There’s a conceptual error here. Sovereignty is not a state’s “right to exist”, it is a manifestation of the right of a people to external self determination. Sovereignty rests with the people, not the state or, say, a king. There is no contradiction in Polanski’s views
“Polanski’s argument is cribbed from Francesca Albanese”
Here is an academic article from 1950 explaining why any possible understanding of a “right to exist” in int’l law lost all meaning after the League and UN Charter.
History did not start on 7/10 etc.
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
Looks like Gov. Hochul is slipping in a buffer zone law into the budget that will crack down on pro-Palestine protests outside of settler land sales inside synagogues. Because it's part of a must-pass mammoth budget, there's very little opportunity to dissent or debate the matter
@shannonrwatts@hasanthehun You wield the term genocide like a weapon. You may be anti genocide but the majority of your use of the term is to bash the left like Hasan, Ossoff, Platner, or Abdul. Tho I genuinely like your analysis of GRT, I find your position on Israel untenable and inconsistent
Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist.
John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist.
Obama won in 2008 posturing as a progressive. (But then lost both houses of Congress after being exposed as a centrist)
Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist.
The Dems need to begin abandoning centrism.
⛔️NYPD and ICE mistakenly arrested a Chilean woman who was on vacation in New York City, leaving her 12-year-old daughter on the street alone.
⛔️This is what happens when you embolden ICE to act with zero oversight. Trump’s America.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it: all those MAGA accounts like Gunther Eagleman, Catturd, Jack Posebiec, every Zionist account etc. None of these ppl believe a word of what they say. They’re literal state media actors.
i made a map to monitor data centers all around the world
tracks construction + nearby power plants + local AI legislation, and follows the politicians behind their bans (+ if they're getting paid to do so!)
@hutchinson@RyanGeddie Almost like independent voters will default to Republican candidates. But turning out disaffected voters who do align with left policy positions could be a more productive strategy
Pragmatism is understanding that Democratic (and Independent) voters agree with Hasan on major mobilizing issues.
That means the more candidates align with Hasan, the more they will be able to mobilize voters on these issues.
@SamHaney12@J_Wingfield3 @austinahlman @bhaviklathia It’s almost like dressing a dem up w/ “centrist” diet republican candidates like Liz Cheney is a losing strategy because why wouldn’t Republicans just go for the republican candidate. Centrists don’t exist except in DC. There are more disaffected “leftist” voters that don’t vote