@Elex_Michaelson@AndrewYang This is a comically stupid take. Zohran was all but endorsed by NY republicans and Curtis Sliwa to beat Cuomo, the “centrist” candidate.
The DSA momentum isn’t about the DSA, it’s about people.
I see all the quibbling and bickering, but not a lot of understanding.
People in NY cast votes for candidates they think actually care about what they’re going through. Same way they did for Mamdani.
But instead of reflecting, the establishment continues to project. We’ve seen it before, it’s partly how we got here.
I don’t imagine that what happened in New York could happen in Baton Rouge … yet. And when I say yet I mean YET. If a people first, economic liberation movement finds its political stride in South, its curtains.
It’s hard for a lot of Black southerners I know to critique the Dems, an elder of mine recently told me she votes Democrat OUT OF RESPECT FOR DR KING.
(I told her Dr. King might’ve been DSA, because he held some very strident anti-capitalist/anti imperialist views. She then told me to worry about my weight and not about Dr King’s legacy. That actually happened 😂😂😂😂😂😂)
I’m not saying that’s going to change, but I am saying those same people I talk to (particularly the ones under 45) aren’t frustrated. They’re tired. Frustrated needs a rally. Tired needs a change. They’re ripe for new voices.
The best outcome here would be a meeting of the minds. It would Robin reminding Batman of the ideals he started with, and Batman educating Robin on the structural realities of the world we live in, and how we make allies in that world. They then shake hands and vandalize the Joker’s reflecting pool.
That won’t happen though. Political intractability is by design. Politicians fight for their existence while forgetting about yours.
You do not matter. Threats to power matter. Threats to systems matter. They built it the way they wanted it, they’ve been milking it for years. They want their milk cheap while yours gets more expensive.
We say politics is a beauty pageant, but in actuality, it’s a slaughterhouse. You think you’re the butcher, when really, you’re the cow.
But man. Somewhere there’s a candidate that just wants you to have a living wage and healthcare. Just wants your kid not have to die in a foreign war. Maybe they can’t even get it done, but that’s sincerely what they want.
I hope you get to vote for them.
“Most of the damage inflicted on Iran was directed to military targets. Why would anyone want to help Iran rebuild its military capabilities?”
This man has access to a wider and deeper amount of information than at any time in human history and yet he remains unaware of what’s happening at the most basic level in the world in which he lives. Utterly fascinating.
@proudmomjac@claireforny Looks like I caught a block from the fascist ethnostate guy - Yes, Aliyah is illegal, people currently live there and the land is being taken by force! It’s been live-streamed for the last 3 years, everyone knows that now! Hope this helps!
@proudmomjac@claireforny Hey dumbass, she’s talking about illegal land sales taking place in New York. That is a New York issue. Why don’t you move to Israel since you clearly love it so much?
The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:
Yep, very weird thing to choose to bring up. It feels like an attempt to rewrite the record that she’s had on this particular issue, probably one of, if not her biggest, weakness as a leader for the left.
MTG sacrificed her political career to stand against genocide, against Trump, against the Epstein Class, and to defend the survivors of Epstein’s trafficking. If that doesn’t earn credibility I don’t know what possibly could.
@ronrule@EPM108 So true, I also love fucking my concealed 12 gauge shotgun that I deploy from my backpack in less than 3 seconds. We’re lovers, not fighters ❤️🤷
Piker's views on theft are bad, but they really do pale in comparison to his views on murder: that the important thing about Brian Thompson's murder is that healthcare CEOs are 'engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder' due to 'the structural violence of 'poverty'