The purpose of “So How Come College Students Aren’t Protesting Iran, Huh?” is not a sincere desire to direct attention to the Iranian struggle. It is intended to shame college students for their recent protests against Israel and ICE.

Pretty clear parallel to the “human shields” rhetoric used to justify targeting families in Palestine.

We are ten years into this. Troops are on the streets of an American city brutalizing people. It is time to stop responding to Trump's most authoritarian ambitions with "well he can't do that."

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

If this is the proposition then there's literally zero reason not to shut the government down. What do you get if it's open? Nothing!

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Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.

First album I ever bought with my own money.

“Narcotrafficking” is an interesting conceptual category used by officials in a country where people die because they can’t afford insulin

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

It kills me when people are like "what if China decided they had permission to do the same?" We've invaded dozens of countries over the years. What if the main problem is the US belief that we have the right to bomb or invade any country in the world based on the whims of our lunatic leaders?

I'm not a historian but my analysis is it's "Not good" when a government constantly commits crimes and tells the legislature, courts, and general public "What are you gonna do about it"

As ever, the only appropriate response is impeachment and removal from office.

A dental office with a dentist and hygienist on retainer.

People who think Kurosawa is “homework cinema” need to be slapped around a bit.

The Knicks were a league-wide laughingstock when Rose arrived in New York five years ago. Today, they are the best team in the East.

This was obvious when Vance began to be pushed in mainstream media. One of the biggest media stories of the last decade or so is how easy it is to "fool" the White liberal media into laundering White supremacist ideology. Even dunces like Trump, Thiel & Musk can read liberal Whites like a book.

I loved that essay from the Compact. It clearly and unapologetically articulated what we're up against: the belief that white men come first, regardless of merit, effort, education or any other qualifier. Maybe some exceptional others can be included here or there, but only after white men are sated

There was the slightest opening in 2020 where people said "hey, we understand, maybe ordinary white guys don't have to come first." And the response has been "fuck you, I'll burn this country to the ground before I'll let that happen."

Good thread

This is also why there’s such a focus on how people *feel* about the job market and their prospects because they know empirically what they’re peddling is bullshit.

What we’re seeing is a lot of people are really yearning for white supremacy and they don’t want any stigma attached to or examination of that desire.

Pretty straightforward.

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And their final play is "our republican friends are right, and we blame The Groups"

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The premise of this Atlantic article is the SAME wedge that killed labour organizing for decades. "Civil rights (aka rights for Black people) is bad for workers," is literally the opp that ate away at unions until labor per collapsed. The left has to be serious about anti-racism to survive!

“I’d like to think,” let me stop you right there.

I've defended dozens of union members from unjust terminations. I have some claim to being an expert on just cause. I want to make clear that even if this worker had a union with strong just cause protections, we would have lost this grievance and this worker would have been fired.

I have a question for the author: The fired woman has raised $150K. Do you think leftists should donate to her fundraiser out of working-class solidarity? Have you donated to her fundraiser?

it is so often people telling Black, trans, queer, disabled people to shut up and absorb hate in order to make the tent bigger and bigger until it's indistinguishable from the nazi party.

Their viewpoint seems to be: I'm so pro-worker that I would allow people who would destroy a multiracial worker alliance to stay in that alliance.

I wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget

This sounds completely out there and far fetched but Ben is describing EXACTLY what they want to do.

if a soulless machine incapable of thought or feeling wore your dead grandmother's skin and pretended to love you, would you talk to it?

I swear, I've reached my breaking point on people gassing up this ordinary-looking white woman.

Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol

If you see this, quote post with your model of positive masculinity

How come we don’t hear about the profit-loss performance of the FBI? What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target? Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit? Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.

"I am a POC GOP voter" kind of explains why they have higher rates of insane opinions.

This also really ought to put the entire “send in the troops” editorial episode in a much clearer context for everyone who decided the important takeaway was an “out of control” newsroom rather than y’know a sitting Senator calling for people to be shot in the street.

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

2/2 It is also, as Ryan says, 1 of the best explorations of sexual consent, violence, & power dynamics in modern media. The repeated #Spartacus line of elite enslavers, which frames my book chapter on rape, is “Apologies. I did not know the girl held meaning." It gets at the crux of dehumanization.

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