitter handle in question was Osint613, if you’re curious.
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The website was literally Zionmerch dot com.
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nominative determinism working overtime there
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This doesn’t make any sense. This effort had no impact on the Presidential primary outcome, and telling people who weren’t going to vote for Biden anyway to at least show up is a good thing, actually.
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tbf King of Queens got nine seasons, the people want what they want
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I'm so sorry you and your husband are going through that -- that's absolutely awful! Hoping you're an extremely annoying road trip away from finally getting everything sorted out.
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I’ve noticed a trend which continues here.
Rather than critique Mamdani’s thorough statements and proposals to address what he has said is the very real problem of antisemitism, his opponents simply pretend as though he’s never said anything whatsoever on the subject.
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The Sharia Communism of free buses, from what I've heard.
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"you know what's even better than people getting paid and then recollecting that money as taxes and fees?"
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As Abraham Lincoln said, "a house divided is good, actually"
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Until recently I was a fan of this approach, and still recognize its theoretical merits, but I don't see a world in which we ever get 50 Senators and the White House to go along with this plan in anything close to the timeframe necessary for this strategy to work.
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The liberal response to encroaching fascism is so often "gotcha" cleverness that doesn't ever do anything except affirm the legitimacy of whatever degradation of our democracy has been put forward this time.
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“hard-earned generational wealth”
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Not the general.
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Adams: an incumbent mayor so popular he didn’t run in his own party primary.
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Like ok yes I will definitely celebrate the inevitable disappointment of this garbage human, for instance. (The “Israeli” is apparently… Ben Shapiro.)
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“Race to the Bottom,” or maybe a one-worder like, “Confounding.” Rest assured I’m spending far too much time thinking about this.
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do it Jon
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Gotcha, thanks. To the extent that such people exist, I welcome their self-outing and disillusion when they discover Mamdani genuinely cares about the safety of all New Yorkers.
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I'm genuinely confused -- when you say "this" are you saying you believe his base wants him to "endorse Jew-hunting"?
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I agree that that organizing has to come from the outside. (I’m active with one of those groups determining exactly how to maintain that pressure.)
The person in office also has a big impact on the effectiveness and perceived legitimacy of those groups. Mamdani won’t tell us, “don’t boo, vote!”
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One promise from the 2008 Obama campaign I naïvely believed was that he would maintain the grassroots infrastructure built during the campaign to push for changes from the ground up.
That… obviously didn’t happen. But I could see Mamdani actually succeeding at that in NYC.
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All that supply on the market would be an early housing affordability win for Mamdani
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Oh that’s just a New Yorker thing. We think we’re the entirety of Western civilization.