Sami Gold

Happy birthday to me

I got Vanguard Wafdist! How about you?

Why I'm Voting for Zohran Mamdani How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mr. Cardamom

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Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes The picture of a hesitant Justice Department runs contrary to the GOP allegation that the indictments of Trump were the product of a Democrat-led plot.

the worst chickenshit in American history www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

At least Caesar had to deny the crown thrice

Thinking about the time I was in a Sarajevo hostel this summer and I somehow mentioned I was Jewish to this Turkish guy there and he politely asked me for financial advice and to increase his credit score. Probably the most wholesome form of antisemitism I’ve ever experienced

What the fuck is that hairdo bro

Sorry, seeing the Yankees lose to the Jays was my own personal Afghanistan. Not going through this

this is completely inarguable to anyone who actually *looks* at the data we have

Incredible

Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview:

1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n

I’m terrible at math. What’s the TLDR behind this being a facepalm

I write for a publication called Liberal Currents. I obviously wouldn’t vote for Trump

The entire Biden presidency is something that can’t be generally mapped out statistically, there are so many qualifiers to everything he did based on the simple fact that he was old

It’s especially aggravating because it acts as if the reaction to these policies would be the exact same if they were propagated by a president who could actually speak and talk and think

This is a good example of what I mean when I talk about how discourse about Israel/Palestine in the US (and especially in Liberal Zionist circles) treats the Occupation itself and Israeli state policy as entirely incidental to the entire situation. It's very weird.

Harris, obviously

Infernal Affairs | Ali Winston The NYPD is ripe for top-to-bottom reform. Does Zohran Mamdani have it in him?

“When you drill down on the actual task of reforming the NYPD, the enormity—and complexity—of the task becomes apparent.”

Beyond being a war criminal, Biden wrecked American democracy for his own lousy ego. The fact that this isn’t conventional wisdom on this website is insane

The fact that Biden was the most unpopular president in polling and was constantly losing in the polls isn’t enough for you?

What the hell are you talking about

“Well, this is getting nowhere fast.”

“Well, this is getting nowhere fast.”

American political parties are incredibly weak and diffuse. In no other major Western system could a figure like Donald Trump come out of nowhere to take an entrenched party the way he did.

It also acts as if the Democratic Party is a stronger institution than it actually is

This stuff is genuinely anti-intellectual, I swear to god

“Talk about popular policies, don’t talk about unpopular ones”

Laws only have weight as long as the entire society accepts them as normative. It’s not “giving in”. It’s seeing the obvious

This is why it’s necessary to read Carl Schmitt

Then they’ll just break the law. Who’s going to stop them? Who has the guns?