All the white people in the quote posts and comments saying this is awesome, without realizing that Texas seceded from Mexico so they could continue to have slaves. 🙄

A cisgender straight guy screaming in Scott Wiener’s face and telling him that even though he passes great bills on LGBT issues, he “does not deserve to be at” the Trans March that he’s been attending for 22 years because he’s a YIMBY is a perfect symbol of the modern day SF “left.”

It is not just that HRC knows all about our history, she was part of this history as an intern working w the impeachment committee.

The fascist newspapers are gleefully reporting on today's disgusting attack on Scott Wiener by antisemitic leftists. It's a win for the fascists, and a win for their allies, the pro-fascist left.

“Democrats” aren’t doing that.

Turns out DSA candidates are highly allergic to "yes or no" questions. (The victim in this attack was a Holocaust survivor who was burned to death and the perpetrator was given a life sentence.)

Democratic Socialism, so far, is doing Normie Lib Things and calling them Democratic Socialism Which...it's weird how dedicated a portion of the Online Left is to fighting this very obvious reality Like the rent freeze - DeBlasio froze rent. Twice! These idiots didn't say shit then!

"Read theory" is an instant block

The People's Revolutionary Front for the Abolition of Bedtime conducts a struggle session on an admitted ally of the LGBT community because of his desire to build more homes in places people want to live and because he has not done more as a California State Senator to launch nukes at Israel.

And they also don't realize how, like good little consumers, they fall for good advertising slogans and pitches and ignore substance.

this disgusts me almost past my ability for words, the fact they can acknowledge he's fought for and expanded trans rights LGBT rights and still throw him out for what? he has every progressive position on Israel! throw him out because he is a Jew...

Like I’m sorry, but as a queer person, the idea of turning away long-standing allies during a time of genuine crisis because of, at best, a minor ideological quibble just tells me these are miserable people and hate their own communities.

This video is telling - it should clarify to everyone that these anti-Israel activists don't care about ANYTHING but their own pet cause. Not LGBT rights, not Black civil rights, not women's rights, not immigrants' rights, not the rights of the poor, the uneducated, the disabled, et al. THEY DGAF.

When she FINALLY got a backbone and called Bernie out for sexism, she was rewarded with snake emojis. Maybe if she'd been a feminist earlier in her life, like Hillary, she could have seen that coming. The "exceptional woman" isn't that exceptional when patriarchy decides it's gonna patriarchy.

Sadly, there is a new wrinkle here. When Musk bought twitter and turned it into maga propaganda, it WORKED. And reversing citizens united would not fix that kind of thing. Oligarchs figured out a new trick.

Comedians too often have the absolute worst political takes

Y'know, I wonder why Xavier Becerra going from single digit no-hoper to 99% chance of becoming the first Hispanic governor of California didn't get anything in the way of editorials about how this was the future of the party. He even defeated a candidate who outraised him by hundreds of millions.

The amusing part to this is that people seem to be ignoring the very inconvenient truth that the only reason he can do ANY of this incrementalism at all is that voters elected Democrats to every level of NYC government. If Republicans controlled the NYC courts, he'd be as effective as Biden.

Vibes and aesthetics all the way down. We've completely succumbed to "perception is reality", thanks to our corrupt and captured information environment.

Are any "establishment candidates" saying "chill out" though? I think this is mostly a myth powered by bad faith interpretations and criticisms of elected Dems that people just don't like.

Mamdani is doing incrementalism for the most part because that's how being Mayor, the difference is his supporters have decided that he's not playing an elaborate trick on them and they almost universally felt this way about Biden.

No, contraception *should* be used as a means of seeming to have consequence-free sex. I'm sorry but I'm tired of pretending the right wing morality of pregnant teens, rape, and dead women is in any way moral. You have control of your body. End of discussion.

95 degrees with rain in NYC next Saturday 🥵 😳 🤯

"in the US you are talking about saving lives, in Europe we are jerking off"

OK, short term is people dying of heatstroke. Can we town down the sanctimony until people stop dying?

The clearest evidence of short term versus long term thinking: My patient is bleeding and I could bandage them up and apply pressure, but that isn't the long term solution, instead we shall focus on the engineering end of the hierarchy of controls

No, but I do think they get to say, "Why are people trying to force a specific political style on the rest of the country because of how well it did in a neighborhood called 'The Commie Corridor?"

White leftist men are DELUSIONAL.

Oh look out, it's some cringe lib singing about voting. Someone tell The Onion staff.

People would probably like so called progressives more if they could win elections outside of districts Democrats have built out for decades. I don’t know if “stop resisting” is a winning political message, but ya’ll are willing to try.

Searching "Mamdani for President" on this site is a real illuminating journey into the world of "politics is my hobby and I do not understand it even a little" posters.

"it's shameful to avoid suffering and the problem with Americans is that they do that" is one of the worst national ethoses, and this is a big reason I don't discuss politics outside my country on here

All of this was foreseeable 10 years ago. Remember who told you it would happen, and remember who manipulated you into thinking opposing it wasn’t important.

In this article the Mayor of Paris says AC should only be used in public spaces and that individual AC's are a plague. Imagine saying that about heat?

Side note when I keep skeeting that there's a cultural barrier against air conditioning in much of Western Europe it is shit like this I am talking about.

I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy Dirtbagism delenda est www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

People often say they support policies they don't actually support. Another reason to push back on the idea that the voter (customer) is always right and needs to be catered to.

Mamdani fans when he is consistently underwater in national polls: who cares what people who aren't in NYC think of him, he's the mayor of NYC Mamdani fans when he powers three primary victories in NYC: make him the national face of the party!!!

"Sure, we may have plunged a global superpower into full-on fascism, but a handful of deep-blue electeds are now openly anti-Israel, which may one day result in meaningful change in the shelled-out husk of what remains of the Middle East!"

There are a lot of people in all parts of the Democratic Party who are extrapolating an awful lot based on three primaries in New York City. Moving 1.3% of the next Democratic caucus marginally leftward is neither A NEW TEA PARTY THAT WILL DESTROY US nor THE COMING OF THE INTERNATIONALE.

One of the winners in NYC last night was Micah Lasher. He's notable not only because Track AIPAC has a "WARNING!" for him, but because he is a Fight Agency candidate. The Fight Agency who has other candidates who are very publicly opposed to "AIPAC."

Stupid and tiring. Main reason I block so many of them. Well that and the misogyny, ageism, and racism.

The left likes to tell themselves that everyone is afraid of them. It never occurs to them that the rest of us just find them stupid and tiring. I don't throw my trash out because I'm afraid of it, I do it because that's what you do with trash. Leftists are the same.

[“Progressive” NY voters to Hakeem Jeffries] Because White people yelling “you’re next” at a Black person has never meant anything malicious, huh? Children of the Klan just can’t help themselves. And then they’re gobsmacked when they find out that Black voters don’t like their candidates 🙄😒

Man, the influx of genocide screech machine accounts tells me the DSA dummies are freaking out over the midterms. Yeah, they got a few candidates in NY through. But most crashed & burned. When the smoke clears, the Dem "establishment" (Dems that get shit done) will be in control of the House not DSA

For someone who gave us Fetterman, Rebecca Katz sure likes to sit for a lot of interviews presenting herself as a political genius.

Berkeley NIMBY with the misdirect 😎

This is probably true. I'd argue voters themselves are probably over reacting to some degree. There are some dems who are legitimately bad (but most of them have won their primaries!). Otherwise it is misdiagnosing the problem of "not fighting" with "not having the tools (a majority) to fight with"

People seem intent on imagining the role as 'attack dog and magic wand waver' and it's absolutely not that.