Mikhail Gorbaechev

The fact that we've been denied control over the levers of social organizations in favor of the smallholder bourgeoisie and the titans of industry is why things are so fucked up!

No we aren't. That's not true.

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I'm informed by Google that that is the idiomatic translation for "I'm with her"

My fellow progressive Christians, might I direct you to consider the actions and labor of the religious left in the Twin Cities-- protestant, catholic, and jewish. The general strike that so many online dream about happened because of work between houses of worship and organized labor!

A Ben Ryan tweet, complaining about Michael Hobbes claim that therapists are able to tell gay from trans: I can assure you, having spoken to child psychologists at length about this very question, that they are not the bearers of some sort of cosmic intuition that discerns gay from trans in children. Nor has the field of pediatric medicine sought to systematically grapple with this question of how to separate one child from another. Some of the biggest names in the field simply leave the matter up to the kid, asserting that kids "know who they are."

How does Benjamin Ryan think therapy works?

Here he’s challenging @michaelhobbes.bsky.social claim that therapists know the difference between gay kids and kids who are trans.

How do therapists know a kid is depressed other than “trusting the kid?”

You can't trust parents, medical professional, psychologists, activists, scientists, or the actual people whose lives are at stake here, the only people you can trust to make proper diagnoses are the most unhinged and annoying freelance @nytimes.com contributors we can find.

Je suis à ses côtés

Denying communion to all who vote for the Bearded Heretic

He's gonna get excommunicated during the 2028 election and then somehow lose Louisiana.

There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, there is only one working class party, the Democratic Socialists of America, and there are only two working class newspapers, Democratic Left and the Financial Times.

Professional Managerial Class. Like me, a boring in-house corporate lawyer who takes my JFREJ "Jews for Zohran" tote bag to the grocery store on Saturdays.

The PAC—or PMC, or mass intelligentsia, however you want to call it—is under proletarianizing pressures, is intertwined with the complex systems of modernity that are under assault from the right, and benefit heavily from an expansive social democratic state. Why wouldn't we be socialists?

The idea that it's antisemitic to say that Israel practices apartheid really is just ludicrous and even if you possess a pro-Israel perspective it is going to backfire. There is, demonstrably and factually, a two-tiered racial system in the land that Israel controls. You can't rebut it with words.

Like you made a whole social class out of the revolutionary vanguard.

The professional and administrative class are the revolutionary class.

The future of the Democratic Party is the PMC which is why a small portion of the Left loves to holler about how the PMC is bad, it's the same thing that happened with YIMBYism

fwiw I don't know what's really in Graham Platner's heart, that side of his chest hasn't come up as much

Any moderately popular pundit who gets criticized by people on Bluesky

Because she's a violent bigot now.

ma'am what the fuck are you talking about

Most American Jews don't prioritize it as an issue, but how a politician talks about and treats disagreement about Israel is often viewed as a proxy for how they feel about Jews generally. It's a is-the-door-open question.

100%, yeah, but I think it's worth making clear that his specific Jewish communal outreach is working and he should keep doing it, both because it's good on its own and because it's a good model for how other pro-Palestine politicians with Jewish constituents can defang the issue.

J Street is going to benefit here by being loudly antiwar from the beginning and therefore being a comfortable landing point for a lot of Jewish Dems. Which, glad they're finally useful for something I guess.

He got a little teary-eyed about Zohran with the hamentaschen.

I know someone who only extremely grudgingly voted for him in the general election because he was disgusted by Cuomo's everything who is increasingly warm to Zohran because he seems like he's trying to respect and protect Jews no matter their opinions on Israel.

I think we, as the left, are going to need to continue working really hard to make that distinction loudly. And I can tell you that anecdotally, among fairly normie Jews with Not Great opinions about Israel, Zohran's outreach is making an impact.

I am not as sanguine as you, namely because the more people like Platner become the face of it, the harder it is going to be.

There's a reason that Weiser is the better candidate.