Dems should be as open to campaigning with Hasan Piker as they are to campaigning with Liz Cheney.

If this tweet just said "landlords" instead of "developers" it would make perfect sense, but for some reason a whole lot of leftists see productive capitalists rather than rentier parasites as the leading villain of the housing crisis for some reason.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

Gotta nuke the Virginia Supreme Court and keep the map in place.

I don't think this is at all widespread or common, but there is definitely a *particular* sort of ostensibly leftist person who loathes AOC as an unprincipled sellout but is willing to carry water for a nakedly antisemitic, xenophobic oppurtunist

This is similar to the advantage enjoyed by Fidesz in Hungary via their corruption of the electoral system which was large enough to make it not a democracy by every expert evaluation

This is just an example of “the Republicans are dad and the Democrats are mom”, but with the recommendation that the Democrats should try being dad instead

imo Labour should not have gone all-out to convince the UK electorate that Reform had the best policies and that it was actually Reform

The thing you need to understand about this is, it’s absolutely a fantasy of purgative demolition and destruction that resonates because it borders on violence - AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT POLITICALLY POWERFUL

A 7-1 Minnesota map, although one district is only Harris +7. The other six blue districts are ~Harris +9 or better.

"Economic sentiment reflects generalized unhappiness now instead of economic sentiment qua economic sentiment" feels like the pretty clear explanation for all this.

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

And I think we need to make clear when we do retake power that we will pursue them to the ends of the earth and risk our own destruction to make sure they suffer.

“The incredibly unpopular ruler, whose time is split between insane wars no one wants and building golden monuments and palaces honoring himself, has changed the rules so only his party can win elections” is a story that often ends on a scaffold

Wholly correct. Also even people who do not *use* their family connections are going to find it easier to get in to the same field as their parents because you just pick up a lot of knowhow. Even a related field: that my mother used to be a civil servant just does help my understanding of Whitehall.

quote this shit and say that you're using the maps anyway

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Dang, let’s go. Hardball means hardball.

Israeli television news investigation confirms what we already knew, which is that the 3 hostages who were shot and executed by Israeli soldiers were killed because the overarching rules of engagement in Gaza were such that "a man, no matter the age, you kill him straight away".

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

God I hate her fucking face.

Actually the Republicans have already destroyed the legitimacy of our republic, I'm sorry. We will defeat them or they will defeat us, it is what it is.

New law idea: vehicles that have outstanding and sufficiently overdue fines and fees cannot be legally serviced

If we are to be a country of laws not of men, men who proclaim themselves to be the Law incarnate are by definition treasonous and engaged in a conspiracy against the People.

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."

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The most important reason why Democrats should refuse to capitulate to these illegal and illegitimate acts like what just took place in Virginia is because capitulation only reinforces the belief that politics is futile, which in turn increases the probability that people will turn to violence.

Ignore the VA Supreme Court and you risk a legitimacy crisis. But capitulate and you risk telling everyone that voting no longer matters and that change will only come by taking matters into your own hands. The latter is a billion times worse than the former.

Exactly.

Also I think people hve a right to be pissed they’re disenfranchising black people and undoing the civil rights movement. I think it basically makes you look like a smug moron for tut-tutting people about this.

I agreed about this until the CIA Centrist Governor rolled over after being elected with a mandate and thus am compelled to point out that there is a much larger venn diagram overlap with Fight/Progressive than Fight/Liberal outside like, the Bulwark.

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

Why shouldn't Virginia Governor @abigailspanberger.com announce something like "the Supreme Court just ruled that state governments can redistrict, multiple Republican-controlled states already are, and the people of Virginia indicated they want us to, so that's what we're going to do," then do it?

If you see this guy you should spit on him

honestly new litmus test for the California Governor election should be if you support going all the way with a 52-0 map now that John Roberts ruled the VRA is over

the people control the state of affairs in a free society, the job of the judiciary is to uphold rights and interpret law in a way that maximizes human freedom while balancing it against rabid mob justice. this whole thing has become a fucking joke. clerics in robes cannot rule a free country.

It doesn't overturn shit because it can be ignored.

This is an argument for surrender, I didn’t make that necessary, the enemy did

FWIW: This is essentially John Roberts’s “reasoning” in Skrmetti, so, yeah, don’t laugh too hard.

Literally every elected Dem has this information and should drop it immediately. We also need the DNC and state Democratic parties to arm every Southern Dem in office and offer firearms training lessons.

Everything is 2021 again: through extraordinary effort, ordinary people who want to see pluralistic democracy prevail put in place champions far more concerned with playing by the old rules than breaking the power of their massively unpopular and undemocratic opponents.

I support defender of the Republic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

powerful democrats for the most part are institutionalists who've experienced career success by conforming to those institutions. trumpism is psychologically crippling to them bc it implies these institutions can fail and you can experience history. they want to experience employee of the month.

Critically, as long as all of the political responses are within the normal range of political responses, people assume that the inciting incident must have been normal tool After all if it was unusual the response would also be unusual! So normal responses just serve to normalize the original act

Democratic elected officials largely lack will to power.

This is true and extremely bad. We’re getting it either way.

No she didn't. That's just not true.