the American people, who have the memory of a concussed goldfish: “oh yeah, we hate Donald Trump!”

every faction in the american left has the kpd/pci problem where they spend more time focused on winning stupid internecine feuds about stuff that happened 20 years ago than actually focusing on fascism, which they saw as a flash in the pan that'd go away on its own

otto braun refused to join in on a general strike when he was deposed as minister-president of prussia because he wanted to distance himself from the communists, thalmann famously said "after hitler, our turn" when asked to join an spd government. both got sent to concentration camps shortly after

I mean yes but the same electorate that made FDR President was also electing Dixiecrats who both limited the New Deal's scope and then formed the conservative coalition with the Republicans.

One thing that really distorts the discourse is the belief that any politician could become wildly popular by embracing a Full Left Economic Agenda, which then positions people to believe that every politician is intentionally limiting their own power in order to keep progressives in check

Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office

It was about as powerful as the Lords and considerably more accountable!

I think the Baratheon Rebellion being the first to use cannon *and* supported by the urban bugeroise would have beneficial interesting.

This, in my view, is one of the reasons why A Song of Ice and Fire hit the buffers. Martin wanted to do a 'realistic' medieval fantasy but he didn't want the bathos of 'and then one of the factions was defeated by what is now a curable illness'.

See I kind of disagree because Trump has a soul, it’s just a dark one, but in a real sense Trump has never done anything inauthentic to his base self. Some soulless goblins who have eaten shit recently include Blake masters, mehmet oz, Kari lake, mark robinson, etc

the royal navy is in the worst state it's been in since the 16th century and it'd easily destroy what russia has left lol

Choosing to believe AOC is reading my posts like a child believes Santa reads their letters

I guess the problem is that the Boss Class primarily wants the latter because they are freaks. Which is why the social base of modern socialism is the PMC and we will establish a rose-colored Line Go Up regime to end all Line Go Up regimes.

If you're a publicly traded institutional firm that wants stability and profit margins rather than prima nocta over your employee's wives, social democracy rocks.

Socialists need to save capitalism from the rentiers.

The thing about the Track AIPAC thing is that it's been proven to list pretty much everything as AIPAC, so I'd trust this as far as I could throw it, frankly.

Loading up Super Booties on the MRV Alba-Na-Mara.

A lot of the '18 House members were personally shocked at seeing Republicans do exactly this sort of thing in the press, then say hello in the hallway and try to play it off like it was just all in the game.

it really seems like “entered politics during the Trump era” is a dividing line among Dems, it’s hard to write all of this off as a game when one of your very first political experiences was a literal mob invading the capitol at the behest of some of your colleagues

Personal identity and political identity are not the same thing, and if Ernest Rohm and Yukio Mishima could exist so could a trans Nazi.

Militarize the border and RIF all these people, more and more are saying.

You cannot reason with people who are not connected to material reality in any meaningful way. These people hate liberals, liberalism, immigrants, people of color and queer people so much that they would bare nearly any burden both physically and economical to watch their "foes" suffer.

I am a radical statist liberal, and these things go hand in hand.

AOC: “You are the Attorney General of the United States of America & you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable — resign or be impeached"

...Yeah, pretty much.

I would like to see the Kremlin try and fight *just* the European NATO navies.

The left/liberal distinction is for nerds. And Democratic Voters have preferences notably to the left of their electeds.

If you poll Democratic voters the most popular figures are Obama, Harris, AOC, Sanders, and Biden, basically in that order

i've said before that there's a very strange class of post that fundamentally boils down to "budgets/resource constraints aren't real"

The fundamental thing about the Trump Administration is that they're all incredibly childish posters who think yelling and demanding things will make reality change.

His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it. When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.

The fundamental issue that the right-wing always thought of capitalism as a means to an end, and would much rather give up on capitalism then on their desire racial and social caste system.

The party’s future looks bright under leadership like this.

The never-ending wrongrockism is exhausting. If Biden had sent Netanyahu to the Phantom Zone and magically delivered Medicare for All and 100% forgiveness of student loans and every other leftie wish item except on trans rights, these people would claim trans rights is the reason "Democrats suck."

We’re all way too bored on this website which is why I’m bringing back (tomorrow) the real reason we’re all here: litigating strategic bombing in World War II

but something something AOC something ambiguity something something

This is a direct violation of long-standing US policy toward Taiwan. Beginning with the 1982 version, the Six Assurances to Taiwan explicitly states that the U.S. will not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan. Nor will the U.S. set an end date of arms sales to Taiwan.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

Said person is named Mary Rambaran-Olm.

corrupt, but also staggeringly incompetent and catastrophically understaffed when it comes to planning and administrative capacity

The point you're making is dumb as shit and relies on assumptions of Democratic ineffectiveness, not to mention fundamentally misremembering the Biden Administration.

A "bad" DP President would be immensely better then the best RP President let alone Vance, also how many fucking people died in Trump 1? He tried to overthrow the US Government!

“One of Rubio’s most striking statements was that ‘armies do not fight for abstractions.’ The war for independence that the Continental Army fought was in defense of and on behalf of certain principles. You might even call them ‘abstractions.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/american-v...

Incredible how he can make even the passing of Jesse Jackson about himself.

AFAIK jesse Jackson never had anyone Disappeared, of course.

Senators live in a hell of their own creation, but because it privileges them individually the incentives for reform are uh tricky

People who think Gavin Newsom is 99% Hitler are unlikely to be placated by someone who is 97% Gavin Newsom. They exist in a realm of digital fantasy, unburdened by factual reality, and we need to stop pretending the solution is to chase their absurd hallucinations in circles forever.

Newsom is not a great choice. Newsom would be 1000 times better than any Republican nominee. Both things can be true. Do what you want with that analysis

The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn