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@Popstonox One thing I really like about Oliver out of all (most?) DSA candidates is that he tends to be unapologetic and stands on his principles even in more antagonistic settings.

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@Solidarity_Star Except liberals have fully bought into the "North Korea is the most evil country" propaganda so that argument won't work on most of them as they will just see this as "Poor little South Korea getting bullied into it because the US isn't protecting them anymore"

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Finkelstein: Israel Had No Right to Attack Gaza After October 7

Norman Finkelstein tells Glenn Loury that Israel, having imprisoned Gaza’s population in a “concentration camp” for decades, forfeited any justification for attacking Gaza after October 7.

Israel had no more right to punish Gaza’s leadership than Virginia had to execute Nat Turner for rebelling against slavery, he added.

@normfinkelstein | @GlennLoury

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@trash_panda97 And anything related to imperialism

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@lunar_dysphoria Or the military? (Who are police abroad)

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@barbarismcrit I just don't see how the response to a mayor being held hostage by his own police force isn't either a more forceful approach towards "reform" (since DSA ultimately wants system reform) or recognition that the system is not able to be reformed like they claim.

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@SweatieAngle Oh wow so the mayor is held hostage by his own police force? That surely means major reforms and personnel changes must be done right? Oh no he should just capitulate?

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@seanisdoingokay Build data centres and attract VC investment (by I'm assuming all sorts of tax and other incentives/de regulation)

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@ZeeshanAleem Even if you disagree with police abolition, dem soc politicians (Zohran, AOC etc) have basically also given up on diverting funds from NYPD/cops to other social services which would be the minimum and the main demand of "defund the police" movement.

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@btharris93 @EmmaGorowska Israel is currently committing a genocide and has been illegally occupying Palestine for decades as well as imposing apartheid for Palestinians. They are unquestionably much much worse than anything North Korea has ever done

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@PhilKlay What do you mean political failures? Foreign wars that feed the military industrial complex (and other industries) and impose US hegemony worldwide have never been aberrations but a very clear goal of the military branch of the state.

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@_ericblanc Most of mainstream DSA people don't really articulate any particularly socialist positions so I'm sure they can find better social democratic messaging from other soc dems in Europe

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@DumpTrump_45 It's ok don't worry all the data centers he wants to build and VC money will surely help him and Wisconsin dems

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@Ericrse37986 To be honest at least it's now a good opportunity for DSA/adjacent people to focus on local anti data center initiatives in the state (and all states) and build broader popular support over time through it.

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What are we doing here, man?

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

Today I had a frank and constructive first call with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar ⬇️

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@Frankpembleton6 @wontwobadsoup Tough competition though with all these centrists in the UK. Ian Dunt?

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@ZaidJilani Yes he should campaign with someone with basically 0 approval from black voters

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@RefrmDemocracy It's so crazy that he's painted as an "extremist" and he's not even DSA and has described himself as a capitalist. I think it's mostly about Israel for these freaks (and as an adjacent, pure Islamophobia)

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@RefrmDemocracy @Dehartspeaks1 (Obviously in this context, it's about Hasan but my main point applies to many other things)

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@RefrmDemocracy @Dehartspeaks1 I say this genuinely as you're DSA and hopefully have done (or can do) some introspection around these topics. Do you think that by saying this, you are simply accepting simplistic liberal media narratives? Instead of trying to question some of these liberal truisms?