@CooksleyNick@SwannMarcus89 This is a 79 y/o YT pig in Florida, of course he walked. Anthony was never gonna get the same sympathy from his all white jury in Texas.
@AltFemKG@celticsburner87@Staroxvia Collins is not a "milquetoast moderate." She's a handmaiden for fascism who feigns concern extra hard so that fascists can hold a seat they could not otherwise hold if she acted outwardly fascist, She *votes* with the fascist agenda 95% of the time.
@vikdeadgens@prem_thakker AOC made a "mistake" by being blissfully unaware that the Biden admin wasn't putting any pressure on Israel, a fact that was blindingly obvious to any outside observer who watched the Biden admin debase themselves to defend Israel's genocide? AOC's defense is that she is stupid?
@None1683191@adamjohnsonCHI It's aikido. Direct all the anti-Israel entry towards a goal that is ultimately not something that will change the dynamic of the Israel-US relationship. Soon will be centrists crying about "insatiable activists" for opposing the far more critical arms sales and military support
@carlsson808@keithedwards Because she's a Nazi that (predictably) ran the DHS like the Gestapo? Or does being in Congress and the governor of a D-tier state somehow negate that?
@wombat_combat@22jenson09 Walking paths in civilized countries don't just materialize. It was a choice to make walking dangerous and illegal, probably because our rulers haven't figured out a way to monetize putting one foot in front of the other yet.
@BigSmith4417@girlbosswoman@ettingermentum Yea, and that was dumb. Biden was quite literally a walking corpse and was going to be replaced whether or not the progressives rallied to him.
@ContraPoints@serenedoge11 Re: the above quoted passage, do you still think it is true that it would have required changing "most of Congress" to stop the genocide. Like, Joe Biden could have unilaterally stopped arms shipments and withdrew diplomatic and military support. Would this not have done it?
@NoahMF@RileyTX What, exactly, will a meta-Leahy Law (which evidently doesn't work) accomplish that Leahy already didn't accomplish? At the end of the day, it'll still be the State Department making the call, which isn't exactly known for honest evaluation of Israeli war crimes.
liberal messaging that (1) centers Israel's "security" (2) paints Iran as "strengthened" and this being inherently sinister (3) demagoguing about a "nuclear program" are reinforcing the logic of US/Israel hostility. These aren't gotchas, they're racist, morally stunted frameworks
@boofyre@_iamblakeley Bribery, fraud, conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under color of law etc are all illegal now. Not to mention intl law
Slotkin's just setting the stage for letting Trump skate, again, on the idea that we don't have anything to prosecute him or his cronies with.
Schumer agrees with the logic of this war, its nominal goals and agrees iran is ontologically evil but thinks Trump “planned” the attack poorly. This is the head of our opposition party: nodding along with this foaming rightwing rant but handwringing over “rising gas prices”
@camtology@lefty_md Making it a public option is the fastest way to ensure we never get Medicare for All. It'll just be underfunded by Republicans and conserva-Dems to pit everyone against it, just like Obamacare failed. Put everyone on and, suddenly, it 's functioning becomes political imperative