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  • I see a lot of progressives talking about how we got here, how we can fix shit, and how to not come back here again…

    But I also see a lot of moderates taunting the victims of genocide…

    “The left” isn’t a monolith, despite how much moderates want it, the dem voting base isn’t as blindly loyal as Republican voting base.



  • republicans could have shut that shit down for decades now.

    When Clinton deregulated news media and campaign finance, it didn’t just let the rich influence the Dems, it handed the Republican party lock and key to them.

    Like, everyone is bitching about Trump’s cuts to federal workers right now, completely ignorant that it took 30 years to recover from Clinton’s 90s cuts…

    trump is doing the neoliberal playbook, he’s just too dumb to make people think it’s a solid plan.

    Do you think the left thinks everyone on the left is perfect and out for the common people’s good?

    Have you not seen the posts from neoliberals taunting progressives over how many Palestinians are being killed?

    Have you not seen what happens when people talked about Biden’s flaws?

    Now, I wouldn’t expect anyone to watch mainstream cable news, but if you did you’d see it’s filled with people saying it 24/7.

    It’s all over the place.

    And that’s just politically active people…

    Most voters just flat out don’t know what happened 30 years ago, it’s worth people knowing why we’re here so we can leave and never come back.



  • They change their label a lot, and I always get down voted for mentioning it.

    But trump never would have been a candidate if it wasn’t for Clinton de-regulating everything in the 90s in exchange for donations from literally trump and people just like him.

    But yeah, they took credit for the dotcom boom and started the trend of billion dollar companies paying zero in tax, because it would “trickle down” by employees taxed on salary…

    So yeah, they’re the OG techbros basically.

    They also took credit for crime reduction, saying it was due to their incredibly harsh sentencing guidlines, when it was the same reduction every other country got from banning leaded gas.

    Neoliberal policy never worked, it just popped up when things were organically getting better. But the people from Bill and Hillary in the 90s are literally Biden/Kamala’s people. Hell, Biden literally was one of them himself, he took credit for the crime bill even. They’ve had a death grip on the party for decades, and almost nothing they’re doing actually helps people.

    I’m hopeful Ken Martin breaks and takes the DNC back in a pro worker direction, but we’ll have to see.

    If Kamala had won tho, the neoliberals would still be running the party, because she would have gotten to name the chair.



  • “those who played with me know that I do not condone being gay for women in rugby.”

    I’ve never been to Fiji…

    But I can’t imagine making it to a national women’s team and still being bigoted against lesbians. Its not exactly a rare thing to run across.

    Like, at least in America, it’s incredibly common for LGBT to play rugby. Hell, we had a gay pornstar on my men’s college team for a while, we gave him as much shit as anyone else on the team, but rugby culture has always been incredibly accepting.

    Doesn’t matter who you are, if you’re dumb enough to join the team, you’re a part of the team.


  • Propaganda doesn’t mean “completely false”.

    Like, they could have received huge bonuses from the IDF to “rejoin” with a cushy desk job.

    But reported as their desire to place themselves in danger to defend Israel, which could sway public opinion when Israelis are mostly over it and will vote Bibi out of office the second he stops postponing elections due to his genocide.

    Even if it’s true, I got a cousin who’s convoy got blown up in the ME as a US Marine. And he was the only survivor.

    For over a decade the only thing he’s wanted is vengeance, to go back overseas and get “them” back.

    That might be what’s happening here, but it would be a terrible fucking decision for him to go back over there. So he was medically discharged instead.


  • To be clear:

    Although the JC includes diverse voices, internal resignations in 2024, including high-profile writers like David Baddiel and Jonathan Freedland, followed the publication of articles that were later determined to be fabricated. These articles, authored by freelance journalist Elon Perry, included claims about Israeli operations in Gaza that lacked credible sourcing and were subsequently retracted by the publication. The controversy led to the resignation of prominent columnists Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, and David Aaronovitch, who cited concerns over the newspaper’s editorial standards and the decision to publish unverified information.

    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jewish-chronicle-jc-bias-and-credibility/

    This is a known propaganda source and no one should believe anything coming from in regards to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

    Propaganda is dystopian as fuck tho, so I guess I’m eaving the article up.


  • I come from hillbillies, so technically I owned a rifle and a shotgun before I was ever born.

    But I never went thru the hassle of getting a CCW and small pistol to carry.

    But shits fucking crazy these days. Like I’ve lived in some rough areas, and had plenty of people show me their gun as intimidation since I was a punk teenager. But I was never seriously worried about getting shot, people had something to lose and I was never doing something that was worth it.

    Nowadays people with a good job and family are just firing off over incredibly minor shit.

    Everyone is just willing to throw it all away over nothing.

    I really think we’re gonna find out COVID caused similar issues to lead poisoning even among minor cases with no symptoms. People just have no chill, and everyone and their mother is strapped here now.

    I also got my gas mask with NATO cartridges

    You really don’t need it. Tear gas in an open environment is not bad, you move 10 feet away for a few minutes.

    People will tell you tennis rackets is the move, but that could lead to serious charges if used to hit one back at cops.

    What you need is buckets. They fire a can, you cap it. If you do have to retreat, someone will likely (completely on accident and without any malice) knock it over releasing the tear gas and slowing the cops.



  • Got my CCW after trump won in 2016, didn’t end up needing it

    Got plates after this one, I’m not going to be a protest without it and a rifle.

    It sounds like an escalation, but a show of force prevents a lot of violence, and it works especially well on the people we’re protesting. Like, that’s not a dig. Due to brain differences it’s harder to win over the right by appealing to empathy or facts and logic.

    Everyone that works on is already mostly on our side.

    What works on conservatives is fear of immediate consequences. You think a trumpet would drive into protesters when a dozen would actually open fire and make them legit “fear for their lives”?

    Hell, they overrun the Capitol because cops just had Glocks and riot gear…

    These days a protest ain’t safe unless people are posted up.