Yeah. People forget, even here, that the messaging you get during an election campaign is the absolute most radical a politician is EVER going to reach for, and that they’re never even going to reach that while in office. It always, always, always goes the other way. No such “hiding-their-power-level” unicorn has ever existed in liberal electoralism, nor will they.
I don’t remember, sorry. Pretty sure Obama was president at the time, though it could have been Dubya. It/they went into particularly immigrants working for Southern…food/agriculture businesses, I believe.
The surprising bit is that he can actually remember something he said. Maybe unburdening him of the stress of being president has allowed a tiny bit of rebound from the dementia.
Imma die of irony poisoning.
So…pretty much exactly as it’s been since at least Obama, and maybe going back as far as Clinton. The whole point of criminalizing immigration is for the corpos to be able to use deportation as a stick. They 100% already do, calling ICE to lay people off, and violating labor rights with the literal terrorism of border militarization as the repressive force that prevents resistance. Whole documentaries have been made about this as a very real, existing phenomenon.
But with like +800% more police funding, of course.
I will be happy to see basic socdem policies like free bus service, rent freezes, a few Government owned ‘ration’ stores.
Sure. He’s not even going to do those things, but it’s good he’s running on them. The point is for people not to get invested in trying to kick the football again. This guy is a Democrat, not a leftist. While he’s seemingly sticking to his anti-zionist guns (good), in other ways he’s not even as “radical” as Bernie Sanders.
He’s being honest. It wouldn’t hurt him with the people who voted for him to very directly say, “Billionaires shouldn’t exist,” and stick with the position. Hell, Bernie fuckin’ Sanders has said that. It’s absolutely uncontroversial among the people he is courting for the election. And the other people are going to attack him just as voraciously either way. There’s no reason for him to not be genuine about it.
Even in the U.S., we used to literally be sold music by mainstream rap performers singing about killing cops. It’s a sick, sick world that makes me nostalgic for that kind of appropriation and commodification by capitalists. WTF?!
When confronted on a statement that seemed to indicate Zohran Mamdani doesn’t think billioniares should exist:
The vision that I’m speaking of, it’s a vision that I want everyone to enjoy and benefit from, including billionaires…
So you weren’t proposing that your policies would ultimately lead to a New York with no billionaires?
No. That’s not what I was proposing.
Could also be that Israel is violating the ceasefire, but in “minor” ways that Iran would like to ignore so as to not “have to” retaliate.
Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 Ottawa Missile Crisis 1.0.
(This is a bit. Don’t @ me.)
Also, LOL: I just noticed that Google Maps lists Washington DC as just “Washington” now, with no “DC” in evidence. Weird. Pot shot at the “blue” state?
One of the few good memes South Park actually did was the Canadians-closing-their-southern-border bit.
Agreed. But not so sure on the:
Anyone playing into the “spike in antisemitism” smear is covering for Zionist genocide, intentionally or unintentionally
…part that you added. There has been an increase in antisemitism. Partly because Israel and Jews have simply been being talked about more, and antisemites do predictably be reactin’ as a result, and partly because zionism has been being pushed HARD in tandem with the genocide, and the zionism caries with it a pretty big component of antisemitism. There is a spike in the authentic stuff. It just looks nothing like the zionist narrative is trying to make it look like. So I think it’s good to be a little cautious about making this kind of generalized statement (I guess the “smear” part might help to differentiate, but…IDK, maybe it’d help to be a little more explicit?). A lot of very cool anti-zionist Jews are in this fight, and deserve the solidarity inherent in recognizing the reaction against them. Like when 30% of those arrested for pro-Palestine activism in Germany are/were Jewish…
Please don’t remove until after Godzilla is created.
Are they counting stuff from the establishment and mainstream news (rhetorical; of course they’re not)? Because a huge portion of pro-zionist shit is absolutely antisemitic (all the times they conflate Judaism and zionism/Israel, imply Israel represents all Jews, etc.).
Mearsheimer brain
Meh, seems relevant enough here.
So, you can no longer pay for anything fun or interesting.
Buckle up. The revolution is nigh.
Seems the link is bad. This one appears correct.
When I start a party, I’m going to call it the “Party Party”.