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It actually hurts other pro-Palestine politicians like Mamdani and Abughazaleh to lump Platner in with them and pretend like the bad-faith accusations of antisemitism lobbed at them are similarly bad-faith when lobbed at Platner. This is why someone like Platner can poison a progressive coalition.

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

At what point do you think conservatives stopped feeling that way? I'm old enough to remember McCain singing "bomb bomb Iran" in 2007...

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

I used to think it was a silly idea too. But I've had to revise that opinion after the last few years.

Also it's not just about costs - single-stair makes it easier to lay out apartment floorplans in more livable ways, especially in terms of having more windows, and windows on more than one side of the building (for every apartment instead of just a few on the corners)

Do not let the cosplay crusaders and assorted Islamophobes pass the blame to Israel. This is a group project and they were no less excited for it than the Israeli hawks

Grandpa Simpson saying "The Simpson story begins back in the old country... I forget which one exactly..."

Another big reason obsessive poll-sniffing is silly: “Public opinion” on most issues quite literally does not exist. It is an ephemeral artifact of the process of polling itself. Ask again a day later with slightly different wording & the numbers change radically.

You're saying that the Palestinians who have Israeli citizenship are aggressors?

The U.S. just bailed out Russia’s budget

There’s a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.

The screenshot isn't actually from Platner, they're referencing a different main character from this morning:

Good example of the way anti-trans hate and antisemitism continue to be intertwined in American discourse. Once more subtly, now far more overtly.

How on earth did you get "this benefits the United States" out of anything Akiva said? Do you actually read the posts you're responding to?

This isn't my primary reason but it's a good one!

>discover new left-coded populist
>ask supporters if they're cosmopolitan or herrenvolk
>they don't understand
>explain what is cosmopolitan and what is herrenvolk
>they laugh and say "they're a good progressive ma'am"
>see how they describe the working class
>it's herrenvolk

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

Lmao. No you didn't.

Voters, being citizens, ought to exercise their citizenship with responsibility. Voters, being people, ought to do right by other people. That is obligation enough.

It's some bullshit that Curtis Yarvin made up. Referencing it unironically is a sure sign that someone has pickled their brain in far-right gobbledegook beyond repair.

I will say one goddamn thing, because it's relevant to the preliminaries: every news service saying this is an "Israeli" attack after it was clearly reported that we were begging Israel to strike first to give us cover is a disgrace upon disgrace.

This. This is the question we should be asking when a group of bad actors in leftist spaces are identified. Not "are we sure they're leftists?"

(I think it starts with taking the allegations seriously.)

Lots of voters don't change party allegiance overnight? Labour wasn't always a reactionary-centrist party. But that's where their leadership is taking them now, and it seems to be corresponding with their vote share collapsing.

People are getting mad at him for this, but if you’re on this website and can’t recognize this type of person, you might be this type of person.

it should not be hard to understand that doing antisemitism in service of some Higher Calling is still antisemitism, but I live in the country where people are all like "Trump's bad because he's fat, ugly, and crazy" so maybe my expectations are unrealistic

I've been put on two blocklists with mutually exclusive criteria *by the same person*

“Your story is implausible. How does it make sense that the military wants to use this artificial intelligence to run killbots but also any civilian can just log on and talk with it? That doesn’t make any sense!”

We should have stopped providing weapons to Israel years ago on account of they keep doing war crimes with them.