Max Berger

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You mean Disco Elysium?

I don’t know what changed, but this is what it feels like to use this website now

Classic

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It’s great!

Blue states using gerrymandering to fight back against Trump and MAGA’s efforts to rig the election is the least Democrats must do.

When pro-democracy forces retake power, they must prioritize adding more states to address the overwhelming bias our system has towards smaller, rural, whiter states.

Get it, American Eagle

I wasn’t sure about American Eagle’s Good Jeans ad until their new logos dropped.

You must face a tribunal who will determine the appropriate reward or punishment based on the music you’ve chosen

I think it was reported that Epstein dated this same woman at some point

Same! Madison’s farewell speech was pretty touching too.

I am going to miss having Heung-Min Son at Spurs. Along with Dele Alli, he’s my favorite Spurs player of all time.

Richarlson posted this image on IG calling for Sonny to have a statue. I couldn’t agree more. Sonny is the best. Gonna miss him! #COYS

I agree and I’m also opposed to ethno-nationalism. I think the conversation around Jewish self-determination is always going to be complicated by the fact that 1. Jews are a diasporic people and 2. For thousands of years, we’ve defined ourselves matrilineally.

<Inglehart laser eyes meme>

As a wise man once said, “Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax--YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKINGPAST!”

And as with Walter, I’m not wrong, I’m just an asshole.

Leah I know you’re a good faith actor here and I agree with your fundamental point.

I don’t want us to end up at a point where any expression of the project of Jewish of self-determination and liberation is inherently associated with oppression and colonization.

I think you’d be on firmer ground if you talked about the state of Israel, rather than the ideology.

I think you’re entirely right (although I’d argue it was Jabotinsky-ism which swallowed Zionism).

I’ll be honest that I’m not a Zionist, but I do find myself worried that the mainstreaming of anti-Zionism is going to have some very concerning interpretations by gentiles!

I don’t think that’s totally accurate. Cultural Zionists didn’t believe in the need for a political expression of Jewish hegemony; binationalists like Buber expressly opposed the transfer of population.

From Buber’s letter to Gandhi.

If there was a Democratic Stephen Miller, the issue they would need to singlemindedly focus on would be the problem of oligarchy.

The reason there isn’t a Democratic Stephen Miller is that the most powerful people in Democratic Party politics are on the wrong side of our best issue.

Totally right, and it’s like, when you do go after the oligarchs they’re like woah woah woah.

You’re missing that the form of Zionism that prevailed—which today we call “Zionism”— was but one tendency in a much broader movement that included many versions. Some didn’t care about being in Palestine. Some didn’t believe in ethnic supremacy, or were expressly binational.

Democrats need to understand the anti-trans backlash is almost entirely about shifting anger away from the oligarchs and onto a powerless minority.

Dems response should be: the most powerful people in the world are robbing from you and want you to blame someone else. Trans people deserve freedom.

!!!!!!

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

It’s the Zionists fault that we all conflate Zionism with the colonial project of appropriating historic Palestine. But it’s far from the only definition of the term.

I don’t think that’s historically accurate. It’s almost exactly like saying “socialism is predicted on dictatorship.”

The Zionism which prevailed is one tendency which was always quite right-wing. Zionism isn’t even tied to the land of Palestine.

This is pedantic, but also I think it will matter.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."