Carl Beijer

Yeah it really gets under their skin to realize that they do not actually speak for the Ukrainian people (and really never have)

Because he is the most prominent socialist politician in the United States and this makes him better than mobs of young or nonwhite or women politicians who are not socialists, as well as better than the ones who are but who are still less popular

I've been tracking this closely since the beginning. Very clear that American hawks are out of step with the Ukrainian people at this point, and have been for some time

www.peoplesline.org/p/can-ukrain...

It's also very much just a "Bernie is the compromise" thing. Everyone got that he was not an ideal candidate for any number of reasons, but even PSL endorsed him in the primaries!

number of BJG's critics for example were folks who I know were interested in the position and had even made efforts to get it. Journalists in particular are a horrifyingly competitive and cut-throat lot and it's not surprising that they went out of their way to trash her

1: Especially in 2016 a lot of potential hires either hated his campaign, were afraid to be associated with it, or were brazen opportunists who Bernie very sensibly turned down

2: Too many good hires to name and a lot of the people lambasted as bad were actually good (IE Weaver)

3: An embarrassing

Lots to respond to here but one point I want to make is that "Bernie is bad at hiring" is a meme spread by 1) people who don't understand how limited his options were 2) people who are ignoring his very good hires and 3) jelly journalists and wonks (and people who listen to them)

I was thinking this morning about how AI's utterly superficial self-reflection and completely empty apologies resemble nothing so much as the behavior of an abusive sociopath

Extremely dark and revealing that Taibbi thinks AI exemplifies self-consciousness and accountability

Agreed!

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Felix is that you!!"!?!

inevitably means misreading or misstating our critiques. I'm a sewer socialist. I am fine with smart growth. I am fine with sensible regulation and even sensible deregulation. These are just Marxist positions. They aren't what I'm criticizing Ezra and Derek about.

I didn't say that quote was an arg for posterity, I said it was compatible with austerity, contra your suggestion that it was supportive of spending.

Honestly I think you are trying to shoehorn a lot of Abundance critics like me and Bruenig into your usual degrowth vs. growth debate, and this

She's definitely a "I respect Mr. McCain and his service but I could not support Palin" woman

Olivia Benson is definitely a Harris voter but not because she is a committed partisan, I could definitely see her backing Bush in 2000 and she was probably extremely tempted by McCain

Yes Carl, Jamelle went balls-to-the-wall to defeat the best hope for socialism in our lifetime in support of Hillary Clinton, and yes he uses the same tactics to this day to defame socialists, and yes he says his major objection to centrist Democrats is that they aren't effective enough, but still

Carl why are you so antagonistic with Jamelle Bouie?

It's really wild to me how comfortable liberals have been with suggesting that Mamdami doesn't actually believe what he straight-up says he believes

Was also criticial of social Darwinism though it wasn't called that at that point, it was his chief worry about Darwin

Hey man how about you ask Mamdani if he thinks socialism is just a word for capitalism with a smiley face :)

Guy who believes in "forms of capitalism that actually are concerned with genuinely equal opportunity, fairness, & a social contract based on decency" is calling me a centrist neoliberal lmao

Latest in the series: here, I talk about what late capitalism would actually look like.

Ever heard of the truck system? Company towns? Scrip? Indentured servitude? You will!

lol you can say a lot of things about Carl but “has no ideological or policy commitments” is not one of them. He’s the most consistent leftist (really, doctrinaire socialist) on here and his policy commitments are also very obvious.

The way Americans only know how to criticize their country by comparing it to the USSR is only gonna get funnier as the decades pass.

It's eventually gonna sound like those Star Trek episodes where Picard's like "Back in the 20th century Germans made the same mistakes you Klingons are making now"

Among other things, there's every reason to believe that a lot of the Democrats who are turning on the war now that Trump is in office wouldn't have done so under a Democratic president!

IE, anyone who believes Yglesias would have opposed President Kamala on anything Israel-related is a fool

Hmm you sound like a bigot!

I've repeatedly pointed you to substantive quantitative critiques of Bidenomics for several months.

Your response has just been to plug your ears at the data and either post impotent threats or nutpick dumb teenagers in the replies.

"it's a new low"

I absolutely do not trust anything I read on this site anymore without verification, a good half of it is just lib ragebait now

Great news everyone, they also eliminated the government's power to maintain a navy, to raise an army, and to pass laws lmao