Mikhail Gorbaechev

tbh, I think a credible, high profile case of the American left successfully policing antisemitism would ultimately do Palestine more good politically than one dipshit oysterman.

no, see, this is the podcast graham platner was on

Maybe they'll brawl on the Senate floor and they can take each other out.

the trick is that working class people are people, neither irredeemable thugs or shining examples of proletarian virtue; just people who have a wide range of opinions for good and bad!

a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.

I thought CBS would just spin news; I didn’t think they’d tell a lie so blatant as saying that Iran has nuclear weapons

A whole lot of people have revealed that they have extremely strong opinions about the barbarity of Eastern European antisemitism, unlike American antisemitism which they are ambivalent to positive about

It's gonna be hilarious when It Happens for her in a truck stop bathroom from an overdose of diet pills

I confess that i am not v online right now, didn't see the podcast and retweet stuff people are flagging, which suck. I just listened to the interview and thought he made some dynamite points about Iran and Obama letting the bankers off the hook.

.@JamesTalarico: There is something broken in America. Our economy is broken. Our political system is broken. That's because the most powerful people in the world want it that way.

I am tired of being pitted against my neighbor.

Green-Left but British

And I think this probably *also* helps the Greens hang together as a coalition. "We're not just Labour with a green coat of paint, we're running in a coalition with the decent members of Labour in certain districts while maintaining member democracy yadda yadda"

I think if 20+ MPs jumped and the Greens edged out Labour in the polls, at least a few would.

"We're not becoming Greens, we're running with them just like Labour used to do with the Liberals a hundred-fifty years ago and does right now with the Cooperative Party, because Keir Starmer's Labour Party isn't the party we joined."

And I think breaking off *as a party* rather than switching parties would help the bitter medicine go down and could maybe help bring some labour infrastructure over.

Yeah this is Mengele shit

My wife grew up as the only Jewish kid in a small town in Maine, with everything that implies, and you can imagine she feels some type of way about Platnermania.

Centrist Dems launch '28 mission: Stop AOC It's a reflection of the deep divisions within the party over how to take on Trump's MAGA Republicans.

left discourse on AOC is so funny because like, check on how the centrists are handling a potential AOC prez/senate run:

www.axios.com/2026/03/01/c...

yeah man it sucks shit, these people are vapid morons at best

Clive Lewis as Progressive Labour leader and DPM/Defense Minister nominee for a Green-led cabinet would do a lot to bring mainstream cred.

If Labour heals itself, they can consider going back, if it doesn't, well, they've kept the flame of the left wing of the labor movement alive.

But like, they could dip as a group, start the "Progressive Labour Party" and run only in their current districts in coalition (a la Cooperative Party) with the Greens.

The fact that 30 MPs might dipset if they pick Streeting as a successor may be what gets them to not do that.

Really not great that on a bunch of mainstream subreddits anyone who criticizes Platner gets instantly called an "Israeli bot"

I think Platner is actually a very talented political communicator and that this talent is tied to a dude who is either Nazi-adjacent or a stone cold dipshit with horrendous instincts - or both - is Not Great

Much as the choice on who to vote for in 2024 was obvious despite the fact there were fairly strong odds Harris was not going to change Biden's genocidal policy towards Gaza. A chance is better than a sure negative.

And this is where I genuinely appreciate Zohran so, so much.

This is like my ability to riff on anything through an Eric Adams haters-waiters haiku

hell yeah

"Oberführer Oyster Farmer" but styled as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo