Don’t fall for the fake Fox/GOP outrage. Two weeks ago the House passed a bill that greenlighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. Every Republican except me voted for it, but now THEY are acting shocked at the invasion.
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Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism.
American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.
And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.
For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.
We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.
The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.
It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.
Me at uni: *basically a social democrat*
Wise old people: “That'll change once you get a job and pay taxes in the real world”
Me, after working a few years: “My retirement plan is ďying in the communist revolution”
La derecha tiene de presidentes a un pedófilo, un matagatos, una hija de dictador, un hijo de un nazi y un desquiciado sionista.
La izquierda tiene de presidentes a un profesor, un obrero y una científica.
La brecha moral es abismal.
In tiny Albania, over a hundred thousand people have been in the streets against an environmentally disastrous luxury resort planned by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his Qatari billionaire partners.
This is what global oligarchy looks like — and the people are saying NO.
Éric Rohmer filmed cautionary tales against yielding to sexual temptation because: 1. With men, if it isn't mutual, it's violent, and he recognized and abhorred men's proclivity for sexual violence; 2. With everybody, he believed in true love and saw the pursuit of a false one...
"Margeret Thatcher said the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."
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