You just cannot overemphasize the extent to which certain activities that until very recently would have been considered white-collar crime are now legal
did the enslaved give up? the suffragettes? the mine workers in West Virginia getting shot at? did Gaza give up after over 400 days of genocidal warfare? some of y'all are tweeting with fancy gadgets, full bellies, and roofs over your head. how dare you contemplate giving up!
I'm tired of the "if we deport undocumented people, who's going to work in the fields, or clean our homes, or wash our dishes" narrative. These are actual living, breathing people with families and lives we're talking about, they're not just a source of labor.
When a highly successful business person calls for collective sacrifice, I think it’d be helpful for them to clarify what specifically they see themself sacrificing?
there it is, something that got virtually no discussion on the campaign trail and is completely "'normal" politics — conservatives wanting to cut safety net programs to pay for tax cuts
"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans, that candidate existed and she just lost"
~John Oliver on dems moving right
"Kamala ran a perfect campaign, she only lost because voters are bigots" - the implication being Dems must never run a woman or non-white candidate again. Funny to watch in real time as liberal anti-Trumpers talk themselves into the kind of racist, sexist position he'd take.
Meanwhile, Mexico is raising the minimum wage, protecting the right to abortion care, expanding pensions for seniors, running a massive public health campaign, investing in mass transit, democratizing the supreme court etc, etc. All while Sheinbaum enjoys a 70% approval rating
they spent an entire month lying that Biden was denying aid to North Carolina for political reasons and then Trump just came out and said he’d deny aid to California for political reasons
the idea that people in the global south are homophobic for noble, anti-capitalist reasons is condescending from a really incredible and specific angle