michelleonong.bsky.social
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Love this independent journalist - she's always spot on.
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Yup - they're the "white moderates" MLK spoke of.
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@fairshare.help
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The only way to "reform" the Democratic party is for Dem voters to stop blaming and shaming those of us holding our party accountable and standing in solidarity with the most vulnerable - use the primary process to focus on the policies we want and not be seated by the corporate talking heads.
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Also pay attention to which anchors they've pushed out - you'll see a pattern of journalists who placed a mere toenail's worth of accountability on those in power. They never invite field experts or academics to discuss topics - just "political analysts" who are basically corporate political tools
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They won't let us. They used their power to manufacture consent against the only candidate who could've beat Trump - because they preferred to risk losing to Trump rather than step on corporate donors' toes. And now they're raking in Resistance cash with no pressure to govern.
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Exactly - just got in a huge argument with my dad today about how corporate sponsored TV just caters their message to either a Red or Blue audience creating blind spots for both groups that they pit against one another. It's so friggin obvious!
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Read the newly released book Copaganda by Alec Karaketsanis if you haven't already - if our news media would actually do their jobs and hold the powerful accountable, we wouldn't be here. It's incredibly well done.
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Agreed - and it took me far too long to see this. I'm not sure how we get out of this, but I cannot continue to support a party that is willing to justify genocide and then treat those of us imploring our party to stand by the values it claims to uphold as the problem. I've hit my red line 🥺
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Bernie and @aoc.bsky.social - Please use the money you are raising to start a movement outside the corporate-filled Democratic party. My party has morphed into the 1990s GOP with a rainbow flag; they created the conditions for Trump's rise to power.
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Our ability to think for ourselves is all we really have left. Don't let those in power take that from you. With any given position - ask yourself who ultimately benefits or doesn't benefit? There is a clear pattern of policies benefitting the masses being deemed "unpopular" or "not possible".
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www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
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It's time to think differently and see things differently. It's hard, uncomfortable, takes intellectual courage. But following the same well-worn path of blaming voters instead of those to whom we have given our money and trust isn't cutting it. We have to hold the entire system accountable.
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And the Democratic party has always fought its traditional base and values it claims to uphold harder than it has ever fought the GOP - because for the establishment, they work for capital, not their voters.
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Well, when journalism has been hijacked by the very powers that they're supposed to check and platform fear-mongering and manufacture a false narrative that objectively popular policies are "too radical" to win a general election, then Trump is the result. So here we are.
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Absolutely - the economic populist policies of AOC, Bernie, and Warren are popular. I'm just concerned that they won't actually follow through just as Obama failed to do. We must watch them and hold them accountable. Rhetoric only goes so far. We need to see action.
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Maybe because diplomacy is an important factor in preventing war? We don't have to agree with a country or approve of its leaders to act in the interests of average citizens? We do this all the time with Saudi Arabia.
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We're always supplying arms to someone. The Afghanistan and Iraq war were ended - our defense contractors needed a new source of funding. And I worry that rather than work with the interests of safety of the Ukranian people, my tax dollars went, once again, to fill the bank accounts or war CEOs
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Here's an article with some nuance that makes more sense to me - any thoughts? It mentions the Russia-NATO founding Act. I can see reading this article why there is debate on this issue.
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...
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Do you consider the US to be a good faith actor? Do you think the US government - the Biden administration anyway - cares about the Ukrainian people? We US citizens care, I'm just not sure our government does - it doesn't care about its own citizens so...
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Interesting - thanks for sharing. There's no need to be snarky - don't get why people can't just have a discussion without being complete assholes.
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Map of US bases. Russia sent missiles to Cuba so they could defend themselves from the US and we almost had a nuclear war over it - the US couldn't handle it. We can certainly dig up crap but we can't take it.
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Why would Russia be okay with former Soviet states joining NATO?
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I just don't believe either the US or Russia are good faith actors looking out for average citizens. If you have an independent, reliable source that can explain what is happening, I'd gladly read it. Sorry about what is happening to your country 🙏
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Like just from a realistic perspective - do we actually believe the US would just quietly back down if it was surrounded by Russian bases? We literally pushed Russia into a military corner and then blamed Russia 100% when they invaded Ukraine. Like what did we expect? We could have done better.
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Good to know - I'm always open to learning more. Again, I'm not saying Russia are the good guys here, I just don't think the US is acting in good faith here either. War is profitable and the US is a corporation - profits come before people. We US citizens see this first hand
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Didn't the US promise Russia that we wouldn't expand? And then we did? I'm not saying Russia is innocent but can't you also see that the US has geopolitical reasons to look like we're the "saviors" here? When was the last time the US cared about anyone but themselves?
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If we supposedly enlightened liberals can't become reflexively angry instead of curious when presented with any ideas outside the typical news spoonfed to us by our corporate overlords, then we have no hope in hell of ever beating fascism.
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And yet another by an esteemed professor at the University of Chicago. These voices expanding the Overton window of discourse are omitted while climate change denialists are given legitimacy on our cable news networks - consider why that is.
youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4?...
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Of course it sounds ridiculous - we hear nothing else from our corporate sponsored press. Here's another article from Hedges, a Pulitzer prize winning reporter who got pushed out of his 15 year position at the NYT for daring to call out the folly Iraq war post 9/11
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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Please keep in mind that CBS is sponsored by the same corporations that fund every other cable outlet including Fix News. We must actively seek independent journalism disconnected from corporate interests.
Some Thoughts On Ukraine caityjohnstone.medium.com/some-thought...
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Good question. We're seeing the creation of a Blue maga in this moment - and too many are too invested in their own intelligence to see it.
Some Thoughts On Ukraine caityjohnstone.medium.com/some-thought...
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Can we also please talk about how the US and NATO allowed for this escalation with Russia. We haven't exactly shown that we actually care about security of human life - just economic security of those in power.
Some Thoughts On Ukraine caityjohnstone.medium.com/some-thought...