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(It's best not to ask.)

[alan713ch]

You know what else is pissing me off about the Talarico/Crockett situation?

Black Americans have spent DECADES not only fighting for seats at the table, but learning to play the game. Learning to campaign, to negotiate, to cajole, all to make sure that the progress they attain is permanent and not fleeting. That it cannot be taken away with the stroke of a pen.

And now in come these bastards from the Left claiming that the changes have been slow, that all they want is to upset the game so changes can happen faster, even at the risk of those changes being fragile because they know, they know that when the cracks form, it will be Black people that fall through those cracks. Not them.

So yeah, Black people always have to do twice as much to get half as others.

It's infuriating.

[afurioushawk]

Talarico Democrats really said with their whole chests that instead of working with the base, they're going to put all of their faith into flipping Republicans. Their entire plan rests on believing that a horde of white Republicans are just waiting with bated breath for the Great White Hope to convince them to leave.

Which. Okay.

I believe the term is "caucasity."

[vettir]

Talarico is going to lose, hard, and Crockett might have won. And I'm going to point out that we put down a black woman to lose with a mediocre white man.

[sprinkledsalt]

"lmao dumb fucking libs think the only problem with a president starting a war is that he didn't get congressional approval"

Well if you were actually nearly as anti-war as you pretend to be, you'd be concerned about the ability of a single man to start a war without any obstacle being in his way or any branch of government able to stop him, but we all know you don't care about any of that and just use every opportunity to dunk on and blame liberals because you're functionally a Republican.

[short-wooloo]

#like being disturbed that one man can start a whole war extralegally without consequences right now#doesnt mean that i think it would be okay to do if it happened legally either#and thats an INSANE conclusion to draw#really a “thats a whole new sentence” type situation with these people

#also I’ve seen a lot of people taking statements like#‘this act of aggression is illegal and unconstitutional’#to mean#‘I would have approved of this terrible war crime if given the chance’#and that’s just straight up not what democratic reps are saying

#prev:#I mean‚ these are people who don't believe there's a point in voting for their congressional representatives#because they think both parties are the same#so by that logic it makes sense#they're like 'oh‚ so if congress votes for the war then it's okay???#because they don't understand/believe that you can vote for people who wouldn't

excellent additions that could not be left in the tags

[snakelung]

#also the man in charge of the entire military is a drunk TV personality with no experience

[melaschasma]

“Moderate Democrat at best”, like that’s a bad thing. What am I supposed to want a character’s politics to be? Maoist book club do-nothing idiot? Bernie Sanders-flavoured fascist enabler? Standard issue “kill billionaires and redistribute their wealth” economic illiterate? Which version of useless-at-best, actively-counterproductive-at-worst socially acceptable leftist politics should I be hoping for?

[stele3]

I’m going to keep saying this until I’m blue in the face: moderate Democrats are the most racially-diverse political group in the U.S. If you’re white and talking shit about liberals and moderate Democrats on the incredibly-white echo chamber known as Tumblr, please know that I am side-eyeing you.

[weirdtranssexual]

It’s wild watching American leftists act like the war in Gaza is the first bad thing to ever happen overseas. Like, I saw someone contrasting news about the Taylor Swift album with gruesome pictures of Gaza? Like, I don’t really understand why this is the thing that has triggered their white/first world guilt. Like, there was a civil war in Syria? The genocide in Myanmar? Yemen? Ukraine? But no, Palestine is the thing we must be thinking about 24/7. Can’t do anything else ever.

what really gets me is they haven’t even examined WHY they have such a strong reaction to this conflict compared to similar or worse conflicts, maybe it’s because then they would realize they’re only reacting strongly to the jewish nation doing anything

[chutzpahchesed]

[thestuckylibrary]

#i just want to say that the sheer number of people complaining that a pop star is releasing an album#by tying it to the war. a war she has less than zero to do with. is fucking bizarre#it’s just people who hate everything and whose entire identities revolve around palestine#there is no reason to do this#and yet they’ll do it to movies (superman) or tv shows (andor) or to call it ‘dystopic’ that…a musician makes music?#like idc if you enjoy any of these things or not but there is simply no logic in these distorted thought processes#it’s like saying spotify wrapped was a conspiracy. it’s all illogical#stop fandomizing the war#cult mentality

[sick-sad-little-world]

A big reason why the internet became obsessed with Palestine is because Russia and China told them to.

Why? Because, it's a wedge issue that can easily be used to destabilize western democracies. And, they'd rather have people talk about Palestinians than Ukrainians and Uyghurs.

[afurioushawk]

Right before the holidays? Do it. Democrats, don't step in save MAGA from ruining their own Thanksgiving. Keep their hands on the hot stove.

[ajunicetryagain]

This is absurd.

Enhanced ACA subsidies disproportionately benefit red states. Losing those subsidies won't just mean skyrocketing prices and some people losing their ACA coverage, they will impact literally everyone in the country.

Healthy people drop out? Insurance premiums go up.

Fewer insured people using health centers and hospitals? Health centers and hospitals close.

More uninsured people using the ER? Healthcare costs go up, hospitals close.

Red states and districts, many already struggling to keep hospitals and health centers open, are going to be hit the hardest (even worse once the Medicaid cuts kick in) and Republicans know that.

People couldn't afford health insurance costs doubling or tripling a decade ago, they absolutely cannot afford it now. And thanks to the pandemic, we have a whole lot more people with preexisting conditions and comorbidities—some of whom don't even know it.

Add to it to the illegal withholding of SNAP benefits, the abdication of duty on illegal tariffs, the gross Medicaid cuts and more... good lord.

No wonder they're trying to ultra-gerrymander now.

Why deal with the consequences of intentionally, willfully crashing the American economy when you can just disenfranchise anyone who might push back?

[english-history-trip]

[snoutbeetle]

Is a language dead if it has more than *squints* half a million daily speakers despite centuries of imperialism?

Fucknuggets.

[taksez]

Sometimes you wonder if they can function outside their imaginary world

[brunhiddensmusings]

the english want the welsh language to die so people dont notice that 80% of ‘english mythology’ has been lifted wholecloth from wales, had the serial number filed off and covered with a union jack

[andordean]

My favourite.

[randomingoftherandomness]

Cymru am byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ❤️

[no-one-expects-deactivated20220]

It’s a beautiful language, like Gaelic, Scottish and Irish. All languages are important for our history, it teaches us who we are, and who we were, it’s our true indigenous tongue.

[iris-collects]

Welsh was never a “dead language” because it was too strong for it’s enemies to kill.

[submalevolentgrace]

the welsh government wants to force everyone to learn welsh? man that sure sounds totalitarian, imagine if the english government forced everyone to learn english smh smh

[spiritscraft-deactivated2025031]

A form of genocide by trying to kill a language the English and American powers that be have been attempting on indigenous cultures for centuries. Protect, Welsh, Irish, Native American languages, Austrailian Aborigine, and all the many others not coming immediately to mind.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

This is happening in France as well. French is the only official language in France and for many years, children weren’t allowed to speak other languages in school. This is why many of the French regional languages, such as Breton and Franco-Provençal, are endangered.

[disorganisedautodidact]

Most endangered languages aren’t endangered because their speakers stopped caring, they’re endangered because they were forcibly repressed

[that-catholic-shinobi]

I’m trying to find time to take Irish classes. Celtic languages are beautiful and need to be preserved

[carsonjonesfiance]

“Both Sides are the Same” I want you to look me dead in the eyes and tell my Black ass that Kamala would have torn up a civil rights settlement to provide Black people in rural Alabama with working sewage over “DEI” being “wasteful”

[carsonjonesfiance]

Y’all are so unserious.

[hazel2468]

Yeah- they know they fucked up.

That, or they wanted this all to happen and just can't admit it online with their whole chest because it'll cost them their brownie points.

[ichooseyoupikajew]

That's the whole problem with leftists. They've already decided - ahead of time! - that they're going to be on the "right side of history." So, if anything happens that makes their actions look less than ideal, they have to ignore it. Or create a whole conspiracy theory on how actually their actions had nothing to do with their bad actions (or inaction) at all.

Things will get worse and leftists will find new things to blame. It's Biden's fault! It's Kamala's fault! It's the Dem Establishment's fault!

All because they can't face the shame of their own actions.

[beary-polarizing-discourse]

"on the right side of history" more like "on the white side of history"

[pagecommando]

Gonna do Guy in middle of swords vibes but... There is no "Right Side of History" History doesn't take sides. People take sides. Scholars who WRITE about history present theories (and sides) and then a bunch of pop historians and politicians and idiots go "The Winners Write History so Be On The Right Side" either attributing some kind of "We are all reaching towards the glorious Star Trek Future and its Arc Bends Towards Justice" (Ignoring of course Star Trek Earth had Eugenics wars and Atomic Horrors and WWIII...) History is the study (And in pop circles narrative) of the past. People change circumstances and build and create justice or destroy and engineer horror.

[tenosit]

The "we are on the right side of history" is a failure to recognise what history is, why people are described to be "on the right side" - assuming that its not because their actions have improved what has come after, but because their opinions were intrinsically Better and deserved to prevail. Its a very common substitution of meaning, I find.

Thus, people preemptively ascribing themselves to "the right side" don't treat it as preemptive - they fully buy into the idea that they are equipped to deem the proper development of humanity. Its an opinion that is very easily swayed into moral absolutism, revanchism and conspiracy theories - since they are destined to prevail, when they are not prevailing, it is only a prelude to the righteous reckoning. This very easily attaches itself to very myopic understandings of history, say, of fall of Soviet Union or indeed the I/P conflict.

[liberalsarecool]

The entire country has changed. Time to change it even more. We are never going back, so focus on the world we want.

[half-caff-spoons]

there would be change at a reasonable rate if we weren't relying on degenerates, know-nothings, and thieves to legislate. and then there's about half the leftovers who don't seem to know when or how to act. I don't understand why so many representatives are just complaining and being sarcastic as if they were regular citizens. at the same time that i understand that reps move as the people wish, why don't reps use their knowledge and experience to explain how change can be made. or not. if they don't have a good grasp of what needs done, move aside for those that do.

[alexa-santi-author]

Let’s be clear: it’s the Republican reps who are acting that way, because they’re trying to avoid the blowback for passing this wretched bill all by themselves. They’re trying to create plausible deniability for when their constituents come for them with tar and feathers.

It unfortunately has been working for a few decades now for Republican reps to pretend they have no idea how government works so everything is the Democrats’ fault, and they’ll probably get away with it again because the mainstream media is on their side. CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc will all be eager to help Republicans pin the blame for everything that happens going forward on the Democrats.

[the-real-zhora-salome]

No. The strength of MAGA is in large part the weakness of (establishment) Dems who would rather "work across the aisle" than fight them tooth and nail. The unwillingness to renew, to really listen to what their base want (AOC and Sanders being pushed to the side, Hoegg getting gagged) even in the face of total annihilation.......it doesn't matter anymore if Repubs can claim plausible deniability. Nobody is going to hold them accountable anymore.

[alexa-santi-author]

One of us actually lives in the US and has volunteered for multiple Democratic presidential campaigns since 2008. That person is not you.

The base of the Democratic Party — the voters who always show up to vote for them — is Black voters. Period. White people on the American left make lots of noise about what they want the Democrats to do, but they don’t bother to show up to vote. That’s why Bernie Sanders lost the nomination to be the presidential candidate for the Democrats twice: he didn’t get enough votes.

Republicans have spent almost 20 years getting Black voters thrown off the voting rolls and otherwise making it as difficult as possible for them to vote. This is not just because of racism. It’s because Black voters were the reason Obama won in 2008 and 2012, and the Republicans knew that if Black Americans were allowed to continue to vote, they would never win. That’s why the conservative-dominated Supreme Court decided to vacate the Voting Rights Act that specifically protected Black voters’ rights.

What you’re witnessing right now is the racist backlash from both right and left after Obama’s election. Leftists love Bernie Sanders because he’s white. They claim to love AOC but, just like with Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, if AOC ever dares to try and rise above her station and run for president, she will lose, because she is not a white man.

If we’re even able to have a reasonably fair election in 2028, the Democrats will have to run a white man. Not because a white man is representative of the Democratic Party, but because white American leftists will only show up to vote for a white man.

(And I guarantee you one of the reasons Bernie keeps losing the nomination for president is that he’s Jewish. Because we’re pretty hella anti-Semitic here, too. Or did you not hear the people on the left who said they would never vote for Kamala because her husband is Jewish?)

[sprinkledsalt]

And here's the truth that the pathological liars who make up the Online left will never admit: shooting a health insurance CEO did nothing to stop Republicans from tearing healthcare access away from millions of people, but voting for a black woman would have 🤷‍♀️ Harris campaigned on expanding Medicaid, and even if she’d still lost, giving Democrats even a 1-seat majority in either chamber of Congress would’ve prevented Trump and the GOP from passing anything. Yes, cringe, boring, normie voting was more effective than murder and fantasies of a revolution. I expect no one to learn anything from this, and instead go back to their decade-old, self-soothing mechanism of trying to quiet the guilty voices in their minds by screaming at liberals.

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

liberals really will just blame leftists for everything huh

[transhuman-priestess]

It hasn't even passed yet, it has to go back to the house and the house has to pass it, which isn't certain because the house is fucking insane, and she's just like 'welp ur fucked shoulda voted for me <:"

[transhuman-priestess]

This tweet is driving me fucking insane because at no point before the last line is it at all apparent that the fucking bill hasn't passed yet.

I recognize this is "The Reading Comprehension Website" but there's a pretty key component of any sort of communication which is that you lead with the most important information first.

This is sometimes called the "inverted pyramid" approach. Kamala Harris doesn't run her own social media account, she has professionals do it for her, this construction is either intentional, or incompetent.

[haymarketvtubestuff]

OP's bullshit aside, I need to also add three points.

This shit is why you need an editor and someone to see if it's worth posting.

This tweet is going to burn a number of bridges Harris needed and will make younger Democrats not trust her at any point.

I guarantee this tweet will be removed and the Harris account will release a statement about the intern who wrote it.

If there were a primary today, based off of this, I wouldn't vote for her. If she were the candidate and the election were today, I'd vote Green. Everything about those comments is telling the Democratic voting bloc to go fuck themselves.

[stopsignsworstenemy]

so it passed now, yall got anything else to say? or just repeating the same bs that keeps leading republicans back into power?

[carsonjonesfiance]

I’m so confused as to why these people are so pissed she… said to call your representatives? Encouraged civic engagement? That she rightly pointed out this bill benefits billionaires at the expense of the working class (aka class consciousness, something Leftists are supposed to like). What is the angle for hating on the original tweet when it doesn’t even say “y’all shoulda voted for me”

Also the nitpicking of “I had to read the whole tweet to know that it wasn’t fully passed yet!!!!” Oh no! 270 characters?! However did you survive bestie :( guess you just have to vote Green based off this one (1) tweet’s formatting.

Or do they think OP is Kamala?

[afurioushawk]

Everyone who refused to vote for Kamala Harris supported this.

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

Oh this is bad in so many ways

It looks like it's only bluesky encouraging people to get involved in money muling for "Gaza" but given there's a big overlap in userbase: please, for the love of God, do not do this. Do not let anyone in your social circle agree to do this. Do not trust or give money to anyone asking you to do this.

Even in the generous hypothetical situation where the person at the end of the line is a refugee in need of help, the method described above is club fed illegal

[girlbossjodiarias]

OH, THIS GETS WORSE.

The person openly encouraging and recruiting people to be receivers is an American living abroad in Germany*, refuses to act as a receiver herself, has no formal training in fundraising, international aid fundraising, refugee support or social services. She doesn't appear to have a job or is very bad at it because by all accounts her day to day life revolves around "vetting" Gaza fundraisers, which involves reverse Google Image search, texting on Whatsapp, and quote "vibes" and recruiting receivers for fundraisers, and now, name calling criminal defense attorneys and human rights advocates pointing out that this is dangerous and irresponsible.

All of this is going to get well meaning people sent to Club Fed and is also a hugely inefficient way to get resources to starving Gazans.

*the only country more hostile to Palestinians in the OECD is probably Germany, so good job all around in pissing off the two countries I absolutely would not want to piss off right now.

[oppositionresearch]

People online be like "electing sane world leaders pales in comparison to my preferred Gaza strategy, giving money directly to affected families" and then reblog spam bots on Tumblr instead

[smegorl]

Then they call you genocidal when you recommend that they give their money to actual charities operating in Gaza 🙃

[loislanespulitzerprize]

The Abandon Harris Crowd Is All Of A Sudden Very Quiet

I recently came across an interesting fact. All the Abandon Harris websites seem to have been quietly taken down. First let me give a refres

[sprinkledsalt]

Heyyyy remember when people accused us of endorsing genocide when we said it was obvious from a mile away that these people were just obvious ratfuckers who cared more about Harris losing and punishing liberals than helping Palestine?

(Although I think that while there was genuine ratfucking here, there were others in the Uncommitted/Abandon Harris "movement" that were genuinely that stupid, and they're quiet now because they simply cannot own up to what they did.)

[pagecommando]

Oh they're not even CLOSE to being quiet about it.

Look at Barbara Ehrenreich's dipshit son. They want to blame Jews/One of the Good Ones Sooooooo haaarrrd because in their world only 'Zionists' and Democrats have agency and control over the voting public.

He also starts with a cute little spin on the Neimoller 'first they came for' poem/quote because of course he does.

"Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that." They have absolutely cooked themselves. They have nothing but smoke for biden-as-puppet of Israel and they will learn nothing. Look! Cori Bush got a mention! "Rot, famously, starts at the top. Joe Biden, sleepy guardian of empire and whatever remained of the liberal world order, had stayed comatose on nearly every issue of import to his constituents. But the genocide seemed to bring him briefly and sporadically back to life. It was as if funding and propagandizing for Israel’s slaughter were the only aspect of the job that still got his blood moving. He was, as Brecht wrote of Dogsborough, “Like an old family Bible nobody’d opened for ages—till one day some friends were flipping through it and found a dried-up cockroach between the pages.” The rest of the political establishment, Democrats and Republicans both, didn’t need to be told to follow Biden’s lead. The very few exceptions—we see you, Cori, Ilhan, Rashida —were disciplined and marginalized."

Deported Brown University doctor acknowledged she attended Hezbollah leader’s funeral on visit to Lebanon, source says | CNN

A Brown University assistant professor and doctor was deported over the weekend from Boston to Lebanon after federal agents found photos of

Left off the Brown prof who went to Nasrallah's funeral for some reason. You'd think he'd want to celebrate an antizionist freedom fighter more.

These people will learn nothing, curse the democrats, and blame Jews.

(IIRC the Nation was a formerly respectable paper Biden gave a recent interview to without having realized it had been totally left/doomer dominated)

[afurioushawk]

I still don't understand the thought process of the people who willfully chose to not vote for Harris based on their Jew-hatred and anti-Blackness. You said with your whole chests you wanted to "punish" the Democrats by getting Trump elected.

You did it. You won. You should be happy. Are you not happy with the consequences of your actions? Own it. Don't be getting skittish now.

[stopsignsworstenemy]

i have zero sympathizes for those who participated in this and now worried about their livelihood. like so many (especially white queers ppl) admitted they were fine losing their rights and being hung by trump’s administration if it meant “free palestine” or whatever and now theyre online crying about losing their rights, okay this is what u said u would be willing to do??? for palestine? like dont be afraid now

[stele3]

Palestinians are being driven from their land as we speak. Israel is starting another ground offensive and permanently seizing land. They have cut off all humanitarian aid.

Netanyahu says Israel is now dividing up Gaza. What does that mean on the ground? | CNN

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s military is “switching gears” in Gaza, dividing and seizing more parts of the strip,

Where is the outrage? Where is the energy everyone had to care about Palestinians before the election?

It was never about Palestine. If people can’t hurt Democrats then they don’t care.

[afurioushawk]

Rashida Tlaib has not mentioned the Gazan uprising against Hamas once on her Twitter account. And this woman talks about I/P more on there than she does her own district.

Curious.

[harostar]

Almost like the whole thing was performative, and now that the election is over.......well, here we are.

Foreign students are having their visas revoked without notification, and being disappeared by ICE agents in broad daylight.

Universities are being threatened with losing their funding, if they don't submit to whatever Trump demands.

Immigration is snatching people coming into the United States, and detaining them for hours or days before deporting them, most likely based on social media activity being critical of the Trump administration or Elon Musk.

Latino men with tattoos are being snatched, accused of being gang members, and flown off to El Salvador's mega-prison without due process. Trump's administration has already ADMITTED to a court that one of these men was innocent, but they allegedly cannot get him back now. Many other men sent to that hellhole are likely completely innocent, but may never be seen again.

Transgender people are in the crosshairs of numerous efforts to take away their rights. Reproductive rights are under attack all over the country.

The AG is threatening to charge people vandalizing Teslas with terrorism, and send them to El Salvador.

Trump is ramping up threats against Greenland, Canada, Gaza, and Panama. He is "not ruling out" using military force to conquer them and make them American territories.

Ukraine is being extorted for its minerals, while Putin continues to bomb them without consequence.

RFK Jr is gutting the nation's healthcare and scientific community, and suggesting that letting diseases simply "run their course" is the best response to Measles, TB, Bird Flu, and other diseases running rampant in the country. He has canceled the annual meeting to determine what the 2025 Flu Vaccine will be, so there likely will not be any Flu Vaccinations for people as Flu Season starts this fall.

Federal agencies have been gutted and taken over by Elon Musk's little squad of minions. Thousands have been fired, USAID has been destroyed which has been estimated to cause 3 million preventable deaths by year's end, and even domestic aid like Food Banks are being shuttered.

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are on the chopping block. New rules and closed offices mean the disabled and elderly will have less ability to access their benefits, unless they can find someone to drive them to the nearest office or help them navigate an online portal. (Good luck, rural folks with spotty internet.)

The DOJ and military are being purged, replacing career professionals with loyalists that will do whatever Trump demands.

Oh, and Trump has released weapons to Netanyahu that Biden had been withholding. All while Trump posts an AI video about turning Gaza into a luxury Trump-owned resort town.

Good job, I guess?

[chutzpahchesed]

this was linked in his replies and is worth sharing:

[liberalsarecool]

Transgender: 0

[majorarc]

Where is that article I found about liberals and conservatives and their perceptions on what accounts for sexual harassment. Let me see...ah yes. HERE WE ARE.

Liberals and Conservatives Disagree on Sexual Harassment

A new study adds to a body of research finding that liberals and conservatives polarize over sexual harassment claims. Different "moral foun

[majorarc]

you know what, I'm going to leave this here, too. I've posted it before as a response to another post, but it's a damn good read if you want to see further look into the conservative perception of sexual harassment and assault. You WILL need access to it, but you can also read the abstract.

Political Differences in American Reports of Sexual Harassment and Assault - PubMed

Political ideology has been linked to beliefs regarding sexual harassment and assault (SH&A). Using data from the January 2018 Stop Street S

But then there's also this really nice article about Republicans and sex crimes by Slate that might peak your interest.

So, Let’s Talk About Republicans and Sex Crimes

This seems like an appropriate moment.

And there's also this article about how MAGA doesn't mind sexual assault allegations when these allegations are made at their preferred parties.

Trumpists Don’t Seem to Mind Claims of Sexual Assault

Anything is forgivable as long as it comes from people they like.

Oh, and then just in case I haven't provided evidence for further damning of the Republicans, how about this article about how Republicans took the funds for rape crisis centers. This one is pretty recent. Like, yesterday recent.

A Political Power Grab Redirected Funds for North Carolina’s Sexual Abuse Survivors. Women in Crisis Paid the Price.

The move, which led to disruptions in services for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, provides a glimpse of the consequences wh

[liberalsarecool]

Transgender: 0

[majorarc]

Where is that article I found about liberals and conservatives and their perceptions on what accounts for sexual harassment. Let me see...ah yes. HERE WE ARE.

Liberals and Conservatives Disagree on Sexual Harassment

A new study adds to a body of research finding that liberals and conservatives polarize over sexual harassment claims. Different "moral foun