"The Democratic party can swing a little left or right, produce limited reforms, but it will never be a vehicle for working-class power or socialism." againstthecurrent.org/atc245/the-r...
Me on Great British Bake Off baking a cake that says "Doowylloh Laup" on it so I can trick Paul Hollywood to say his name backwards and banish him back to his home dimension
This common view reflects belief in a type of Jewish and German exceptionalism: That no people in history have ever been or will be more persecuted than Jews, and no people have ever been or can be more evil than leaders of Nazi Germany.
The view is both ahistorical and extraordinarily dangerous.
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar βeditorial independence board.β
Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy.
That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done.
If the Ellisons own CNN, theyβll do whatever they want.
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back
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This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it.
It was effectively banned as it never aired again.
I wonder why.
MEDIA-OPOLY
"Echoing of ruling-class attacks on abolitionism and support for the police surrenders the ideological ground won by the 2020 rebellion, undermines the struggle against President Trumpβs authoritarianism" tempestmag.org/2026/09/in-d...
The regret I face most regularly is when I am an event where I could have worn my cool leather jacket but had decided earlier not to wear my cooler leather jacket
The main thing to take away from all "woke 1 was wild" and "dont scare the normies" discussions is always keep the politics but drop the lefty cultural baggage.
Learn to talk like a regular person, dont use lefty or academic speak, drop all unnecessary weirdness or hippy stuff, touch grass. Being on the left is about politics, not culture. But you never drop your politics, you learn how to convey your politics in a way that relates to people.
"Defund the police" is a slogan, meaning its a simplification of a lot more complex political ideas. Learn how to convey and convince people of those political ideas, not just repeat a slogan. Political ideas can be conveyed in good or bad ways, but giving up on them is not an option
βWhen the fight against the imperialist state inside the West grows weak, external despotic states become a substitute for social power. The answer to this deadlock is not a defense of the liberal bombers. The answer is rebuilding anti-imperialism from below.β
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Has anyone every wrote a comparative study between the Versaille Treaty and post-Soviet "shock doctrine" introduced into Russia? Feel there is something there to the "we defeated this country and kicked them while they were down and oh no they came back 20 years later more powerful and pissed!"
Like reading through how the Bush Sr administration treated Gorbachev's reform efforts or the IMF/World Bank treated post-Soviet Russia, you can only conclude these ghouls had no concept of blowback or long term consequences. All they saw was a defeated enemy and not how this come back to bite them
Kicking a great power while its down under the assumption that it could never rise again reallt does seem like a foolish move looking at history. Give a people a grievance and time to nurture that grievance and they very might well put their lot in with a nationalistic tyrant out for revenge
I love how @theatlantic.com has becomes essentially the mouthpiece for the new Red Scare. They should just change their header to "In Loving Memory of Joseph McCarthy"
I think we can start talking about "DSA derangement syndrome" when it comes to The Atlantic. Like can we call this a little anti-semitic, cause it feels a little anti-semitic?
The American Catholic hierarchy splitting from the mother church to back JD Vance's white supremacist divorce I feel is a scenario with at least 3% chance of happening
Every once and awhile I check in with The Militant, the Socialist Workers Party US "newspaper". This aging cult has easily one of the more batshit political lines; anti-US imperialism, pro-Israel, pro-Cuba. Just amazing stuff
The son of the man shot and killed by ICE:
I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.
As one Maine Democrat puts it: "It is a lobster cage fight with the rubber bands off. It is a death match right now between every single apparatus in the Democratic Party."
being in the DSA is fun because you get to spend most of your time helping people with social anxiety canvass for democratic school board candidates and then go online to see people with blue wave emojis in their bios compare you to pol pot
Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...