Redhorse

I love when leftists who openly don't vote demand you take them seriously, like bro you're declaring openly you don't play the sport we're talking about how to play, you are not relevant.

one thing I hate about the modern world is how much attention random people get in the political economy, its so tiring that we spend more time talking about Ezra Klein or MattY who don't matter, who have no power and no following, than we do at least 49 of the 50 state Governors for example.

people have trouble taking it seriously or understanding how it can be the center of a bigotry web rather than at the bottom of a list of other bigotries, a silly and antiquated idea that proves the bigot out of touch with modern realities.

2. for a long long time antisemitism was/has been characterized as a side topic of bigotry, even when it comes to Nazis today you get people who freak out if you say "antisemitism was the core of the Nazi world view" more so if you're talking modern antisemites like white nationalists

I do think the greatest strength leftists have, that ironically they generally don't believe, is that a lot of liberals consistently want to like them, want to like their favored politicians, want to believe the best of them.

Personally I think this is an incredible waste of time, but there you go.

A watercolor painting of the Pokemon Mega Absol. Absol is standing with its legs braced, facing towards the left side of the painting. Magenta and purple energy is blasting up from the ground and swirling around its body. Its wings are spread and its mouth is open. The background is a purple and blue gradient speckled with stars.

Mega Absol 🌟

there is some tension between the (correct) level of apocalypticism on this site about food aid running out and the unwillingness to make any compromises in service of making it not run out

That stuff is easy to condemn. Ask him about “globalize the intifada” or any other socially acceptable way to express a desire to spill Jew blood.

i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move

Some older art from a few months back

[ #pokemonart #snom #aurorus #amaura #pokemon ]

Some autumn deer(lings)

[ #pokemon #pokemonart #deerling ]

The abandonment of a position that marginalized ethnicities merit sovereignty or the principle of national self-determination in favor of a position of, basically, "hegemonies will crush marginalized communities, tough luck, way of the world."

I would counter that I believe people feel much more comfortable calling for the extirpation of a state, the erasure of its people's self-determination and de facto second-class status when the state is an already-distrusted marginalized group than when it's another population hegemony.

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

Nothing atypical or exceptionally bad about NIMBY nationalism at all, but it's not cosmopolitan, decolonial, or antiracist and I fucking despise seeing it sold as such.

Which is my core critique of Palestinianism! You get it to its rock-bottom opinions and those amount to, immigrants are moving into our country, not assimilating, speaking their own language, buying up property, not giving us jobs or renting the land to our peasants.

It's NIMBYism as a nationalism.

The degree of the near-total destruction of European Jewry was basically unfathomable beforehand to even the most pessimistic Zionists.

This gets lost in no small part because people feel really uncomfortable about the fact that the world was still wildly antisemitic even in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.

Some Jews tried escaping the DP camps and going back to their old homes in Poland and Germany, just like Helen Thomas would want, and they got murdered for their trouble.

I think that's a nice story Europe told itself well after the fact. The story in real time was: we have all these displaced persons we don't want to reintegrate - in fact, we'd be glad if they all dropped dead - and these cousins of theirs are not just offering but demanding to take them in.

And again, to be fair, "you should die-out for our cosmopolitan principles" is internally incoherent!

Yeah the public Discourse seems to oscillate between, "God said so" (pro-Zionist) and "white colonizers stole our land" (antizionist) in a way that can't really accommodate "Israel has become the largest single Jewish population because other places keep kicking Jews out."

Derivative-imperial hegemonic majorities, as it turns out, REALLY REALLY REALLY do not like being asked to treat the minorities they once officially oppressed as even formal, let alone substantive, equals.

GOP sues to block California's voter-approved congressional district redraw The federal lawsuit comes only hours after Proposition 50 won a decisive victory at the polls.

The federal lawsuit comes only hours after Proposition 50 won a decisive victory at the polls. @ariquelmy.bsky.social

It's all kinds of fun to have spent the past 2 years on this website being accused of genocide because I'm Jewish and seeing the same damn people be 100% on board with a fucking primary candidate who got a symbol of the still-within-living-memory genocide of my people permanently inked on his chest.

It's remarkable how straightforward and solvable most societal problems seem as long as you don't know shit about them

If Democrats brush off a Nazi tattoo as an innocent mistake, they're abandoning the ability to make effective arguments against Nazis across the aisle. It'd be an unforced error that would taint the party for generations, and rightly so.

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Primeape (the pokemon) sitting on a branch in a forest. He’s up above a stream and he’s wearing ash’s hat.

Primeape

“The Nazi tattoo makes him anti-establishment!”
I’m glad to know the Democratic Establishment™️ has a firm anti-Nazi stance. It’s a shame you don’t.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read and this person needs to be launched into the sun.

6-8 point rural swing is how you get an absolute apocalypse for the GOP