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Keynesian basic left liberal,gender fluid, she/ her labor unions are vital
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And unfortunately that ritual display has become so essential to leftist spaces' consensus building - hmm ritual invocation of hatred against a community of Jews, this isn't comfortable is it? - that the slogans get defended not as practical messaging but as in-group signalling.
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I don’t want to upset you all but dominck fernow turned out to be friends with a. Lot of white suoremacists
thequietus.com/news/dominic...
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But anyway if they can sell a tie fighter shaped bicycle helmet in the future , it’s all good
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I also think Andy you’re a star is underrated
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Assad and Gaddafi support is always bizarre to find
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"Imperialism is when the US/UK do something" means being in favor of Argentina seizing the Falklands and Iraq seizing Kuwait. It means being in favor of genocide in Xinjiang and Ukraine because it's only genocide when Jews or Anglophones do it.
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There is a certain person who I think is now big on Substack and for the last like ten years her entire thing has been like, "oh this person hates America? I am INTRIGUED" and so she winds up having kind of hilarious politics.
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He’s not wearing a maga hat I hope
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By this line of reasoning, that Mamdani is associated with "Globalize the Intifada" because some of his vague political allies have used it, then every single reporter needs to ask Trump why he did a Nazi salute.
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I’m guessing they wanna make rfk jr cooler than we actually is
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I was actually thinking more along the lines of Greenwald, Useful Idiots, Chapo, Briahna Joy Gray, people who haven't said anything nice about a Democrat in years. Or the Zei Squirrel types who will find a way to claim Mamdani is a pro-Israel Zionist. But this works too.
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Good!
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Yes o realize I did a joke twice
My apologies
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I understand the frustration defintely
But the thing to do here would be to advise Jeffries meeting with mamdani to talk it out and make amends
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Yep
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Well I’m telling Jeffries to be an adult here too
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To be clear, I think the backlash to Mamdani's comments is overblown and motivated (in part) by racial bias. I think Jeffries' remarks are suspect. I just don't see how it helps to classify Jeffries as an irredeemable enemy when he's clearly presenting himself as an intermediary and potential ally.
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hilariously people have MOSTLY been in a tizzy over Hakeem Jeffries giving him a really easy tee-up to clarify his views, which he then did, it's pretty clear that their comms teams were cahooting as is proper
I think that was downstream of Gillibrand's comments, ultimately? not sure.
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She overtly called him a Muslim terrorist and was the point source for putting a bunch of words in his mouth about "globalize the Intifada" that he never actually said, it was really fucking bad, I'm trying to find a transcript. Apparently her spokesperson has claimed she 'misspoke', which. lol.
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as opposed to e.g. statements from Gillibrand, which are *genuinely horrific and for which she needs to apologise*