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The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

I've seen several people criticize using the term "leftist" so I want to be clear that when I use it I'm including left anti-communists, with all the venom that entails. It is what it is. They're not actually right wingers, that would be too far off the mark. That's how a loose term like "left" goes

Iran signed the JCPOA with the US, China, and the EU in 2015. Two years later, the US withdrew and imposed sanctions purely out of spite. 8 years later, America and Israel bomb Iran completely unprovoked. Now we're doing it again not even a year after that. There is no winning with the United States

Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."

People in Denver could recite Mamdani's platform. Not a single person has ANY IDEA what the DC Dems would do. No one.

making myself depressed by thinking about how everyone, including and especially democrats, are going to try to make Trump's corpse the sin eater for this era when every single Republican strongly supports everything he's done and many centrists are ok with it

It must be so awesome to be on the right and know you can completely change the tenor of media coverage whenever you want by doing the equivalent of fake throwing a tennis ball to your dog

Think about how when Newsome says homelessness is a problem, what he means is that it is a visible problem. He sweeps the camps, throwing out people's meds and documents, forcing them to go be homeless elsewhere, less visibly. Same with Obama, Biden, and Kamala bragging about deportations.

if you want a different party you need different leadership, and you also need to take a deep breath and realize that current leadership is BROADLY popular with electeds in the party, and accept the implications of that fact.

politicians should spend less time managing expectations of by telling voters what a minority party can't pass and instead engage in this four-step process: 1) say what you think is right 2) obstruct whatever isn't that 3) lose if that's how it goes 4) remind voters who passed the evil law

Also Joe, Kamala and their staff knew this the entire time. As in, they knew from October 2023 that what they were doing was not popular. A WH press staffer told me in fall 2023 that they personally believed Netanyahu was genocidal.

They knew, and in return, Karine Jean-Pierre compared protestors to Nazis and antisemites. Biden said Palestinians were lying about the dead. Then they sent Bill Clinton to yell at Arabs in Michigan that the Bible and Quran mandate the Palestinian genocide for some reason.

Political post warning: "harm reduction" was coined to refer to concrete, material policies such as creating safe injection sites for intravenous drug users, to lower their chances of contracting HIV from re-used hypodermic needles. It has real world consequences. It is not an electoral strategy.

Guys ngl when *Mexico* is acting like Iran trying to send fuel to the Houthis, the US-led world order is dead

the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever

the thing is that "age of consent guy" was a very specific, well known, risible, and widely scorned type of guy well before metoo. knowledge of age of consent laws has been a creepy tell for as long as i've been alive. that this wasn't considered weird in elite circles doesn't change broader reality

Trump came groveling to Schumer, skywriting that the Democrats had all the leverage. Schumer's reaction was to immediately cave, keeping the government open and DHS funded for two weeks while Trump's minions could get their ideological house back in order, on the eve of another major ICE/CBP surge.

I saw a lot of “what do you expect Democrats to do” posts today, and I’m prepared to start with “don’t start caving on your plan before you’ve even formally announced your plan.” At this point, it feels like Republicans can just sit back & wait for Democrats to talk themselves out of everything.

A important but taboo subject is how some “civil rights” organizations launder Democratic Party complicity in fascism. Prominent nonprofit organizations are providing cover to Dems by calling for more body cameras as DHS celebrates that very idea and builds unprecedented surveillance databases.

The National Guard is still on the streets of DC.

To crystallize this a bit further, pre-emails, a lot of the left’s theorizing about Epstein’s spooky role in geopolitics and in elite circles in general came from victim whistleblowing! This is the stuff these exact people said made leftists sound like cranks back in the 2010s

while things are, of course, extremely bad, the current state of american politics means i can go fully mask off as not just a pro "gun rights" person, but actually a hardcore 2A advocate, a thing the real heads in the SRA always knew but now my dedicated following of libs get to learn about

TIL that the state of West Virginia sits on not just ONE, but TWO international borders. Incredible.

"we really want the same things you want, it's just that we're compelled by some strange curse to fight you every step of the way whenever you try to replace the dems opposed to the good things. you should do something more realistic, like getting the great gazoo to teach them a moral lesson"

if you want to give the benefit of the doubt that dems actually want to do these things, it's clear that they only want to do them once victory is so overwhelmingly guaranteed thanks to the tireless efforts of other people so they can get a vote done in a week or less and then go home

a hot dog hollers

ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked

The Venezuelan military says it has raised its alert level following the discovery of an alleged U.S. plot to fabricate an incident at an ExxonMobil offshore platform in the contested waters between Venezuela and Guyana to justify an armed conflict.

Going to be funny if Trump gets in, immediately slaps arbitrary tariffs on everything, and completely crashes an already unbalanced economy.

been seeing people who are upset when 'followers only replies' posts show up on their discover feed and wish they wouldn't see them, and that whole toggle was activated in the first place primarily because people hated random replies from discover feed. both sides agree: discover feed opt out now

Hesutate to be this guy, but: Capital is an extraordinary book, a genuine work of genius, and most people who complain about Marx have clearly never read three pages of it.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

God I love basketball

“Organizers from Indivisible had asked WHOA to speak and to table at this event. However, they have demanded that our speaker not mention solidarity with Palestine, and we will not participate in erasing a genocide.” From GSOWHOA:

We will see that this energy will be suppressed or ignored and the peasantry/merchants being outraged that their demands continue to be unmet by the tyrant will cause further contradictions. This is where wise heroes should step in.

a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you

Do I personally think Kamala Harris making impassioned statements would help? No, I think she sucks shit! I simply think it's interesting how the rhetoric surrounding career politicians mutates to always absolve them of their failures and of any expectations one might have of them

reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response? klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business

After this term, Trump will have dominated American politics for 13 years despite never polling above 50% for a day, and despite a strong majority opposing almost every one of his policies. Why? Voters think he’s authentic. And they think Democrats are fake.

You heard it here first folks. Marco Rubio says the capitalist mode of production is bad for the United States. Abolition of wage labor and commodity production is back on the menu boys!

If no elections gets me hi speed rail and guaranteed housing and food then fuck Democracy lmao

"we need groups that will do all the on the ground work for us, for free, all the time, and never criticize us or ask for anything" well, that isn't going to happen. maybe make your own groups and pay them? money buys labor and shut mouths. "no. we shouldn't have to do that either."

the year is 2002. Democratic incumbent Don Siegelman wins a close election for Governor of Alabama. After the democratic observers go home, republican officials find a "computer glitch" awarding 6000 votes, and the victory, to his opponent, Bob Riley 🧵