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lmao there's a certain someone on here who is going to crash out so hard today

I on the other hand am totally vindicated! no wrongdoing 😏

if you asked Hakeem his favorite type of pizza, he’d say “i think pizza is a foundational American food, ultimately it’s the decision of the pizza parlor what type I get”

hot take but i think it’s bad to have a leader in a time of fascist regime consolidation who is incapable of having a normative or prescriptive opinion about ANYTHING AT ALL

good, it makes you strong and also it’s morally correct

lol i knew when we got a good pro-Ukraine anti-Russia thread going the American Sillyman would make an appearance

i think you missed “russia has a legitimate sphere of influence” while they advocate the complete disarmament of US allies because they’re in OUR sphere of influence. otherwise, you nailed it

like were the nations resisting Nazi imperialism “funding the war machine instead of striving for peace”? When the “peace” in question is capitulation to a tyrannical empire, armed resistance is the most morally justifiable response in the world!

This is apropros of nothing but the entire anti-Ukraine left needs to shut the fuck up permanently. All this (justified!) uproar over Gaza, and none about a nation in a morally similar position. I go insane, as a leftie, seeing the bonkers inconsistency here. It’s the same fucking struggle!

this is how all these centrist data guys are. they’ve structured their professional lives so that someone is always telling them they got an A+. it’s just that person is now Chuck Schumer and not Mrs. Miller in 9th grade or whatever

or used as forced labor for Putin’s siloviki cronies

i would say that anyone defending a nation full of working people is by definition a friend of the working class, in that he would prefer them alive and not dead at Russian hands

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

shorter version: “this time centrism will work guys, we definitely won’t lose again”

Long united, the Empire must divide; long divided, the Empire must unite

as bad as this place is this days we still walked on the moon and took the sword to the Third Reich. we abhorred kings. Now the White House is the palace of some would be Renaissance absolutist princeling

not a US nationalist so i’m surprised this has enraged me so much

like what is the last progressive or leftist campaign we know of that needed to do this? somehow I doubt Zohran has demanded this of his staffers

Everybody jumping in the tank to cape for Platner’s tattoo is just setting themself up for frantic backpedaling when the next insanely damaging video comes out. I’d put money on that!

I was somehow, contradictorily, both amazed and not surprised at all that he’s making his staffers sign NDAs. What else are they expecting to come out that they’re strategizing about? Why the need to have that strategizing be secret?

Imagine the Illusive Man from Mass Effect saying this

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

the same people fearmongering about Wagner’s small scale thuggery in central Africa are the people you’re describing

Good piece Katelyn. Best summation of the left case for ditching this guy i’ve read. wish the progressive media ecosystem had your clarity on this race

like when you saw Blackwater on his resume you should expect a couple hundred more skeletons in the closet

i’ve had a bad feeling about this dude for some time. the Trueanon-style nihilists had this one right. I heard some lefty podcast types defending him earlier this week and my first thought was “i’d hold off on that because obviously a bunch more shit is gonna come out”

I think this partly because they see Nazi adjacent content on there all the time and so assume that’s just kinda how Americans are — even though normies are going to be completely repulsed by this

It really bums me out how right this is. Even reliably good media like the Majority Report is demanding we extend grace to Platner, and accepting his excuses. But they don’t discuss how much more fucking difficult his tattoo makes the actual election!

agreed. and I think both Mills and Platner have a significant chance of losing to her as things stand. We need someone better here, the stakes are high

props on calling that early lol. there is a significant difference between Maine and your examples though, which is that Collins is actually defeatable. Which to be clear makes the Platner Nazi subplot WORSE, not better