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I am suddenly feeling the call of the church.

"He fit the description. "

Made my night

Well I can't argue back because you blocked your post, "dawg", wonder why you did that?

You did, in a pique of anger last night. Maybe you were drinking I don't know (which I would commend you for).

The truth is David you're a Schumer Democrat. But most of the rank and file Dems know that Chicago and Portland are not in fact "winning" when toddlers are being abducted from their streets. And I'm off to a fundraiser for a local newspaper. I'm afraid I have to mute you for a couple of days.

You mocked me for being a protester and a lawyer. Now this. I've devoted my professional life to civil rights at some personal cost, and all you do is mock.

Not to mention David, you blocked me then unblocked me, so you're the one with the hang-ups. I wouldn't even point that out except you seem so concerned with "beating" me at bluesky instead of having a normal conversation (or just ignoring) that I'm having trouble not responding in kind.

You misunderstand, it was a sort of compliment. You're a celebrity, I'm not.
Often you find people who write well and know it are so in love with their writing that clever turns of phrase and uses of colloquialisms wind up substituting for accuracy and what you really want to say. Seeing that here.

That's funny.

"He drives a corvette, I drive a Samurai Suzuki..."

The point in number 4 is that even if the states win this one at the supreme court, if the administration really wants to invoke the insurrection act and institute martial law, they will do it one way or another. We all see this except the political class.

4. There is a bigger point. This Fascist admin in word and deed already defies the rule of law. It's too late to rely on our faltering democratic institutions. This is the time for general strikes in which everything is brought to a halt, not Schumer and Jeffries too clever by half strategies.

on the issue that they have asked the parties to brief in the Chicago deployment case, I'm not feeling confident.
3. If Pritzker's strategy is to get people to be calm while masked G-men abduct people off the streets, him telling them to "fuck all the way off" isn't a great way to keep the peace...

2. We have seen over and over again that lower courts have issued injunctions prohibiting Trump from doing some horrifying and unconstitutional thing while the case is heard only to have the Supreme Court reverse it. I hope it's different this time, but I wouldn't count on it,based...

Jesus, you come home for a short break from a beautiful Autumn day and David Simon is quote tweeting you..This is difficult to speak about on bsky, but I'll try.
1. I hope that you quoting that particular post is a recognition that demeaning the people in the street fighting fascists was wrong.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

I understand the first sentence, and agree. I still must admit I do not understand the rest after "genocide", but I guess it doesn't matter. If I was wrong in understanding you to say that Jewish safety wasn't a real issue when zionist ideology was created, I'm glad.

I like to think it is. Go ahead and tell me what I misunderstood, I'll be the first to admit error.

I am anti-zionist... but the "false notion" of Jewish insecurity about their safety in Europe? Seriously?

Nypd has invested a lot of time and resources in blatantly and visibly favoring the chabad community and harming the local Black community and THAT very much inflamed tensions in Crown Heights. Can you imagine no arrests if this was a West Indian disturbance? gothamist.com/news/video-n...

Yes. Exactly this.

He is "LITERALLY NOT ON ANY BALLOT". God the idiocy.

OK MAGA Microwaved. 👌

by your own definition

you said voting, now you're saying something else. But if you don't think both voting yes to honor charlie kirk, and supporting a senate candidate with a nazi tattoo are BOTH very bad, you too might be MAGA.

You won't answer the question. And NOBODY has voted for Platner.

And if you don't see a HUGE problem with 95 Dems voting yes to "honor" Charlie Kirk's racist MAGA "life and legacy" and selling out their colleagues and constituents of color, maybe you need to look inside yourself for MAGA tolerance.

Yet you call yourself "quasihistorian". 🤡

Platner is a nutjob.

i have answered all of your questions graciously and yet you won't answer this one question: Did left wingers vote to honor Charlie Kirk's legacy, or moderates?

Did you read "The Divide", "Griftopia" or "I can't Breathe" by Matt Taibbi? Those are important books representing a progressive point of view. I know Matt Taibbi, he's a former friend in fact. He's an asshole who sold out to Musk to buy his family a house.
You should read some books yourself.