

I’m surprised they thought this was resignation-worthy. His boss just did two Hitler salutes and the AG wants to make anti-racism illegal.
“That racism is too overt” seems to be a quaint GOP stance from times gone by.
I’m surprised they thought this was resignation-worthy. His boss just did two Hitler salutes and the AG wants to make anti-racism illegal.
“That racism is too overt” seems to be a quaint GOP stance from times gone by.
Jewish.
Though for this specific topic “genocide of Jewish people” would be better than “Jewish genocide” as the latter is unclear if the genocide is being perpetuated by or against Jewish people (and also the larger Jewish population shouldn’t be held responsible for the actions of Israel). Neither would have alarm bells going off in the same way as using “Jew” as an adjective though. That’s a very specific white supremacist phrasing.
To Ukraine no less! And for the purpose of more corruption of the electoral process.
I… What?
How did this get upvoted? One of those impeachments was literally for insurrection. And it passed, with Republican votes!
Elon Musk is important to target. He’s not beloved, he’s constantly in the news, and he’s a perfect encapsulation of the undue power being given to the ultra rich.
And frankly no one needs to care whether something stimulates MAGA counts. They’re always going to be at max simulation and won’t be swayed because we accounted for their feelings.
Regular people, on the other hand, don’t give a shit if an individual ultra wealthy and obnoxious man gets personally targeted while he’s actively messing around with the government. He’s a fantastic target just chock full of personality traits that kill sympathy.
The proposed bill is called the ELON MUSK Act, which stands for Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy
As government acronyms go, that’s not even that tortured.
The issue plays into deep tensions among Americans about the role of race in society and helped supercharge Mr. Trump’s political comeback. Many voters, conservative and not, hoped to see a correction to what they saw as progressive politics gone too far.
Ohhh, yes, definitely, it was non-conservatives who wanted to “correct” the problem of wokeness that got Trump elected. That’s clearly the correct message to draw from Harris’s oh-so-woke campaign losing. I was worried the NYT’s beloved centrism might be implicated in some way.
No, it just surfaced now and the NYT discovered it. Before now no one saw that attacks on DEI were just thinly disguised racism. Conservatives would never use a three letter acronym as a substitute for racism.
Such investigative journalism. Wow.
Saying we’re complicit and should try everything we can to stop it is the whole fucking point. Amazing that you came around to that without ever getting it.
I’m not unclear about whether this is a horrible moral tragedy. You’re the one downplaying that. A lack of power to change it isn’t a moral failing. An unwillingness to even correctly acknowledge the seriousness is.
And you appear to be British. You don’t have a leg to stand on about complicity in imperialism both historically and in recent American efforts. If we are both defined by the sins of our nations we’re both living in glass houses. I’m at least acknowledging our sins.
The Luigi to regular for-profit assassin ratio is way too low.
That’s good to hear. In the future, don’t use “Jew” as an adjective. It’s pretty much exclusively used by antisemites.
I’m not lecturing the world. I’m lecturing you. You have shitty morality.
This is a mind numbingly stupid comment.
Because the fight is never over, and it’s more important now than ever, and we need these people to lead and influence politics rather than just sit back and hope that a movement spontaneously erupts to do their job for them. And if they can’t, we need them gone so someone else can rise up who can meet the moment.
It’s not “the Dems”, it’s the Dem leadership, promoted by seniority and internal politicking and donor relations rather than an interest in competently representing the left-of-center half of the US political landscape.
This isn’t a whatabout about Biden doing some other bad shit. It’s pointing out that he already did exactly the stuff we’re now going to (rightfully) condemn Trump for. This stuff is important now, but it also was important when everyone was making excuses for why it was fine. And now, when there isn’t even the threat of an impending election, it’s still verboten to say that a lot of our leaders are old and bad and even evil.
We need to be able to criticize those leaders, because they’ve been failing for years and just failed so spectacularly we don’t know if there’s going to be a free and fair election next time. None of them are willing to fall on a sword for it, none of them want to change any of the systems, and none of them are rising to this moment when we desperately need leadership. Gerry Connolly should not be our top rep on oversight. Chuck Schumer should not be leading the Senate. And now that the election is over and there’s no benefit to the fake support we should be willing to say Joe Biden was a bad leader.
Because if we don’t, they’re not going to fix themselves. We need to be angry and demand they stop playing the same old game that ends up with barely coherent elderly leaders imagining some masterstroke of triangulation saving the day. Centrism and gerontocracy and putting donors first failed us and saying “good try champ, you’ll get 'em next time” isn’t going to get us out of it.
It’s not about finding an alternative to the Democrats. It’s about pushing good Democrats to the front rather than coasting along on a system designed by and benefitting the ones that failed us. Remember the last time a Democrat won on message and talent rather than connections (Obama)? Now I have disappointments from him along the way, but he at least led with a message of principles and hope delivered by someone that seemed to care rather than just think ruling was his right. At least that felt like the Democratic party was fighting for something that people wanted, rather than the result of an incomprehensible machine turning at the beliefs and whims of people who have been within it for 40 years.
First, this is better than most of the other Democrats and messaging IS important. Calling it out and giving people terms does have some benefits.
But we desperately need leaders, not just analysis and condemnation. Organize marches. He’s got the sway to get people somewhere on a specific day, and the country is primed for action more than any other time. So far the only things Trump has really shown weakness on have been the things that make rich people concerned (federal funding halt, trade wars). Make them worried that the other stuff will also be economically disruptive. Make there be consequences to the chaos so maybe they’ll try to get him to pump the breaks.
That you’re somehow still focused on “Democracy” (“proud” no less) rather than “genocide” is mind-boggling. You can’t pretend to be self-righteous about American invasions and then just say “whoops, a little genocide, not really important in the grand scheme of things though”.
That’s what staggers you? Not that both of our presidential candidates were unwilling to condemn a genocide?
And I voted for Harris and don’t know a single person who didn’t. But damn near everyone I know was sickened by Biden’s complicity in the genocide. It was literally the main issue causing Democratic antipathy among my friends, from millennials to boomers (including multiple outspoken Jews). Not because they were on message boards consuming propaganda or because I have an especially radical social network, because it’s fucking genocide and we could see it being reported in real time.
Whether the empathy party should oppose genocide by a rightwing ethnostate should not have been a confusing choice. That people find the idea of some unidentified voted refusing to vote for more of that, like it’s no big deal and anyone who did was somehow not being mature, is just fucking insane. What on earth happened to you that this isn’t an obvious and very relatable result. I fucking hated voting for Harris. And all this stupid vitriol should be pointed at her and Biden for not being able to do the very simple task of saying what we were all witnessing was abhorrent and our role in it was wrong. That should have been the default Democratic stance on genocide and war crimes. They’re the ones who made a truly incomprehensible choice to put devotion to Israel ahead of American democracy.
The liberal media has a shared mission to discredit Luigi Mangione and they failed horribly. Most people don’t get their news directly from corporate sources, they get it from social media. The Tea Party didn’t kick out those well funded and well connected establishment Republicans because they had money and support (the incumbents had that too). Those things make it easier, but learned helplessness about the power of the rich and connected to control any movement or message accomplishes nothing. In the end it’s all about people.
Kids don’t even have papers to check. At most they have a school ID, which the school possibly gives to all students. Are they going to kidnap anyone who goes on a field trip without their birth certificate?