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@CandiceAiston @plus_sign @magna_sun @ModernWonk @davidrkadler i'm not OP here but i've been voting dem my whole political life - feel like anyone non-MAGA has good reason to be pretty disappointed in the party rn. why is it so important to interpret criticism from the left like this?

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@blankslate2017 @redplanning @umichvoter senate IS broken - countermajoritarian tilt, rules which reward obstruction - but also no dem leadership to my knowledge is advocating for any changes there. so IMO this doesn't absolve them of anything. "we can't do anything until we have 65 dem senators" is the same as no plan

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@whstancil this article's definition of "wokeness" i think can be summed up in a particularly annoying phrase you see sometimes: "it's not my job to educate you"

as radicals who want to change society it is, in fact, our job to educate ppl! even those who're unsure or confused initially

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@whstancil there's *sympathy for, and willingness to participate in, the underlying project* - and then there's *habits of thought or talk practiced by scholars of the project*

these are distinct things, and treating lack of the latter as lack of the former doesn't get you more adherents

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@dnbrgr "This idiom — or perhaps communicative register — replaces the obligation of persuading others to adopt our values with the satisfaction of signaling our allegiance and literacy to those who already agree"

it seems pretty clear to me that he's talking abt style not substance

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@RozLuvly @cascamike @davidsirota @SenSanders biden could do all this stuff *right now* w just the power granted him as president

then loudly, publicly, repeatedly, relentlessly slag on anyone who stood in the way of codifying them thru congress

he could've done this on...day one
https://t.co/9bPw1ltpJD

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@SleazyFuzzball @Cierradical @sarahlugor i fuckin love diet coke but i HATED it when i was a kid

some switch flipped in my...late twenties maybe?

i do agree that it tastes like something is wrong with it! it's absolutely an acquired taste and i'm still not sure how i acquired it

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@Cierradical @sarahlugor yeah i know
it rules

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@yarmiganosca @RottenInDenmark this is a good take on the dividing line! obvs clear that like 95% of dem electeds subscribe to the Few Bad Apples theory

nothing that can't be fixed by constantly doubling down on More Cops

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@JasonHustleHoff @owillis like the GOP's agenda is: drum anyone who isn't a white cis-hetero christian out of public life - forced birth - more chemicals in the water - and more money & power for yr boss's boss's boss's boss's boss

shouldn't be hard to make a positive contrast to that

and yet

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@JasonHustleHoff @owillis i've long given up any hope that the dems are going to do anything good, as currently constituted. i literally only vote for them to keep the GOP out of power

they can't effectively do that, either

the most minimal thing

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@owillis YEP

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@_FleerUltra i vote straight blue every time and will keep doing so but like

i *one million percent* understand why people don't

would love it if anyone in the Savvy Democratic Leadership would think about any of this medium hard for like, one second

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@_FleerUltra dem messaging is hard to credit:
-vitally important that you help us stop the criminal fascist republicans
**also**
-we love ronald reagan
-we love mitch mcconnell
-we adore working across the aisle w our valued GOP colleagues
-*crickets* from the DOJ
pathetic!

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@Jaenschel @whstancil i appreciate your being reflective about this, that is not easy to do

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@KeynesAddiction @Jaenschel @whstancil i mean she's talking about the primary so, yes

there was a choice

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@itdbitd @YAppelbaum @NellieBowles i put signs in the yard to announce my
most fervent progressive beliefs
i think no human being is illegal
and we really should save the coral reefs
but when cops bust up homeless encampments
it really is such a relief
love me, love me, love me
i'm a liberal!